Axis 5
Guillaume Linte, article - Benoît Pouget, article and editor of the «Marine, marins et maladies collectives (XVIIIe -XXe siècles)» issue of the Revue d'histoire maritime.
Benoît Pouget (ed.), Marine, marins et maladies collectives (XVIIIe -XXe siècles), Revue d'histoire maritime, n°35, 19 September 2025. ISBN: 9791023107845 Presentation of the issue: The sea, a theatre of adventure and discovery, is also a theatre of health trials. Throughout the centuries, diseases have left their mark on maritime history: scourges that travel clandestinely in the holds...
Read MoreTreize Minutes Marseille 2025: Victor Natalizio's video online!
Last April, six scientists from Aix Marseille University took to the stage at the Espace Julien for the Treize Minutes Marseille. These varied, fast-paced and unexpected talks were captured on video and can be viewed here. Victor Natalizio, a doctoral student in history at MESOPOLHIS, presented his thesis: «...
Read MoreAccueil scientifique - Welcome to Abdoulaye Djogo Barry!
MESOPOLHIS is pleased to welcome Abdoulaye Djogo Barry from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026. Abdoulaye Djogo Barry, who holds a PhD in Information and Communication Sciences (2021), is joining us as part of an individual postdoctoral research project under the scientific supervision of Professor Walter Bruyère-Ostells, Scientific Director of MESOPOLHIS.
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...
Read MoreWalter Bruyère-Ostells and Benoît Pouget, book chapters (Guillaume Piketty, Sortir de la guerre)
Guillaume Piketty, Sortir de la guerre. Des guerres de religion aux conflits asymétriques, Passés Composés, 3 September 2025, 350p. Summary: The last acts of violence and environmental damage, policies of occupation and purification, the return of those displaced by the conflict, the resumption of a private life in peacetime, cultural demobilisation, the care of...
Read MoreGuillaume Linte, editor of a journal issue and articles: "Syphilis and STIs: Epidemiology and the use of figures, from the 'venereal peril' to HIV" (Annales de Démographie Historique)
Guillaume Linte (ed.), Syphilis and STIs: Epidemiology and the use of figures, from the "venereal peril" to HIV, Annales de démographie historique, n°148, 2/2024. Contents Pages 2 to 5, 6 minutes, Review article Start pages Pages 7 to 18, 18 minutes, Review article Syphilis and STIs: a history through figures...
Read MoreCall for Papers " Military History Consortium 3rd Annual Conference " (3-5 June 2026, Aix-en-Provence)
Military History Consortium 3rd Annual Conference Sciences Po Aix, Aix-en-Provence 3-5 June 2026 Call for Papers The Military History Consortium (MHC) will be holding its third annual conference on 3-5 June 2026 at Sciences Po Aix in Aix-en-Provence, France. The keynote lecture will be given by Professor Guillaume Piketty (Sciences Po Paris). The organising committee...
Read MoreGuillaume Linte, magazine articles, "Medicine on a global scale" series: interviews with Jaehwan Hyun & Maureen Lux
Martin Robert, Guillaume Linte and Shiori Nosaka, "Médecine à l'échelle du monde : Entretien avec Jaehwan Hyun", Histoire, médecine et santé, n°27, 2025, pp.97-104. Martin Robert, Guillaume Linte and Shiori Nosaka, "Médecine à l'échelle du monde": Entretien avec Maureen Lux", Histoire, médecine et santé, n°27, 2025, pp.105-114. Series summary: The "Medicine on a global scale" series of interviews features researchers...
Read MoreBenoît Pouget, coordination of a thematic dossier in "Death in a colonial situation" (Outre-Mers)
File coordinated by Soraya Laribi and Benoît Pouget. Death in a colonial situation. (2024). Outre-Mers, (424-425), https://shs.cairn.info/revue-outre-mers-2024-3-4?lang=fr. Presentation: This issue is devoted to death in a colonial situation - whether of an ordinary, violent, social or symbolic nature. The dossier, coordinated by Soraya Laribi and Benoît Pouget, focuses more specifically on the administration of...
Read MoreBenoît Pouget, journal article: "The Army of Pasteurians: Militarisation of Hygiene and Hybrid Disease Control Measures in Fernand Visbecq's 1919 Typhus Mission in French Algeria".
Benoît Pouget, "The Army of Pasteurians: Militarisation of Hygiene and Hybrid Disease Control Measures in Fernand Visbecq's 1919 Typhus Mission in French Algeria", Social History of Medicine, 7 November 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkae058 Abstract During mass demobilisation following the armistice of 11 November 1918, colonial troops gradually returned to their cantonments. Algeria hosted a military penal colony...
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