UMR SIRICE

Our research is organized around the object “Europe”, that we study in a broad perspective from the 19th century to the present days. Long term history, present time history, comparative approach, internationalist approach as well as connected history are welcome in our lab. We focus on different topics: – International relations, globalization and regionalization, using variable scales that include areal researches (Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Asia) as well as intra- and extra-European relations studies. – Practices and political cultures, putting the emphasis on “citizenship” and “peace”, both understood through their intellectual and ideological dimensions and their practices. – Europe as a material civilization in transition: flows, consumption, crises and resilience. – Wartime, traces and War territories. We understand War as a process: from the path to war to the war itself to its resolution. But we are also interested in reconciliation processes and their limits regarding peace construction. – Last, a gendered history of Europe, where gender relations constitute a structural element of the definition of the European political, economic, and cultural space.