The 3rd issue of the doctoral journal Mutations en Méditerranée is now online: «Vulnerabilities and agentivities in the Mediterranean»!

Mutations en Méditerranée (MeM) is a multidisciplinary scientific journal that focuses on the transformations taking place in the Mediterranean area. Managed by doctoral students (ED 67, 354, 355) and supported by MESOPOLHIS, it offers a publication space to young researchers through an annual thematic issue, in open access, and welcomes articles in English...

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Jean Lagane, book chapter: «Between attachment to the nourishing land and artificialisation for industrial purposes - The emblematic case of the Pertuis potato patch».»

Jean Lagane (November 2025). «Chapter 17. Entre attachements à la terre nourricière et artificialisation à des fins industrielles - Le cas emblématique de la Zone à patates de Pertuis». In Laurence Granchamp, Kenjirō Muramatsu, Nicolas Baumert, Florence Pinton (eds.), Retours à/de la terre. Vues d'Europe et du Japon (pp. 427-454). Presses universitaires Rhin &...

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Guillaume 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...

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Constance De Gourcy, editing of a journal issue and articles - Théo Borel, article: «40ème anniversaire. (D)écrire les migrations internationales» (European Journal of International Migration)

Olivier Clochard, Constance De Gourcy and Yann Scioldo-Zürcher Levi (eds.), «40ème anniversaire. (D)écrire les migrations internationales», European Journal of International Migration, vol. 41 - n°2 and 3, November 2025. Overview: This anniversary issue, which celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the European Journal of International Migration (REMI), provides an opportunity to look back at the history of its scientific output while continuing to...

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Louna Hassaïni Moussaoui, Léna Haziza, et al - Editors of a thematic dossier: «Contemporary Algeria through the prism of its margins: identity re-constructions, migrations and experiences of subalternity» (Esprit Critique)

Louna Hassaïni Moussaoui, Léna Haziza, Mélina Joyeux and Margherita Rasulo (eds.), «L'Algérie contemporaine au prisme de ses marges : re-constructions identitaires, migrations et expériences de la subalternité», Esprit Critique, Vol. 35.1, November 2025. Presentation: Born of the desire to extend the reflections shared during a rich day of study held in...

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Winner of the 2025 Valois Thesis Prize: congratulations to Anton Olive-Alvarez!

The «Valois» Young Researcher Thesis Prize is a publication grant. Each year it rewards 3 doctoral theses for their quality, originality and essential contribution to the cultural policies of the Ministry of Culture. Anton Olive-Alvarez is one of the winners of the 2025 edition for his thesis «Entre...

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Van Ruymbeke Prize: Frédéric Monier's book «Un pouvoir malhonnête. Public corruption in France, 18th-20th centuries».»

Transparency International France is launching the «Van Ruymbeke Prize» this year, in tribute to the unwavering commitment of this magistrate, a key figure in major political and financial affairs. This literary prize is intended to reward works devoted to the fight against corruption, broadly defined as the «misuse of delegated power for private ends...

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Winner of the Pierre Bouvier Prize for Socioanthropology 2025: congratulations to Alice Daquin!

To pay tribute to the founder of the journal Socio-Anthropologie and to promote this interdisciplinary approach, the association Socio-anthropologie en perspective and the journal have created an annual prize to reward a doctoral thesis that integrates and contributes to this approach in the social sciences. The Pierre Bouvier Prize for Socio-Anthropology 2025...

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Accueil 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.

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Scientific 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...

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