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CHONG MING
Chong Ming is research professor of politics at East China Normal University in Shanghai. His research focuses on the history of western modern political thought. Particular interests include French liberalism from Montesquieu to Tocqueville, the...
Mapping the Elite
India is being widely seen as an emerging economic and political power on the global scene. Despite having the largest population of chronically poor in the world today, it is home to a sizeable number of thriving rich and flourishing middle classes...
International Mobilizations On Women's Rights Issues During The Cold War
9.00: Welcome coffee 9.30: Introduction Ioana Cîrstocea, CNRS, CESSP 9.45-12.45: Session 1: INSTITUTIONS Francisca DE HAAN (Central European University):“Lifting the Curtain on Socialist Women’s Contributions to the Global Women’s Rights...
International Mobilizations On Women's Rights Issues During The Cold War
9.00: Welcome coffee 9.30: Introduction Ioana Cîrstocea, CNRS, CESSP 9.45-12.45: Session 1: INSTITUTIONS Francisca DE HAAN (Central European University):“Lifting the Curtain on Socialist Women’s Contributions to the Global Women’s Rights...
Growth, Innovation and Inequality
This international conference is organized for the 10th anniversary of the Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS (FFJ) and hosted by the Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris (MCJP). It aims to discuss some of the major economic, political and societal...
John MacGregor Murray (1745-1822): Persianate and Indic Cultures in British South Asia
This workshop proposes to examine European engagement with Persian language and textual culture in South Asia. In Mughal India (1526-1857) and in the Princely States emerging with the decline of Mughal central power, Persian language established...
Intangible Cultural Heritage: Reconceptualization, Uses, Marketization
The UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage heralded the beginning of a new era pertaining to global (and local) cultural politics. It clearly departed from previous, more rigid definitions and understandings...
Bodies and Artefacts: Relics and other devotional supports in Shia societies in the Indic and Iranian worlds
Program 10:15 - Welcome Address by CEIAS Director10:20 - Opening remarks by Michel Boivin, Annabelle Collinet, Sepideh Parsapajouh 10:30 - Karen Ruffle (University of Toronto), EHESS-IISMM Invited ProfessorPresence in Absence:...
Bodies and Artefacts: Relics and other devotional supports in Shia societies in the Indic and Iranian worlds
Program 10:15 - Welcome Address by CEIAS Director10:20 - Opening remarks by Michel Boivin, Annabelle Collinet, Sepideh Parsapajouh 10:30 - Karen Ruffle (University of Toronto), EHESS-IISMM Invited ProfessorPresence in Absence:...
La monarquía en el siglo XXI
¿Reinará Leonor I? Algunos se preguntan si Felipe VI será el último rey de España. Hacer conjeturas es arriesgado; en cambio, interrogarse sobre las aportaciones de la Corona en la actualidad resulta necesario. En pleno siglo xxila monarquía...
Minjian
Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead of harking back to the traditional role of the...
Julia Lovell, Maoism: A Global History
In 2011, markers of Mao-style politics began to return to the mainstream of Chinese public life. That year, for the first time since the death of Mao in 1976, China experienced both an official and a popular revival of Maoist culture, with Bo Xilai’...