Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes
sur les Sociétés Américaine, Britannique et du Monde Anglophone


 

Presentation of the CRESAB

Living Archives, the semi-annual review of the CRESAB, was published by the CRESAB from Nov. 1991 to Oct. 2006. It ceased publication after its publisher, Delagrave, was absorbed by Flammarion. It will be replaced by hard-cover collections of articles published at irregular intervals. The first one will be on the issues of nationalism discussed at the conference in April 2007 (see below). Back issues of Living Archives can still be obtained from the CRESAB.
Table of contents of recent issues (2005-2007)
Index of articles published on paper (Nov. 1991 - Oct. 2002) by country
How to order back issues of Living Archives: individuals and institutions


Online articles and documents for Living Archives:
Living Archives n° 9 & n° 10 (TS) on line
;
Living Archives supplementary documents for New Series issues — articles, bibliographies and documents for issues 4 (October 2003), 5 (February-March 2004), 6 (October 2004)
Nationalism in the English-Speaking World
Rachel Hutchins & Jeremy Tranmer (eds.). Cambridge (UK): Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Feb. 2009.

 

Links to exercises (writing commentaries, résumés and abstracts...)

N.B.: students and other users interested in locating film analysis tools should refer to our filmsite page created for the CAPES/Agrégation exams (click here). For advice and exercises on the methodology of research, we recommend Martin Maner's The Research Process: a complete guide and reference for writers (Boston: McGraw-Hill). Current edition is the 2nd ed. published in 2000.

 

CAPES/Agrégation 2010 : this page is dedicated to the preparation of the civilization questions for these national competitive examinations — bibliographies and recent publications not listed on the official bibliographies, announcements of workshops and conferences, documents available at the American Library in Nancy, etc. It is currently undergoing reconstruction.


American Library in Nancy: information and activities
Click here for the information page of the American Library, which is currently being housed on our site.

Other programs of interest
Information will be posted here as it is received.

CRESAB workshops/conferences, past, present & future (click here to see list of past conferences):
Upcoming conference 10-11 September 2010: Nationalism and Legitimacy
The notion of legitimacy is essential to the study of nationalism. As Anthony D. Smith has argued, "For nationalists, the nation is the sole criterion of legitimate government and political community. [...] [T]oday no state possesses legitimacy which does not also claim to represent the will of the 'nation', even where there is as yet patently no nation for it to represent."
This conference seeks to examine the evolution of legitimacy of the nation-state in the con-temporary world. Notably, we wish to consider how successfully, and in what ways, nation-states (re)define themselves in order to maintain this legitimacy, the ways in which nations and nation-states may reinforce one another's legitimacy and the extent to which this legiti-macy may be strengthened or undermined by supranational bodies.
The conference will include keynote addresses by leading scholars in the field: John Breuilly and John Hutchinson, of the London School of Economics,as well as panel sessions for the presentation of papers exploring aspects of the relationship between nationalism and legiti-macy. Suggested themes include, but are not limited to:
* The impact of globalization, immigration, and ethnic relations on the legitimacy of nation- states
* Socio-economic aspects of national legitimacy
* The perceived legitimacy of supranational bodies
Both theoretical and empirical approaches are welcome.
The primary focus of the conference will be on the English-speaking world, but we will also consider submissions concerning other geographical regions.
Please send proposals of no more than 500 words by 1 April 2010 to:
colloque-cresab@univ-nancy2.fr

Papers submitted to the conference will be considered for publication. Please note that the CRESAB cannot cover travel and accommodation costs. Presenters are expected to register for the conference. Further enquiries are welcome at colloque-cresab@univ-nancy2.fr



CRESAB seminars for 2009/2010
N.B.: the General Assembly of the CRESAB was held on Oct. 9

27 November: seminar on "Identité nationale et emploi: lorsque l'accès et la vie au travail interfèrent avec la thématique de l'identité" (Roseline Théron), 18:00, room J09
15 January 2010, 17:00, room J09: in preparation for the September conference, the first in a series of round table discussions on the subject of nationalism and legitimacy. Click here for the text of the article under discussion (Peter Stillman, "Concept of Legitimacy")
29 January, 17:00, J09: reprise of the 15 January discussion.
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Beginning with Feb. 12, the seminars will deal with the historical
background of the concepts of legitimacy and nationalism.
Program of the historical background seminars.
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12 February
, 17:00, A-020: second in the series of round table discussions on nationalism and legitimacy, specifically on the historical roots of the theories (Tudor, Stuart and Commonwealth theories).
G.R. Elton, The Tudor Constitution, pp. 1-2 & 12-17
David Armitage, Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought, pp. 26-28
J.P. Kenroy, The Stuart Constitution, pp. 7-23
Perez Zagorin, A History of Political Thought In the English Revolution, Extract 1 (Richard Overton, a Leveller), Extract 2 (Robert Filmer, a Royalist)
12 March, 17:00, room J09: Hobbes and Locke (see Program for links to texts online)
29 March, 18:00, room J09:
Richard Somerset will discuss "The World Before the Deluge: the transformation of a classic of popular science" (seminar organised jointly with the group "Itinéraires du Texte et du Livre" on the subject of recyling of texts in the social and political contexts.

26 April , 18:00, room J09: David Ten Eyck will discuss "The Political Packaging of Poetic Texts: the case of Ezra Pound's Fascist propaganda" (seminar organised jointly with "Itinéraires du Texte et du Livre").

The next seminars on nationalism and legitimacy will be announced as soon as their dates are known.


 

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