The workshop of current research by PhD students and recent doctorate-holders at CETOBaC and CERCEC is designed to be a welcoming yet critical forum of research and exchange for PhD students, recent holders and other researchers from these centres.

We address the relationship set up between governors and the governed, their reciprocal expectations and constraints, on the basis of requests, denunciations, anonymous letters and personal accounts.

The aim of the seminar is to combine the theories and practice of translation. Its reference fields are the national and international communities of humanities and social sciences publishing.

This seminar proposes an analysis of the practices of government and forms of political commitment in contemporary Russia and the post-Soviet world since the 1990s.

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.