Four seminars where historians, sociologists and anthropologists discuss on the theme “Micro-histories / micro-analyses of the social”.

This seminar addresses the question of nationalities and the theme of empires from a comparative, multidisciplinary and transnational perspective, going beyond centralist and mono-ethnic approaches.

The purpose of this seminar is to examine Soviet objects and study the formation of taste in food, clothes, furniture, etc.

This year the seminar concentrates on the history of practices. It uses examples from the fields of authority and influence.

Three historians specialising respectively in the Iberian empires (16th-18th centuries), Imperial Russia (17th-18th centuries) and China (18th-20th centuries) come together to compare their research experience and initiate an exercise in reasoned comparatism.

This crosscutting seminar brings together social sciences researchers on modern and contemporary Central Asia in structured sessions with two speakers per session.