Arts & Societies

Research theme: Humanities | Lives, materialities, representations
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Illustration : Sigismund Albicus (1347-1427), series of bottles for urine analysis, Regien tempore pestilentiae, 15th century. National University Library, Prague.

Arts & Societies is a seminar dedicated to the world of visual representations. It holds monthly meetings with a wide range of speakers, all specialized in the humanities (art history, history, anthropology, philosophy, law…). This exposure to ongoing and innovative research is also meant to broaden the methodological scope and knowledge of current students, be they doing a Masters or a PhD, although access to the seminar is not limited and all publics are welcome.

The talks are published as part of the Lettre du séminaire, accessible in French and English on the website.

Calendar 2024-2025

25 septembre 2024 
Raphaël GAILLARD

Folie et créativité

23 octobre 2024, 17h-19h
Thibault BOULVAIN
Faire de la peine

20 novembre 2024
Nathalie BONDIL
Du care au cure, le musée au soin des sociétés

4 décembre 2024
Cécile BARGUES, Anne MONTFORT-TANGUY
Autour de "Chaosmose"

15 janvier 2025
Elisabeth ANTOINE-KÖNIG
Passer du fou à la folie, ou entrer dans les temps modernes

12 février 2025
Léonard POUY
Précieuses dissimulations : les trésors de la peste, de Colmar à Londres

26 mars 2025
Tiphaine LOURS
Représenter les greffes de tissus durant le long XIXe siècle : enjeux techniques et esthétiques de la mise en image du geste chirurgical

9 avril 2025
Patrick BOUCHERON
Juste une maladie ? Les images débordées par la peste

Publications and seminar proceedings

The seminar proceedings are published in French and English in the Seminar Letter (FR), an online journal with a wide circulation in France and abroad.

Arts & Societies, through the Presses du Réel, also contributes to the publication of innovative books and doctoral theses, as well as anthologies and translations of key works in art history.

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