Archive for October 2025
Jean Lagane, Natures Sciences Sociétés magazine: "Parc naturel urbain à Aix-en-Provence. The challenges facing public developers in the face of the expectations of an ordinary urban environmental movement".
Jean Lagane, "Parc naturel urbain à Aix-en-Provence. Les défis de l'aménageur public face aux attentes d'un mouvement environnementaliste urbain ordinaire", Natures Sciences Sociétés [on line], 9 September 2025. https://doi.org/10.1051/nss/2025040 Résumé : The preservation of nature in Aix-en-Provence, and more specifically that of plane trees and other trees in the city, has been essentialized through the recent appearance of a...
Read MoreCNRS 2026 Competition - Support for MESOPOLHIS
Hello everyone, Applicants for the 2026 CNRS competitions (sections 35, 39, 42, 43) can request support from the Centre méditerranéen de sociologie, de science politique et d'histoire d'Aix-en-Provence (MESOPOLHIS, UMR 7064, AMU, CNRS, Science Po Aix). The MESOPOLHIS laboratory is a multi-disciplinary social science unit organised around 6 main areas and 2 sub-units:...
Read MoreScientific home - Welcome to Estelle Fossey!
MESOPOLHIS is delighted to welcome Estelle Fossey from 20 to 29 October 2025. Estelle Fossey holds a doctorate in sociology and is a researcher with the Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur les Cultures et les Identités (GIRCI), the social sciences and humanities laboratory at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) in Dakar. She is also a senior lecturer in...
Read MoreScientific home - Welcome to Miriam Gutekunst!
MESOPOLHIS is delighted to welcome Miriam Gutekunst from 7 to 31 October 2025. Miriam Gutekunst holds a doctorate in European ethnology (2017). She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Cultural Analysis and European Ethnology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU). Invited by Constance De Gourcy, her work falls within the scope of Axis 2...
Read MoreAAC seminar 'Conflictuality, cooperation and the (re)composition of the State in the contemporary Mediterranean and Middle Eastern space'.
[The seminar is a continuation of the 'Experiences of violence and contemporary conflicts' seminar organised by MESOPOLHIS doctoral students in 2024-2025. It takes up and develops some of its themes, questions and results, with the agreement of its founders. Seminar organising committee: Alessandro CECCHINI, doctoral student in contemporary history...
Read MoreArrival of Serena Trovarelli, General Secretary of MESOPOLHIS
MESOPOLHIS is delighted to welcome Serena Trovarelli, our new General Secretary Hello everyone, I am pleased to inform you that I have taken up my duties as General Secretary within the administrative and financial team of the MESOPOLHIS laboratory. It's with great enthusiasm that I'm joining this research organisation, which is...
Read MoreAccueil scientifique - Welcome to Victoria Abrahamyan!
MESOPOLHIS is delighted to welcome Victoria Abrahamyan from 1 October to 31 December 2025. Victoria Abrahamyan holds a master's degree in Middle Eastern studies and a doctorate in contemporary history. She has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Maison d'Histoire de l'Université de Genève since February 2024. Her work is linked to Axis 5, 'Violence, Crises and...
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