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

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.

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

The Centre des Archives Diplomatiques at La Courneuve was opened to the public in 2009 and possesses an exceptional wealth of archival material collected by the French foreign ministry from the 15th century to the present day.