This article is the translation of my communication "Artists from Middle-earth: a 21st-century dive into J.R.R. Tolkien’s Secondary World’, given at the Tolkien Society Seminar on 13 February 2021. You can find the video of my speech at the bottom of this article. This article is partly inspired by...

The multicultural window has marked Latin American history. Since 1880, the Southern Cone, as is well known, has been fuelled by multiple foreign inputs thanks to the massive influx of immigrants. Since the beginning of the 20th century, political and social conflicts on the continent have encourage...

The PhD Study Day “Photographic Transformations” offers questions about the experiences of this medium in the visual arts of the contemporary period. In the 19th century, photographers tried to remove the photograph from its mere documentary function and its form of an unalterable footprint, by deve...

under Dr G. Bertrand and A. Guyot. How can we approach knowledge at the beginning of the 21st century? Can science and the arts find common ground to move forward together? The Enlightenment turning point provides answers...

Robert BOYER - Is Japan lagging behind or is it exploring the 21st century Anthropogenetic Model? Lien direct vers internet archive : https://archive.org/details/RobertBoyerIsJapanLaggingBehindOrIsItExploringThe21stCenturyAnthropogeneticModel TAKEGAWA Shôgo - Paradox of Welfare in Japan (Audio) Lien...

This dissertation aims at examining the issue of the imagined book while avoiding its characterization in terms of failure, incompleteness, loss and spectre, which are prevalent in contemporary literary studies. As it approaches the diverse phenomenon of the imagined book on the basis of its deliber...

Dealing with the colonial history of Hawai‘i and California from 1778, this dissertation focuses on the transformation of the Hawaiian custom he‘e nalu into a global surf system. This analysis asks if there a break or a continuity of Hawaiian surfing in the 19th century, and what are the terms and c...

the history of cinema has been marked by innovations and technological breakthroughs that have reconfigured the economy of the sector, opened up new expressive opportunities for film-makers and multiplied the channels for broadcasting their creations (previously seen exclusively in cinemas, films ar...

In the context of postmodernism, history writing has become a crucial issue. Called “epistemological turn” by historians and “metahistorical fiction” by writers, such a tendency is the proof of a “metahistorical awareness” which arises nowadays in Western societies as a whole, inviting to consider h...

Summary The following article examines the imagination of the ruins in Adiciones palermitanas (2016) by Germán Marín, where there are two dissimilar times, past and present, by the anacho voice of his leading narrator and the administrator of the hotel Palermo, types of FLA neur whose reflective nos...

What is being done by civil or military polices in the mountains? Since the 18th century, the missions of the upland police have shifted from security (violence, smuggling, migration controls, forest crimes) to security (risk prevention and relief). Due to their contrasting densities, the constraint...

this article explores the possible consequences of the current evolution of the museum phenomenon on the place of collections in the museum. Globalisation, the development of digital technology, as well as the influence of new patterns of thought, such as post-colonialism, could transform the way in...

At a time when humanity is experiencing the greatest migratory crisis in its history, borders are being defined as much by their permeability as by the sometimes insuperable obstacle they represent. Back in 1979, the title of an interview given by Michel Foucault to the weekly Japanese magazine Shûk...

The book “contemporary Russians” will deal with the history of Russia and the Soviet Union between the beginning of the 19th century and the 21st century. The aim is to promote research by students, doctoral candidates and researchers from the CRHS (Paris 1). The interests of its members are very di...

Dedicare un intero volume alla poesia oggi potrebbe sembrare un atto anacronistico per rendere omaggio a un genere di nicchia. Corinne Blanchaud e Cyrille François dimostrano invece che il genere poetico non solo è ancora praticato da molti autori contemporanei, ma gode anche di un certo dinamismo....

What is a nation in the 21st century? Friday 11 March 2016, 17: 00, University Paris-Sorbonne Presidency and introduction Dominique Jamet, journalist and writer. 1 — what is the nation in 1882 and 2016? Historical perspective. ERIC Ancrane, historian, University Paris- Sorbonne and Sciences-Po Paris...

This text was born as a product of a research project funded by the National University of Rosario and which, according to its editors María Elena Lorenzini and Natalia Ceppi, aims to identify and analyse the effects on South American international relations, the movements of the so-called ‘pink tid...

This work analyses three creative texts of different genders that recreate in the 21st century the image of Manuela Sáenz, the famous love of the South American Liberator Simón Bolívar. It is argued that, in the opera, novel and film examined, the reader/viewer is invited to rethink the role played...

the author first proposes to look at primary school in the light of the history of the Cambodian school project and then describes the many dysfunctions that characterise school provision in rural areas today. Once this context has been taken into account, the article presents an analysis of one of...

The events of the morning of 11 September 2001 at the epicentre of the economic — financial and military power of the United States of America marked the world’s accession to the 21st century. These terrorist acts brought us into a new stage, characterised by increased competition and conflict, wher...

Since the 1980s, they have been receiving immigrants who are gradually entering and stabilising in Spanish society. Latin Americans, which are now the most important foreign group in Spain, have developed multiple forms of integration, one of which involves joining different pentecostal churches. Ba...