{"id":63785,"date":"2024-10-30T14:06:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T14:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifea-istanbul.net\/?page_id=63785"},"modified":"2026-08-06T08:25:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:25:34","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ifea-istanbul.net\/en\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"63785\" class=\"elementor elementor-63785 elementor-936\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3060bd4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3060bd4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e67f29d elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e67f29d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">History<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d111e8d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d111e8d\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-56a1034 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"56a1034\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-727fefd e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"727fefd\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c72101 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4c72101\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"article-title\">Presentation of the team<\/h1><p>The history department&#8217;s studies are currently directed by Philippe Bourmaud (IFEA). This research group also includes several IFEA associate researchers and doctoral students:<\/p><ul><li>AFACAN \u015eeyma (Assistant Professor, K\u0131rklareli University)<\/li><li>ALTU\u011e Seda (Assistant Professor, Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University)<\/li><li>BENEDETTO Vincent (University of Rouen Normandy)<\/li><li>DE TAPIA Aude Aylin (Senior Lecturer, Albert-Ludwigs-Universit\u00e4t Freiburg)<\/li><li>BILICI Faruk (Professor, INALCO)<\/li><li>\u00c7EL\u0130KTEMEL \u00d6zde (Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University)<\/li><li>CHAMES-EDDINE Imane-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne (Orient &amp; M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e)<\/li><li>DUMAS Juliette (Senior Lecturer, Aix-en-Provence University)<\/li><li>ERT\u00dcRK \u0130rem (EHESS)<\/li><li>GANIER Charles (Paris VII)<\/li><li>GUBARA Dahlia E. M. (Assistant Professor, Ko\u00e7 University)<\/li><li>GOSSE Matthieu (Gustave University) Eiffel)<\/li><li>G\u00dcRB\u00dcZ Esin (University of Grenoble Alpes)<\/li><li>IBRAHIMOV Ibrahim (PhD candidate, University of Rouen-Normandie)<\/li><li>KAYNAR Erdal (University of Strasbourg)<\/li><li>MOUTTALIB Sophia (ENS Lyon)<\/li><li>SIGALAS Nikos (University of Patras)<\/li><li>SOMER Florence (Paris Observatory)<\/li><li>WICK Alexis (Associate Professor, Ko\u00e7 University)<\/li><li>TH\u00c9ROUIN Vincent, Sorbonne University (University of Ghent)<\/li><\/ul><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The History research group aims to bring together works covering a broad period, from the Byzantine era to the early decades of the Turkish Republic. Particular emphasis is placed on the trans-Area dimension in order to understand the space of Asia Minor in its relations with the surrounding world, notably the Balkans, Iran, the Arab world, and the Caucasus.<\/p><p>Thus, historical studies at the IFEA are organized into thematic areas that overlap, intersect, and complement each other:<\/p><h4>\u00a0<\/h4><h4>Missions, Heritage, and Social Reform Since the End of the Ottoman Empire: A Trans-Imperial History, by Philippe Bourmaud<\/h4><p>The research aims to analyze the missionary phenomenon as a catalyst for the formation and transformation of multiple social and cultural fields within empires, in competition with, and in shared perspectives with, or even in collaboration with, the empires. The period from the final decades of the Ottoman Empire to the 1950s is crucial here, as it is marked both by an intensification of missionary activities within the empires and by the construction of nation-states in opposition to the foreignness, or even the \u201ccultural imperialism,\u201d embodied by the missions. While the Ottoman Empire saw a proliferation of missionary foundations in its later years, Republican Turkey adopted an exclusive policy towards them. Anatolian missions relocated to the Arab Levant were forced to work in concert with the colonial state but also to distinguish themselves in order to survive independence. Heritage and social reform\u2014and, among the latter&#8217;s manifestations, humanitarian action\u2014add complexity to this picture, revealing the lasting impact of missionary operations long after their departure.<\/p><p>Three aspects are considered in this research:<\/p><ul><li>Missionary viticulture: While monks have long held a central role in the production of wine and spirits in Islamic countries, the missions of the late Ottoman Empire grafted social engineering projects onto this economic activity through orphanages and vocational training. In doing so, they contributed to creating winemaking traditions and to the preservation of wine-growing areas as heritage sites, a process that continues today in the development of tourist routes such as wine trails and other wine routes;<\/li><li>the missionary work from Anatolia to the Levant, primarily through the Society of Jesus and its auxiliary women&#8217;s congregations, before the departure of the Armenian Mission from Anatolia in 1914 and after its re-establishment in Syria and Lebanon between the two world wars;<\/li><li>the missionary and humanitarian work, through the care of Armenian and Assyrian refugees, of Protestant congregations of Anatolian origin in the Arab Levant. This study relies on documentation from a German missionary milieu that became French after the First World War, namely the Strasbourg-based missionary society of Christian Action in the East.<\/li><\/ul><p>\u00a0<\/p><h5>The Empire from Outside: Russian Jews and Muslims in Tsarist Eastern Politics (1881-1914), by Elena Astafieva<\/h5><p>The aim of this research project is to analyze the role of Jews and Muslims, subjects of the Russian Empire or under its protectorate, in Russian political actions in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire (primarily Palestine and Syria). It will examine the negotiation strategies employed by Jews and Muslims, whether pilgrims or migrants, in the Sultan&#8217;s &#8220;well-protected domains,&#8221; with the Russian and European diplomatic corps and with Ottoman authorities, both local and central.<\/p><h5>\u00a0<\/h5><h5>Foreign Missionary and Consular Actors in Diyarbakir and Ma&#8217;rut-ul-Aziz (Eastern Ottoman): Networks of Local, Imperial, and Transnational Powers, Spatial Strategies, Clientelistic Relations (Late 1870s-1914), by Matthieu Gosse<\/h5><p>This research examines the history of two urban societies in the eastern Ottoman Empire, Diyarbakir and Mamuret-ul-Aziz, through the lens of the missionary and consular actors who resided and operated there between the 1870s and 1914. The second half of the 19th century in the Ottoman Empire was a period of intense transformation, as it constituted both a time of redefining the Ottoman social contract (the Tanzimat reforms) and a time of the apogee of European imperialism within the Ottoman Empire. In the eastern Ottoman Empire, this period was marked by interfaith polarization and escalating tensions that culminated in extreme violence, of which the Armenian population was the victim. From the mid-19th century to the First World War, Catholic (Italian and French) and Protestant (American) missionaries, as well as French, British, and American consuls, were appointed and resided in Diyarbakir and Mamuret-ul-Aziz. Although few in number\u2014unlike the vast foreign &#8220;colonies&#8221; in the Levantine cities\u2014these foreigners nonetheless played an influential role, occupying a pivotal position at the interface between power and society. The educational and charitable institutions they established, along with the protectionist policies\u2014primarily aimed at benefiting the local Armenian and Syriac Christians (around a third of the urban population)\u2014constituted vectors of influence whose study is essential for a nuanced understanding of the social and political transformations that took place in the two cities and their hinterland.<\/p><h5>Arab Constitutional Voices in the Late Ottoman Century A Study of the Genesis of the Concept of Constitution, by Sophia Mouttalib<\/h5><p>This thesis examines the emergence, uses, and meanings of the concept of constitution within the Beylik of Tunis, Egypt, and Bil\u0101d al-\u0160\u0101m, the \u201cArab provinces\u201d of the Ottoman Empire, during the \u201clong 19th century.\u201d This period is characterized by the adoption of the first constitutions within these provinces (thus reflecting a global trend), but also by the development of a body of constitutional literature through which intellectuals in these provinces sought to define the constitution, bring it to the forefront of discussions, and justify its existence. This thesis proposes to analyze this literature, drawing on a corpus of writings (political treatises, press articles, memoirs, essays, addresses to the sovereign, travelogues) by intellectuals from these provinces, and inspired by Reinhart Koselleck&#8217;s (1923-2006) Begriffsgeschichte.<\/p><p>In three parts, the thesis first examines the historical conditions of the emergence and formulation of constitutional thought in these contexts, using a multi-scalar approach that combines provincial, imperial, and international perspectives. It then offers a substantial analysis of the concept of constitution in this literature, revealing its semantic spectrum at a time when its meaning was not yet fixed by usage and the passage of time. Finally, it approaches this concept as a mirror of an endogenous political modernity, reflecting the historical consciousness of these intellectuals. Contrary to a diffusionist reading that describes the constitution as a passively received European conceptual export, these thinkers appear not as mere recipients or conduits, but as politically and epistemologically engaged actors in the construction of this concept. Their writings reveal the polyphonic formulation of a thought woven from shared concerns, imaginaries, and references, grounded in an interest in European and extra-European history and current political events, and the semantic reinvestment of rediscovered notions.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><h5>History of Reformist and Constitutionalist Thought in the Ottoman and Qajar Empires (ca. 1850\u20131911) directed by Denis Hermann and Erdal Kaynar<\/h5><p>This program examines the history of constitutionalism as a major intellectual and political movement in the Ottoman and Qajar empires (ca. 1830s to the First World War). This project primarily aims to analyze how the idea of \u200b\u200ba parliamentary and constitutionalist regime entailed rethinking politics, the state, and society; to discuss the nature and significance of opposition to constitutionalism; to gain a better understanding of the networks promoting constitutionalism and their agendas; and to examine the challenges faced by political actors and structures once the constitutional rule was established.<\/p><p>Our project demonstrates that constitutionalism had different dimensions: it allowed for discussions of power structures at the regional and\/or municipal level, as well as the development of agendas for shaping politics at the national level. This dynamic depended not only on Western thought but also this project fosters intellectual exchange within a vast area encompassing Iran and the Ottoman Empire, demonstrating an organic engagement with Western philosophy, Islamic political thought, and international political and intellectual developments.<\/p><p>Since 2018, this project has centered on the organization of regular colloquia, conferences, and research seminars in collaboration with various institutional partners, most notably the Orient-Institut Istanbul.<\/p><p>To our knowledge, the conference held at the IFEA in January 2020 brought together, for the first time, specialists in Iranian and Ottoman history to present their work and discuss the differences in the development of the constitutionalist process in Iran, the Balkans, Anatolia, the Caucasus, and the Arab world:<\/p><ul><li>The conference entitled \u2018Iran in Transition: From the Constitutional Revolution to the End of the Qajar Era\u2019 was held on December 17\u201318, 2018, at the University of Tehran: <a href=\"https:\/\/ifriran.org\/2018\/12\/17\/colloque-international-liran-en-transition-de-la-revolution-constitutionnelle-a-la-fin-de-lere-qajare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ifriran.org\/2018\/12\/17\/colloque-international-liran-en-transition-de-la-revolution-constitutionnelle-a-la-fin-de-lere-qajare\/<\/a>.<\/li><li>The conference entitled \u2018Histories of Constitutionalism in the Ottoman and Qajar Empires\u2019 was held on January 15\u201317, 2020, at the IFEA and the Orient-Institut Istanbul.<\/li><li>A lecture by Nader Sohrabi (Leipzig University) on January 20, 2020, at the IFEA, entitled \u2018The Makings of a Grassroots Ethno-religious Conflict: 1909 Adana\u2019, was presented.<\/li><\/ul><p>As part of the history seminar series, several presentations also focused on the history of political ideas in the Ottoman Empire during the long 19th century. The proceedings of the second colloquium, edited by Denis Hermann and Erdal Kaynar, are currently being prepared.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><h5>MisSMO (Christian Missions and Societies in the Middle East): Organizations, Identities, Heritage Preservation (19th-21st Centuries) &#8211; EFR-IFAO-IFPO-IFEA-FSCIRE program, Principal Coordinator: Norig Neveu<\/h5><p>This project, whose activities within the IFEA are led by Philippe Bourmaud, involves, among its former IFEA doctoral and master&#8217;s researchers hosted by the Institute: Armand Aupiais-L\u2019Homme, Gabriel Doyle, and Aude Aylin de Tapia. The program aims to study, primarily from a historical perspective, how Christian missions contributed, not from above but on a daily basis, to the socio-cultural transformation of societies in the Middle East, from Egypt to Anatolia; and also how establishing a presence in the Middle East contributed to transforming conceptions of mission.<\/p><p>Among the program activities involving the IFEA or its member and associate researchers are: the workshop \u201cMissionaries as Experts,\u201d co-organized with the OII on October 26 and 27, 2018 (coordination: Philippe Bourmaud, Aylin de Tapia, Armand Aupiais-L\u2019Homme); and the workshop \u201cCultural Diplomacy, Aesthetics and Missions in the Middle East, 19th-20th Centuries,\u201d World Congress for Middle East Studies, University of Seville, July 20, 2018.<\/p><p>One of the ongoing research directions, since 2016, is the exploration of the relationship between missionary activity and social change at the regional level. Following the symposium on missionary preaching in the Middle East held in Rome in October 2020, in which the IFEA participated (<a href=\"https:\/\/ifpo.hypotheses.org\/7523\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ifpo.hypotheses.org\/7523<\/a>), this exploration was extended to all religious actors whose modus operandi, regardless of religion, can be described as missionary.<\/p><p>An extension of the program was submitted to partner institutions at the end of 2020, on the theme \u201c&#8217;The Gospel of Goodness&#8217;: Christian Networks, Charity, and Development in the Middle East (1897 to the Present).\u201d At the same time, an ANR (French National Research Agency) project was submitted under the title \u201cGrammars of Preaching: Model, Cartography, Materiality Middle East\/Europe (19th-21st Centuries).\u201d<\/p><p>The MisSMO program will participate in the GIS Middle East and Muslim Worlds Congress (Aix-en-Provence, June 28-30, 2021) in the form of a workshop led by Marie Levant (\u201cThe Vatican in the Middle East, from the First World War to the Gulf War: A Religious, Humanitarian, and Diplomatic Power\u201d) and the participation of several program members in the workshop \u201cNon-Muslim Communities and Their Role in the Production of Institutions in the Levant, 1920-1950\u201d (coord. Viktorya Abrahamyan).<\/p><h5>\u00a0<\/h5><h5>Memory and Perception of the Ottoman Empire, directed by Juliette Dumas<\/h5><p>Since 2019, this project has focused on organizing colloquia, conferences, roundtables, and research seminars:<\/p><ul><li>Roundtable of May 10, 2019, entitled \u2018Staging the Past in Contemporary Turkey\u2019.<\/li><li>Roundtable discussion held on June 27, 2019, at the IFEA entitled \u2018Caucasian and Central Asian Perceptions of the Ottoman Empire\u2019.<\/li><\/ul><p>\u00a0<\/p><h5>Private Warfare and Transnational Hegemonies: The Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean at the Beginning of Modernity, edited by Fabrizio Speziale (EHESS), Alberto Ventura (University of Calabria), and Marilisa Morrone (archaeologist)<\/h5><p>This project explores new perspectives on the interpretation of privateering in the 16th century. It examines privateering as a global phenomenon that, at the dawn of the modern era, saw European and Muslim ships clash from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. It focuses on two regions that played a key role in the Franco-Ottoman strategy to seize control of Italy: Provence, particularly Toulon, where the Ottoman corsair fleet was repeatedly sheltered in the 16th century, and Calabria, one of the regions of the Kingdom of Naples (1282\u20131806) most vulnerable to corsair raids. Provence, Calabria, the Ottoman world, and the Indian Ocean have rarely been studied as interconnected spaces in the modern period. The establishment of an international and multidisciplinary network will foster unprecedented synergy among specialists from different geographical areas. Conferences and study days will be organized as part of this project.<\/p><p><br \/><strong>Commerce Raiding and Transnational Hegemonies: the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean in the Early Modern Period<\/strong><\/p><p>This project explores new perspectives on how to interpret corsairs\u2019 raids in the 16th century. It looks at commerce raiding as a global phenomenon which, at the beginning of the modern period, sees European and Muslim fleets confront each other from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean. It looks at two regions which play a key role in the Franco-Ottoman strategy to annex Italy: Provence, in particular the city of Toulon, where the fleet of the Ottoman corsairs is sheltered on several occasions during the 16th century, and Calabria, the region of the kingdom of Naples (1282-1806) which for its geographical location was one of the most exposed to corsairs\u2019 raids. Provence, Calabria, the Ottoman world, and the Indian Ocean have rarely been studied as connected environments in the modern period. The creation of an international and multidisciplinary network will allow for unprecedented synergy between scholars from different geographical areas.<\/p><p>Seminars<\/p><p>The History research group also organizes internal seminars for its members, primarily aimed at presenting ongoing research. These seminars are specifically designed to support the work of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers within the group in their research in Turkey and at the IFEA (French Institute for Advanced Study).<\/p><p>Following the COVID-19 pandemic, conferences have also been regularly organized online since September 2020, and subsequently in a hybrid format.<\/p><ul><li>Ferenc Csirk\u00e9s The Politics of Language Between Ottomans and Safavids: Masih-i Tabrizi&#8217;s cross-linguistic poetry in Tabriz in the 1720s<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canal-u.tv\/video\/ifea\/ifea_histoire_2020_2021_the_coal_heavers_strike_in_istanbul_1910_a_case_study_in_the_politics_of_the_constitutional_period.63193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conference video<\/a><\/li><li>Yonca K\u00f6ksal Provincial Perspectives for the Ottoman Reforms during the Tanzimat Era<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canal-u.tv\/video\/ifea\/ifea_histoire_2020_2021_provincial_perspectives_for_the_ottoman_reforms_during_the_tanzimat_era.63279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conference video<\/a><\/li><li>Vural Gen\u00e7 From Ajam to Rum An Iranian Provenance Bureaucrat and Historian: Idris-i Bidlisi (b. 1457, d. 1512)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canal-u.tv\/video\/ifea\/ifea_histoire_2020_2021_from_ajam_to_rum_an_iranian_provenance_bureaucrat_and_historian_idris_i_bidlisi_1457_1512.63155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conference video<\/a><\/li><li>Nikos Sigalas (CETOBAC) How millet became the nation. A Conceptual History of the Word &#8220;Millet&#8221; in the Longue Dur\u00e9e of Ottoman History<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canal-u.tv\/video\/ifea\/ifea_histoire_2020_2021_how_millet_became_the_nation_a_conceptual_history_of_the_word_millet_in_the_longue_duree_of_ottoman_history.63159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conference Video<\/a><\/li><li>Esther Voswinckel Filiz (Orient-Institut Istanbul): On the Other Shore: The Things of a Sufi Saint in Istanbul<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canal-u.tv\/video\/ifea\/ifea_histoire_2020_2021_on_the_other_shore_the_things_of_a_sufi_saint_in_istanbul.58481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conference Video<\/a><\/li><li>Zeynep Oktay-Uslu (Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University): At the Sources of Alevism: The Evolution of the Abdal and Bektashi Doctrines<br \/>Abdurrahman At\u00e7\u0131l (Sabanc\u0131 University): Scholar-Bureaucrats and the Making of the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: Bearers of Authority, Legitimacy, and Expertise<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canal-u.tv\/video\/ifea\/ifea_histoire_2020_2021_scholar_bureaucrats_and_the_making_of_the_early_modern_ottoman_empire_bearers_of_authority_legitimacy_and_expertise.63195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conference Video<\/a><\/li><li>Baris Zeren (Independent Researcher\/CETOBAC): The Ottoman Constitutional Rule and Evolution of the Law on Brigandage (\u00c7eteler Kanunu): The Jovanovich Murder Case<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canal-u.tv\/video\/ifea\/ifea_histoire_2020_2021_the_ottoman_constitutional_rule_and_evolution_of_the_law_on_brigandage_ceteler_kanunu_the_jovanovich_murder_case.63197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conference Video<\/a><\/li><li>Ya\u015far Tolga Cora (Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University): The Coal Heavers\u2019 Strike in Istanbul (1910): A Case Study in the Politics of the Constitutional Period<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canal-u.tv\/video\/ifea\/ifea_histoire_2020_2021_the_coal_heavers_strike_in_istanbul_1910_a_case_study_in_the_politics_of_the_constitutional_period.63193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conference video<\/a><\/li><li>\u00c9tienne Charri\u00e8re (Bilkent University, Ankara): Transcription, transliteration, translation: the literatures of the Ottoman and Turkic-speaking worlds reflected in the &#8220;scriptural universes&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canal-u.tv\/video\/ifea\/ifea_histoire_2020_2021_transcription_translitteration_traduction_les_litteratures_de_l_espace_ottoman_et_turcophone_au_miroir_des_univers_scripturaux.63181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conference video<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Conferences and other scholarly events<\/strong><\/p><p>Beyond its research areas, the history department also hosts various scholarly events for which the IFEA is a partner and whose themes fall within the history department. Thus, since the beginning of 2019, the IFEA has organized the following conferences at its premises:<\/p><p>\u2018Arab Historiographies\u2019 on June 14, 2019.<br \/>\u2018The Sacred Heritage of Sufism: Architecture, Objects and Symbols from the Maghreb to Asia\u2019 on October 17-18, 2019.<br \/>\u2018The Dance of the Volcano: Occupied Istanbul 1918-1923\u2019 on November 14-15, 2019.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b23449d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b23449d\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History Presentation of the team The history department&#8217;s studies are currently directed by Philippe Bourmaud (IFEA). 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