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Après les indépendances des pays colonisés au cours des années 1950-1960, les pays africains participent progressivement aux grandes compétitions sportives internationales. Parallèlement, dans la lignée d’un panafricanisme postcolonial, ces nations africaines, à travers l’érection de l’Organisation de l’unité africaine (OUA), cherchent à agir sur la géopolitique mondiale. En 1976, une controverse émerge quant à la … Continued

Based on the results of the Czech Science Foundation project, the lecture focuses on selected aspects of childhood at the court of the Central European Habsburgs in the 16th to 18th centuries. Based on the analysis of a wide range of historical sources, its primary focus will be on two areas in particular: childcare from … Continued

This lecture will examine the ways in which three principal figures of Old Norse myth have been made to signify in recent Anglo-American culture. Exploring the figures of Óðinn, Þórr and Loki (and his monstrous children) in novels, films, TV shows and operas, I will argue that these figures are indeed, as journalists like to … Continued