Conference Venue: Seidlvilla — Nikolaiplatz 1b — 80802 Munich, Germany
Registration: Participation is possible online and in person. Conference listeners are asked to register by writing to kfg20(at)lrz.uni-muenchen.de and to indicate the panels they would like to participate in.
This conference is organized in cooperation with the Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Universalism and Particularism in European Contemporary History" at the LMU Munich (funded by DFG).
Please see the program flyer.
Monday — 1 December 2025
09.30–10.00
Welcome and Opening Remarks: Kiran Patel (Munich), Philipp Ther (Munich/Vienna)
Panel 1:
European Industrial Policy: A Chimera?
Chair: Kiran Patel (Munich)
10.00–13.00
- Laurent Warlouzet (Paris)
European State Aid Control Against National Champions? The Cases of French Shipbuilding and Carmaking - Ralf Ahrens (Potsdam)
“Européen mais non communautaire”: Airbus as a Model for a European Industrial Policy? - Grace Ballor (Milan/Geneva) and Rasmus Salén (Geneva)
Business Forums and Industrial Policy: High Tech and Efforts to Make a New European Economy in the Late Twentieth Century - Dimitri Zurstrassen (Rome)
From Sectoral Restructuring to Strategic Revival: EU Industrial Policy in Shipbuilding (1970s–2025)
13.00–14.30
Lunch Break
Panel 2:
Particular Industrial Policies in “Old” EU Countries
Chair: Jochen Streb ( Mannheim)
14.30–16.00
- Jan Otmar Hesse (Bayreuth)
Supporting Industry via Export Promotion: The German Way to Global Markets
Nicola Quondamatteo (Trento)
State Industry in a Global Market: The Case of Fincantieri
Panel 3/I:
Eastern Europe and China in Comparison
Chair: Philipp Ther (Munich/ Vienna)
16:30–18.00
- Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg)
The Fallacies of World Market Integration: Industrial Policies in (Former) Yugoslavia - Tereza Juhazová (Prague)
Industrializing Eastern Slovakia and Its Post-Communist Legacy: The Cases of the Metal Working Factory in Medzev and the Košice Steel Works
Tuesday — 2 December 2025
Panel 3/2:
Eastern Europe and China in Comparison
Chair: Valerie Zanier (Bologna)
09:00 – 12:00
- Tao Chen (Shanghai)
Chinese Industrial Policy in the Auto motive Sector and the Cooperation Between Volkswagen and the PCR - Zizheng Zhou (Guangzhou)
Policy Support From the State Council for CITIC Group’s Pioneering Experiments (1979–1992) - Yaner Li (Vienna)
Industrial Policy or Schumpeterian Capitalism: The Sources of Success of the Chinese Shipbuilding Industry - Xu Liu (Bonn)
Reactive Crisis Intervention vs. Proactive State Strategy: A Comparison of German and Chinese Industrial Policy Paths Since the 1970s
Panel 4:
Roundtable Discussion — Learning From China: Towards a European Industrial Policy
Chair: Grace Ballor (Milan)
13:00 – 14:30
Valerie Zanier (Bologna), Philipp Ther (Munich/Vienna), Nicola Quonda matteo (Trento), and Dimitri Zurstrassen (Rome)
