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EthioChrisProcess is part of a trend of new research on Ethiopian history and the history of late antiquity around the Red Sea, proposing to shift the focus to Christianization, over time and from a thematic point of view. The idea is to look at the effects of Christianisation in social and politica

A number of studies point out the risks to information pluralism posed by the concentration of economic power, advertising funding and the circulation of false or poor quality information. However, to our knowledge, few studies link these aspects to the central questions of digital production and di

The Neolithic period constitutes a major economic and social upheaval in the history of prehistoric human societies, and was accompanied by a new relationship between man and his environment. The landscape was modified and shaped by the Neolithic farmers, who invented new architectural expressions s

Using archaeology, our project suggests another view of Angkor Thom, the capital of the Khmer kingdom (IXth - XVth century), one of the most iconic urban sites of world town planning history. This capital city existed during a golden age of Asiatic towns whose history, up to now generally reduced to

Our project is to provide the prosopographic searchable database of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names of Oxford (http://clas-lgpn2.classics.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/lgpn_search.cgi) with a linguistic extension and to extract a printed dictionary to replace the book of F. Bechtel 1917 Die historischen Pers

In these times of cultural and ideological tensions across the world, the coexistence between followers of different faiths is a burning issue. South Asia is no exception to this global trend: over the past decades, every country of the region has witnessed tensions and sometimes open conflicts betw

The transdisciplinary project HOMTECH (HOMinin TECHnology. Cognition, motricity and behaviour of the first stone-tool makers) seeks to reconstruct the cognitive capacities, motor capabilities and subsistence behaviours of the first stone tool makers (Lomekwian and Oldowan), integrating archaeology,

EcoSen aims to highlight the links between Pulaar literary output and the environment of the Senegal River region (southern Mauritania, northern Senegal), by implementing a novel theoretical approach to the literature of this region, and, more widely, to Afrophone literature, which we term Ecopoetic

Cooking traditions, local and continental, are one of the most recognizable items of European culture, and a large part of European identities. But how did they get to be what they are? How did they evolve, what were their influences? During the last decades, research arrived at two important conclu

The aim of the MATHESIS project is to promote, through an edition and a commentary, the study of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s (1646-1716) unpublished mathematical manuscripts and to launch a dynamic of research on a European level. We plan to edit more than 800 printed pages of texts and two volume o

This project aims at highlighting Jules Vuillemin's work by contributing to the diffusion of his texts which are unpublished or too hard to find. This work will take place in four parts. 1.The publication, by the French a publisher Vrin, of all published articles of Vuillemin, most of which can

The project is a first step towards an innovative digital environment for the study of the language and culture of medieval Europe. The medieval civilization can only be investigated by means of the study of traces that have survived to our times. The best source of our knowledge is the texts, prese

Numapresse intends to offer a new cultural and literary history that will highlight the structural themes of the press in France from the nineteenth century to today. It will rest on the digitization of newspapers—implemented through the successive campaigns developed under the impetus of heritage l

Tell al-Muqayyar in southern Iraq is one of the major archaeological sites of Ancient Mesopotamia. Identified in 1854 as the ancient city of Ur, it has been briefly excavated in 1918-19 before a joint expedition was set up by the British Museum of London and the University Museum of Philadelphia. Fr

Combining area studies and social sciences, CITY-NKOR brings together three partners (UMR8173-China, Korea, Japan Lab, the EFEO and Leiden University) that all occupy a pioneering position in the study of (North) Korea today. It proposes an approach to North Korea that differs radically from the pre

This project has two basic goals: the first one is to launch a systematic diachronic study of some of the central grammatical features of Basque grammar as we know it today, by pointing out their evolution in the attested history of Basque and analyzing them in the context of the recent theoretical

"Gender" is a critical construct in the analysis of social relationships between men and women by the social sciences. Universal factors of social structuring, the modes of gender expression are, by definition, extremely variable. They constitute, in this manner, a pertinent tool for characterizing

This project aims at analyzing the politics of architectural and cultural heritages in China through the example of the innovative “Tianjin experience”. By politics, we mean official policies, both local and national, but also the way they are confronted to and influenced by a diversity of initiativ

The goal of the MICA project is to look at collective action through the lens of musical improvisation, particularly in situations of so-called « free » improvisation. Whether in the case of a conversation amongst friends, brainstorming with colleagues at work, a football match, or taking political

The evolution of hominins in the Old World over the last 7 million years was influenced by changes in climate. In point of fact the climate is what shapes spatial and temporal variations in the environment and therefore affects food resources. To assess how global climate changes as well as regional

The major research programmes of the last forty years have essentially focused on the period that saw cinema emerge as a medium and as an “attraction”. But the 1910s – corresponding to what we still consider to be the institutionalisation of cinema’s economic and industrial structures – is also a cr

Situated on the Northern Fringe of the Massif Central (France), the Linguistic Crescent encompasses parts of the following French departments: Eastern Charente, the Southern edges of Vienne, Indre and Cher, the Northern margins of Haute-Vienne, Creuse and Puy de Dôme, and South Allier). On a map, th

EVOSHEEP proposes to document how Near Eastern and Middle Eastern societies developed sheep farming and how this influenced their history using a multidisciplinary approach drawing on evidence from different sources: archaeozoology, philology, iconography and paleogenetics from a wide temporal (6000