Sort

By publication date

By relevance

• 30 mai 2013

  Paris | Laon | Craonne

  Call for papers - History

  The State goes to war

  Bringing the Great War into perspective

  From the summer of 1914, European societies seem brutally seized by war and, as a consequence, seized by the State. In the name of the State, millions of men enrolled in the armed forces are to fight one another. Bodies, minds and resources are subjected to a gigantic “mobilization”, a contemporary word still used by historians. A hundred years later, when all the warring States, as well as the States that were born from the conflict, are launching ambitious commemorative programs, the moment seems well chosen to study how the State wages war and, in return, how war transforms the State.

  Read announcement

• 31 jan 2012

  Saint-Quentin

  Call for papers - History

  Popular culture and/or mainstream culture? From subversion to marketing, 19th-21st centuries

  Culturhisto 2012: CHCSC doctoral students study day

  La journée d'étude vise à examiner les relations entre des labels complémentaires ou concurrents: « culture populaire », « culture grand public », « culture alternative », « culture de masse »... S'agit-il d'une distinction entre logique éducative et logique de marché, ou d'une confrontation entre authenticité d'un côté, et séduction du marché de l'autre ?

  Read announcement