Madeleine, Louise, Selma Daste

Collaboration with:: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Country:: France
Description:: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne combines the glorious heritage of the college founded by Robert de Sorbon in the 13th century with an innovative multidisciplinary project. As the leading French university in the humanities and social sciences (HSS), since 1971 it has fostered a unique spirit that combines rigorous scientific approaches with the ambition to generate new knowledge capable of transforming the world. With 25 campuses across the Île-de-France region, and open to the world and Europe through the eleven institutions that make up the Una Europa alliance, it supports nearly 45,000 students annually and boasts one of the largest alumni networks on the continent. Thanks to its exceptional range of disciplines, it educates researchers, teachers, legal professionals, executives for businesses and public administration, economists, artists… but above all, critical citizens who analyze the world around them and devise concrete solutions to the new challenges facing society. Today, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne is the leading French university in the humanities and social sciences, committed to placing humans at the center of the scientific approach—for more human-centered science and a fairer, more sustainable society.

Collaboration with:: UMR 8215-Trajectoires
Country:: France
Description:: For the past ten years, the Trajectoires Laboratory (UMR 8215) has been under the joint supervision of the CNRS and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (https://trajectoires.cnrs.fr/). It brings together 126 researchers from the CNRS, Paris 1, INRAP, local authorities, the Ministry of Culture, and other institutions, including 21 doctoral students. The research focuses on the historical trajectories of societies, from their sedentarization to the emergence of the first states, spanning from the recent prehistory (late Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and early Neolithic farmers) to the Metal Ages. While the research is centered on prehistory and protohistory through two main themes—“Societies and Economies” and “Environment, Territory, and Social Organization”—the third theme relevant to this project addresses “Archaeologies of the Past and Present”, whether through excavations of filming locations (Peau d’âne by J. Demy) or excavations of deliberately buried performance artworks (Le déjeuner sous l’herbe by D. Spoerri).

Formal collaboration with:: Musée National de Céramique de Sèvres
Country:: France
Description:: Sèvres-Manufacture et Musée nationaux and the Musée national Adrien Dubouché form the public administrative institution Cité de la Céramique – Sèvres & Limoges, under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture. It brings together the prestigious Sèvres Porcelain Manufacture, active since the 18th century, and the National Museum of Ceramics, founded in the following century. Damaged by an Allied bombing in 1942, the museum preserves a large number of works harmed during the war. This material, stored in one of the manufacture’s pavilions, will be made available to the doctoral candidate to carry out her research.

Formal collaboration with:: Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche
Country:: Italy
Description:: The Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche (MIC) in Faenza, founded by Gaetano Ballardini and managed by the Fondazione MIC ONLUS (a non-profit organization of social utility) and the municipality of Faenza, houses a comprehensive and unique ceramic collection. Struck by a bombing in May 1944, which caused the near-total loss of the collections and the library’s archival holdings, the museum staff has spent the past 30 years recovering and restoring this heritage destroyed during the war. Like the Sèvres museum, the MIC will make this material available to the doctoral candidate for her research project.

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