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Audiovisual cluster and local dynamics of creativity on the North Parisian region – CLUSTER93
The CLUSTER93 project analyzes the actors and their links within and between the layers composing the North-Parisian creative territory. The challenge is to highlight, on a multidisciplinary basis, the structural and behavioral conditions of a territorial anchoring and a sustainable competitiveness
The stakes of heritagization: the tourist producing machine of cultural heritage in the context of globalisation: global models, identity shifts, hybridizations – PATRIMONDI
The PATRIMONDI project explores how the dynamics of the heritagization interferes with tourism motilities and global circulation (of people, ideas, capital. The analysis is underpinned by the assumption of a new regime of heritagization characterized by a co-production of heritage by tourism in the
Creation, heritage and commodification in the world of roses – RosesMonde
Living cultural and natural objects, ornamental plants have been reached by the heritage fashion of the 70’s-80’s. Giving value back to old outdated varieties, this heritage fashion is based upon an aesthetic critic of the horticulture supply and of the current commodification trend. Horticulture cr
Hypertextual Project of Balzac’s works based on the use of similarities – PHŒBUS
This project will place Honoré de Balzac’s entire oeuvre (The Human Comedy, earlier novels, comic tales, theater, and other diverse texts) in conversation with a vast corpus of contemporary writings that may have inspired the former. This body of contemporary texts varies in terms of both cultural
Prison and Punishment Economies in Africa – ECOPPAF
The prison is the archetypal figure of confinement. It is only at the end of 18th century that prison sentence was recorded in the criminal codes of Western Europe and United States. Gradually, this punitive model was spread out from one continent to another, thanks in particular to colonial empires
Collegiate Churches and Monasteries from the Carolingian Reform to the Council of Trent (816-1563) – COLEMON
COLÉMON aims to renew ecclesiastical geography by offering a GIS meeting the expectations of religious history scholars as well as a wider audience of scholars and heritage associations. Although they shared for centuries the same functions (sheltering shrines, parishes, colleges, hospitals, fratern
Dictionary of Transatlantic Cultural History 18th-21st cent. – Transatlantic Cultures
Transatlantic Cultures is a joint research project led by a Franco-Brazilian team of scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Its purpose is to develop an online Dictionary of Transatlantic Cultural History to be published in four languages: English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. This encyc
Revisiting Saint-Simonianism as an Innovative Utopia – SAINT-SIMONISME18-21
Revisiting Saint-Simonianism as an Innovative Utopia Summary The SAINT-SIMONISME 18-21 project is a multidisciplinary rediscovery of the largest utopian thought of the 19th century, designed and developed in its practical form between 1810 and 1880. It generated intellectual and practical innovati
Pre-Hispanic societies facing their environment: spatial and diachronic change in Andean pastoralism (100-1470 AD) – CAMELANDES
The Andean pastoralism and the establishment of trades between different ecological levels (concept of Andean verticality) are the basis for the emergence of complex societies in the Central Andes. The diversity in climate and altitude of the geographic area creates a unique environmental mosaic. It
Genetic characterization of ancestral French populations using ancient DNA – ANCESTRA
The aim of ANCESTRA is to reconstruct the peopling of the territory of present-day France by characterizing the different waves of human populations since the Neolithic and until the beginning of the Middle-Ages. By means of ancient DNA studies, we can directly access the genetic make-up, the ancest
A Poetics of Chapters : Genetic Criticism, Pragmatics of Reading and Intermediality – CHAPITRES
Chapters may be the last element in the poetics of the novel that have almost never been studied, except in Ugo Dionne’s La Voie aux chapitres (Seuil, 2008), which draws up the history of how novels have been divided and structured, up to the end of the 18th century. As a unit, the chapter gives a r