Cours sur les villes britanniques du XVIIIe siècle en partenariat avec l'Université Ouverte des Humanitiés (UOH)
- Enseignant.e: Marie-Madeleine Martinet
Séminaire doctoral d'image numérique
- Enseignant.e: Marie-Madeleine Martinet
The first semester of this year-long seminar will seek to introduce students to some of the major historiographical debates within a range of subfields of the literature of twentieth-century US history. Our readings will be drawn from high impact works of historical scholarship; class discussions each week will take shape around a consideration of the historiographical, theoretical, methodological, and political stakes of these works. One of our main objectives will be to historicize the present—that is to say, to excavate the structures and subterranean histories that help to determine the political possibilities of our time. Another will be to investigate the methodologies and theoretical tools available to historians working on twentieth-century US history. Students in the seminar will be expected to contribute their thoughts each week to an online forum and to participate actively in class.
The second semester will be organized around methodological and theoretical issues related to research in the social sciences. A selection of readings to be determined collectively (at the conclusion of the first semester) will be used to offer examples of how scholars develop theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches for exploring a range of social, political, and cultural issues in the contemporary United States. Students will examine the relevance of such works to their own research projects, which they will present to the class in a workshop setting.
- Enseignant.e: Andrew Diamond
This seminar will seek to introduce students to the critical issues and analytical possibilities of an era that we will refer to as “the long 1980s.” Our investigation will range between the early 1970s, when the country was reeling from the Watergate scandal, stagflation, a generalized state of urban crisis, and the fall of Saigon, and the mid 1990s, when Democratic President Bill Clinton signed laws that dramatically cut welfare programs and greatly increased funding for the construction of prisons and the enhancement of law enforcement capacities. But at the heart of our reflection lies the so-called “Reagan Revolution” and the neoliberal turn it managed to bring to fruition—an event that not only transformed approaches to governance, but also the ways in which Americans make sense of their world.
Public policies, political movements, and political discourse will of course concern us, but our objective will be to understand how political events and circumstances were lived and understood at the grassroots by average residents. We will take an interdisciplinary approach that will seek to fit the political, cultural, social, and economic into the same frame in order to better understand the political cultures that have shaped the ideas, sensibilities, political activities, and passions of urban, suburban, and rural communities. Methodologically speaking, the class will seek to bring historical and sociological scholarship into dialogue with a broad range of primary sources, including extracts from movies, television shows, music videos, newscasts, popular novels, comic books, underground and mainstream newspapers and magazines, etc.
- Enseignant.e: Andrew Diamond
Academic writing for master students
- Enseignant.e: Florence Bourgne
Cours de préparation à l'écrit du CAPES.
- Enseignant.e: Jean-Yves Pellegrin
