Enemy

Short Description

English seminar about the internal Threats of Modern societies

Long description

This seminar offers to explore the comparative and transnational history of domestic threats in modern societies. At the crossroads of political, social, and cultural history, we wish to distance ourselves from the dominant ‘pathological’ understanding and take these anxieties seriously in a sociological perspective. We will wonder how the successive figures of internal enemies took roots, socially and politically, how they came in conflict with some of the referent distinctions of modern societies (between peace and war, domestic and foreign, politics and violence, citizens and adversaries, etc.), and what kind of transformations they engendered in terms of institutions, laws, practices, and conducts.

• Duration (weeks) : 12
• Number of hours per week : 2h

Prerequisites (language, special knowledge, other courses, BA MA) :

Bachelor degree and 1^st year of Master

Assessment methods (exams), prerequisites for exams

Students will 1) present an analytical presentation of one of an academic article and/or chapter; and 2) write a research paper.

Admissions to Université de Paris :  https://u-paris.fr/en/welcoming-international-students/  

International Mobility Office for the History Department

François Otchakovsky-Laurens, francois.otchakovsky-laurens@univ-paris-diderot.fr