What Nero says about us

“Parricide”, “tyrant”, “monster”: it is an understatement to say that the last Julio-Claudian emperor does not have a good press.

The trial of homosexuality

Paris, 1933. Oscar Dufrenne, a music hall magnate and notorious homosexual, is found murdered in his office. Despite the arrest

The Monkey Map

By studying the distribution of humans and chimpanzees in Guinea, XIXe century to the present day, we can highlight the

The mechanics of the gaze

What if we were to take the expression “visual culture” literally? By tracing two centuries of optical inventions and reflections

Pressure on the Chinese Internet

The Chinese Internet is a place of political effervescence. While censorship is active, filtering content and blocking foreign sites, the

Slogan Chair

Why do people get naked in public? French law sees it as a form of sexual exhibition, but it is

The time of efflorescence

To the Ve And IVe centuries before our era, Greece experienced exceptional economic, political and cultural development – to the

Cloister Lives

Hidden away in centuries-old places, sometimes visited by tourists and lovers of monastic products who observe them with curiosity, how

Maps of the Empire

What were the Western mental representations of the Middle East at the turn of the XXe century? By studying the