Photographer and traveler Simon Edelstein presents his new book Les cinémas en Inde — un patrimoine exceptionnel, a photographic report on traditional cinemas across the Indian subcontinent. Drawing on years of fieldwork, Edelstein examines the architecture, social life and memory of these cinema spaces, combining visual study with historical sensitivity. The session includes a discussion of his research and photographic approach and a short reading from the book.
In French.
Juliette Faure, professor of political science at the University of Lille and researcher at CERAPS, examines the emergence of a Russian “modernizing conservatism” that fuses religious traditionalism with advocacy of technological modernity. Drawing on archival research, interviews and fieldwork, she traces its roots in late Soviet intellectual formations and shows how this ideology helped legitimize authoritarian and expansionist policies. The talk draws on the career of journalist Aleksandr Prokhanov to illustrate processes of theorization and diffusion.
In French.
Catarina von Wedemeyer, Maître d’enseignement et de recherche at the University of Geneva, is a specialist in Latin American literatures. She held a Humboldt fellowship at Columbia University and is author of Offene Dialektik.
This bilingual series examines Borges’ key stories in relation to twentieth‑century movements such as ultraism and fantastic literature, debating New Historicism and universality. Sessions offer comparative readings with Victoria Ocampo, Silvana Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares, and address poetic analysis and Borges’ cultural interests.
This workshop explores the traditional process of assembling a herbarium specimen, inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s collections. Participants learn scientific techniques for pressing and mounting dried plants on old paper, practice botanical labelling and nomenclature, and select specimens to create a personal herbarium sheet. The session examines preservation methods, identification principles and the historical context of Rousseau’s approach, combining practical skills with scientific insight to produce a lasting botanical object.
In French.
This event explores verse craft in English literary history. It includes a lecture by Dr Sawyer, a Q&A session, and an interactive workshop where participants reflect on their work in relation to verse history and literary craft. Drawing on Middle English poetry, the session highlights both lasting innovations—like rhyme and Chaucer’s meter—and forgotten experiments. Open to anyone interested in literary craft across periods.
In English.
This public lecture by Jacques-David Ebguy explores the idea of the Bildungsroman (the coming-of-age novel) and its limits, questioning whether the genre can exist fully in its “ideal” form. It examines how literary narratives of formation negotiate tensions between individual development, social constraints, and narrative closure. Through a critical approach to modern and contemporary literature, the talk reflects on the structural impossibility or fragility of the classical model of the coming-of-age story.
In French.
This academic meeting is a discussion of the volume The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire, bringing together scholars to examine recent historiographical developments in the late Ottoman period and its legacies. The book offers a wide-ranging synthesis of current research, covering political, social, and cultural transformations from the late Ottoman Empire through its post-imperial aftermath. The event focuses on how recent scholarship has reinterpreted key themes such as nationalism, violence, state formation, and imperial collapse, while also highlighting new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the region.
In French and English.
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