Interdisciplinary approaches to the English-speaking world, from the 18th century to the present

• Economics
• History
• Political science
• Information and communication sciences
• Sociology, ethnography

Keywords

English-speaking world, United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, Canada, Commonwealth, empire, political culture, political communication, democracy, elections, government, regimes, governance, mobilisations, political parties, politics, political sociology, public policy, citizenship, multiculturalism, ethnic/racial relations, international relations, transnational relations, political economy, economic life, globalisation, enterprise, finance, trade relations, sociology, representation, systems of representation, intersectionality, journalism, media, digital networks.

• Management of international projects/economics - Projet Sorbonne Paris Cité  (SPC) in partnership with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Politécnica - MBA Gestão de projetos

The program aims to foster new collaboration in higher education and research between Brazil and France.

• EHDLM: Projet Sorbonne Paris Cité (SPC) L'histoire depuis les marges [History from the margins : the case of African Americans]

A 3-year research project aiming to explore the writing of history from the margins, starting with the case of African Americans from the early 19th century to the 1960s, using little-explored sources from literature, theater, the arts, practical book ; seeks also to renew approaches to slave narratives.

• Progressive Cities in Asia and Europe: Projet Sorbonne Paris Cité (SPC) in partnership with the National University of Singapore (NUS)

A comparative contemporary exploration of city governement in Asia and Europe, in the context of increasingly diverse and multicultural societies and yet and rising inequalities and high levels of economic and political turbulence. The project seeks through workshops to explore conceptual frameworks for identifying and explaining the rise of progressive cities.  The program further aims to initiate a more durable collaboration between NUS and Université Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle.

• SoMI: Projet Sorbonne Paris Cité (SPC) The Securitisation of Migrant Integration

This project, involving field work in several sites in the UK and the US, examines the effects of securitization (in law enforcement, political discourse, border controls etc.) on migrants’ – and their descendants’ – perceptions of being defined as a threat and their responses in terms of political mobilization of various types and in varying degrees.

• TRANSLIT: ANR Project Métamorphoses des sociétés. Emergences et évolutions des cultures et phénomènes culturels [The metamorphosis of societies. Emergences and evolutions of cultural phenomena]

TRANSLIT explores the socio-technical, political, economic and educational implications of emerging transliteracy, focusing on different types of events where situations of transliteracy occur. Its research program brings together four recognized research centers in the humanities. It aims to produce results useful in the industrial, political and educational spheres and will set these results in a comparative framework, in particular between French-speaking and English-speaking areas.

• WHIG: Sorbonne Paris Cité (SPC) Project What is Governed in Paris and London (WHIG)

This project, bringing together research teams from three Sorbonne Paris Cité universities – Sciences Po Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 et Paris Diderot - Paris 7 – aims to compare the modes of governance in London and Paris and their effects over time, employing refined techniques for measuring the effects of public policy as well as examining the hidden face of governance, that is, areas not included in its sphere.

• UNESCO Chair « Navigating the future (savoir devenir) in sustainable digital development: mastering information cultures »

A programme seeking, with UNESCO support, to develop innovative projects of transliteracy.

• European project in the category « Innovation and competitivity »,  ECO (E-learning, Communication and Open Data), for the creation of MOOCs

The program, piloted by Prof. Divina Frau-Meigs, proposes to create MOOCs of a special type known as sMOOCs or social MOOCs, and to place them on the Eurpoean platforme OPENMOOC.