Witnessing through Literature and the Arts
Image generated by Midjourney, "testimonial fiction"
Emotions, Climate and the Environment
Melancholy (1894-1896) by Edvard Munch, Public domain
Book Talk with Claire Andrieu
Actualité Sciences Po
'Between 1940 and 1945, more than 100,000 airmen were shot down over Europe, a few thousand of whom survived and avoided being arrested. "When Men Fell from the Sky" is a comparative history of the treatment of these airmen by civilians in France, Germany and Britain. By studying the situation on the ground, Claire Andrieu shows how these encounters reshaped societies at a local level. She reveals how the fall of France in 1940 may have concealed an insurrection nipped in the bud, that the People's War in Britain was not merely a myth, and that in Germany, the racial community of the people had in fact become a social reality with Allied airmen increasingly subjected to lynching from 1943 onwards. By considering why the treatment of these airmen contrasted so strongly in these countries, Andrieu sheds new light on how civilians reacted when confronted with the war at home.'
The result of research work conducted at the Centre for History at Sciences Po, this work by Claire Andrieu was presented in Columbia on March 27 and in Princeton on March 28 during a Book Talk .
Claire Andrieu's book When Men Fell From The Sky is the translated version of her work published in french Tombés du ciel, published in 2021 (Editions Tallandier | Ministère des armées).
Claire Andrieu, When Men Fell from the Sky. Civilians and Downed Airmen in Second World War Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2023
CFP | Teaching with AI: technical, pedagogical and ethical challenges
Workshop Reflections of pedagogical experiences (RETEX)
Department of Political Science & Institute for Skills and innovation
Call for Papers
Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and its accessibility to a wide audience bring up important challenges to higher education, thus raising questions about the effect of technological innovations on teaching practices in the Social Sciences. Three aspects receive particular attention: on the one hand, debates surrounding "ChatGPT" have inevitably raised questions about the reliability of academic assessment methods. How can we ensure that a paper is not generated by an AI? Should we aim at uncovering AI users and, if so, under which conditions? How can we conceive exercises and activities that allow for a supervised use of AI? On the other hand, it is worth considering the possibility of integrating these tools into our teaching practices. How can we take advantage of this technological development to devise innovative and creative practices, as well as new modes of assessment, rather than repressing its use? Finally, concerns regarding the impact of AI on the public sphere, including on journalism, research and political marketing, are also important to consider. Particular attention is paid to the use of AI and a manipulative device as seen in the development and spread of political discourses, images and videos, and beyond. Such instrumentalization challenges the concept of “truth” in the media space, thus hindering the detection and regulation of AI in a context of expanding digital capitalism, with respect to which our students must learn to reflect and position themselves. Against this background we propose to address this topic from two main perspectives.
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▸ Deadline : before the 18th of April 2024
Intervention by M'hamed Oualdi at the CHEP Seminar
M'hamed Oualdi
Intervention by M'hamed Oualdi at the CHEP Seminar
From the 1750s to the late 1780s, the sultan of Morocco, Muhammad Ibn Abdallah, implemented a policy to ransom a large number of enslaved Muslim men and women across Mediterranean Europe (from Spain to Italy). This policy became more and more ambitious to the point that the Moroccan sultan used significant funding to ransom an increasing number of captives. By 1777, he advocated for the liberation of all the women and the eldest across the Mediterranean, be they Christians or Muslims. The presentation will explore the rationale of such a policy and try to understand why such an ambitious policy has never been considered to write a global history of slavery and abolition.
This seminar will take place on Wedneday April 10 2024 in Harvard University's CGIS South Building, Room S-354, 1730 Cambridge Street at 12.00 noon EDT.
