Humanities & Arts

During my research project, I will build a database of all Macron's presidential discourses since May 7th, 2017 for future text mining and political communication analysis. This will include retrieving, cleaning up and indexing texts from various official sources, drafting the metadata of all files and identifying every discourse addressed to the French public, including videos which will be later transcribed into texts.

My research project looks at a new and untapped archive at the Cité internationale Universitaire, an international residential campus in the Parisian outskirts.

This symposium will bring together a preeminent group of scholars from the humanities and the social sciences, writers, archivists, filmmakers, translators, and “grands témoins” to discuss the legacies of the work of Caribbean thinker Edouard GLISSANT (1928-2011). Developing new directions and methodologies in the study of Glissant’s“œuvre archipel”lies at the h

This project confronts a collection of untapped sources about Renaissance feasting. Focusing on a banquet that took place in Tours, France in 1457, we want to deepen our understanding of Renaissance cooking techniques while investigating how food and feasting intersected with diplomacy, politics, music, dance, art, theater, religion, science, and medicine. Our focus is a fifteenth-century banquet whose source material is unusually extensive and strangely understudied.

I intend to fill the lack of systematic studies concerning the similar trajectories, both literary and biographic, of the Italian author Curzio Malaparte and the French author Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

When discussing cultural or ethnic communities within a larger nation, two metaphors often emerge: the “salad bowl” and the “melting pot”.

In
 the
 ancient
 Greek
 and
 Roman
 world,
 entire
 cities
 participated
 in
 the
 performance
 of
 hymns
 during
 religious
 festivals.
 These
 “cultural”
 and
 civic
 events
 were
 commissioned
 by
 the
 city‐state,
 and
 the
 hymns,
 including
 song,
 music
 and
 dance, were
performed by
a
chorus
of
citizens.
The
genre
of
hymns
(songs
written
 for
the
gods)
was
at
the
crossroads
of
literature,
religion,
history
and
politics.
 Our
 seminar,
 “Greek
 and
 Roman
 hymnic
 traditions
 and
 the
 performance
 of
 community,”
will
discuss
the
interaction
of
these
different
fields
through
the
op

Power Struggle by Olga Kisseleva is a live battle between four anti-viruses commented by actor using the tone of an altercation or a political confrontation. Each anti-virus tries to destroy the other three, eradicating everything in the computer until there is only one left. The performance offers a beautiful metaphor for the struggle for power currently taking place between politicians, as unproductive as it is dangerous. The fight becomes visible to the spectators thanks to lines of code racing on the screen.