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Walter Bruyère-Ostells – Article in Areion24.news: «A Mediterranean under strain: between a growing number of influential players and American hegemony»
Article by Walter Bruyère-Ostells published on Areion24.news, the Areion Group’s news website, on 1 June 2026. The Mediterranean is currently undergoing a realignment characterised by the assertiveness of regional powers, US intervention in certain issues – driven by Donald Trump – and the weakening of certain traditional players. Given this new geopolitical landscape, what prospects can be identified…
Read MoreGuillaume Linte, journal articles, «Medicine on a Global Scale» series: interviews with Angela Ki Che Leung & Anicet Zran
Martin Robert, Guillaume Linte and Shiori Nosaka, ««Medicine on a Global Scale»: An Interview with Angela Ki Che Leung», History, Medicine and Health, 29 | 2026, 177–182. Martin Robert, Guillaume Linte and Shiori Nosaka, «Medicine on a Global Scale: An Interview with Anicet Zran», History, Medicine and Health, 29 | 2026, 183–192. Series summary: The «Medicine on a Global Scale» interview series features researchers from a variety of backgrounds…
Read MoreGuillaume Linte, journal article: «Eradicating Syphilis? Alternative Projects, Failures, and Infectious Disease Control in the French Colonial Empire (1916-1940)» (Medical History)
Guillaume Linte, «Eradicating Syphilis? Alternative Projects, Failures, and Infectious Disease Control in the French Colonial Empire (1916-1940)”, Medical History, vol. 70, n°1, 2026, pp. 38-60. https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2025.10048 Abstract: The inter-war period was a time of mobilisation against syphilis in France and its colonial empire. The spread of the disease was perceived as a threat to the...
Read MoreWalter Bruyère-Ostells and Berny Sèbe, coordination of a thematic dossier: «Écrire le désert: aux sources de la « Saharomanie »» (Outre-Mers)
Walter Bruyère-Ostells and Berny Sèbe (ed.), «Écrire le désert : aux sources de la « Saharomanie » », Outre-Mers revue d'histoire coloniale et impériale, n°428-429, 2025. (ISSN 1631-0438) Presentation: «Écrire le désert» goes back to the origins of Saharomania, analysing this infatuation with spaces that might, in other circumstances, have been...
Read MoreBook by Nicolas Badalassi: «France's Mediterranean Cold War. From Charles de Gaulle to François Mitterrand».»
Nicolas Badalassi, France's Mediterranean Cold War. From Charles de Gaulle to François Mitterrand, Routledge, 2026, 324p. (ISBN 9781041234234 - DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003737148) Abstract: This book explores how, following the Algerian War, the Mediterranean emerged as a key battleground of the Cold War for France. Between the 1960s and 1980s, France positioned itself as the United States’...
Read MoreGuillaume Linte, review article: «Pousser les portes des empires grâce à la médecine. Professionnelles de santé et Mission médicale suisse au Cameroun (1920-1939)» (Monde(s))
Guillaume Linte, «Pousser les portes des empires grâce à la médecine. Professionnelles de santé et Mission médicale suisse au Cameroun (1920-1939)», Monde(s), 2025/2 n° 28, 2025, pp.111-132. CAIRN.INFO, https://shs.cairn.info/revue-mondes-2025-2-page-111?lang=fr. Summary of article: Although Switzerland is a «country without colonies», it has not remained aloof from the history of European colonisation. One of its main...
Read MoreGuillaume Linte, book chapter: «Josette Debarge, une médecin-missionnaire liée au Musée d'ethnographie dans la Genève coloniale (Cameroun, années 1920-1930)».»
Guillaume Linte and Floriane Morin, «Josette Debarge, une médecin-missionnaire liée au Musée d'ethnographie dans la Genève coloniale (Cameroun, années 1920-1930)», in Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps and Damiano Matasci (eds.), Genève (post)coloniale. Les ambivalences d'une ville suisse et internationale, Geneva, Georg, 2025, p. 262-282. Summary of the book: How can we understand the role played by Geneva and the people of Geneva in the...
Read MoreGuillaume 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 MoreVisiting - 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.
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