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‘WAR MADE SHANGHAI’: TOWARD A SPATIAL HISTORY OF 19th-20th CENTURY SHANGHAI (1842-1952) – WARS
Wars have a tremendous impact on territories and their populations. Many cities were, at one point in their history, subjected to the grueling consequences of warfare. Some have suffered repeated assaults, successive cycles of destruction and reconstruction, displacement of population, and as a cons
Epigraphy and Museography : Digital Edition and Cultural Mediation of the Louvre Collection of Greek Inscriptions – E-PIGRAMME
the program is very innovative both on an epistemological and a practical field. It is designed to bring together humanities scholars, computer scientists, information specialists, museum staff, etc., to think about and learn new tools, approaches, and technologies and to foster relationships for be
Metaphysics of science: levels, individuals, dispositions in the light of present day science – Metascience
Our aim is to uncover the conceptual structure that underlies scientific theories and practices. To the extent that science often goes against common sense, to choose as our main criterion of adequacy agreement with science, not common sense, makes our approach belong to Strawson’s category of “revi
Cinema in the Soviet Union at war, 1939-1949 – CINESOV
x x x x There can be no doubt that the cinema played an all-important role during WWII and its aftermath both as mobilizing force and as the prime medium for narrating the conflict. Yet our knowledge about ways it did in different national contexts varies by country. The film indus-tries of Hollywoo
Musical Gesture: Models and Experiences – GEMME
x x x x During the first decade of the 21st century, gesture became for the general public (especially through several well-known video games) as well as within the music community the preferred way for controlling technologies. While for the past 50 years musical writing has decomposed and rebuilt
Elder masters and new generations of religious specialists in China today : ethnographic fieldwork on daily life and anthropology of social change – SHIFU
This research program is concerned with the daily lives of Chinese religious specialists today, in a context where their roles, and in a larger sense the religious landscape itself, have undergone massive changes. It takes as its subject the different figures of Chinese religions – Daoism, Buddhism,
Social interpretations of object-signs of Alpine jades in Neolithic Europe. – JADE 2
Jade 2 is based on the preliminary recognition of a major network for transfer of socially valued objects by most of the cultures of the Neolithic Europe during the fifth and the beginning of the fourth millennium. In the background of the apparent unity of these transfer networks, from a single cen
Towards a Physics of the Soul : The Development of the Science of Man (France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Great Britain, 17th-19th Centuries) – Anthropos
The projects point of departure is the recognition of the problematic status of the current human sciences. The human sciences are constituted disciplines with regard to their practices and/or their institutional status, but also a privileged field for quarrels and conflict within each discipline an
Archaeology of the funeral offerings of organic products in the Celtic, Etruscan, Italic and Punic cultures (VIth s-Ier s BC). – MAGI (Manger, boire, offrir pour l’étern
The stakes: The program MAGI aims at bringing to the archaeologists the scientific data which are usually inaccessible because appearing under a shape too much degraded to be recognizable by the usual means, in the microscopic or molecular scale. The carpology and the palynology give a direct
"Differences of potential" DifdePo History, poetics and aesthetics of Oulipo – DifdePo
The project title, “Différences de potentiel” (“DifdePo”), underlines the variety of possibilities provided by Oulipo’s research, the diversity of literary approaches typical of its members as well as the creativity resulting from the confrontation of opposing polarities… The project aims to create
European Police Systems, 18th-19th century. – SYSPOE
: The SYSPOE project, contrary to a tradition of writing the history of police in different national historiographies, wants to compare throughout Europe and its colonial territories the configurations of policing according the different categories of space, of situations and objects on which they d
Exogenesis : production of boundary-objects in european art from 1500 – EXOGENÈSES
The wide spatio-temporal context of the Program is required by the desire to create a story without a priori of the reception and perception of non-European objects based on the mutability of objects in the context of the recontextualization. The project requires that the geographical and chronologi
Marginality, Economy and Christianity. The Material Running of Mendicant Friaries in Central Europe (c.1220 - c.1550) – MARGEC
Bériou and Chiffoleau’s “Economy and Religion” inquiry, run from 2001 to 2009 to explore the economy of the mendicant friaries during the 13th-15th centuries and mainly based on French and Italian examples, showed that voluntary poverty could be a factor of economic and social regulation, due to the