![]() ![]() He was born in Italy, studied history at the University of Genoa, and received his PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) of Paris in 1989. This talk will explore French national remembrance as an entanglement of multiple, changing identities.Įnzo Traverso’s research focuses on the intellectual history and political ideas of Europe in the twentieth century. ![]() Far from being monolithic, this process of memory construction is necessarily plural and conflicted, alternating between moments of forgetting, anamnesis and obsession it shakes the traditional procedures of history writing as well as old national myths and narratives. ![]() How many layers of French history does the highly controversial slogan Je suis Charlie conceal? Over the last three decades, the French national past has been put into question: Vichy, the Holocaust, the Algerian War, and finally May 68 are crucial events that continuously resurge into the public sphere, where they are reinterpreted through the prism of present worries and sensibilities. ![]() Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities “History, Memory, and Identity: A French Debate” ![]()
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