Euro-American Programme, Semester 1

Julien NAVA, César TARGOWLA, Anne BRIGOT, Aya BULAID, Emma BURSZTEJN, Gabriel PETRUS, Gonzalo PERREZ, Aubin GONZALEZ LAPOS

Nathan BOURGEOIS, Marguerite DEON, Maximilien SERREAU, Léopoldine LEURET, Ayoub EL ARRAF, Mira TFAILY, Dilan SALIK

Kirill LATYPOV, Esteban SANCHEZ OECONOMO, Antonios NASIS, Andrea Umberto GRITTI, Remzi ÇAGATAY ÇAKIRLAR, Amirpasha TAVAKKOLI, Zeynep ERTUGRUL

This course traces the evolution of anthropological thought, from its origins in the 18th centuryEnlightenment to its development in North America. Students will initially explore the worksof Enlightenment thinkers such as Hume, Condillac, Le Roy, Rousseau, and Buffon, delvinginto topics including human-animal similarities, animal rationality, language, animal aspect ofhuman society, and progress. The course then transitions to key figures of North AmericanAnthropology, such as Lewis Henry Morgan and Franz Boas, examining concepts like socialevolutionism, historical particularism, and cultural relativism. Through this course, studentswill gain a comprehensive understanding of the development of anthropological ideas andtheories from the Enlightenment to the 20th century.

If the anthropology of the United States is not yet very much institutionalized in France, it still deserves to be studied given theinfluence of the US in world affairs and collective imaginaries. Against this background, this class will address the issue byelaborating on how such a field of research is constituted across the Atlantic. The objective is twofold. On the one hand, it willgive the students an introduction to the discipline of « anthropology », understood as being simultaneously a work onconcepts, a way of approaching the world, and a writing style. On the other hand, it will provide them with tools to evaluatethe specificities of the US as both an anthropological object, and a place where empirical research can be conducted (what wecall « fieldwork » or « ethnography »).

This course is conceived as a general introduction to feminist theories. It aims first to present a brief history of feminism, while questioning the meaning of the word "feminism".Since the unity of feminism is questionable, to say the least, the course favors a pluralist approach, insisting on the differences and antagonisms, both philosophical and political, of the currents that have since emerged, in particular between French materialist feminism and queer theory. The object of the course is the questioning of a certain number of common concepts. Man, woman, love, mother and motherhood, body, for example: these important and socially structuring concepts have an obvious meaning that feminisms have radically transformed, each in their own way.A second object is the invention of feminist concepts, which respond to the political and theoretical need to fight for emancipation: patriarchy, gender relations, heteronormativity, domestic work, political lesbianism, gender abolition?

Politicized or against politics, arts and literature are mirrors of societies of their own time,influenced by a climate of ideas that crosses their centuries of emergence. Socialists, utopians,artists and writers tend to take sides and represent the issues and problems that divide society,while men in power use these two mediums to legitimize their place and status. Art andliterature are both instruments of activism and tools of domination and manipulation. So thiscontext makes us wonder:How does society creates, through art and literature, a parallel society of minorities?Starting with the 18th century and going to the 21st, this course aims to highlight the artisticand literary representations of the Other, of the foreigner, of the woman in her monopoly ofgender, of social and ideological classes, as well as of political demands in response tocensorship, self-effacement and oppression.It will be a chronological approach and a geopolitical crossroads between Europe and NorthAmerica.

Christelle GOMIS, Anna SIDOREVICH, Amirpasha TAVAKKOLI, Esteban SANCHEZ OECONOMO, Martin ROBERT, 

Alexis AULAGNIER, Luigi CERRI, Estelle CHAUVARD, Marianne Le BA, Isaora RIVIEREZ, Clémence SEURAT