Contemporary French culture and politics

Venue: JPEK203 (Second floor 2.) Pekařská 16, Nove Butovice

For accasional distance learning: ZOOM meeting platform (link will be shared by email one week before the class)

Organized in 10 sessions, the lesson will explore social, cultural and political issues in contemporary France.

1. 1.10 Introduction

2. 8.10 Politics: From the French Revolution to the 21st century (part1)

3. 15.10 Politics: from the French Revolution to the 21st century (part 2)

4. 22.10 Politics: from the French Revolution to the 21st century (part 3)

5. 5.11 Social history, migration and social transformation (part 1)

6. 12.11 Social history, migration and social transformation (part 2)

7. 19.11 Republican Commemoration's model, the shaping of a French Identity?

8. 26.11 Laicity, A French Model of secularism?

9. 3.12 France and Europe 1/2

10. 10.12 France and Europe 2/2

11 17.12 Art, Cinema and literature

Literature suggestions:

DEBORD Guy, La société du spectacle, Paris: Gallimard, 1992.

GAUCHET, Marcel. La condition politique. Paris: Gallimard, c2005.

NOIRIEL, Gérard. Atlas de l'immigration en France: exclusion, intégration--. Paris: Autrement, 2002.

NORA Pierre, The realm of Memory: Rethinking the French Past, New York: Columbia University, 1996.

PÉCOUT, Gilles. Atlas de l'histoire de France. Paris: Autrement, 2007.

PLANHOL, Xavier de. An historical geography of France. Digitally printed 1st pbk. version. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

RÉMOND, René. Quand l'État se mêle de l'histoire. Paris: Stock, c2006.

RÉMOND, René, Religion and Society in Modern Europe, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.

SCHNAPPER Dominique, La condition juive en France, la tentation de l'entre-soi, Paris: PUF, 2009.

SCHNAPPER Dominique, Katharina von BÜLOW, Horst MÖLLER a Timothy GARTON ASH. Identité et mémoire. Paris: CulturesFrance, 2008. Penser l'Europe.

SCHNAPPER Dominique, La démocratie providentielle, essai sur l'égalité contemporaine, Paris: Gallimard, 2002.

GIRLING, J. L. S.. London, France Political and social Change, New York: Routledge, 1998.

VAN DE MIEROOP,Kenan "The ‘age of commemoration’ as a narrative construct: a critique of the discourse on the contemporary crisis of memory in France", Rethinking History, 2016 20:2, 172-191,