Porteur de l'axe : Stéphane Guy
Émergence des disciplines
“E Pluribus Veritas: Literary Journalism and War through the Ages”
For as long as there have been wars, there has been war reporting, and literary journalism has proclaimed itself heir to traditional body-count reporting. Yet literary war journalism in many countries is still considered as too aesthetic to be serious journalism and too factographic to be imaginative literature. As such, it rarely reaches audiences outside a given country. ReportAGES conjoins the intercultural perspectives of scholars throughout the world with the interdisciplinary methods of five research centers in the U.S. and Europe to study how it might both shape journalistic heuristics and literary aesthetics and teach future generations about the reasons behind their borders, socio-political ideologies, and cultural imperatives.
The four-year project seeks to locate international war reportages, then compile, edit, and disseminate them via an interactive website that will render war histories more approachable, war journalisms more emotive, and war literatures more factual:
Project coordinator:
INstitutionalisation des DIsciplines (INDI)
“The Institutionalisation of Disciplines” project continues the reflection on interdisciplinarity started in 2005 by IDEA through a focus on the ways in which disciplines are, and have been, institutionalised. It investigates the ways in which disciplines have been progressively integrated into educational institutions, and how the nature of their institutionalisation has affected academic methodology.
So far, the project has focused on the constitution of English studies in the UK, France and the English-speaking world; reconfigurations of disciplines in the Victorian era and in the Anglophone postcolonial world; the emergence of regional studies in France and the UK; and the study of national literatures in France, the UK and Germany. Current and future events focus on the institutionalisation of cinema studies, genetic studies, book history and textual & visual scholarship, at the crossroads of several IDEA projects.
While a number of IDEA’s projects successfully focus on interdisciplinary practice, this project rather focuses on the theorisation of interdisciplinarity. IDEA’s theorisation of the notion since 2005 has focused on defining the concept as well as the various methodological approaches that it involves. This project continues the reflection started in 2005 through a focus on the ways in which disciplines have been institutionalised in English-speaking countries. Understanding, analysing and theorising the concept of interdisciplinarity necessitates a thorough theorisation of the various ways in which disciplines have been historically and socially constructed. The project therefore investigates the ways in which disciplines have been progressively integrated into educational institutions, how they have been codified and how the pattern of their institutionalisation has affected academic methodology. It builds on IDEA’s previous work on interdisciplinarity and aims to call upon the wide variety of specialisations of its members. Disciplines of focus include historiography, postcolonial studies, Australian studies, cultural studies, “civilisation”, etc., with a view to working comparatively by examining the process of institutionalisation in different contexts (the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, etc.).
Project coordinators:
Marilyne Brun (2016-2020)
Stéphane Guy (2020--)
Core team:
Réflexion sur l'Interdisciplinarité
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