News from the Centre for history

How did it become normal for nations to seek to win wars not simply by defeating armies and navies, but also by deliberately attacking cities and the civilian population? “The Global War on Civilians: 1905–1945” is an Advanced Grant project funded by the European Research Council and hosted at the Centre for History of Sciences Po.

As part of the MATE-SHS conference on the visualisation of time and space, Amy Hoube, a Master’s student in History, and the Sciences Po Cartography Workshop undertook a joint research project on American funeral practices during the Second World War.

As part of the recruitment process for the position of Full Professor in History of Arts, the Sciences Po Centre for History is organising a series of presentations by shortlisted candidates.

As part of the recruitment process for the position of Full Professor in History “Political History of Contemporary Europe since 1945”, the Sciences Po Centre for History is organising a series of presentations by shortlisted candidates.

Patterns of Global Economic Integration and Disintegration: 1850s to the Present - Deadline: July 3

When Filiation Is Not Self-Evident: Filiation and Violence, 20th –21st Centuries | Deadline: June 30, 2026

"Art and disability" by Thomas Schlesser and Anne Picq

Deadline: by Monday 4 May 2026

This fellowship supports research into anxiety and sexuality in Pablo Picasso’s *Bather* series, created between 1927 and 1937.

“ Political history of contemporary Europe (since 1945)" and "Political history of art in the modern era (19th-21st centuries)"

Alain Prochiantz: "The diurnal and the nocturnal"

Eloïse Martin, winner of the INA thèque 2025 Encouragement Prize for her Master's thesis in history.

Francesco Giosuè, Rébecca Mathiot, Giulio Piumelli and Aesa Virely, PhD researchers at the Centre d'histoire, are the 2026 winners of the Centre for History and Economics - Paris research grant.

Sabine Dullin: "Désoviétiser les sources : Yakoutsk-Moscou au prisme du colonial" (in French)

The European Research Council Advanced Grant project “The Global War on Civilians, 1905-1945” seeks a Postdoctoral researcher on aerial bombardment in the Spanish Civil War. Application deadline: 15 January 2026 Start date: 1st May 2026

Proposals should be sent to the organising Committee by 31 March 2026

Inside Nazism: the shock of a photograph in the work of Elissa Mailänder

Discover the main advances and research findings at Sciences Po in 2024.

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Jean-Pierre Azéma, historian and professor at Sciences Po, who died on Monday, 14 July 2025, in his eighty-seventh year.