Programme 2023-2024

 

21 JUIN 2024 

Peripheral Knowledges:

Croiser les regards, croiser les sources : énoncés autochtones et discours ethnographiques

Date: vendredi 21 juin 2024                                 Heure : 12h00 – 14h00 heure de Paris

Lieu: Salle : salle 830, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, Place Paul Ricoeur, Université Paris Cité

Zoom : https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/81518884438?pwd=ivOZB4hC437a9HstFdXqZ0GHVaUtES.1

Intervenant.es :

Éléonore Devevey (maître-assistante, Université de Genève)

Nathan Norris (PhD candidate, Cornell University).

Modération : Mathilde Louette (doctorante, LARCA-UMR 8225, Université Paris Cité)

 

Résumé deuxième séance: Lien pdf du résumé séance 8 mars 2024

8 MARS 2024

Peripheral Knowledges: Les périphéries, le centre et les femmes

Date: Vendredi, 8 mars 2024        Heure: 12h00-14h00

Format Hybride

Lieu: Salle 830, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, Place Paul Ricoeur, Université Paris Cité, Paris 75013

Inscription (séance en ligne): https://u-paris.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpdO6pqj0pGdNhT-9aJQTRKOMvLpdclRgQ 

Intervenantes :

Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika, Professeure des Universités, Université Paris VIII

Margaux Lardet, Doctorante, LARCA/Université Paris Cité

Présidente de séance : Emmanuelle Delanoë-Brun, MCF HDR, LARCA/Université Paris Cité

Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika est professeur des universités (Études anglophones) à l’Université Paris 8 et membre de l’unité de recherche TransCrit (Paris 8). Sa recherche porte sur les imaginaires de la Caraïbe anglophone insulaire et continentale. Elle est l’auteur de L’imaginaire de Jamaica Kincaid, variations autour d’une île caraïbe, 2016 et a co-dirigé Penser la ligne brisée (Épistémocritique 2021) avec A. Chassagnol, C. Joseph ; Jamaica Kincaid as Crafter and Grafter: Agency, Practice, Interventions Wagadu Journal (2018/ 2019 print) in Wagadu n° 19 co-eds. C.Bigot, N. Setti, K.J. Wallart; Toni Morrison, Au-delà du visible ordinaire / Toni Morrison, Beyond the Ordinary Visible, eds, A.A. Kekeh-Dika, M. Graham & J.A. Mayes, 2014. Ses travaux récents portent sur les points d’intrication entre le littéraire, l’histoire et autres champs de savoir (botanique, géométrie, géographie …) comme modes de re-marquage et d’encodage de formes à soi et de relations dynamiques à un espace de l’entre. Deux de ses derniers articles abordent ces questions :  “Writing Away from the Main: The Traveling Ways of Jamaica Kincaid’s Unruly Prose” in Mobility and Corporeality in Nineteenth-To Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Literature. Bodies in Motion, eds. J. Chemmachery and B. Jain (2021); “Autobiographical Performance, or what Happens to Lines Deviated in Writing the Self as Other” eds. N. Mok & C. Raynaud (2019).

Margaux Lardet est doctorante à l’ED131 et reliée au LARCA, Université Paris Cité. En adoptant une approche matérielle, elle explore dans sa thèse, dirigée par Ariane Fennetaux, les liens entre les maisons de poupées produites dans les îles britanniques au dix-huitième siècle et l’expansion impérialiste et industrielle de la Grande Bretagne.

 

Références pour l’intervention d’Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika

Bigot, Corinne, A.A. Kekeh, N. Setti, K.J. Wallart, dir. Jamaica Kincaid as Crafter and Grafter: Agency, Practice, Interventions Wagadu Journal (2018), Wagadu, A Transnational Journal, n° 19 Cortland University.

Bhabha, Homi, 1990, “The Third Space” Interview with Homi Bhabha (Jonathan Rutherford) in Jonathan Rutherford, dir. Identity. Community, Culture, Difference. Londres, Lawrence & Wishart, 207-221.

Boyce Davies, Carole, 2013, Caribbean Spaces: Escape Routes from Twilight Zones, Urbana, Champlain, ILL, University of Illinois Press.

Casanova, Pascale, 1999, Paris, Éditions du Seuil.

Glissant Edouard, 1990, Poétique de la relation, Paris, Gallimard.

Kincaid, Jamaica, 1999, My Garden (Book):, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Marbeuf, Olivier, 2022, Suites décoloniales. S’enfuir de la plantation. Rennes : Editions du commun.

Nancy Jean-Luc, 2008, Corpus, trans, Richard A, Rand, New York, Fordham University Press.

 

 

1 DECEMBER 2023

Peripheral Knowledges session: Of Empires, Missions, and Globalization

Date: Friday, 1 December 2023               Time: 15.00 – 17.00 Paris, France time

ONLINE ONLY

Register at https://u-paris.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tdeqgqzIuHddtNR1OKqppCY1VV4zrSe7A#/registration 

Speakers:

Ernesto Bassi, Associate Professor, Cornell University

Alice Laydevant, PhD Candidate, Université St Quentin en Yvelines/Université Paris Cité

Respondent : Abdelkrim Morsi, PhD Candidate, Université Paris Cité

Ernesto Bassi is an Associate Professor of History at Cornell University. His research interests include the emergence of globalization during the early modern period, the history of late colonial and early national Latin American countries (especially Colombia and its Caribbean region), Indigenous-European encounters in the Caribbean Basin, the rise of capitalism, and the role of oceans in world history. His first book An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World examines the configuration of a transimperial Greater Caribbean and its inhabitants’ geopolitical imagination through a study of the role of sailors in the creation of a regional space and their impact on other subjects (such as autonomous indigenous groups, sugar planters, military adventurers, and nation makers). He is currently working on a history of early modern globalization and the rise of global capitalism from the perspective of the Caribbean coast of South America, a history from Santa Marta’s shores.

Alice Laydevant is a PhD candidate working under the supervisions of Cécile Coquet-Mokoko (Université Paris-Saclay) and Stéphanie Prévost (Université de Paris) since September 2020. Her thesis, “the first period of the Anglo-American Quaker missions in China: working for international conciliation?”, highlights the role of Quaker missionaries in initiating the dynamics which led to the creation of republicanism in China and in supporting the development of a form of international ecumenism.

 

26 SEPTEMBER 2023                                                                  

Peripheral Knowledges session: Revisiting Segregation in the United States/ Un nouveau regard sur la ségrégation aux États-Unis 

Time: 5.30 pm – 7.00 pm

Venue: Room 266, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, Place Paul Ricoeur, Université Paris Cité

Online: Register at https://u-paris.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtd-qgpjosHdfLQf2iZUl11IPo6K1SyqKr

Speaker: Pauline Peretz, MCF HDR, Université Paris 8 – Vincennes St Denis

Respondents: Mathilde Louette, PhD candidate Université Paris Cité and Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Professor of American Studies, Université Paris Cité

Chair: Paul Schor, Associate Professor of American History, Université Paris Cité

 

 

 

Programme 2022-2023

Toutes les séances seront en mode hybride.

All sessions are in hybrid format.

Lien inscription zoom pour les trois séances / Zoom registration link for all sessions:

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For in-person attendance: RER C or M° 14, Bibliothèque Nationale de France; Tram 3a, Avenue de France.

 

Summary session 2: https://mhma.hypotheses.org/files/2022/10/Summary-session-2.pdf 

Session 2 Friday 10 February 2023, Room SG1006, Sophie Germain, Place Aurélie Nemours, Paris 75013

Creolisation, Historiography and Knowledge Production
 
Speakers: 
 
Ananya Jahanara Kabir (King’s College London)

Ananya Jahanara Kabir is a Professor of English literature at Kings college, University of London, and winner of India’s Infosys prize for Humanities (2018) and of the Humboldt Research prize, Germany (2019). She is the author of ‘Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir’ (2009) and ‘Partition’s Post-Amnesias: 1947, 1971, and Modern South Asia’ (2013). During 2022-23, she holds a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship to complete her monograph, ‘Alegropolitics: Creolising Connection on the Afro-Modern Dance Floor.’ Her new research project, ‘Creole Indias’, brings creolization as a historical process and cultural theory to study of the Indic peninsular space.

She will be drawing on her piece which can be downloaded here: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/media/pdf/books/978-88-6969-535-3/978-88-6969-535-3_7hADmsM.pdf#page=42

 
 
Nathalie Kouamé and Aurélia Michel (Université Paris Cité)

Nathalie Kouamé est Professeure en Histoire de l’Asie, et Aurélia Michel est Associate Professor en Histoire des Amériques

Lecture préparatoire : 

“L’esprit de l’Encyclopédie des historiographies“, “Premier volume : sources et genres historiques” et sommaire du volume 1 de l’Encyclopédie des Historiographies : https://books.openedition.org/pressesinalco/21819?lang=fr

Kouamé Nathalie, Meyer Éric P. et Viguier Anne (dir.), Encyclopédie des historiographies : Afriques, Amériques, Asies : Volume 1 : sources et genres historiques (Tome 1 et Tome 2), Paris, Presses de l’Inalco (coll. « TransAireS »), 2020, 1998 p.

 

Summary of PK 1st session 2022 2022.pdfhttps://mhma.hypotheses.org/files/2023/01/Summary-of-PK-1st-session-2022.pdf

Session 1 Friday 25 November 2022, Room 135 Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges

Resisting Coloniality, Transnational Articulations
 
Speakers:
 
Lissell Quiroz (CY Cergy Paris University)
Lissell Quiroz est historienne et professeure d’études latinoaméricaines à CY Cergy Paris Université. Se recherches portent sur l’histoire de la santé, des féminismes et des femmes dans les Amériques latines. Parmi ses dernières publications figurent “Féminismes et artivisme dans les Amériques (20e-21e siècles)” et “Mettre au monde. La naissance enjeu de pouvoir” parus au PURH, en 2021 et 2022 respectivement. Elle tient un carnet de recherche intitulé “Perspectives décoloniales” et est la co-créatrice du podcast N’Autre Histoire.
Readings
 L. Quiroz, Mettre au monde. La naissance enjeu de pouvoir (Pérou, 1820-1920), PURH, 2022.
L. Quiroz, “Descolonizar el saber médico”, Revue d’Etudes Décoloniales, 2019.
Episode n°42 du podcast N’Autre Histoire. 
 
Delwar Hussain (University of Edinburgh)
Delwar Hussain is a social anthropologist based at the University of Edinburgh where he teaches courses on contemporary South Asia, queer studies, and public anthropology. He is the author of the book Boundaries Undermined (Hurst and Co 2013), a contributor to Spitalfieldslife.com, the most widely read blog on London, and has written for publications such as Open Democracy and the Guardian newspaper.      
Readings
Hossain, Adnan, (2022) Beyond Emasculation: Pleasure and Power in the Making of Hijra in Bangladesh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Massad Joseph 2002 ‘Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World’. Public Culture (14): 2. pp. 361-385
‘One year after the murders of Xulhaz Mannan and Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy’ (April 25, 2017)
 
 

2021-2022

Les séances 2021-22 du séminaire « Peripheral Knowledges » auront lieu les :

-5 novembre 2021 (15h-17h) à distance avec Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec (Université de Sherbrooke), auteur en 2021 de Esclaves mais résistants. Dans le monde des annonces pour esclaves en fuite en Louisiane, Jamaïque, Caroline du Sud (1801-1815) et Ryan Hanley (University of Exeter), auteur en 2018 de Beyond Slavery and Abolition.

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-11 février 2022 (12h-14h) avec Camille Lefebvre (CNRS, IMAF) autrice en 2021 de Des pays au crépuscule. Le moment de l’occupation coloniale (Sahara-Sahel) et Daniel Foliard (LARCA, Université de Paris), auteur en 2020 de Combattre, punir, photographier. Empires coloniaux, 1890-1914.

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-22 avril 2022 (12h-14h) avec Nadia Yala Kisukidi (Université Paris VIII) et Ali Meghji (University of Cambridge), auteur en 2020 de Decolonizing Sociology.

Inscription: https://u-paris.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ucuyupzsqG9Ug9SZjFAqO5tcTwXhzdK0m

En présentiel également: Salle 130 Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, Place Paul Ricoeur 75013, Paris.

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Critical Race Theory, Decoloniality, and Universalism

22.04.2022

Critical race theory, decolonial sociology, and the benefits of theoretical synergy

There is a burgeoning interest in the differences between the sociology of race and decolonial thought. This paper develops such discussions by focusing on decolonial thought and a seemingly incongruous paradigm within the sociology of race – critical race theory (CRT). While decolonial thought stresses the continuity of colonial power relations, is committed to transnational and temporally connected analysis, and tends to use historical methods, CRT is based around the premise that contemporary racism must be analysed outside of colonial legacies, tends to analyse nation states outside of their global interlinkages, and methodologically commits to a ‘presentism’ by focusing on the contemporary day. Nevertheless, despite these differences, I argue that CRT and decolonial thought can synergize to provide prescient analysis of contemporary crises. Neither CRT nor decolonial thought can analyse social phenomena sufficiently on their own, but together they can address each other’s blindspots. Through drawing on empirical illustrations from across the world, this talk will show how synergizing decolonial thought and CRT will open new avenues in the social sciences for globally oriented analysis that pays attention to national particularities. 

Pour un renouvellement de l’histoire de la colonisation 11.02.2022

Camille Lefebvre, CNRS

L’histoire du Sahel et du Sahara central du XVIIIe au XXe siècle constitue le principal champ d’investigation de Camille Lefebvre. Titulaire en 2008 d’une thèse d’histoire de l’université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, elle intègre en 2010 comme chargée de recherche l’Institut des mondes africains (Imaf). Spécialiste de l’Afrique de l’Ouest, elle a mené de nombreuses missions au Niger. Ses travaux, traitant des frontières, des pratiques de l’espaces et de la construction des savoirs géographiques, contribuent à la fois au développement des connaissances sur ces régions du monde et au renouvellement de l’histoire de la colonisation. Issu de son travail de thèse, l’ouvrage Frontières de sable, frontières de papier. Histoire de territoires et de frontières, du Jihad de Sokoto à la colonisation française du Niger, XIXe-XXe siècles, qu’elle publie en 2015 est unanimement salué par ses pairs. Camille Lefebvre poursuit des recherches ancrées dans les terrains saharo-sahéliens, marquées par une attention aux manières locales de dire et de penser le monde et s’intéressant dans un même mouvement à l’histoire des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles et à celle de la colonisation au XXe siècle. Elle est par ailleurs membre du comité de rédaction des Annales et rédactrice en chef adjointe de la revue Afriques. Débats, méthodes et terrains d’histoire.

Daniel Foliard, LARCA, Université de Paris

Daniel Foliard est Professeur des Universités (LARCA, Université de Paris). Il travaille sur l’empire britannique (19e-première moitié du 20e siècle) dans une perspective transimpériale et globale en portant une attention particulière sur les archives visuelles. Ses deux monographies, Dislocating the Orient: British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921 (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2017) et Combattre, punir, photographier. Empires coloniaux, 1890-1914 (Paris: La Découverte, 2020), portent respectivement sur la cartographie et la photographie. Ses projets de recherche actuels visent à explorer l’articulation entre la “vision distante” rendue possible par la computation et des lectures fines des images dans le cadre d’une histoire de la photographie de conflits.

Slavery and Resistance 05.11.2021

Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec

Esclaves mais résistants. Dans le monde des annonces pour esclaves en fuite, États-Unis-Caraïbe

Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec a analysé plus de 4000 annonces d’esclaves en fuite en Louisiane, en Caroline du sud et en Jamaïque au début du XIXè siècle, durant la deuxième moitié de l’ère des Révolutions atlantiques. Il y a retrouvé la culture de résistance des femmes et des hommes esclavisés En quelques lignes, les annonces racontaient leur fuite du cadre esclavagiste et révélaient leur volonté de ne pas être des victimes. Puisant à l’histoire socioculturelle et aux études américaines, cet ouvrage propose de réévaluer un genre narratif – la petite annonce de fuite – et une forme de résistance – la fuite. Il répond à deux grandes questions : comment comprendre et évaluer ces milliers d’annonces qui faisaient état de l’absence, des ruses et des tactiques de personnes esclavisées mais choisissant la résistance ? Que signifiait pour elles l’acte de fuir ?

 

Ryan Hanley

Insurrection in Black and White: Slavery, Resistance, and British Radicalism during the ‘Peterloo Years’, 1815-1820

 Colonial slavery and the endemic, continuous resistance of the enslaved profoundly affected the evolution of domestic radicalism in early nineteenth-century Britain, though not always in the ways we might expect. Many, including several metropolitan black radicals, took inspiration from the rebellious enslaved in the West Indies and moved to rise in solidarity with them. Others sought to identify themselves explicitly in opposition to African ‘slaves’, encoding radical vocabularies of reform and entitlement in the language of whiteness and national inheritance. As Barbados burned and Britain teetered on the brink of revolution, metropolitan reformers were forced to choose a side in an increasingly bitter debate about what true ‘slavery’ was, and who best deserved a more perfect freedom. Using the infamous Peterloo massacre of 1819 – when thousands of peaceful protesters were attacked by armed cavalry in St Peter’s Square in Manchester – as a focal point, this paper will explore how Empire, race, and colonial resistance were reflected in the sharp edges of metropolitan popular politics. 

Race, Racism and the Color Line Peripheral Knowledges 16.04.2021

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Titre : Interrogating Love Across the Color Line in France and the American South

Cécile Coquet-Mokoko

This sociological study is grounded in personal experience in France (the author’s home country) and in an emblematic state of the Deep South of the USA. Its perspective is contemporary, but informed by an acute awareness of the history behind the legal Othering of Black-White interracial couples in both countries. By including metropolitan French society as a counterpoint, it seeks to de-center the U.S-centered viewpoint common to much of the literature on Black/White relations. 

Gendered perceptions of cultural authenticity and sexual ethics are a guiding thread, being inseparable from the historical and political contingencies (re-)defining acceptable forms of dating, marrying, and parenting among cis-heterosexual couples in each country.

Because the fieldwork was carried out between 2009 and 2018 among forty-three couples in two public universities in Alabama and metropolitan France, it could be expected to serve the foregone conclusion that France is more accepting of interracial couples than the Deep South. But the emic approach driving the study shows many unexpected parallels between the two societies.

The historical approach to race relations helps situate the politicized perceptions of the partners. Qualitative data show that within the structures of oppression built in each society, couples have consistently mobilized creative forms of agency as they seek to protect themselves and their children, while the support of extended or symbolic kinship networks help White partners acknowledge the existence of racial privilege.

The rising visibility of couples carving spaces for themselves against the White racial frame, re-negotiating cultural and racial allegiances on terms increasingly their own, calls for an increased attention to the overlapping of culture and race. Indeed there are many distinct Black cultures and ways of performing racial identities, with codes that vary, from safe spaces centered on small-group dynamics to public spaces where couples and families are under the public gaze.

“Diasporic Blackness and Modernity” – In conversation with Maboula Soumahoro (Associate Professor, Université de Tours), Deborah Thomas (Professor, University of Pennsylvania) – 13 nov 2020

Maboula Soumahoro is an Associate Professor in American Studies at Université de Tours. Formerly, a visiting Professor at Bard College (Bard Prison Initiative) and a visiting scholar at Columbia University, her work addresses political and religious movements in the Black Diaspora, namely the Nation of Islam and Rastafarianism, in the first half of the 20th century. In this talk, she will discuss her recent book Le Triangle et l’Hexagone: essai sur une identité noire (2020) to give a reflexive account of her trajectory as a working-class scholar of Ivoirian descent, racialized as Black and of her position on racism, anti-racism, identity and belonging
in contemporary France.

Deborah A. Thomas is the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, and the Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the former Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious journal American Anthropologist. Her several books, articles and films address race, postcolonialism, globalization and violence in Jamaica. Based on her latest book Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair (2019), in this presentation, she will analyze the subjective impact of politics and State violence in 20th and 21st century Jamaica so as to address post-colonialism,
imperialism as well as grassroots and party politics.

 

Peripheral Knowledges

“Peripheral Knowledges”, an interdisciplinary seminar, aims to combine insights from contemporary debates in critical race theory and decolonial studies on knowledge production. This research seminar replaces the “Écrire l’Histoire Depuis Les Marges” (EHDLM) – Paris Diderot seminar, an extension of the EHDLM project https://hdlm.hypotheses.org/(2013-2016) funded by the IDEX USPC, which had focused on African-American history and thought. In the period 2019-2023, the “Peripheral Knowledges” seminar will extend its purview to address questions pertaining to decolonising knowledge in global norths and souths.

Decentring Euro-American paradigms of knowledge production, “Peripheral Knowledges” engages with the critique of the Eurocentric dichotomous relation between the west and the rest, knowledge and non-knowledge, and the knowing subject and the performing object. Rooted in disparate geographical locations and academic terrains, it makes the case for reading diverse forms of postcolonial, people of colour, diasporic and minority-discourse knowledges that traditionally occupy the peripheries in university curriculum in global norths. Engaging with the diversity of genealogies of thinking, remembering, performing and producing knowledges is one of the primary objectives of the seminar.

Through a series of presentations, readings, lectures and workshops, this research seminar responds to the long-pending but urgent global demand for the establishment of a non-Eurocentric academy. Conventional academic taxonomies of history, literature, culture, aesthetics, and politics appear porous when criss-crossing lines of knowledges begin to dismantle norms and monoliths of disciplinary boundaries. “Peripheral Knowledges” signals such a move away from Eurocentric enunciation and repetition of knowledge and intellectual practices with a view to engaging with pluriversal ways of being in our world(s), thereby revisiting the question of a new universalism based on these conversations.

All sessions of the seminar are held in English and French.

Sandeep Bakshi acts as the main convenor of the “Peripheral Knowledges” research seminar.

Meet the team:

Sandeep Bakshi (he/they) is Associate Professor of Decolonial, Postcolonial and Queer Studies, Etudes Anglophones/LARCA, Université Paris Cité. His main areas of research include transnational queer sexualities, decolonial approaches to knowledge formation and postcolonial cultures and literatures. After being awarded a PhD from the School of English, University of Leicester, UK in queer and postcolonial representations of South Asia, he has developed two connected strands outlining narratives of decolonisation, including curriculum and pedagogy, and queer of colour critique and its attendant concern of non-normativity as practice of resisting all forms of domination. Co-editor of Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions (Oxford: Counterpress, 2016), Decolonial Trajectories, special issue of Interventions (2020), and the French language publication, Qu’est-ce que l’intersectionnalitéDominations plurielles: Sexe, classe et race (2021),he has published on queer and race problematics and is one of the founding members and coordinators of the Decolonizing Sexualities Network (https://decolonizingsexualities.org).

Marie-Jeanne Rossignol is a Professor of American Studies at Université Paris Cité whose specializes in the history of the early American Republic (the United States between 1776 and 1830 roughly). She has just published Noirs et Blancs contre l’esclavage : une alliance antiesclagiste ambiguë aux Etats-Unis 1754-1830 (Karthala, 2022). Her next book (Anthologie de la pensée noire Etats-Unis et Haïti XVIIIè-XIXè siècles, in collab.) is forthcoming. With Claire Parfait, she is the editor of the “Récits d’esclaves/Slave Narratives” series at PURH  https://purh.univ-rouen.fr/taxonomy/term/37 since 2013.

Karim Morsi is currently a PhD student with a “contrat doctoral” at Université Paris Cité, LARCA UMR 8225. He is working on a thesis entitled « American Protestant Missionaries in Cuba 1898-1920: Between Humanitarian Mission, Religious Proselytizing and Diffusion of American Imperialism” under the supervision of Professors M.J. Rossignol and F. de Chantal. The thesis focuses on the role of missionaries, both men and women but also spouses of missionaries, as non-state actors in the expansion of U.S. imperialism at the turn of the 20th century in Cuba. The research focus is multidisciplinary as the study includes International Relations, religious history, women’s history in a postcolonial frame.

 

Ancienne élève de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, agrégée d’anglais, Mathilde Louette est doctorante au LARCA (CNRS-UMR 8225) à l’Université Paris Cité. Sa thèse, sous la direction de Cécile Roudeau, porte sur les pratiques littéraires d’une ethnologie inversée dans la littérature autochtone des États-Unis (XXe-XXIe siècles), et la relation de ces pratiques à une vision décoloniale du récit autochtone qui mènerait à une nouvelle façon de lire. Lauréate Fulbright 2021, elle a récemment travaillé sur les archives de l’historien osage John Joseph Mathews à Oklahoma State University, et de l’auteur blackfoot James Welch à la Beinecke Rare Books and Mansucript Library à Yale.

Paul Schor is Associate Professor of US History at Université Paris Cité, UMR LARCA 8225. He specializes in the social history of minorities in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is the author of Counting Americans. How the US Census Classified the Nation (Oxford UP, 2017) and co-edited Disorder, Histoire sociale des mouvements punk et post punk (2019). He is currently working on a book project on consumer society, norms of everyday life and minority consumers in the United States in the first half of the 20th century. He is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Genèses: Sciences Sociales et Histoire.