Master and Research Seminar: "History, Politics and Culture in Medieval Europe" 2021-2022

The CREE announces the resumption of the Master's and Research Seminar: "History, Politics and Culture in Medieval Europe" for the academic year 2021-2022.

All sessions will take place at Inalco, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris 13ème, on Tuesdays from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Salle 5.28 in the 1st semester and Salle 3.15 in the 2nd semester.

You can follow the sessions via videoconference by clicking on this link.



Coordination: Jana Vargovčíkova and Anne Madelain



Contacts: jana.varg@gmail.com, anne.madelain@inalco.fr

2021-2022 theme: Techniques and cultures

The relationship between technique(s) and culture(s) is of primary concern to anthropologists, but presents fruitful questions for history, sociology, political science and cultural studies. Over the past few years, attention to materiality has given rise to innovative research that will be discussed from a comparative perspective.

Interrogating the space of medieval Europe through this question is particularly heuristic insofar as it enables us to address long-term phenomena (such as the utopias and conflicts of modernization, the place of techniques in the transformations of the modes of government of territories and populations) or contemporary ones (post-socialist societal and cultural transformations and the computer revolution, the uses of the Internet), while questioning the specificities of this cultural area and its relations to other parts of the world, starting with Western Europe.
The theme also presents a useful reflexivity, as it enables us to examine the role of technology in the transformations of the modes of government of territories and populations.
The theme also presents a useful reflexivity in the pandemic period we're going through, when we see our ways of working and living turned upside down by the digital and the "distantial".

Particular attention will be paid to the sources, archives and fields used for the research work.

Seminar validation: at S1 presentation on the theme and at S2 writing of a book review with the possibility of accompaniment for publication in a scientific journal.

First semester program

- Tuesday, September 28, 2021 from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm, Room 5.28.

• Group introductory session.

- Tuesday, October 5, 2021 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Room 5.28.

• Bernard Lory (CREE, Inalco): L'approche par les marges. Techniques and cultures of the Balkan Gypsies up to 1914.

Discussants: Etienne Boisserie (CREE, Inalco) and Méropi Anastassiadou (CERMOM, Inalco).



- Tuesday, October 12, 2021 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Room 5.28.

• Bruno Drweski (CREE, Inalco) and Magdalena Kobierska (CREE, Inalco): Real socialism, society and ecology in Upper Silesia.

- Tuesday, October 26, 2021 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Room 5.28.

• Anne Madelain (CREE, Inalco) and Bella Ostromooukhova (Eur'Orbem, Sorbonne université): Publishing and distributing works in a context of the collapse of the socialist book ecosystem and the IT revolution (Russia and the post-Yugoslav space since 1990).

- Tuesday, November 9, 2021 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Room 5.28.

• Text reading session (master's and doctoral students).

- Tuesday, November 23, 2021 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Room 5.28.

Laurent Coumel (CREE, Inalco) and Michel Dupuy (IHMC) : Defending landscapes against high modernism in the GDR and the USSR in the mid-1980s.



- Tuesday, December 7, 2021 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Room 5.28.

• Morgane Labbé (ESOPP, EHESS) and Matyás Erdélyi (CEFRES, Prague): The first presentation: "the role of statistics, as knowledge and administrative practice, in the policy of national and imperial states towards national and confessional minorities, based on the case of Poland". The second presentation: "Statistics as an instrument of government and administration, in the public sphere as well as the private sector, based on the case of the construction of statistics as expert knowledge and its professionalization in the world of insurance and public health policies in Central Europe in the 19th century" (presented in English).

- Tuesday, December 14, 2021 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Room 5.28.

• Presentation of student work (and oral presentation methodology).

Second semester program

- Tuesday, February 1, 2022 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, Room 5.18.

• Grégory Dufaud (LAHRA, IEP de Lyon) : La société soviétique décryptée à travers ses techniques de communication et sa psychiatrie (session mutualisée avec séance des Débats du CREE, organized by Laurent Coumel), around the books by L. Zakharova and G. Dufaud.

Discussant: Cyril Lemieux (LIER, EHESS)



- Tuesday, February 15, 2022 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Room 3.15.

• Cécile Folschweiller (CREE, Inalco) and Assen Slim (CREE, Inalco): Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's radical critique of economics and technical progress.

- Tuesday March 1, 2022 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Room 3.15.

• Eric Le Bourhis (CREE, Inalco) : Territorial planning, field survey and photography. Soviet Latvia, 1950s-1960s.

Discussant: Laurent Coumel (CREE, Inalco)



- Tuesday, March 15, 2022 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Room 3.15.

• Nathalie Clayer (Cetobac, EHESS) : Une ressource, des espaces : l'étude de la mine de bitume de Selenica (Albanie).

Discussant: Anne Madelain (CREE, Inalco)



- Tuesday, March 22, 2022 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Room 3.15.

• Methodology session (for students)

- Tuesday, March 29, 2022 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Room 3.15.

• Mathieu Mokhtari (HiSoMA, Université Lyon 3) and Daniel Baric (Sorbonne Université): Archeology in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Romania: techniques, cultures and politics.

- Tuesday, April 5, 2022 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Room 3.15.

• Irina Gridan (CREE, Inalco) and Alain de Bonadona (Université de Lorraine) : East-West technological cooperation: nuclear and air power in Romanian-French talks during the Cold War.

- Tuesday May 10, 2022 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Room 3.15.

• Cristina Preutu (University of Iasi):"Propaganda should not compete with television, but use it!" Changes in Romanian television in the 1960s-1970s.