In the Grand Palais in the Summer

We are on summer leave until mid-August. Here is a selection of a few protruding texts of the year. See you soon !

Testing


Paulette Nardal, at the sources of black internationalism

by Marie-Adeline Tavares

Often associated with the rise of negritude, and today of real recognition, Paulette Nardal was a mediator between the black worlds in the Paris of the interwar period.


Do theater in Palestine

by Astrid Chabrat-Kajdan

If he has professionalized and developed since the 1970s, the Palestinian theater benefits from the economic and logistical support of Europe, which has aesthetic and political consequences.


President Bardella’s new costume. When the extreme right plays moderation

by Sarah Al-Matary & Stéphane François

In his political autobiography, the president of Rn Play the moderation card. Its strategy aims at a double (é) readership: future voters of the Rnthat a displayed violence would stop, and the traditional supporters of the far right, likely to decipher certain references.


Trumpized conservatism

by Françoise Coste

Has the Republican Party sold his soul to the devil by choosing Donald Trump for the third time as a candidate ? How can he carry a man defying at this point all the safeguards of democracy and also radically reinterpreting the conservative grammar ?


Alexandre Douguine, from Eurasism to war in Ukraine. Course of a ultra -nationalist Russian

by Stéphane François & Adrien Nonjon

Russian intellectual influential and a key figure in neo-eurasism, Alexandre Douguine advocates an alliance between Russia and the former Soviet republics against the West. Its aura, although politically limited, marked conservative and nationalist currents in Russia and certain circles close to power.

Recovery


Thinking poverty, forging solidarity

Invested since the 1950s against misery, the movement Atd Quarty World has been able to combine field, research and advocacy action, until social policies in France and internationally.

About: Axelle Brodiez-Dolino, Atd Quarter world, a transnational story. The fight against poverty, from a slum to the UNPuf

by Julien Le Mauff


Ancient menus

Roman diets testify to a dietetic concern, but also moral and political. Frugality and pleasure are not exclusive. Eating is not just filling your stomach !

About: Dimitri Tilloi d’Ambrosi, The Roman regimePuf

by Kevin Bouillot


A world of filth

We do not want to see our waste, we barely want to think about it, but they have a lot to say to us: on our ways, on our lives and more about what we do today in our world.

About: Claire Larroque, Waste philosophyPuf

by Jean-Philippe Pierron


Water sharing in the Paris Basin

Between the XVIe and the XVIIIe century, while monarchical power asserts itself on French territory, the rivers of the Paris Basin remain the subject of negotiations between different actors forced to coordinate.

About: Raphaël Morera, A story along the water. Paris and its environment, XVIeXVIIIe century,, Ehess

by Pauline Guéna


Products for life

About: Julie Madon, Make objects last. Practices and resources in the art of deconstationThe Presses de Sciences Po

“” Which today prolongs the life of objects ? “Julie Madon’s sociological survey on” lodge “Shows the diversity of profiles, motivations, but also concrete sustainability practices and the controversies they arouse.

by Jeanne Guien

Interviews


Cool the atoms. Interview with Jean Dalibard

by Ariel Suhamy

Holder of the chair “ Atoms and radiation At the Collège de France, Jean Dalibard explains in this interview how light can cool and slow down the movement of atoms in order to observe them, thanks to innovative tools and technologies that are so many prototypes, anticipating the future quantum computer.


Unpublished Bergson. Interview with Frédéric Worms

by Sarah Al-Matary & Julien Le Mauff

Henri Bergson has a surprising news. His thought continues to arouse research and debates. A fine connoisseur of his work, which he has been studying for three decades, Frédéric Worms sheds light on the way in which Bergson opened Western philosophy to all the others.


Syria in search of justice and unity. Interview with Dima Moussa

by Adèle Audouy

A lawyer, feminist activist and the figure of the Syrian opposition, Dima Moussa pleads for an inclusive political transition, the establishment of real democratic institutions and the need for a national debate open to all the components of Syrian society.


Sex, genre and suspicion in sport. Interview with Anaïs Bohuon

by selima kebaïli

From suspicion to control, high -level sport for a century has tracked the “real sex” of athletes. The femininity, the medical and political violence that accompanies them and implicit – racial, social, sexual – standards continue to go on women’s access to competition.


Access to abortion in France and the United States. Interview with Marie Mathieu

by Marie Le Clainche-Piel

Since the initiation of the process of liberalization of abortion in the 1970s, access to this right has been the subject of a permanent struggle on both sides of the Atlantic.