[Question d’actualité] The Soweto Massacre of June 16, 1976, was a protest led by black school children against the apartheid government’s imposition of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in black schools. Thousands of pupils where marching peacefully in the Soweto township when the (...)

[Fiche] In her debut novel The Parisian, Isabella Hammad narrates the life story of Midhat Kamal and his family in Nablus, during a pivotal period when Palestinian territory transitions from Ottoman rule to British control. Through Midhat’s journey to France and back to Nablus in 1919, this (...)

[Fiche] In his novel A Harlot’s Progress, David Dabydeen reimagines William Hogarth’s eponymous series of engravings by giving a voice to Mungo, a young black servant marginalised in the original artwork. The novel challenges the conventions of slave narratives by presenting a fragmented, (...)

[Fiche] Cette fiche analyse le soutien des femmes évangéliques blanches à Donald Trump, particulièrement à l’occasion de l’élection présidentielle de 2024, malgré ses positions antiféministes. Nous proposons d’étudier ce phénomène à travers la socialisation genrée dans les (...)

[Fiche] In her second novel Pachinko, Min Jin Lee narrates the life of a Korean family who immigrated to Japan. Three languages—English, Korean and Japanese—intertwine and clash in this chronicle of multilingual societies and families. Contrasting linguistic uses and perceptions underline (...)

[Conférence] Dans le cadre de l'événement "Célébrer l'indépendance des États-Unis en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes", organisé par la DRAREIC de l'Académie de Lyon, Hugo Toudic a donné deux conférences sur la situation politique aux États-Unis et l'influence de Montesquieu sur le système (...)