2021 Heggoy Prize for M'hamed Oualdi

with his book "A Slave Between Empires"
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08/06/2021

The French Colonial Historical Society is pleased to announce that M'hamed Oualdi is the 2021 winner of the Heggoy Prize. You can read the book prize committee's citation for A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa here.

The French Colonial Historical Society awards the Heggoy prize in honor of founding member, Alf Andrew Heggoy, annually in recognition of the best volume published in the preceding year dealing with the French colonial experience from 1815 to the present.

Books from any academic discipline will be considered, providing that they approach the French colonial experience from a historical perspective.

▸ French Colonial Historical Society website

▸ M'hamed Oualdi, A Slave Between Empires. A Transimperial History of North Africa, Columbia University Press, Feb. 2020.

Layers and Connections of the Political

International APH conference 2020-2021

Layers and Connections of the Political

International APH conference 2020-2021

14-15 June 2021- LUISS Guido Carli University Rome, Italy

Politics has changed a lot, in the last half-century – and so has political history. The boundaries of the political have been redrawn. The large social and political bodies of the mid-twentieth century have grown weaker or have dissolved. Public institutions have become both less insulated from society and less effective in controlling and guiding it. Therefore, defining what is political has become more difficult. Political historians have confronted this challenge, and in the process have gained a deeper understanding of their object of study, have enlarged their scope and refined their methodologies, and have entered into closer dialogue with the “other” histories and the social sciences. The fragmentation of the political and the increasing uncertainty of its boundaries have made political historians more acutely aware that politics does not exist only “high up” and on the macro level, but reaches deep into private lives, shapes people’s identities and perceptions, interferes with their thoughts and emotions, regulates and modifies their behaviour. Actions and reactions performed on the micro level can in turn not only determine how initiatives from the top are received, reinterpreted and remoulded, but also condition, constrain and change the institutions and subjects that act on the macro level. For its 2020-2021 conference (23-25 June 2021 – LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy), the Association for Political History (www.associationforpoliticalhistory.org) presents a program that considers, in a historical perspective, examples of how the multiple layers of the political have connected and interacted with each other during the last three centuries. We welcome senior researchers, but also encourage PhD candidates and young scholars to participate in our conference.

Conference Website / Abstracts / Download interactive programme / Download programme

Le Centre d'histoire est membre du réseau APH qui se consacre notamment à la formation et aux échanges doctoraux en histoire politique.

Historical Archives of the European Union

Research Opportunities at the Archives : calls for applications 2021

RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AT THE ARCHIVES: calls for applications 2021

European Court of Auditors Postgraduate Research Grant Programme: Two research grants in the field of European public finance and EU budget, open to researchers from a wide range of disciplines, are available to conduct research at the HAEU in Florence. Deadline: 30 July 2021

European People’s Party Postgraduate Research Grant Programme: Researchers interested in the history, role and impact of Christian Democracy on decisive moments in the process of European integration are invited to apply for a research grant to study the primary sources held at the HAEU, at the EPP Group’s archives in Brussels and at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) in Sankt Augustin - Bonn. Extended deadline: 30 June 2021

International Visegrad Fund Research Grant Programme on European integration: The grant programme provides young researchers from the IVF’s member states, the Western Balkans and the Eastern Partnership region with new research opportunities at the HAEU in Florence. 2nd round deadline: 31 October 2021

Vibeke Sørensen Research Grant Programme: The programme, set up in 1993 with the support of the European Commission, aims to encourage research on the history of European integration and of EU institutions based on primary sources held at the HAEU in Florence. 2nd round deadline: 30 June 2021

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Camille Richert PhD Thesis

June 9, 2021 03:00 PM
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CAMILLE RICHERT PHD THESIS

JUNE 9, 2021 03:00 PM

On Wednesday June 9, 2021 at 3:00 pm Camille Richert will defend her PhD Thesis in History, specializing in Art History, with a view to obtaining a doctorate from IEP Paris.

"A motif for historiography of labor. Depicting working bodies, 1968-2020

It was prepared at CHSP under the supervision of Madame Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, University Professor. 

The jury:

Laurence Bertrand Dorléac (Directrice de recherche), Professeure des universités, IEP Paris

  • Eric de Chassey (Rapporteur), Professeur des universités, ENS Lyon
  • Nicolas Delalande, Associate Professor HDR, IEP Paris
  • Thomas Schlesser (Rapporteur), Professeur chargé de cours, HDR, Ecole polytechnique
  • Giovanna Zapperi, Professeure des universités, Université de Tours

 Summary:

A motif for a historiography of labor. 
Depicting working bodies, 1968-2020

Camille Richert

Directrice de Thèse :
Laurence Bertrand Dorléac

This thesis proposes to examine how work has been represented in the West from 1968 to 2020. As a theme lacking nobility in the history of art, work became a motif of choice as of the Second Industrial Revolution. This motif became stronger in countries with a service-based economy emerging after World War II. The “world revolution” of 1968, to cite Immanuel Wallerstein, contributed to this development: as a transnational cultural revolution, 1968 challenged the great unifying narratives of Western modernity. The professional activity, regardless of the industry, is no longer represented as taking part to the political regimes in which it is performed, but as the motive of a social critique seeking to be de-ideologized.
From then on, the works depicting labor have far less to do with the political function of art that occurred in the middle of the 19th century, according to Walter Benjamin’s terminology, than with a demystifying function. The chapters of this thesis explore its main declinations that share the historicization of work as a common feature. Work is no longer represented as an an-historical visual subject of politics, but as a historicized expression of the political. Moreover, after 1968 it isn’t one, but two myths that are debunked in the same fall: not only the mythologies surrounding work, but also the myth of this myth, supported by the idea that nature is controllable, and that this is something desirable as long as nature would provide the energy required for fulfilling the dreams and ambitions of social progress in the 19th and 20th centuries. Work was both its means and its emblem.

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