Arts and humanities
Naïma Ghermani, lecturer and researcher at the UFR ARSH, gave an interview to students about her latest book, "Le droit des exilés. Généalogie du droit d'asile auXVIIe siècle" (The Rights of Exiles: Genealogy of the Right of Asylum in the 17th Century)
Drawing on sources that are partly unpublished, this book, at the crossroads of legal history and the history of emotions, examines this profound change in the right of asylum. Fugitives scattered across several European countries forged a language of exile and developed the compassionate figure of the refugee. It was on this figure that lawyers based their thinking on a "right of exiles." This right to receive vulnerable people, which took shape in Protestant Germany, opened a new and transnational chapter in international law.
Chloé Huvet, assistant professor of musicology at Paris-Saclay University, presented her book "Composing for the screen in the digital age. Star Wars, from one trilogy to another"
Through the lens of a particularly emblematic case in the field of blockbusters, the Star Wars double trilogy created by George Lucas (1977-2005), this book offers an in-depth study of contemporary musical creation in American cinema, showing how technical and aesthetic transformations have both accompanied and sparked the emergence of specific musical and sound practices.
Interview with Marie Demeilliez, lecturer in musicology at the University of Grenoble, and Thomas Soury, lecturer at the University of Lyon 2, about their book "Produits dérivés et économie des spectacles lyriques en France (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle)" (Derivative products and theeconomics of opera in France (17th-18th centuries))
From the very beginning of its history, French opera has inspired the creation and distribution of numerous objects, alongside performances: selected pieces of arias to sing or play, arrangements and transcriptions delight music lovers, while representing interesting commercial opportunities for publishers, arrangers, and copyists. Secular and spiritual parodies give new life to many opera fragments.
Interview with Élise Petit about her exhibition catalog "Music in the Nazi Camps."
Using a topographical approach, Music in Nazi Camps aims to reveal the many uses of music in the concentration camp system, drawing on written accounts, drawings by prisoners and survivors, sheet music and objects related to orchestras, as well as official and clandestine photographs.
