"The real & the virtual": 144th CTHS Congress
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The Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (CTHS, Committee on Historical and Scientific Research) is organizing its 144th annual congress on the theme "The Real & the Virtual" at the musée des civilisations européennes et méditerranéennes (MUCEM) in Marseille.
Each year, the Congrès national des sociétés historiques et scientifiques, a unique meeting and debate in the French research landscape, brings together about five hundred participants, including academics from a wide range of disciplines: history, geography, science, ethnology, anthropology, prehistory and protohistory, archaeology, philology, art history, environment, etc. It also hosts young researchers (sometimes for their first public intervention) and local scholars who are members of learned societies. The confrontation of views, experiences and methodological approaches explains the uniqueness of the CTHS congress.
The Real and the Virtual
During the last French presidential elections, a political meeting was held by a candidate's hologram: virtualization thus entered the lives of citizen voters along with a great deal of media interest. Yet, both in our daily lives and in our research work, we have been constantly circulating for some time between reality and its representation, between reality and the imaginary; in a process by researchers and artists, these questions have taken on a new dimension with the rise of technosciences and the development of the virtual through the digital revolution. In speeches, public opinion, or representations, this development affects very diverse fields: information, politics, ideology, artistic and literary creation, advertising, etc. The use of symbolic or utopian materials, registers of exaltation and sensitivity, make the boundaries of reality and the virtual porous to finally give the idea of a "potential" universe.
May 10 at 2:00 p.m. : Chahan Vidal-Gorène, doctorant à l'École, doctoral student at the ENC, will present a paper on « Les manuscrits arméniens à l'ère du numérique : un nouveau rapport au patrimoine ».