328. Esclavages en terres d’Islam

L’invitée : Bénédicte Savoy, professeure d’histoire de l’art à l’université technique de BerlinLe livre : 1815, le temps du retour. Restituer l'art en Europe après l'Empire napoléonien, Paris, La découverte, 2026. La discussion :Une lecture comparée des enjeux de restitution des ...  Show more

Un podcast trimestriel présentant les nouveaux numéros de la revue Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales. Cinquième épisode consacré au n°80/1-2 (2025), diffusion le 19 janvier 2026. Production et animation : André Loez (podcast Paroles d’histoire), Clémence Peyran (éditrice de la ...  Show more

From Roman emperor Septimius Severus to Senegal's Signares to the ten days in Harlem that Fidel Castro used to link up with African leaders at the UN, through to the missed opportunity to enshrine racial equality in post war negotiations following World War I; Olivette Otele, Sim ...  Show more

Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities (Columbia University Press, 2025), is a groundbreaking book that recasts the role of knowledge in the making of a colonial and postcolonial nation. It makes a case for a new literary and intellectual-historical approach ...  Show more

Sidi Mubarak Bombay was sort of a combined guide, translator and nurse, and often the supervisor of the African laborers on expeditions through eastern and equatorial Africa in the 19th century.

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Since the French Revolution of 1789, the absence of laws banning interracial marriages has served to reinforce two myths about modern France--first, that it is a sexual democracy and second, it is a color-blind nation where all French citizens can freely marry whomever they wish ...  Show more