This course aims at preparing student for research during the Master through a hands-on practice. This practice is articulated around building a specific research question, formulating hypothesis, and producing arguments. To develop this practice, students will be presented with an example from the teacher's own research, in this case, Amandine Catala's The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice. The idea is that the teacher does all the same exercises as the students so that they see the application of a methodology by a research professional. Afterwords, the students will apply the methodology to their own research and present it to their peers.
- Enseignant: Sequoya Yiaueki
In this course, we will examine post-colonial critiques of the “Western tradition.” During the Enlightenment, starting with the project of a European “republic,” ideas of rationality and progress played key roles in shaping the Western consciousness and self-consciousness. Such postures of rationality and progress are often seen as essential parts of this tradition. However, it seems that these same viewpoints have been mobilized to justify the exclusion of non-western groups. Based on texts by thinkers such as Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, María Lugones, Charles Mills, Chandra Mohanty, Edward Said, and Gayatri Spivak, we will look at critiques of the “Western tradition.” According to such critics, The West’s idea of itself is only possible by denying non-Western countries and peoples the same possibility. This course examines the variety of approaches to examine these critiques and to examine the legacy of forms of economic domination, slavery and colonialism that accompanied the colonial and postcolonial period. Finally, this course will asks how to deal with this legacy.
- Enseignant: Sequoya Yiaueki
L’historien est souvent sollicité dans l’espace public. Sa parole est censée valoir expertise : pour valider une mémoire – celle de victimes, celle de groupes dominés, celle d’un régime, celle de groupes humains –, pour essayer de discerner dans le passé des éléments nous permettant d’imaginer un futur de plus en plus incertain ou pour comprendre et questionner les crises actuellement traversées par nos sociétés. Attentes qui rentrent parfois en tension avec le pluralisme interprétatif qui marque l’historiographie des dernières décennies.
Ce cours, qui prendra la forme d’un séminaire, a pour ambition de faciliter une réflexion sur ce qui doit fonder le métier d’historien et sur les usages sociaux de l’histoire.
Pour cela il propose une réflexion sur les grands courants et les grands débats qui ont animé la communauté historienne ainsi que sur les principales directions prises actuellement par la recherche.
Il s’organisera autour de la lecture de textes qui seront discutés à chaque séance ; ainsi que sur des débats thématiques illustrés, là-aussi, par des lectures.
- Enseignant: Philippe Darriulat