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Meet Cécile Vidal, historian specializing in colonial empires and slavery in the Atlantic worlds (EHESS)
The "Portraits of Researchers in Area Studies" (PEA) collection is a series of large-format interviews produced by Inalco as part of the Language and Cultural Area Studies (LaCAS) project. Deposited on the MediHal open archive, this series of portraits joins a set of collections on the LaCAS platform. These collections aim to build up a living, freely accessible scientific heritage of research on the world's languages, societies and cultures.
Large-format portrait
Video: Atlantic worlds in the modern period through the prism of French and British imperial and colonial experience. An interview with Cécile Vidal (EHESS)
An interview conducted by Bastien Sepúlveda, in charge of Digital Humanities (DIRVED, Inalco), directed by Dimitri Galitzine, produced by Inalco (30/10/2024, 60 mn).
Podcast:
Cécile Vidal is Director of Studies at EHESS and a member of the Centre d'études nord-américaines (CENA), within the Mondes américains laboratory (UMR 8168). In this interview, she presents her background and research on Atlantic worlds, which she explores from the perspective of French and British imperial and colonial experience. She discusses imperialism and colonialism, the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery, as well as the process of racialization, which she integrates into a pluriscal reflection questioning the links between different spaces.
Cécile Vidal is a historian and holder of the Chair Mondes atlantiques, situations coloniales at EHESS. She is interested in the social history of colonial empires, the slave trade and slavery in the Atlantic worlds from the 17th to the 19th century. She is a member of the committees of two journals, French History and Journal of American History.
She has published, with Gilles Havard, Histoire de l'Amérique française (Flammarion, 2003, 5th ed. 2019), distinguished by the Grand prix d'histoire Chateaubriand (2003) and the Grand prix de l'essai de la Société des Gens de Lettres (2004), as well as Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), awarded the Prix de la recherche by the Société des anglicistes de l'enseignement supérieur and the Association française d'études américaines in 2020, and the Prix Lionel-Groulx by the Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française.
Latest collective volumes she has edited include Les mondes de l'esclavage. Une histoire comparée, with Paulin Ismard and Benedetta Rossi (Seuil, 2021), and Une histoire sociale du Nouveau Monde (Editions de l'EHESS, 2021).