France

This course focuses on the impact of the AIDS crisis on American and European artists and activists, from the first census of cases of the disease in 1981 to the therapeutic revolution in 1997. Based on numerous visual representations inhabited by all that was at work in societies at the time of the epidemic, the course constructs a political, economic, and social history of this era haunted by the catastrophe. In doing so, it mobilizes and crosses disciplines, and develops questions and issues specific to the history of art by calling on the human and social sciences.

This course provides an understanding of contemporary Turkey that goes beyond sole newspaper headlines. It uses, as a starting point, events present in the news in the last two years and analyzes how they are linked to Turkey's past and future.

This course analyzes systemically the phenomenon known as globalization, as well as current public and academic debates in France that focus on a critique of globalization and its local effects. It is structured by three main analytical standpoints. The first is the history of the process now known as globalization, a history still under debate. The second perspective comprises a look at the main features of the phenomenon of globalization: intensification of worker mobility and migration; vastly increased capital flows as well as flows of goods and services; and the significant increase in information exchange, or cultural globalization. The third point of view is that of the main actors of globalization (states, international organizations, NGOs and transnational movements, multinational corporations) whose roles are transformed by the effects of globalization.