CULTURES, SOCIETIES AND POWER (FRANCE-EUROPE 1848-1945)

The aim of the course on Cultures, Societies and Power (France – Europe, 1848-1945) is to examine the cultural, political and social transformations of French and European societies (Germany, Great Britain, Austria), which underwent profound changes between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries:

• political and industrial revolutions
• the development of the press
• the emergence of a leisure society based on sports and entertainment (theatre, dance, balls, café-concert, etc.)
• new relationships with the body (hygiene, spa tourism, etc.).

The two world wars will also be examined through the prism of socio-cultural transformations and their effects on populations in general and certain categories in particular (gender relations, the place of women).

The course consists of asynchronous lessons, divided into 6 units:

1. Introduction methods, historiography of cultural studies
2. Cultural Structures of societies in XIXe century
3. Performance societies (1850-1900)
4. National and republican cultures in France (1870-1940)
5. The Europe of European capitals (1850-1945)
6. Culture, wars, power (1914-1945)

• EUNICE student (bachelor or master): enrolled as 3rd-year bachelor’s degree student or as 1st-year master’s degree student in one of the universities of EUNICE European University consortium (check its members here).
• B2 level of English.

Study Level: Bachelor, Master

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