Laughter was often the subject of theoretical reflection. In contrast, studies on the specific historical constellations of laughter in pre-modern times are almost completely absent. This volume is dedicated to this deficit. Historical laughter can be inferred from laughter. Values and taboos emerge...

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Đoàn Văn Toại trong một buổi nói chuyện về nhân quyền Việt Nam tại Berkeley© 1980 Buivanphu When the Communists took over North Vietnam in 1954, a million refugees fled to the South. I personally heard stories of their incredible suffering. But, along with other South Vietnamese, I refused to believ...

King of war par excellence, Louis XIV sought to embody the ideal of the victorious hero by orchestrating a wide propaganda contributing to his globe. However, this image was strongly tainted by foreign satires produced from the 1670s onwards. The belated attitude of this monarch was widely denounced...

Solingen City Archives, Mountain Workers’ Votes 12 September 1916 propaganda for the next war bond savings is an obligation because anyone saves more of our assets! The best savings option is the war bond. The payment deadlines are distributed until 6 February 1917, so that those who do not yet have...

Courts and Courtly Cultures in Early Modern Italy and Europe. Models and languages Simone Albonico et Serena Romano (éd.), Roma : Viella, 2016, 503 p., ISBN : 978-88-6728-344-6, 60€. This volume deals with the forms of propaganda and self-representation, through words and images, during the rise of...

when he left his native Romagna in autumn 1887 to work as a painter in buildings, Luigi Rafuzzi moved to the working periphery of north-east Paris. Through his brother Antonio, who has been emigrated for more than five years, he has established close ties with the French and foreign anarchist commun...

This dissertation examines relations between Canadian soldiers and German civilians from March 1945 to April 1946. This study will show that Canadian relations with German civilians were, in part, an extension of relations with civilians in liberated countries, but were also something new altogether...

We develop a model of electoral accountability with mainstream and alternative media. In addition to regular high- and low-competence types, the incumbent may be an aspiring autocrat who controls the mainstream media and will subvert democracy if retained in office. A truthful alternative media can...

“From images of the history of art to those of mass visual media, from visual arts to visual culture, the image continues its triomphal walk.” — Peter Weibel Alliances, resistance, compromise, the relationship between art and power in the visual world, from portrait to muralism, from encroachment to...

One of the main political changes in the French political landscape since the early 1980s has been the rebirth of a far Right. Within a decade, support for the Front National (FN) rose from less than 1 per cent to more than 13 per cent of the valid votes. Its ideological influence is even greater, o...

After performing pastoral functions in Nîmes, Rabaut Saint-Étienne participates in various revolutionary works and assemblies in Paris. During the 1790s, it appeared in cartoons, pamphlets and propaganda, which became media for the expression of fantasy and denigration. Beyond anecdotal, they reveal...

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Call for papers Purpose of the conference Propaganda has always been integral to the post-1949 Chinese state. Following the success of the Revolution, the Communist Party of China rapidly took control of all forms of media with the aim of utilising them to further its ambition of creating a new soci...

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Based upon the graduate seminar tought in 2014-2015 by Valérie Gelézeau at l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), this essay tries to engage a reading of the North Korean movie 'The Wheels of Happiness' (2010). After an introduction briefly reviewing the condition of production and...

National audience The end of the First World War and the victory of the allied powers which had made the right of peoples to dispose of themselves and the overhaul of the principles governing international life the central ideas of their propaganda were perceived by many progressive and peaceful cir...

A review of the Greek and Egyptian sources showing the deceased and divinized queen Arsinoe II on the side of the living king Ptolemy II. In addition to the cults of Arsinoe under the kingdom of her brother and husband Ptolemy II, I am interested to re-discuss the famous passage of Chremonides' decr...

What if the Vietnam War left behind baseball as one of its legacies? What if a Vietnamese rapper from Saigon could dialogue with the New York-based rapper named Saigon? What if propaganda, commercial advertising, and graffiti could be aligned in an aesthetic and sensory pattern, charmingly woven tog...

International audience Food choice is strongly determined by religious and cultural elements specific to each civilization. Numerous food prescriptions concern meat, beginning with the total or partial ban on meat. Among the numerous animal species concerned by religious or cultural prohibitions, ho...

Landesarchiv NRW Abteilung Rheinland, Polizeipräsidium Köln, BR 0051, Nr. 0175, Bl. 156r. Der Einmarsch deutscher Truppen in das neutrale Belgien wurde als militärische Notwendigkeit verstanden, erwies sich aber als politisches Desaster. Nicht nur der Kriegseintritt Englands als unmittelbare Folge,...

Anton Saefkow ist eine wichtige Figur des kommunistischen Widerstands gegen den Nationalsozialismus in Deutschland. Im April 1933 wurde der erfahrene Kämpfer der Kommunistischer Partei Deutschlands (KPD) verhaftet. So begann eine Landreise durch abwechselnde Phasen mit Widerstand und Einsperrungen b...

The Roman productions, which form the corpus under reflection, are marked in various ways by rewriting, games of difference. Games which have an interest in adding a strategic and symbolic function to the topic of North very clearly. For example, Les Voyages et adventures du Captain Hatteras (1866)...