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• 24 mar 2016

  25 mar 2016

  Nanterre | Pierrefitte-sur-Seine

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Revisiting Commemoration

  Practices, uses and appropriations of the Centenary of the Great War

  The Centenary of the Great War has become a major commemorative event. In France, through the range of events it has inspired, and their distribution throughout the country, this Centenary has become as significant an event as the Bicentenary of the French Revolution was in 1989. At the time, the Bicentenary was a significant contribution to the development of original landmark studies, on the staging of history, and on commemorative social practices, on memory politics and their transformations over the long term, on “commemorative mania” or the erasing of the national “commemorative superego”. The Centenary of the Great War thus provides the opportunity to pursue this reflection by emphasising, not so much who is commemorating but what the commemoration is doing: the practices, the uses and the social appropriations that arise from this. Unlike in 1989, the Commemoration of the First World War is taking place simultaneously in different countries. It therefore allows us to immediately incorporate a comparative perspective.

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• 28 mai 2015

  29 mai 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  The End (s) of (In)Equality: France and the USA

  Alors que la France et les États-Unis sont souvent considérés comme des « républiques sœurs », la particularité de l’expérience historique de ces deux nations engendre des modèles, apparemment opposés, relativement à la liberté, aux droits et devoirs ainsi qu’au traitement des différences (sexuelles, sexuées, religieuses, raciales, etc.). Par ailleurs, la France comme les États-Unis sont toujours aux prises avec leurs passés (l’esclavage, le colonialisme), tout en s’efforçant de s’adapter aux exigences du pluralisme introduites par la mondialisation, le transnationalisme et les mouvements sociaux du 20^e siècle.

   

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