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.

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.

The seminar intends to explore the possibilities of a denationalised study of the public sector outside the framework of traditional comparative sociology.

This seminar is devoted to analysing practices of resistance to the increasing and complex systems used to control online activities by both private and public operators.

The aim of this seminar is to interrogate the social and political value of literature in its relationship with the history of ideas in 19th- and 20th-century Russia.