The lecture will deal with the subject of the DMZ and the nearest regions. After explaining what is the DMZ (Demilitarized zone) in terms of a military demarcation line structure, four misunderstandings surrounding the demilitarized zone will be...

As some specialists may well know, the South Korean Army (ROKA) has organized and managed a Military Comfort Women Station System (KCWS) during the Korean War (1951-1954). The lecture intends to answer to three mains questions about this issue: What...

The lecture will deal with the issue of separated families by raising two main questions concerning on the one hand, the typology of the separated families, and on the other hand, the periodic characteristics of Wollamin population and its migration...

What does the Korean Division mean to South Koreans? The goal of the lecture is to give an up to date understanding of the issues of the division in the Korean Peninsula, and to deal with the social consequences of this division. Topics such as the...

We are pleased to invite you to the first ISHA (International Students of History Association) seminar in France since 1993, taking place on Wednesday1st to Thursday 2ndof June 2016 in Paris.The topic of the conference...

Focusing on the local, we ask what are the political and ideological resources that allow the formation of a power that, starting from very humble beginnings, could defeat the mighty Ming dynasty within a couple of decades. The construction of a new...

Focusing on the local, we ask what are the political and ideological resources that allow the formation of a power that, starting from very humble beginnings, could defeat the mighty Ming dynasty within a couple of decades. The construction of a new...

Metacognition - the capacity to evaluate one's uncertainty in a cognitive task - has been classically studied in industrialized Western societies. Little is known, however, about epistemic sensitivity in non-Western, non-Industrial societies. This...

When examining the introduction of new technology, including steamers, railway and refrigeration, to China, historians tend to focus on the prospects for industrialization and modernization and thus pay little attention to the commodities produced...

When examining the introduction of new technology, including steamers, railway and refrigeration, to China, historians tend to focus on the prospects for industrialization and modernization and thus pay little attention to the commodities produced...

The workshop seeks to follow up on the workshop on valuation and evaluation and which was organized by CEMS, IMM, GST, CNRS and ERC DISCONEX on December 9th-10th 2015. Reasearch interest in the study of valuation has significantly increased...

Chinese concepts of the body experienced tremendous change in the late nineteenth century.  After the introduction of the science of anatomy from the West, Chinese ideas of the brain, heart, blood, and kidneys were never the same.  Of...