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Encyclopaedia of Literature in African Languages – ELLAf
ELLAF proposes the creation of a website dedicated to the documentation and research on literatures in African languages, whatever their sociolinguistic status. Literary texts will be presented on the website as excerpts or full texts, with a French and/or English translation, following a common pr
Geography of Eastern Anatolian obsidian: sources, characterization and diffusion during prehistoric times. – GeObs
The lithic artefacts found in archaeological excavations reflect the diffusion of obsidian from Anatolian sources throughout the Near-East. Since the pioneering work of Cann and Renfrew (1964), an increasing number of studies have focused on Anatolian obsidian (Cauvin et al., 1998; Chataigner et al
Processes of political community formation : the example of Angevin Europe (13th - 15th Centuries) – EUROPANGE
This programme addresses the emergence of a political society, by questioning a specific group of administrators, the officers, in the Angevine domains: Anjou, Maine, Provence, Lorraine, South of Italy and Sicily, Piedmont, Lombardy and Tuscany, Hungry, Poland, Morea, Albany. This disjointed space a
Italian Books and Book Collections in Early Modern French-Speaking Countries – EDITEF
The EDITEF project aims at coordinating innovative research on people active in the production, marketing and conservation of Italian books and their French translations in early modern Europe. It proposes an original approach to studying the inter-regional circulation of these works, focusing on th
Linguistic analysis, intercultural aspects of sapiential utterances and their transmission from East to West and from West to East – ALIENTO
Our main objective has been to develop a working method to study the texts in 5 languages (including 2 Semitic languages) to process them in a uniform way. Indexing guides and keywords, resulting from a collaborative effort, guide the collaborators working on the texts from a common platform. The pr
Photography and Landscape.: Knowledge, Practice, Project. – photopaysage
Our proposal will consist in exploring the knowledge that photography has built up on landscape via art photographers, landscape architects, and geographers practicing or reading landscapes. We will examine the articulation between photographic practices, and other forms of action on landscape; we w
Alexander of Aphrodisias and the Aristotelian Metaphysics: Contexts, Issues, Reception – DIDASKALOS
The project “Alexander and Aristotelian Metaphysics: Contexts, Issues, Reception” aims at publishing the first translation in French of the Commentary on the Metaphysics, giving the researchers new numeric tools in order to develop the Alexandrinian hermeneutics, federating and promoting the researc
Making invisible powers present in the Himalayas – présencedesprits
Unlike research on other cultural areas, such as the anthropology of the Amazon, Himalayan Studies have so far had little visibility as such, as if the region had failed to forge an identity of its own between India and Tibet and to be a source of inspiration in anthropological debates. One goal of
Explanations in evolutionary biology – EXPLABIO
For evolutionary biologists, the space of explanations is structured along two axes, namely the two questions: “How does selection proceed?”, and “why is there selection; then a third axis concerns the mechanistic or topological character of explanations – « topological » meaning here the explanator
Cultures of Revolts and Revolutions – CURR
With the phrase “revolts and revolutions”, the programme considers unruly events when they express a wish for political breach from established order, whether they be a mythical return to the Golden Age (considered by some as “revolutionary conservatism”), or an aspiration to a political regime chan
The making of history as it tells itself – Histinéraires
The project “La fabrique de l’histoire telle qu’elle se raconte” (the making of History as it tells itself), also known as HISTINÉRAIRES, , has for object the study of the “mémoires de synthèse des activités scientifiques” of the habilitation (HDR) to supervise research submitted in history departme