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Notre-Dame de Paris and its cloister: places, people, life – E-NDP
The E-NDP project aims at renewing our knowledge on Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral through the creation of a collaborative digital edition of the registers of its Chapter, the community of 51 canons meeting three times a week on set days to take all administrative, financial and practical decisions p
Pix Illyrica. The bitumen deposits of Selenicë (Albania): Matter, territory and society from Antiquity to the present day – PIX
This project focuses on the exploitation of bitumen deposits in southern Albania and proposes a transhistorical and transdisciplinary approach. It is based on a double hypothesis and has a twofold objective: on the one hand, we consider that this natural resource has shaped the region from which it
Shared spaces for digital music scores – CollabScore
The project is dedicated to the collaborative digitization of music scores currently available only as images in museum collections. The workflow begins with an OMR (Optical Music Recognition) step, producing an incomplete or incorrect score. The second step relies on a crowdsourcing correction effo
Graphic Design, Research, and Social Science. Jacques Bertin's Graphics Laboratory – DESIGNSHS
This project aims at producing the first large-scale study of the relationship between graphic design and research in social and human science, from 1950 to now. The importance of data visualization and imaging technologies has placed design and visuality at the heart of most fields of research, wit
Reassessing Chupicuaro - Cuicuilco relationships from the perspective of ceramic productions (Formative Mesoamerica) – CHUPICERAM
This project focuses on the relationships between two regions considered key to understanding major sociopolitical processes in Mesoamerican Highlands: Western Mexico and the Basin of Mexico. The study of the inter-regional social relations is a subject extensively explored by Mesoamerican archaeolo
The role of linguistic and non-linguistic factors in the evolution of nominal classification systems – EVOGRAM
Categorization is one the most frequent tasks realized by humans during their life, as elements and experience encountered need to be categorized to be efficiently stored and retrieved within the human brain. Such need is reflected in language via various mechanisms such as grammatical gender (e.g.,
Dante in France, past to present – DHAF
« Dante from yesterday to today in France » (DHAF, « Dante d’hier à aujourd’hui en France ») The DHAF project intends to advance knowledge of Dante’s (1265-1321) reception in France, and to contribute with an original, targeted aim, promoted and led by French scholars, to the vast movement that
Teaching dance, in France, 17th-21st centuries – ENDANSANT
The ENDANSANT project proposes to question the construction of the profession of dance teacher, the conditions and places of its exercise between the seventeenth century and the twenty-first century in France. From sources of diversified natures (handwritten, iconographic, printed, oral), private or
The horse and the emergence of mobile pastoralism in the eastern steppe – MOBISTEPPE
On the Eastern Steppe of Central Asia, the period spanning the Late Bronze Age (1200–700 BCE) and the Early Iron Age (700–400 BCE) witnessed major societal changes, characterised by an increase in social differentiation and interconnectivity. The adoption of mounted pastoralism during the Late Bronz
Spatial Asymmetries across Languages: a Typological Approach – SALTA
The expression of spatial relations has been widely investigated over the last forty years. This constitutes a vast and diverse body of literature, the focus of which has shifted from localism to spatial deixis, frames of reference, “topological” relations and, more recently, motion event descriptio
A Red Golden Legend ? Muslim Hagiographic Experiences in the USSR and Popular Democracies – RedGold
A blind spot research, the study of sainthood in the (post-)communist world unveils unknown aspects of areas exposed to quick and diverse mutation in the name of one ideology. In connection with the brutal demographic engineering of the short 20th century and with the labour migrations of past decad
CRISP: (Addressing) the Challenge of Research Integrity in Scientific Practices – CRISP
Growing institutional concerns about research integrity result in diverse institutional transformations and actions impacting scientific practices. There is therefore an urgent need for a reflexive inquiry into the field of research integrity. The main objective of this project is to explore the con
History, origin and spread of Agriculture: new evidences from Archaebotany and Paleogenomics – ArkaeoAG
ArkaeoAG aims to trace the origin and expansion of agriculture during the Holocene as a major process in the socio-economic structuring of modern civilization. To achieve this objective, ArkaeoAG brings together specialists in paleogenomics, evolutionary biology, archaeobotany, carpology and paleoec
Geopolitics of heritage, return economies, tourism imaginaries – ReTourS
In France and in Europe, a debate is currently raging around the restitution of African works of art. In this context, ReTurns, a comparative, diachronic and multi-scalar research program, seeks to shift the focus of inquiry: (1) from Europe and North America toward the African countries concerned;
Visibility and invisibility of minorities on the public scene at the end of the Middle Ages – VISMIN
The VISMIN project proposed to approach the question of the visibility or «invisibilization« of the minority fact in the public space at the end of the Middle Ages, by examining the evolution of the Jewish quarters of some emblematic cities of the Iberian Peninsula. , against a background of growing
History and Archaeology of Monasteries and Ecclesiastical sites in the Eastern Adriatic (IVth-XIIth c.) – MONACORALE
The research project “MONACORALE – History and Archaeology of Monasteries and Ecclesiastical sites in the Eastern Adriatic (4th-12th c.)”, is born from the collaboration of French, Croatian and Italian researchers working on archives, texts and ecclesial, and notably monastic sites of the Istrian an
Bringing the brain of Homo erectus and Neandertals back to life – PaleoBRAIN
To do so, we will investigate for the first time the correlation between the shape of the brain and that of the endocast within a sample of modern humans using MRI acquisitions, including some with a specific sequence (ultrashort echo time, UTE) that allows the characterisation of bone tissues. Comp
Augustine in the Paris University libraries – AUBUPAR
AUBUPAR project explores an unknown aspect of the medieval dissemination of Augustin's work (354-430) : that which takes place within the medieval university. The dissemination of this Church Father whose reflection contributed to the specification of European thought and society and whose works nou
The Geometry of Algorithms – GoA
Algorithms take nowadays a central place in the public debate: they structure our social interactions, they modify our work, our means of transport, and also our scientific and medical instruments. But who can say what exactly an algorithm is? Since there is no real consensus among the experts, it i
Alexander of Aphrodisias' Quaestiones and PERIPATetic Physics – PERIPATOS
Combining philology, history of philosophy and history of science, the project deals with Peripatetic physics and Alexander of Aphrodisias’ Quaestiones in the context of his own school. How has Aristotle’s model of the Nature become the so-called "paradigm" it has been for Late Antiquity and the Mid
Knowledges and attachments to urban plants in Sub-Saharan Africa (Benin, Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal): identification and production of a heritage from below – INFRAPATRI
The interdisciplinary project INFRAPATRI aims to study the local knowledges and forms of attachment to urban plants in four sub-Saharan African cities : Yaounde in Cameroon, Ibadan in Nigeria, Porto-Novo in Benin and Dakar in Senegal. Our reflection is based on the notion of "heritage from below", a
Multimodal language practices in French family dinners – DINLANG
The DINLANG project aims to capture how semiotic resources (speech/sign, gestures, actions) are coordinated to construct meaning through the language practices transmitted to and used by children during French family dinners. Ethnographic methods will be used by four teams to collect dinners in two
Linguistic Indies. European reception of non-European languages, development and circulation of linguistic knowledge (16th-19th centuries) – INDESLING
The goal of the research program "Linguistic Indies" is to use the approach of the history of knowledge for the study of a field that has remained largely outside its scope until now: languages and linguistic knowledge. An international and multidisciplinary team, bringing together historians, lingu
Modern Approaches to Diachronic Phonology Applied to Basque – MADPAB
This project aims to improve our current understanding of Basque historical phonology by incorporating recent advances in theories of phonetically based sound change, contact linguistics and phonological typology and by using state-of-the-art quantitative and experimental techniques. The new approac