Social work in search of academic legitimacy
How to give university and academic legitimacy to trainers in social work schools ? This is the objective of the
Uncertain work
Intermittent actors and freelance journalists are subject to a discontinuous employment regime which meets the specificities of project work. The
14-18: intellectuals and troops
“ Sacred Union » or erasure of the memory of social distinctions experienced at the front ? By analyzing the
The very rich hours of scientific poetry
An anthology highlights the scientific poetry of XIXe century, and shows the diversity of links between poetic form and knowledge.
After the colonial conquest
The American historian Mary D. Lewis studies inter- and intra-imperial connections in Tunisia from the 1880s to 1930s, transformed into
Do historians have short ideas?
The hyperspecialization of historical studies is not inevitable. For David Armitage, professor at Harvard, it is urgent that intellectual history
Tour de France: the show and the money
The Tour de France commemorates the French Revolution, the Great War and even the Normandy landings. If the Tour is
The historian in the fray
Debates on memorial laws do not only divide political actors and civil society, but also historians among themselves. Can the
The literary democracy of Jacques Rancière
Modern literature has put an end to the division between the heroic and the common. Writers like Flaubert or Conrad
A visual history of female emancipation
Doctor, journalist, lawyer, but also coachwoman or postwoman, the woman who wears a “ man’s job » arouses disbelief, hilarity,