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MUSICOVID is an interdisciplinary research project that places at its centre the analysis of the modes of adaptation, resistance and innovation of musicians and their audiences in times of Covid, when the question of a brighter tomorrow is so acute. It aims to question the new place of live music in

The international consortium AquaTyr will investigate reticulated water management in the antique city of Tyre, in Lebanon, an island that became a peninsula. It will focus on coping strategies for water needs, from the Iron Age to Medieval times, before, during, after a period when water was delive

The history of Tibet remains obscure in many of its parts, despite the research accumulated during the past decades. And yet, there are tens of thousands of pages of historiographical material that remain unexploited. This documentation takes the form of religious genealogies–series of biographi

The archaeology of the Late Pleistocene in southern Africa is entangled between two current scientific perspectives, which address the origin of behavioural modernity on the one side and the origin of San material culture on the other. These two perspectives overlap two successive chronocultural pha

The uses of timber in Mycenaean architecture and in the palatial architecture of the Neopalatial period in Crete were identified very early on and have been summarised in works devoted to the architecture of these periods: however, it has never been the subject of an overall study or of a comparativ

Beyond their role in artistic creation and symbolic expression of prehistoric societies, colouring materials were involved in different kind of activities related to technical and subsistence practices. The analytical developments of recent years, founded on the combination of naturalist (geology/ p

This project aims at building a cultural history of Artificial Intelligence, based on a mixed method, combining the methods of the history of ideas and the history of collective imaginations with a search of scientific literature and ethnographic field work among AI creators. Our goal is to understa

Sexual consent is at the heart of contemporary public debate and the subject of numerous public controversies: about sexual violence, with the #MeToo movement or the non-consent of minors, about conjugal sexuality, sex education, interpretation of sexual violence in fictions, etc. This research proj

The objective of the project is to analyse the context of the Chinese Revolution of 1911 in Tibet (Central Tibetan, Kham and Amdo) through “crossed glances”. This period of Sino-Tibetan relations is particularly important because it determines the end of the privileged relationship that linked the h

The GEOPRAS consortium comprises seven partners that have been involved for several years in coastal archaeology. Our programme studies the coastal societies of recent Prehistory (Mesolithic and Neolithic) on the French Atlantic shores in order to understand their social and economic organization an

This project on the urbanisation of the Spanish Empire in the 18th century aims to map the continuities and discontinuities of the inhabited spaces of the empire, listing at the same time the areas that were under the control of independent indigenous political units or rival powers of Spain. Based

This project studies, from a historical point of view, the processes of patrimonialization of which mathematics was the object, from the 18th to the 20th century, via printed media gathering what is worth preserving in terms of mathematical knowledge (encyclopedias, specialized or generalist diction

To obtain an up-to-date and detailed picture of what the Balkans as a linguistic area look like, we propose to create an online database that carefully maps the linguistic features in various languages and dialects and to relate them to the socio-historical information available. Friedman (2021) poi

The objective of this project is to study, in a systematic comparison, focusing on traded species consumed both in rural and urban areas, the representation of insect consumption in different multicultural Latin American countries. It also questions how, at a local level, gathering, processing, trad

Since the birth of Egyptology in the 19th century and of Sudanology later on, scholars working on ancient Nile valley societies have mainly focused their interests on the stone buildings. In contrast, the study of mud-brick architecture has mostly been limited to its most monumental (e.g., enclosure

This project aims to study the socio-economic and environmental adaptation strategies of civilizations in a context of multifactorial upheavals that could lead to the collapse. Echoing the difficult situations that our contemporary society faces, the project will investigate an emblematic but still

PARCEDES aims to study the organisation and evolution of agrarian plots of land [“parcellaires” in French] from Protohistory to the present day, based on four French, Italian and English sites. The aim is to (i) identify and, if necessary, characterise the possible links between these changes and so

LIBEX is an interdisciplinary corpus-based project federating linguists, jurists, historians, literature and philosophy scholars from France and Quebec who focus on freedom of expression, of creation, of conscience and discrimination. Their research will concentrate on the relationship between relig

Grain storage in underground silos was probably practiced from the early Neolithic until very recently in some communities around the world. For thousands of years, the underground silo should have been an essential development for the life and survival of populations, with an undeniable economic st

The historiography of Italian fascism is being renewed.The many historiographical debates, over elements which do not yet generate unanimous consent (for example the problematic question of defining the fascist phenomenon itself, the links between fascism and totalitarianism, the issue of racism and

ANTHRAME offers a fundamental research project on 14th-16th century anthropology in Italy that is sorely lacking. Now, although anthropology as a science was not established until the 18th century, we use this term to designate the questioning of the nature and functions of the human being, consider

The population of Moorea, an island located in the Society archipelago of French Polynesia (FP), doubled between 1983 and 2002. This significant demographic growth generated a strong tension on the coastline and the lagoon, which has resulted in an intensification of fishing activities, physical deg

COSMO-ART proposes a new methodology based on a Cosmopolitan Approach to assess common interest points in uses and perceptions of rock art sites so as to articulate perceptions and development policies and better fulfil requirements of sustainability. This methodology has been elaborated by consorti

The project aims to study the way in which Bersuire, in the 14th century, translated Livy's History of Rome, a translation whose influence would be capital on the constitution of the French lexicon, political in particular, and the construction of a historical science, based on Western conceptions o

How did exchange networks work during the Early Iron Age? Research on the interactions among Protohistoric societies is mostly focused on the elites and their ostentatious manifestations, exemplified by luxury imports and valued items. Indeed, during the first Iron Age – Hallstatt D –, exchanges sub

BiNaH : Bibliothèque Nationale “Hebraica”: Hebrew Manuscripts in Paris A comprehensive cataloguing and an historical recherche of the collection of Hebrew manuscripts held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF) still remains a desideratum. The collaborative project Bibliothèque Nationale “

Digital resources such as lexicons, dictionaries and text corpora, both raw and enriched with linguistic annotations, play a key role in enabling better inclusion of regional and minority languages in the digital world. Yet the gap between languages with many resources (fewer than ten languages) and

Building on the hypothesis that French-speaking Europe had an impact in Cuba – which was mutual, especially after 1959 –, this project will examine the role of cultural and scientific mediators between Cuba and French-speaking Europe (France, Belgium, and Switzerland) from 1952 to 1971. Four researc

The CORR-PROUST 1907-1914 project aims to reconstruct the online archive of Marcel Proust’s creative process. A digital, revised and augmented edition of Proust’s letters during his most inventive period (1907-1914), connected to the digital archive of his manuscripts as well as to cultural and medi

The ACADEC program focuses on the history of Concert Academies in France in the 18th century (1710-1770). It aims to give them more visibility and to highlight their decisive part in the intellectual and artistic life of the Ancien Régime. The purpose of the project is to establish a cartography of

In several regions of Western Europe, the end of the Pleistocene witnessed a recomposition of biocenoses through the replacement of cold and steppe species by so-called temperate fauna. This process did not have the same rhythm, nor the same impacts, according to North-South and East-West gradients.

The POPPY project aims to determine the origin and early diffusion of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L.). Opium poppy could be the sole plant domesticated during the Neolithic period in Europe, at least from the middle of the sixth millennium. The main objectives of the project are to 1) identi

Several Palaeolithic archaeological sites of the Gravettian period such as Gargas, Tibiran, or Fuente del Trucho display hand stencils with so-called ‘mutilated’ fingers. Here we study the hypothesis that these stencils represent sign language gestures (a classical conjecture by Leroi-Gourhan (1967)