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An exhibition of postcards using Aluminium
 |  | Françoise Valette, a retired member of IHA and the Pechiney Group, will present her private collection of postcards using aluminium, on the occasion of the exhibition « Saint-Ouen s’expose ». This exhibition will be held from Saturday, the 27th of January, to Sunday the 7th of March.
Started in 2000, this collection is today composed of more than 4000 postcards, illustrating an extensive variety of themes, manufacturing techniques and periods of History. The collection retraces the history of the Postcard and demonstrates a considerable ingenuity in the use of the light metal.
Françoise Valette will be present to welcome interested visitors each afternoon during the week and also all day on the two Saturdays and Sundays.
Free Enter
Salle des fêtes Barbara
5 rue des écoles
93400 Saint-Ouen
Underground : Métro Mairie de Saint-Ouen (ligne 13)
Opening from 9:00 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 17:30
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Symposium « Entreprises de haute technologie, État et souveraineté depuis 1945 »
| | Pascal Griset, Professor at the University Paris IV-Sorbonne and Patrick Fridenson, research Director at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) will organise the 8th and 9th February 2010, in partnership with the IGPDE (Institut pour la Gestion Publique du Développement Économique), a symposium on the theme « Entreprises de haute technologie, État et souveraineté depuis 1945 ».
At the programme of this two day symposium, various speakers’ papers could interest the members of IHA.
Registration free but obligatory.
Centre de conférences Pierre Mendès France
Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Industrie et de l’Emploi
139 rue de Bercy
75012 Paris
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Conference on the electrical automobiles of Jean-Albert Grégoire (1899-1992)
 | | Maurice Laparra, President of the Institute for the History of Aluminium (IHA) and Sophie Pehlivanian, in charge of the management and the valorisation of the heritage (IHA) will hold a conference on the theme « Electrique et légère : l'automobile rêvée d'un précurseur, Jean-Albert Grégoire (1899-1992) », on November 19t, 2009 at the Espace Fondation EDF in Paris.
This conference will be preceded by a paper from Pascal Griset, Professor of Contemporary History at Paris IV-Sorbonne University in Paris, entitled « L’odyssée du transport électrique ».
The meeting will begin at 6pm
Entrance by invitation only
Espace Fondation EDF
6 rue Récamier
75007 PARIS
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Changes in the organisation of the IHA Team
| | There have been important changes recently in the IHA team.
On 15th of June, Thierry Renaux, formally Heritage and Communication Manager, left IHA and joined the “Association régionale du Conservatoire national des arts et métiers en Aquitaine” ( http://www.cnam-aquitaine.fr ) in the role of “Manager of scientific and technical heritage” in order to catalogue and valorise the scientific and technical contemporary heritage of the Aquitaine Region (France).
Recruited in 2001 by the IHA after several temporary and specific missions, Thierry was the instigator of the computerized catalogue of the Objects Collection Jean Plateau- IHA and its valorisation, of the development of the exhibitions and of the development of the new technologies
At the same time, Mauve Carbonell joined the Association “Memory of the Camp d’Aix-Les Milles” ( http://www.campdesmilles.org) in the role of Manager of the scientific contents.
Mauve has been the Scientific Secretary of IHA since 2006 and centred her work on the international opening of IHA, both by the development of relations with the researchers and other organisations throughout the world and also through the program of study grants and of the development of the Journal for the History of Aluminium (consult the news on this subject above mentioned).
Mauve will keep a part of her scientific responsibilities at IHA, especially the follow-up of research programs and study grants.
On 27th of May, Sophie Pelhivanian joined the IHA team for a six months mission centred on the management and the valorisation of the heritage. Thus, she continues and develops work started during a professional training of four months in the framework of Industrial, Scientific and Technical Heritage Master (second year), in the University of Savoie (France).
During this training, she worked with the different collections of IHA and also with the Aluminium Digital Library ( www.culturalu.org). Sophie will also be doing a part of the work previously done by Thierry Renaux.
Welcome to Sophie and good luck to Mauve and Thierry and success in their new projects! To both of them, many many thanks for all that they have done or already done for IHA!
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A new award-winning academic work
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2009 Summer Closing
| | IHA will be closed to researchers during the summer 2009, from Friday the 31st of July to Monday the 31st of August inclusive.
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IHA at the XVth World Economic History Congress in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from 3 to 7 August
| | In 2009 the International Economic History Association (IEHA) will hold its XVth World Economic History Congress in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from 3 to 7 August.
IHA will be present at several sessions.
Mauve Carbonell, Scientific Secretary of IHA, and Philippe Mioche, Professor of Contemporary History and member of the Scientific Committee of IHA, will present a paper entitled “ALUCAM, a Success Story in Industrial Africa?”, during the session which will be held on 3 August on the theme: “African Business Histories: Business and Enterprise in Africa, since the nineteenth century”.
The same day, a complete session will be dedicated to “The Global Economic History of Bauxite ». IHA will participate at this session, with its Norwegian partners (Comparative Aluminium Research Program, University of Trondheim), and also other partners from Canada, Britain, Australia, Greece, Germany and Jamaica.
You can consult the complete programme at the address: www.wehc2009.org
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Publication of the NEW Journal for the History of Aluminium!
 | | We invite you to discover the number 41 of our journal which is turning a new leaf. The changes cover all aspects: new typography, added emphasis on illustrations, lightening up of the fixed-content pages, more room for bilingual French/English pages: we want to concentrate this new Journal on the culture, history and heritage of aluminium in all its geographic diversity. It will reflect the IHA’s evolution over recent years: its systematic opening on to the world – as displayed in this issue by articles from Italian and Norwegian researchers and by the presentation of a set of unique objects of African and Asian “tribal” art from the Jean Plateau-IHA collection.
The summary of this issue is as follows :
Jean Plateau, Ivan Grinberg, Thierry Renaux, Aluminium and Tribal Arts in the Jean Plateau-IHA Collection
Marco Bertilorenzi, The Italian Aluminium Industry : Cartels, Multinationals and the Autarkic Phase, 1917-1943
Karine Thilleul, Steel or Aluminium? The Impact of Material Choices on Industrialised House-building
Johan Henden, Stangfjorden Elektrokemiske Fabriker. The First and the Smallest Aluminium Smelter in Norway
To order this issue and/or to subscribe to the Journal of History of Aluminium, download the subscription form here.
Enjoy your reading !
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Bijoux Art déco et avant-garde to the musée des Arts décoratifs
 | | From March 19 to July 12, 2009, the museum of the Arts décoratifs (Decorative Arts Museum) in Paris presents the exhibition Bijoux Art déco et avant-garde. Jean Després et les bijoutiers modernes (Art deco and Avant-Garde Jewellery. Jean Després and the Modern Jewellers).
More than three hundred jewels and goldsmith pieces from the 1930’s are gathered in this new exhibition. The various artists are all renown through the modernity of their creations: as regards, the goldsmith jeweller Jean Després, the jewellers such as Jean Fouquet, Raymond Templier, Jeanne Boivin, Suzanne Belperron or a decorator which was inspired by finery, as Jean Dunand.
Objects of the French jeweller Gérard Sandoz (1902-1995) are also exhibited, in particular a cigarette case decorated with a Tracta car, from the Grégoire-Aluminium Pechiney Collection.
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A new trainee at IHA
| | Sophie Pehlivanian, student in Industrial, Scientific and Technical Heritage Master (second year), in the University of Chambéry (Savoie, France), is making a professional training in IHA since January 26th, 2009 and for four months.
The first goal of this work experience is to enrich the iconographic database of aluminium, CulturAlu, which will soon be online. She completes this bank of images with documents from the archives of the Aluminium Français, relative to automotive – and more particularly on the works of the French engineer Jean-Albert Grégoire (1899-1992) – and to buildings in aluminium, such as the ones of Jean Prouvé (1901-1984).
In parallel, Sophie Pehlivanian is working on the Grégoire-Aluminium Pechiney Car Collection and more especially to its valorisation. This collection, bequeathed by the engineer Grégoire (today property of Rio Tinto Alcan), is managed by IHA since the beginning of the 1990’s.
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Mauve Carbonell and Philippe Mioche on the French radio France Culture
| | On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Mauve Carbonell, Scientific Secretary of IHA, and Philippe Mioche, Professor of Contemporary History and member of the Scientific Committee of IHA, were invited of the broadcast La Fabrique de l’histoire on the French radio France Culture.
Presented by Emmanuel Laurentin, this broadcast, “La fin de l’acier ? 3/4” (The End of Steel? 3/4), was the “third part of a series dedicated to steel, with a Wednesday in archives which make hark back to a major institution which prefigure the European Union: the ECSC, the European Coal and Steel Community, founded in 1951”.
M. Carbonell, PhD in history, is the author of Des hommes à l’origine de l’Europe. Biographies des membres de la Haute Autorité de la CECA, (Men at the Origin of Europe. Biographies of Members of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community], Aix-en-Provence, Publications de l’Université de Provence, 2008 (Download the order form).
P. Mioche is a specialist in the European integration history and, notably, the author of a book distributed by the European Commission and entitled Fifty years of European coal and steel, Luxemburg, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2004, downloadable here.
To listen to this broadcast, click here.
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Publication of PhD thesis
 | | Mauve Carbonell, Scientific Secretary of IHA, has published: Des hommes à l’origine de l’Europe. Biographies des membres de la Haute Autorité de la CECA [Men at the Origin of Europe. Biographies of Members of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community], Aix-en-Provence, P.U.P., 2008, 290 p. This book is available in bookshops and/or to the Publications de l’université de Provence.
This book comes from her PhD in History, defended in 2006 and supervised by Philippe Mioche, professor in the university of Provence, in which she explored the early hours of the European construction through men who embodied this development.
Presentation: The institutional mechanisms, the political, economic and legal evolution of fifty years of European integration are generally known. But what about the men? Of course, many works have been written on the emblematic figures and the heroes of the European integration. On the other hand, all those who made Europe an everyday reality are unrecognized. So it is the biographies of these members of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) that are explored in this book. Nineteen men worked in Luxemburg between 1952 and 1967. They belong to the myth of the pioneer institution, synonym of peace and of European reconciliation. What was the reality of their career path and professional lives? Where did they come from? What did they do during World War II and the Reconstruction? How did they become European? What is the “place” of the High Authority in their lives? The biographical analysis – answering these questions – brings a new point of view on the leaders of the first community and then on the European institutions at and from their beginnings.
Consult the table of contents.
Download the order from of the Publications de l'Université de Provence.
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Publication of number 40 of the Journal of History of Aluminium
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Scholars 2008-2009
| | The Scientific Committee of IHA, meeting on November 18, 2008, awarded four new grants to Master and PhD students:
QUENNEVILLE Justine (Canada), The social responsibility of the enterprise: community regional investment, Master 2nd year (Management), HEC Montreal, (supervisor Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné).
RABINOWITZ Maïa (France), The construction of the Dunkerque smelter, Master 2 (Heritage), Savoy University, Chambéry.
STORLI Espen (Norway), Foreign Direct Investments in the Norwegian Aluminium Industry, 1908-1940, PhD3 (History), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (supervisor Hans-Otto Frøland).
TAVARÈS-BARBOSA Edmery (Brazil / France), The divulgation of information based on the concept of sustainable development: the case of the Brazilian aluminium industries, Master 2 (Management), Paris IX University, (supervisor Nicolas Berland).
In addition, the Committee renewed the grants of four scholars:
BENISSAD Amel (Algeria / France), Aluminium schools in France (1945-1960) or the myth of prefabrication, PhD4 (Architecture), Versailles Architecture School (supervisor Jean Castex).
BERTILORENZI Marco (Italia / France), The International cartels in the aluminium industry, 1900-1950. Demand, supply and problems of a new branch of activity, PhD2 (History), Florence University and Paris IV University (supervisor Luciano Segretto et Dominique Barjot).
INGULSTAD Mats (Norway / Italia), The Industrial Mobilization State and its Foreign Policy, 1940 to 1960; The American quest for resources and raw materials in the early Cold War, PhD2 (History), Norwegian University of Science and Technology / European University Institute of Florence, Trondheim / Florence (supervisor Hans-Otto Frøland).
THILLEUL Karine (France), Industrialized house for the largest number: languages and images – from communication to perception, PhD2 (Architecture), Versailles Architecture School (supervisor Jean Castex).
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Conference: 50 years of aluminium in Cameroon, 1957-2007, Aix-en-Provence, November 26th, 2008
| | Ivan Grinberg (IHA), Maurice Laparra (IHA) and Philippe Mioche (Prof., University of Aix-en-Provence) will facilitate a conference on “Alucam, an African destiny. 50 years of aluminium in Cameroun” at 5pm on November 26th, 2008 at the Centre des archives nationales d’outre-mer in Aix-en-Provence. The conference will be an opportunity to present the book written by IHA and published by REF.2C Éditions in 2007: “Alucam, an African destiny,” which you can order by clicking here.
Archives nationales d’outre-mer
29, chemin du moulin de Testa
13090 Aix-en-Provence - France
tel.: +33 (0)4 42 93 38 50
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IHA at the Saint-Étienne International Design biennial, November 15-30, 2008
| | On Friday, November 21st, 2008, IHA will take part in the conference organised by the Institut des études régionales et des patrimoines (regional research and heritage institute - IERP) on the history and memory of kitchen utensils at Jean Monnet University in Saint-Étienne, France, as part of the International Design Biennial. The IHA’s Mauve Carbonell and Thierry Renaux will speak on: “From the saucepan to the crumb tray – Institute for the History of Aluminium in support of a heritage” For the program of the conference, click here.
Summary: The main missions of Institute for the History of Aluminium, a not-for-profit association founded in 1986, are to develop research, conserve and enhance heritage and disseminate knowledge. In IHA’s work on aluminium, the theme of the metal’s use in household objects is commonly raised. Produced industrially since the late 19th century, aluminium became part of everyday life in France during the 1920’s. Established as indispensable in the post-war period, this “symbol of modernity” replaced conventional materials in applications from cooking equipment to milk jars via packaging. Several examples illustrate this history and the resulting heritage: the birth of the aluminium industry and the first attempts at household use; the multiplication of uses for the metal unveiled at the 1936 Salon des Arts Ménagers; and the boom in aluminium in traditional Cameroonian society in the 1960’s, particularly by the spread of aluminium saucepans and stockpots.
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IHA at Science & Technology History Book Fair
| | As last year, IHA will have a stand at the Salon du Livre d’Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques at Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris (Métro line 7, Mairie d’Ivry station) from November 21st to 23rd, 2008. This year the fair’s theme is the history of the exploration of the universe and the conquest of space. Free admission. For more information, click here. Everyone is welcome!
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Amazing Aluminium! IHA at the 7th World Aluminium Trade Fair
| | From the 23rd to the 25th of September 2008, at the 7th World Aluminium Trade Fair at Essen in Germany, IHA will be presenting an exhibition dedicated to the links between aluminium and innovation in science, art and industry. This exhibition is a result of our partnership with the Jean Plateau – IHA Collection and our encounter with aluminium artist Marcus Egli, métallier.
We will be providing the fair’s 16 000 visitors with a range of displays presenting numerous objects, texts, and images covering the following themes:
The First Steps of a New Metal (1854-1890)
- “Chemical Aluminium”, both a European Metal …
-…and a Semi-Precious Metal
Images of the Future: Aluminium and Art
- The Art of Modernity, Aluminium and "Art Nouveau" (1895-1905)
- The Renewal of the Art of Modernity: "Art Déco" (1920-1939)
- 1969, a Year that Changed the Face of Aluminium
- Crazy about Aluminium : the Creatures of Marcus Egli, métallier
Nepal and the Human Dimension of Aluminium Recycling
This exhibition is supported by the Association française de l’aluminium, the European Aluminium Association, the Gesamtverband der Aluminiumindustrie, the International Aluminium Institute and Reed Exhibitions.
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IHA in Chippis (Switzerland) on June 28, 2008
| | IHA has been invited to give a conference at the Annual General Meeting of the “Société d’histoire du Valais romand” (SHVR), on Saturday June, 28th in Chippis (Switzerland). This AGM will celebrate 100 years of the aluminium industry in the Valais region.
Program
10:00: Administrative meeting
10:30: Conferences
- Aluminium, 150 Years of Industrial Developments, J. Piquet et T. Renaux, IHA
- The Factory Worker / Wine-Maker of Alusuisse, R. Pralong, licenciée en histoire
- Sierre 1908, a Town, a Factory, a Castle, J.-H. Papilloud, Director of the Médiathèque Valais Martigny
- Communication of M. Lambert, Managing Director of Alcan Aluminium Valais SA
12:00: Cocktail
12:30: Lunch
14:00: Visit
More details on the website of the SHVR.
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IHA Grants 2008-2009
| | The IHA offers grants to PhD and Master students. The application files must be sent before November 1st 2008. For more information, clik here.
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International Congress: Transal 2008
| | This year, the international congress Transal will take place in Biarritz, 22-25 June 2008, on the theme “Aluminium and Sustainable Growth”. www.www.transal.net
IHA will be present in Biarritz and will share a stand with the “Presses de l’aluminium.” IHA will present our publications and activities during these three congress days.
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Conference «Aluminium and Steel: comparison of two models of development»
| | Philippe Mioche, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Provence, will hold a conference on the theme «Aluminium and Steel : comparison of two models of development», Tuesday 17 June 2008, 4.30 pm, after the General Assembly of the IHA. The conference will take place in the “Société d’encouragement pour l’industrie nationale”, 4 place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 75006 Paris (Lumière Room).
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Publication of the double issue 38-39 of the Cahiers d’histoire de l’aluminium
| | The double issue (nr. 38 and 39) of the Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium has just been published. The summary:
- Andrew Perchard, « Sculpting the ‘Garden of Eden’: Patronage, community & the British Aluminium Company in the Scottish Highlands, 1895-1982 »
- David Brégaint, « Loin des yeux, loin du cœur », quatre décennies de relations entre Pechiney et sa filiale norvégienne, DNN »
- François Tessier, « L’industrie de l’aluminium, un acteur majeur du paysage énergétique mondial »
- René Bonfils, « Pechiney en Espagne, 1925-1985 »
- Philippe Thaure, « L’Empire Immobile, Activités Industrielles de PUK (1971-1981) »
- Thierry Renaux, « Paul Morin (1818-1879), a Republican at the Black Mill »
- Jenny Piquet, « La collection d’échantillons de bauxite de Rio Tinto Alcan, Neuhausen (Suisse) »
- Pauline Dassé, « À l’écoute de la mémoire orale de l’industrie et des réseaux sur Internet »
- Sylvie Bouillard et Florence Hachez-Leroy, « Espace Alu, LE musée de l’aluminium »
To order this issue and/or to subscribe the Cahiers d’histoire de l’aluminium, please click here.
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Workshop IHA – University of Grenoble
| | The University of Grenoble and the IHA will organize a workshop within the framework of the PPF «Bauxite/Alumine/Aluminium: Local impacts of a global industry, comparative aspects (1886-2006)», 10-11 April 2008 in Grenoble. This first meeting will be dedicated to the comparative history of the social and environmental impacts in the aluminium industry.
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Aluminium in the Highlands
| | Andrew Perchard, a British Researcher who has the support of the IHA, has created a website dedicated to the Aluminium Industry in Scottland, in the Highlands. On this site, you can find: historical information, iconography, bibliography...
We invite you to visit this site at the following address: www.aluminiumville.co.uk
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Publication
| | Hélène Frouard, former Scientific Secretary of the IHA, has just published her PhD: Du coron au HLM – Patronat et logement social (1894-1953), Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2008. The book is available in bookshops (in France) or directly by the PUR here.
This book has been published with the support of the Institute for the History of Aluminium. One of the principal themes of the book is the housing policy in the Aluminium Industry in France (particularly Pechiney and Ugine).
Summary: A century ago, the Republic invented public housing. This book offers a stimulating reinterpretation of a seemingly familiar story, revealing the little-known role played at the time by French management. From sordid barracks for singles to foremen’s villas, from precarious rental contracts to home ownership, manufacturers were constantly involved, owning more than 300,000 workers’ housing units in the 1930’s. It comes as no surprise that public authorities, struggling to build the first cheap housing, tried to bring in such a dynamic participant. Various methods of cooperation were explored until the “1 % logement” law was passed in 1953. This compromise, under which businesses have to invest 1% of their wage bill in housing programmes, is the foundation of contemporary housing policies in France. At the crossroads of art history and political and social history, this work was awarded the Prix du Comité d’Histoire de la Sécurité Sociale (social security history committee award) in 2005.
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Defence of PhD
| | Didier Bensadon, former scholar of the IHA, defended his PhD in Management on December 11, 2007 in Nantes at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme on the subject of: Group accounting in France (1929-1985): Analysis of the introduction and diffusion process of an accounting technique, under the supervision of Yannick Lemarchand. Didier Bensadon obtained the mention Très Honorable avec les félicitations du jury à l’unanimité. His thesis is based on Pechiney casework.
Summary: This research analyses the introduction and diffusion process of group accounting in France. Through the analysis of archives from companies, public or private organisms and through the study of accounting handbooks and treaties, three periods have been identified.
During the first one, 1929 -1945, managers and stakeholders expressed the need of accounting information on the group. However even if group accounting is already practised in the United States and United Kingdom, it isn’t well-known by French accountancy practitioners and consequently is not applied in France, where accounting standards can’t be found.
The second period is from 1945 to 1968. The French accountancy practitioners became interested by group accounting as soon as 1951. In the early 1960s, managers had to face the problem of subsidiaries tracking; they also wanted to follow the requirements of American banks and financial markets. They consequently became familiar with group accounting. The French state tackled the issue and, in 1968, the Conseil national de la comptabilité set up a methodology for group accounts applied to French companies.
During the third period, 1968-1985, the Commission des operations de bourse played a crucial part in the diffusion of group accounting. Congresses, accounting reviews, and the accounting education field took part in this diffusion of this technique. The law of January, 3 1983 made it compulsory for public companies to disclosure their financial consolidated statements. The law of January, 3 1985 broadened this obligation to all companies, after the transcription of the seventh European Economic Community directive in the French corporate law.
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Scholars 2007-2008
| | The Scientific Committee of the IHA, meeting on November 19, 2007, awarded 4 new grants to Master and PhD students.
BERTILORENZI Marco, The international cartels in the aluminium industry, 1900-1950. Demand, supply and problems of a new branch of activity. PhD 1 (History), cotutelle Paris IV University et Florence University, Italy (supervisor D. Barjot et L. Segreto)
GARCIA LORENZO Marta, The structure of the world market of aluminium after World War 2. PhD 1 (Law), Ottawa University (supervisor. D. Nadeau)
GAVARD PERRET Franck, Paul Girod from Ugine. Master 1 (History), University of Chambéry, France (supervisor. D. Varaschin)
THILLEUL Karine, Industrialized house for the largest number : langages and images – from communication to perception. PhD 2 (Architecture), Versailles Architecture School (supervisor J. Castex)
In addition, the Scientific Committee decided to renew the grants of two scholars :
BENISSAD Amel, Aluminium schools in France and Great Britain (1945-1960) or the myth of prefabrication. PhD 4 (Architecture) , Versailles Architecture School (supervisor J. Castex)
INGULSTAD Mats, The Industrial Mobilization State and its Foreign Policy, 1940 to 1960; The American quest for resources and raw materials in the early Cold War. PhD 2, (History) University of Trondheim and European University Institute Florence (supervisor H. O. Froland)
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Alucam, an African destiny...
| | ...50 years of aluminium in Cameroon, 1957-2007, under the supervision of Maurice Laparra and Ivan Grinberg, Aix-en-Provence : REF.2C, 2007.
The writing of this book, published with the support of the Alucam company, was coordinated by the IHA. Eight authors contributed to the work to obtain a bilingual book English-French, with more than a hundred coloured pictures.
“Created in Cameroon in 1957, Alucam produces today 100 000 tonnes of aluminium per year, of which two thirds are exported, and manufactures corrugated sheet and household utensils for markets in Africa. This book relates a story spanning 50 years of history, starting in colonial France and taking place in a country that became independent in 1960. The company that was created and for many years managed by a flagship of French industry, Pechiney, in the framework of a lasting partnership with the Republic of Cameroon, is now building its future as part of the Rio Tinto Alcan group. The eight Cameroonian and French specialists who have contributed to this book have attempted to analyse Alucam’s impact on Cameroon’s economy and society, its contribution to the industrialisation of Cameroon, the social and organisational models it introduced and the effects of globalisation.”
The authors :
Daniel ABWA, Professor of History at the University of Yaounde I.
Mauve CARBONELL, Historian, scientific secretary of the IHA.
Albert François DIKOUMÉ, Professor at the University of Douala.
Ivan GRINBERG, Secretary General of the Institut pour l'histoire de l'aluminium.
Maurice LAPARRA, President of the IHA.
Marie-Claire LOISON, Management researcher at the University of Paris Dauphine.
Philippe MIOCHE, Professor of History at the University of Provence.
Anne PEZET, Professor of Management at the University of Paris Dauphine.
CONTENTS
PART 1. The three ages of Alucam(I. Grinberg, M. Laparra)
Chapter 1. Passing through Cameroon…: Alucam, a French smelter overseas. 1952-1958
Chapter 2: The “Cameroonisations” of Alucam, 1958-1981
Chapter 3: Alucam in a world in crisis, 1981-2006
SECOND PART. Cross-cuts
Chapter 4. Alucam and the political development of Cameroon: a marriage of convenience (D. Abwa)
Chapter 5. Alucam and electrical energy (M. Laparra)
Chapter 6. Aluminium in Cameroon: markets and uses (M. Carbonell)
Chapter 7. Cameroon on a winning streak thanks to Alucam
(Ph. Mioche)
Chapter 8. Edea power plant: how its construction affected and was perceived by local people (A.F. Dikoume)
Chapter 9. Half a century of social relations at Alucam-Socatral (A.F. Dikoume)
Chapter 10. Alucam, a responsible and sustainable investment?(M.-C. Loison, A. Pezet
ANNEXES
Chronological landmarks
Financial data
Aluminium production
Staff numbers
Accidents on duty
Leaders of the company and industrial establishment
SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
240 pages
ISBN : 2-9525451-5-4
38 euros
To order the book, download the order form.
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Defences of thesis 2007
| | Several scholars of the IHA have finished their work with success:
In June 2007, Kristian Jossund Karlsen defended his Master 2 in History on "The NACO and the German plans for the Norwegian plans for the Norwegian Industry during the Second World War", University of Trondheim, under the direction of Hans Otto Froland.
In September 2007, Anne-Laure Pronnier defended his Master 1 in History on "The Aluminium during the First World War", Université Paris 1, under the direction of Anne-Françoise Garçon.
In October 2007, Yves Plourde defended his maîtrise canadienne on "The International Strategic Behavior of Multinational Corporations in the Aluminium Industry", HEC Montréal, under the direction of Alain Noël.
Moreover, Thierry Brault, who came many times to IHA for his research, has finished his Master 2 in Economic Science on "Commentaire sur l’introduction de l’aluminium au London Metal Exchange", University of Pau, under the direction of Jacques Le Cacheux.
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Le Monde: an intervew of the president of IHA
| | An interview of Maurice Laparra, president of the Institute for the history of aluminium : "Le partage des rôles a été totalement modifié dans l'aluminium" (The casting has dramatically changed in the aluminium industry), (interview by Antoine Reverchon), is published in the French newspaper Le Monde, dated on Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
Moreover, Maurice Laparra has just supervised the edition of a bilingual (English-French) book about the history of the Cameroonian company Alucam which celebrates its 50 years of activity.
M. Laparra and I. Grinberg (sup.), Alucam, un destin africain. 50 ans d'aluminium au Cameroun 1957-2007 / An African Destiny. 50 years of aluminium in Cameroon 1957-2007, Mirabeau (Vaucluse), REF.2C, 2007, 240 p., available on Décembre 1, 2007.
Also in the folder "Les groupes miniers, nouveaux nababs de l’économie mondiale" (Mining groups, new nabobs of the global economy) (pages II et III of Le Monde Économie, supplement du journal) :
- Dominique Buffier, L’envolée des prix des métaux a créé des firmes géantes
- Annie Gasnier, CVRD, l’ex-société d’État devenue géant mondial
- Antoine Reverchon, Les ONG tentent d’encadrer l’expansion
- Questions-réponses Gisements
- Marie-Morgane Le Moël, L’ouest de l’Australie connaît un boom minier sans précédent
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Publication of the book Pechiney?... Vendu!
| | Pechiney?... Vendu! [Pechiney?... Sold!]. A book of Philippe Thaure which traces the “almost programmed death” of one of the flowers of French industry.
The Presses de l’école des Mines (the publication office of the French Mines School) publish a work which “follows, since 1960’s, the actions of diversification effected under the influence of politicians and engineers lobbies, the ill-timed or over-diversified investments and the errors of strategy which lead to the almost programmed death of Pechiney”. The author, Philippe Thaure, with his intimate knowledge of this industry, a civil engineering minor, a former employee of Pechiney, ended his career with Alcoa. Through public and privates archives and unpublished interviews with past managers of Pechiney and Alcan, he purposes an informed and enlightened reading of the history of the French producer of aluminium.
Pechiney?... Vendu!, Paris, 2007, 306 p., 25 €.
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Salon du livre d’histoire des sciences et des techniques
| | The Institute for the History of Aluminium will be present at the Salon du livre d’histoire des sciences et des techniques, in Ivry-sur-Seine, close to Paris, from Friday November 16 to Sunday November 18.
We will have a stand to show our publications (books, Cahiers d’histoire de l’aluminium) and our website. This book fair will offer different activities: conferences and debates, meetings with associations and editors working on the history of science and technology, presentations of books in presence of the authors, activities for children.
Please click here for the complete program of the three days.
To go there (free entrance):
Espace Robespierre, 2 rue Robespierre, 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine
Ligne 7 Métro Mairie d'Ivry ou RER C Gare d’Ivry-sur -Seine
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The second special issue of the Journal of History of Aluminium is now available
| | The second special issue of the Journal of History of Aluminium has just been published.
Entitled “Comparative Perspectives on the Norwegian and Canadian Aluminium Industries”, this special issue, totally written in English, presents the results of the first conference of the CARP (Comparative Aluminium Research Program).
Organised in Trondheim (Norway) in November 2006, this meeting united Canadian, French and Norwegian scholars.
The summary of this special issue is as follows;
- Espen Storli, "The Norwegian Aluminium Industry, 1908-1840: Swing Producers in the Hands of the International Oligopoly ?"
- Jean Martin, "The Canadian Triumph of the Second World War - Alcan: From the Canadian Little Sister to Alcoa's Major Competition"
- Daryl White, "Competition among Allies: The North Atlantic Triangle and Jamaican Bauxite"
- Jan Thomas Kobberrod, "Norwegian Alumina - A key to Success in a Global Industry"
- Robin S. Gendron, "Alcan's short-lived Accord de longue durée with Guinea in the 1950's"
- Harald Rinde, "Global Mission and National Interest: The Business Partnership of Alcan Aluminium Ltd and The Kingdom of Norway, 1966-1979"
- Hans Otto Froland, "The Norwegian Aluminium Expansion Program in the Context of European Integration, 1955-1975"
- Mats Ingulstad, "Cold War and Hot Metal: American Strategic Materials Policy, the Marshall Plan and the Loan to the Sunndal Smelter"
- Pal Thonstad Sandvick, "Joint Ventures in the Norwegian Aluminium Industry and the Hydro-Harvey Affair, 1963-1973"
To order this special issue and/or to subscribe the Journal of History of Aluminium, download the order form.
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Opening of
| | On October 29, 2007, opened in Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne (Savoie, France) "Espace Alu", an exhibition centre dedicated to aluminium — the first in Europe!
Through a playful and interactive exhibition — 6500 square feet —, this interpretation centre retraces the adventure of aluminium in all its aspects (scientific, economic, industrial, cultural and social) from the origins until today by many documents of quality (testimonies, videos, objects and photographs).
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50 years ago, Sputnik-I was emitting its famous
| | October 4, 1957. A 23 in-diameter aluminium sphere equiped with 4 antennas and weighing 184 lbs, crosses the sky to reach Earth orbit.
Spuntik-I, launched by the USSR 50 years ago, started the space age and the race between the Soviet Union and the United States.
More information on Sputnik-I
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Publication of the book L’aluminium et Paul Morin au Moulin noir (1857-1890)
| | We are especially happy to present you the book written by Jean Plateau et Thierry Renaux L’aluminium et Paul Morin au Moulin noir (1857-1890). Un maire pour Nanterre, un métal pour l’industrie. Born from a profitable collaboration between the IHA and the Nanterre Historical Society, this book was issued on the occasion of the European Heritage Days. It traces the unknown industrial adventure of the first aluminium factory created in 1857, the factory of the Moulin noir in Nanterre. This industrial adventure marks the fortune of a man with an unusual destiny: Paul Morin, French politician during the Third Republic who gave his name to the first company which produced aluminium in the factory. The book of J. Plateau et T. Renaux, which will become a reference work, is written in a clear and pleasant style and is enriched with numerous coloured illustrations of the most beautiful objects from the chemical period of the Jean Plateau collection.
You can order it by the Nanterre Historical Society or send us the bulletin of subscription you will find here .
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4-7 October 2007 : International Geography Festival (FIG) of Saint-Dié, France
| | The 18th edition of the FIG of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges will be held from the 4th to the 7th of October on the theme La planète en mal d’énergie. Numerous conferences, debates and other activities are offered during the four days. François Tessier, PhD candidate and scholar from the IHA will present a paper on the Sunday morning on the theme of: “The aluminium industry, a major actor of the world energy landscape”.
Website of the FIG: http://fig-st-die.education.fr/
For the complete program, click here
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IHA associated with the University of Grenoble in a long-term research program on the aluminium
| | The IHA and the University of Grenoble took the initiative to launch a "programme pluri-formations" (PPF) which has obtained the agreement of the French Ministry of Research. The program will be financed during four years. This program, called ”Bauxite/Alumina/Aluminium: local impacts of world industry – comparative aspects”, has the ambition to work in a multi-disciplinary and comparative perspective on the aspects of the sustainable development in the aluminium sector. During the next four years, several scientific projects could be organised. The financial resources will notably enable the support of student research. Workshops with our academic partners and a conference will be also held.
For the University of Grenoble, Anne Dalmasso, associate professor, is the person in charge of the project. The PPF also associates numerous partners: the French universities of Aix-Marseille, Nantes, Paris Dauphine, Paris IV, the EHESS and the following foreign teams: the universities of McGill (Canada), Trois-Rivières (Canada), Genève, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norvège) and the Centre for History (Dornoch, United Kingdom).
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Nanterre, birthplace of the aluminium industry: three events
| | On September 15, 2007, in the framework of the European Heritage Days, IHA and the Historical Society of Nanterre invite you to three events.
Conference of Jean Plateau and Thierry Renaux
Nanterre, birthplace of aluminium. A non well-known history on the origins of an industry
3:00 pm, Free entrance, Congress Hall of the Town Hall of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine department).
For the first time, the "Black Mill" of Nanterre – the first factory in the world to be specifically dedicated to aluminium production – is in the historical foreground.
In a lavishly illustrated book, the astonishing personality of Paul Morin is in the center of a scientific, technical and human adventure, in a time when aluminium was a semi-precious metal!
The authors present the results of a research which was recently published.
Publication of the book of Jean Plateau and Thierry Renaux
Exceptional presentation of the exhibition
L’aluminium à Nanterre, Paul Morin et l’usine du Moulin noir [Aluminium in Nanterre, Paul Morin and the factory of the "Black Mill"]
Fifty unique objects, of the Jean Plateau – IHA Collection, illustrate a non well-known episode of the history of Nanterre.
Free entrance, from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Congress room of the Town Hall, Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine)
Train Station RER A - Nanterre Ville
Order the book
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Publication of number 37 of the Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium
| | The number 37 of the Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium has been published. The summary:
- Claude Arnaud, Jean-Marie Guillon, "Bauxite Miners in Provence"
- Pierre Lanthier, "Workers in Schawinigan Potrooms, 1900-1945"
- Pierre Tortil, "Professions in an Anode Paste Workshop: Lannemezan, 1945-1992"
- Interview of Gaston Ouellet
- Mauve Carbonell (ed.), "The Profession of roller from the 30's to the 60's"
- Testimony of Michel Kazeef
- Jean Plateau, Thierry Renaux, "The Ciborium in Aluminium Bronze of the Nanterre Cathedral"
- Jenny Piquet, "Treatment and Valorization of Oral Testimonies: a common initiative of AHICF-Electra-IHA"
To order this number or to take out a subscription, please download the bulletin of subscription.
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2007-2008 student grants
| | he IHA offers grants to PhD and Master students. The application files must be sent before November 1st 2007. For more information, clik here.
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IHA Annual General Meeting, June 12, 2007
| | The IHA Annual General Meeting will be held on June 12, 2007 at 3:00 pm at the Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale, place Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris.
The Annual Report is available by clicking here.
The meeting will be followed at 5:00 by a conference of Jean Plateau and Thierry Renaux: "Nanterre, the birthplace of aluminium, An unknown episode of the origins of an industry (1857-1890)".
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Conference:
| | IHA is organizing a conference after its Annual General Meeting, on June 12, 2007, at 5:00 pm, at the Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale, place Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris.
"Nanterre, the birthplace of aluminium.
An unknown episode of the origins of an industry (1857-1890)"
by Jean Plateau and Thierry Renaux.
In autumn 2007, the autors will publish the result of their research in the review of the Historical Society of Nanterre, a French non-profit organisation, to commemorate the 150 years of the beginning of the production of aluminium in this Parisian suburb town.
[Please note thaht the conference will be given in the French language.]
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Design and aluminium: a prize given by the Association française de l’aluminium
| | On May 23, 2007, in Paris, took place the first prizegiving of the competition “L’aluminium pour le design (Aluminium for Design), organised by the program L’aluminium pour les generations futures (Aluminium for Future Generations).
Leading schools of design, art and architecture were informed of this competition from September 2006 until February 2007. The goal was to purpose a project, mainly in aluminium, which constituted both a real innovation for everyday life and which took account of sustainable development.
Two projects were classified as equal firsts and each one received an endowment of 2.500 euros:
- “H2 eau”, a project combining toilet and a washbasin to economise water;
- “Eliote”, a project combining a tent in aluminised cloth with a bike tow in aluminium.
In third position was the project “Luminae”, a garden table uniting atmosphere lighting and a plate-warmer. This project also received a special prize for its design.
Finally, without specific classification, the project “Fleury Bichon”, a packaging solution for precooked food dishes, associating aluminium plate and detachable cover-set-of-table-mats (to simplify the house-waste sorting), received the Special mention of the jury for its goods public use and responsible characteristics.
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Exhibition : L'usine Sainte-Marguerite de Castelsarrasin 1876-1920
| | On Mai 21 in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne, France), an exhibition about L'usine Sainte-Marguerite de Castelsarrasin 1876-1920 was inaugurated.
Free admission, from May 21 to June 8 2007 in the Hôtel du Département, Montauban.
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New people reinforce the international organisation of IHA
| | Gaston OUELLET, former chairman of Alcan France, becomes director and vice-president of IHA, based in Montreal.
Three other directors were named:
- Robert CHASE, General Secretary of the International Aluminium Institute (IAI)
- Lucien GENDRON, General Manager of the Centre Québécois de Recherche et de Développement de l’Aluminium (CQRDA)
- Jean-Philippe PUIG, Chairman of Primary Metal Europe and Cameroon, Alcan
Moreover, the Scientific Committee decided to reinforce its presence in North-America by the creation of the function of vice-president. Meg GRAHAM, associate professor at Mc Gill University agreed to accept this responsibility.
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The Exhibition Aluminium, l’esprit léger as from March 31 in Issoire (France)
| | On March 31 in Issoire (Puy-de-Dôme), the exhibition Aluminium, l’esprit léger started.
Highlighting Science, Industry and Art, the exhibition proposes to different publics an interesting and playful exploration of aluminium, its usage and its applications noteably in the field of aeronautiques in which the Issoire Alcan Factory is specialized.
Free admission, from March 31 to November 18 2007 in the "Tour de l’horloge", Issoire.
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March 23rd and 24th: conference on law and business history
| | The conference on LAW AND BUSINESS HISTORY (18th-20th centuries) scheduled as part of the Simiand workshop and with the financial support of EEP, the Gould foundation and LEA-INRA will take place on March 23rd and 24th on the Jourdan campus (48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France ).
How do legal constraints affect the creation, reorganisation and disappearance of companies? How do law and legal procedures influence conflicts within a company or between it and its environment? How do companies cope with legal constraints and do they organise themselves to drive the evolution of those constraints? Do they voice a demand for specific legal forms (Ltd., PLC, etc.) or for other types of institutions in order to manage conflict or failure? How can the cost and efficiency of a legal system be assessed and how can it be transformed? Given the persistent failure of shareholders and financial markets in the face of executive embezzlement, how should monitoring systems be understood over time and across the differences between countries? Corporate law is neither a recent invention nor a corpus that is frozen in time. It is a more or less consistent set of institutions that evolve on a multisecular basis in a close relationship to their environments. Recent developments in economics on this issue often lack historical depth but also a sound knowledge of law and the political or institutional constraints that weigh on regulation. This conference’s methodological approach is to favour work that brings together a conceptual and an empirical, especially quantitative analysis of the above questions or other issues in line with the theme of the symposium.
The conference is organised by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur (EHESS-PSE), Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (CalTech, PSE) and Alessandro Stanziani (CNRS-IDHE).
The programme containing the various speakers’ papers is given at the following address: http://www.paris-jourdan.ens.fr/ydepot/actua/COLLOQ/2007_03_23/
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Podcast: listen to the interview of Ivan Grinberg
| | On Friday, March 2, 2007, Ivan Grinberg, General Secretary of the Institute for the history of aluminium, was interviewed by Mathieu Vidard, during the live broadcast « La tête au carré », on the French radio France Inter.
To download the broadcast, in I-tunes, click here.
The podcasts of France Inter
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Workshop on March 14. 2007 in Arras
| | The University of Artois will organize on Wednesday the 14th March in Arras, with the help of the Regional Council of the Pas-de-Calais, a workshop about "Acteurs et métiers du patrimoine industriel - Construire l'avenir". For more information please click here.
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Ivan Grinberg on the French radio « France Inter »
| | On Friday, March 2. 2007, at 2:00 pm, Ivan Grinberg, General Secretary of the Institute for the History of Aluminium, will be interviewed by Mathieu Vidard in the live broadcast « La tête au carré ». The interview will be consacrated to the book Aluminium, light at heart, published in 2003 by the French editor Gallimard.
Written by Ivan Grinberg assisted by Florence Hachez-Leroy and Jean Plateau, this work won the 2004 French Roberval Prize. It was also nominated for the European Descartes Prize.
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February 24, 2007: Seminar
| | The University Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne organises, with the participation of the Institute for the History of Aluminium, the 5th session of the seminar “Energie et matériaux, Mondes médiévaux et modernes” (Energy and materials, medieval and modern worlds) on the theme of “Foils, sheets and rolling mills”. The seminar will welcome Mr Marc Jamet, a civil engineering miner, who managed the Insititut français des technologies de l’aluminium (French Institute of Aluminium Technologies).
Open to everyone, the seminar will take place in the Centre Mahler (9 rue Mahler, 75004 Paris), from 14h00 to 16h00, on February 24, 2007.
Program:
- Mrs Anne-Françoise Garçon. Drawing from a technical history
- Mr Marc Jamet. A video to convince: around the cold rolling mill of the plant of Neuf-Brisach (Alsace, France) (1985)
- Mrs Isabelle Warin. Bronze defensive weapons in Ancient Greece. From the use of metal foil in Antiquity
- Mr Nicolas Girault. Sheets for armours, 14th-16th centuries
- Mrs Karine Berthier. Rolling: birth of a metallurgical industry in the Essonne Basin in the 18th century
- Mrs Anne-Françoise Garçon. Lead foils: invention, disappointments, adoption, 1680-1780
- Mr Marc Jamet. Aluminium: evolution of rolling according to the technological progresses
Contact: afgarçon@univ-paris1.fr
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Publication of number 36 of the Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium
| | The number 36 of the Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium has just been published. The summary:
- Patrick Fridenson, "Twenty Years of Business History: the Dynamics of a Research Field",
- Carmine Nappi, "The International Aluminium Industry, 1980-2006: Structural Changes and Outlook",
- David Bourgarit et Jean Plateau, "When aluminium was equal to gold: is it possible to distinguish between a « chemical » aluminium and an « electrolytic » one ?",
- Erik B. Lindblad, "The Use of Aluminium Compounds in Medicine",
- Robert Drouard, "Memoirs of a Seat on Pechiney Works Council, 1957-1958",
- Jacques Vernier, "Les Établissements Charles Coquillard, an Industrial Adventure",
To order this number or to take out a subscription, please download the bulletin of subscription.
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Giving a Canadian grant for 2007
| | A grant has been given to Yves Plourde, a graduate-level student (Management Science) at HEC Montréal under the direction of Prof. Alain Noël. His research subject is: "The international strategic behavior of multinational corporations in the aluminium industry".
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IHA Scientific Committee: three new members
| | Hans Otto Frøland, Carmine Nappi and Anne Pezet joined IHA’s scientific committee in 2006.
- Hans Otto Frøland is professor of contemporary history and history department head at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim;
- Carmine Nappi is director, industry analysis at Alcan Inc.
- Anne Pezet is professor of management at Paris-Dauphine University.
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2006-2007 student grants: six European applicants selected
| | The IHA Scientific Committee, meeting on November 15th, 2006, awarded six new grants to students at European universities.
• Amel Benissad, Aluminium schools in France and Great Britain (1945-1960) or the myth of prefabrication. 3rd year doctorate, Versailles Architecture School/Architecture (supervisor J. Castex).
• David Bregaint, Pechiney in Norway, 1912-ca. 1960. 1st year doctorate, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim (NTNU)/History (supervisor P.T. Sandvik)
• Mats Ingulstad, Protecting the value chain; U.S. Government influence on localization decisions in the cold war aluminium. 1st year doctorate, Norwegian University for Science and Technology in Trondheim (NTNU)/History (supervisor H.O. Frøland)
• Kristian J. Karlsen, The Norwegian Aluminium Company (NACO) and German plans for Norwegian industry during WW2. 2nd-level master’s, Norwegian University for Science and Technology in Trondheim (NTNU)/History (supervisor H.O. Frøland)
• Anne Von Steiger, Organisation of the international market for a raw material and corporate strategies: bauxite 1880-1980 (1st year doctorate, Geneva University/History (supervisor P. Verley)
• Nicolas Vuaroqueaux, External impacts of the Venthon plant (1904-1994). 1st-level master’s, Pierre Mendès France University, Grenoble/History (supervisor A. Dalmasso)
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Mauve Carbonell, IHA Scientific Secretary
| | Mauve Carbonell joined IHA in October 2006 as the institute’s scientific secretary.
She replaces Hélène Frouard, who had held the position since 2004.
In June 2006, Mauve Carbonell presented her doctorate in contemporary history at Provence University and received a unanimous distinction for her thesis “Biographies of members of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community,” supervised by Philippe Mioche.
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Conference: Ivan Grinberg at Chambéry (Savoie, France) for the Fête de la science (Science Day)
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Research: Comparative History in Norway
| | The Comparative Aluminium Research Program (CARP), of the University of Trondheim (Norway) organises an interdisciplinary workgroup on November 13 and 14, 2006 on the theme Comparative Perspectives on the Norwegian and Canadian Industry. For further information: CARP.
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Aluminium Age Exhibition Opens in Chambéry
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IHA launches new Website
| | www.histalu.org is getting a makeover. IHA’s new website, live from September 11th, 2006, shows new ambition, resources and features.
Ambition: become the benchmark portal for aluminium’s history and heritage worldwide.
Resources: the catalogue of IHA authors’ work, chronological and biographical databases and bibliographical references, etc. are now online. A range of information - other catalogues, archives, images, collections of objects, etc. — will gradually be put online.
Features: The site is in both English and French. It also offers in-depth search tools and specialised links.
IHA brought in web development specialists Proposition, Terater and w-i to carry out the project.
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Jean-Albert Grégoire Exhibition Extended
| | “Une traction d'avance,” the exhibition focusing on engineer J.-A. Grégoire at the Châtellerault (France) motor museum, opened on May 3rd, 2006. Its run has been extended for four months until December 31st, 2006.
For more details, click here.
For information call +33 (0)5 49 21 03 46.
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2006 Summer Closing
| | IHA will be closed to researchers in summer 2006 from Friday 11th to Monday 28th August included.
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IHA Celebrates 20th Anniversary
| | On June 15th, 2006, Institut pour l'Histoire de l'Aluminium celebrated its 20th anniversary at Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale in Paris.
Around 100 guests attended two conferences:
- The first was by Patrick Fridenson, historian, research director at École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and editor in chief of Entreprises et Histoire magazine. He spoke on “Twenty years of corporate history: the momentum of a research field.” It was followed by an open discussion with former IHA doctors who attested to the role played by the Institute in their careers.
- The second conference, given by Carmine Nappi, economist and industry analysis director (Alcan Inc.), was on “The international aluminium industry, 1980-2006: structural changes and outlook.”
Both conferences will be transcribed in the next issue of Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Aluminium.
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Ivan Grinberg Wins Montgolfier Award
| | On May 18th, 2006, Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale awarded its 9th prix Montgolfier for information and communication to Ivan Grinberg, general secretary of IHA and the key player in the Institute’s development since its creation 20 years ago.
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Exhibition on Automotive Engineer Jean-Albert Grégoire
| | The exhibition Jean-Albert Grégoire. Une traction d'avance relates the unique story of a renaissance man and pioneering genius who made a lasting impact on automotive history.
Organised by the Châtellerault (France) motor museum (Musée Auto Moto Vélo) in cooperation with several partners including IHA, the exhibition is housed in a former arms factory until August 31st, 2006.
For information call +33(0)5 49 21 03 46.
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