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Walter 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 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 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...
Read MoreBenoît Pouget, magazine article: "Medicalising dead bodies: the First Indochina War (1946-54)".
Benoît Pouget, "Medicalising dead bodies: the First Indochina War (1946-54)", Human Remains and Violence, Vol. 10, n°2, p.44-57. https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.10.2.4 Abstract This article shows how the medicalisation of death in wartime can be seen as integral to a broader medicalisation of war that it both stems from and sustains. More specifically, it highlights the pivotal role...
Read MoreBenoît Pouget, magazine article: "Special issue introduction: war casualties and the production of knowledge".
Taline Garibian, Benoît Pouget, "Special issue introduction: war casualties and the production of knowledge", Human Remains and Violence, Vol. 10, No. 2, December 2024, pp.1-4. https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.10.2.1 Link to the online article
Read MoreBenoît Pouget, journal article: "On Medical Standardisation in Times of Scientific Uncertainty: The Management of Flu Epidemics by the French Military Medical Service After the World Pandemic (1920s-30s)".
Benoît Pouget, " On Medical Standardisation in Times of Scientific Uncertainty: The Management of Flu Epidemics by the French Military Medical Service After the World Pandemic (1920s-30s) ", Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, Vol. 10 n° 1-2, December 2024, pp. 383-401. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2023.1403. Abstract Using the example of anti-influenza struggle during the 1920s and 1930s, this article asks how the...
Read MoreBenoît Pouget, Revue historique des armées: "Les exhumations, transferts et réinhumations de cadavres dans la France de la Libération" (Exhumations, transfers and reburials of corpses in Liberation France)
Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Taline Garibian, Benoît Pouget, "Les exhumations, transferts et réinhumations de cadavres dans la France de la Libération", Revue historique des armées, n°316, 1er trimestre 2025, pp.4-8. A quarterly scientific journal, the Revue historique des armées is the Ministry of Defence's journal of history, as well as the communication vehicle for the Service historique des...
Read MoreNicolas Badalassi - Appearance on Europe 1's "Au Coeur de l'Histoire" programme: "The Yalta Conference
Nicolas Badalassi's contribution to the programme "Au Cœur de l'Histoire" hosted by Stéphane Bern on Europe 1 (episode of Tuesday 4 February). Summary Stéphane Bern takes us to Crimea, on the shores of the Black Sea, to relive the Yalta conference that brought together, 80 years ago to the day, the...
Read MoreWalter Bruyère-Ostells - Speech to LCI Midi "Troops in Ukraine, is the French army prepared?
Walter Bruyère-Ostells talks to LCI Midi (Wednesday 15 January, between 12:50 and 13:10). Topic: Special Forces and their possible deployment in Ukraine.
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