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Archaeological Researches on Metal and Pottery Assemblages from the Oxus Basin to the Indus Valley during Protohistory. – ROXIANA
The results of the various analyses conducted in the ROXIANA project, correlated in order to understand the evolution of craft traditions as systems, to better define the cultural and material interactions between the considered areas at various scales. Pottery studies implied new analytical strat
The letter in the Iberic peninsula and in the Latin West: heritages and transformations of a literary genre (IVth-XIth centuries) – Epistola
The Latin Iberian Peninsula is characterised by the variety of the correspondence exchanged, substantial contacts with other parts of the Christian West, and issues raised by its cultural originality. These qualities provide an excellent platform for an investigation on epistolary practices. The pr
Rethinking Earliest Celtic Gold - Economic, Social and Technological Perspectives in the West Hallstatt Culture. – WEST HALLSTATT GOLD
The program was based on the constitution of an international database and examination of 520 gold and silver objects dispersed in numerous museums and archaeological institutions in Germany, France and Switzerland. The principal aim was the study of the gold productions of the first Iron Age / the
The dynamics of inequality II. Making sense of gender in the labour domain. Classifications, collective bargaining and equality policies in France and Germany 1945 -2010 – Marianne 2
This project concerns the metamorphoses of gender equality in Germany and France between 1945 and 2010. Its objective is the study of gender representations and their transformation in both countries in the field of work and employment. Our hypothesis is that between 1945 and 2010, deep changes ha
Towards a typology of human impersonal pronouns – TypoImpers
The project combines a crosslinguistic overview with detailed semantic and syntactic investigations to bridge the gap between accurate empirical research and contemporary theorizing in the domain of impersonals. More generally, the project aims to make a contribution to our understanding of the inte
Center and Periphery : Archaeology of Paracas Territory, Southern Peru (800-200 BC). – Paracas
Paracas culture is known in general either through textils and ceramics of which most lack archeological contexts, or through mummies with flamboyant clothing exhumed in the Wari Kayan cementery, located in the eponym peninsula. Few studies have broached the topic of the Paracas' territorial dynamic
Paterns, practices and culture in French speaking West African schools – MOPRACS
This project aimed to analyse the negotiations and transactions of and between the various actors at all levels of the educational spectrum (international experts, administrators, teachers, beneficiaries). It investigated how their ordinary and symbolic practices serve to (re)produce the school alon
Psychiatric fringes. An historical and sociological investigation of early psychosis and related phenomena in post-war French and German societies – PSYFRING
Early psychosis is used today as a label for a condition of being mentally healthy and at the same time having a strong probability of developing a severe mental illness. It represents a space of liminality or, as we call it, a “grey zone” between pathology and health, illness and non illness. This
Transnational Artistic Training between France and Germany 1843-1870 – ArtTransForm II
The project is dedicated to the artistic training conditions in 19th century Europe from a transnational perspective. That issue allows questioning the fundamental categories of art history, especially those concerning national schools as they are deeply rooted within the scientific discourse. Worki
Evacuated persons at the french-german border in 1939-1945 – EDEFFA
In 1939, these evacuations of population were aimed at several purposes. For the «displaced persons«, there were social, economic, cultural and political, consequences determined by administrative and stragegic plans. The analysis of the evacuation and the reception of people were the second goal,
Jurisprudence and Logic – Jurilog
Along the History of Philosophy we can recognize a recurrent question concerning the relations between logic and law, namely respecting a possible mode of reasoning specific to Law. Although in the core of these two disciplines we identify different aspects which are even independent and autonomous,
The effects of the political border on the linguistic situation in the region of Upper Rhine – FLARS
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Hypothetical reasoning : its proof-theoretic analysis – HYPOTHESES
The general theme of the old project remains the same. We want to clarify what hypothetical reasoning is, how it is properly represented, and what are the basic laws which govern hypo- thetical reasoning. However there is a shift in focus: The new project is exclusively based on the proof-theoretic
National spaces in a transcultural prospect. Translation process, figures of mediation and social and cultural effects of literary transfers in Europe (France, german and spanish speaking countries). – TRANSNAT
The project "National spaces in a transcultural prospect" is linked to the problematic of cultural circulations from the Enlightenment to the Belle époque. Its intentions are to combine the prospects of cultural transfers with the methods of social and political history of culture such as quantitati
Romance Etymological Dictionary (DÉRom). Second stage: the panromanic core 2 – DÉRom
The central aim of the DÉRom (Dictionnaire Etymologique Roman) project consists of rebuilding the etymology of the common core (some 500 etyma, of which about 200 were compiled during the first stage of the project) of the inherited Romance lexicon according to the method of comparative grammar- a m
Dialectal, acquisitional, and diachronic data and investigations on subject pronouns in Gallo-Romance – DADDIPRO
The pronominal system of Romance languages constitutes a complex domain where wide variation is observed. This project investigates clitic subject pronouns and their progressive emergence in some Romance languages. The aim is to shed new light on these clitics within the generative framework, compar
A Social History of Tibetan Societies from the 17th to the 20th Century – SHTS
The history of minor principalities across “ethnographic Tibet” as well as their relations with each other and the greater political powers deserves more attention than it has received; not only because of the need to understand how society operated at a small-scale level, but because a far richer p