Activités de recherche

Mémoires 2A – Domaines de recherches/d’intérêts 

Mémoire à rédiger en anglais uniquement

Anglosphere

-       USA: gun issue, 1619 project, Natives Americans, Hawaiian history, Civil Rights Movement, slavery & African-American legacy, American paradoxes & extremes, rap music, environmental injustice

-       Canada: First Nations, “Mincome” Dauphin project, immigration system

-       GB: Windrush scandal, Scottish independence, Ireland as a tax haven, impact of British colonies on the UK

-       India: extremes & paradoxes, Bollywood & breaking taboos, Dalits, illiteracy, corruption, environmental issues, farmers’ distress, girls and women in Indian society

-       Australia: “Stolen Generations”, convict heritage & penal colonies, multiculturalism, Aboriginal traditions & identity

-       New Zealand: Māori culture, legends & identity, traditions & meaning of tattooing among Pacific islanders/nations

Diplomacy / International Relations

-       Globalisation

-       Soft power today

-       High stake diplomacy

Witchcraft, Inquisition

-       Salem witch trials

-       Medieval trials of animals

-       The Hammer of Witches (“Malleus Maleficarum”)

-       The men who still see witches everywhere and are afraid of them today

-       Witchcraft today

Literature

-       Gothic fiction (le « roman noir »)

-       Gender and modernity in John Webster’s plays

-       Ayn Rand