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.

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 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.