The 2017 EHESS Summerschool : The Unity of Social Sciences? Rethinking the concept of Revolution took place from 3rd to 14th July 2017. The study of the “longue durée” and the study of “Revolutions” have long been two of the holy grails of the social...

Hyper-specialization characterizes most, or all fields of academic studies. Medicine, history, economics or anthropology, are divided in internal subfields, often compartmentalized from each other and bearing little connection to the mother discipline. This hyper-specialization helped the development of all sciences, including the Social Sciences, but...