The first president of our Association, Immanuel Wallerstein, was a scholar of international standing. We paid homage to him after his death in 2019, organizing a roundtable and publishing a leaflet collecting diverse tributes and a few writings from him. (see on this website the page Archives, year 2019).
Celebrating its 60^th anniversary this year, the FMSH has hosted, in partnership with the Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian, the Institut Universitaire de France and our Association, an international conference on Immanuel’s work and legacy, titled “Capitalism, anti-capitalism, committed social sciences at a global scale”. Set up by an organization committee where Kathy Wallerstein and Maurice Aymard played a leading role, the Conference welcomed some thirty speakers and moderators from multiple countries, including Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, member, as Maurice Aymard, of our Governing Board. Indeed, our contribution was not just financial, but intellectual as well…

For a presentation of the event: link here

See the programme: link here

The podcasts of each session are available on Canal U, via the links provided on the page dedicated to the Conference on the FMSH webpage: see here.

Update of the statutes of the Association:

We had to adjust the statutes of the Association in order to satisfy a request by the Foundation MSH Supervisory Board and by the Home Ministry (which registers associations), as the Association should not have too close organic links with the FMSH in order to be represented in the Supervisory Board. Through the modification of our statutes, we have strengthened our autonomy: we have now our own website, and the President of FMSH is no more an ex-officio member of the Governing Board of the Association. He is now invited to our Board meetings, without voting powers.

In 2023, the modified statutes have been submitted twice to an extraordinary General Assembly of our members, invited to vote on line, through a security software. The modifications have been approved in the second vote, which requested a simple relative majority. Results were as follows:

The first vote ended on March 17th, 2023.

Voters: 215

Yes: 190
No: 3
No position: 22

The second vote ended on April 4th, 2023.

Voters: 332

Yes: 281
No: 3
No position: 48

The revised statutes have been therefore approved by a large majority of voters. The Governing Board of the Association thank you for your votes.

The revised statutes are effective since May 15th, 2023, when we received the registration sent by the Paris Prefecture.

In 2023 we have renewed our financial support to the PAUSE Programme, conducted by the Collège de France to the benefit of scholars and artists compelled to exile.