The Pri-MI project focuses on the treatment of uncertain human remains generated by mass violence in various contemporary sociocultural contexts (France, Guatemala, Spain, Rwanda/Uganda, Columbia). We call uncertain the remains that have suffered a fate that made their definition as human remains unclear (dispersal, transformation, non-funerary uses) and/or for which legal and moral responsibility is ambiguous. The doubt regarding the legal status and the very nature of these remains opens up a space for individuals and collectives who decide to act in order for them to be recognized as dead people and cultivate their memory. This project focuses on those actors, who are not officially in charge of these remains, neither due to a professional or democratic mandate nor family tie, but who choose to care for them. We assume that this caring implies a symbolic appropriation of the remains. The objective of Pri-MI is to document this process, which consists in humanizing and appropriating remains, in both their material and memorial dimensions. To this end, the project draws on five case studies, discussed in a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective (anthropology, history, geography). We will focus on the actors involved in this caring (who are they? what reasons lead them to get involved?), on their practices (techniques in searching for bodies or remains, identification, rituals and care given to the bodies, memorialization etc.), and on the meanings and issues involved in these practices. How can one give humanness and self-identity to remains, often from tenuous and undefined materiality? From an original perspective focusing on citizens’ initiatives, Pri-MI hopes to shed light on contemporary funerary and memorial practices and the creation of post-mortem identities.

This project aims to study the action of the employers in the sport structuration on a national scale between 1880 and 1980. With regard to the emergence of sport in France, historiography has mainly explored the role played by the leaders of sports organizations (clubs, federations etc.). But the action of entrepreneurs is much less known. However, as in Roubaix with the industrialists Théodore Vienne and Eugène Motte, in Sochaux with Peugeot or in Le Creusot with the Schneider family, many of the employers participated in the organization of the sport. Thus, by focusing on the role and action of these men (it seems that there are no women), this project aims to renew the analysis of the emergence and development of sport. This being said, this project plans to question the plural foundations of these employer investments, it tries to illuminates the reasons for which a particular employer invests in sport and thus whishes to better understand the expression « paternalisme sportif » (sport paternalism), and the supervision of the working classes which is its corollary. Similarly, some employers taking advantage by a high visibility, this project leads to question the forms of recognition brought by the use of sport. So many questions, at the crossroads of the history of sport and social, economic and political history, asked in the context of the historiography of the employers. Indeed, the latter has clearly emphasized the full extent of the category "employers", a category that cannot be summed up in the best known entrepreneurs, Forcing us to study the trajectories of less visible individuals and to complicate the analysis of their various investments. Therefore, by questioning the action of the various French employers with regard to sport, this project intends to propose a new reading of the rise and structuring of this cultural phenomenon that is sport while bringing a fresh look on the employers' world.

Directed by Stefan Berger, Emmanuel Droit et Fabian Lemmes, DesinEE defines itself as a research program dedicated to a comparative and transnational history of Deindustrialization as socio-political and emotional experiences of the transformation of the working-class culture from the early 1960s to the present time. The subtitle of our project refers in an explicit way to the pioneer study of E.P. Thompson about the sociability of the English workers. In a French-German perspective, we want to focus on the contemporary impact of the deindustrialization on workers, on the transformation of workers communities that we also understand as emotional communities. Three main questions will constitute the foundation of our project: 1. How does deindustrialisation reconfigure the experiences of impacted workers and what kind of emotions are generated by this socio-economic process? 2. How do these experiences and emotions product effects on the political identity in terms of habitus, ideological consciousness and practices? 3. How does deindustrialisation as a lived experience create new forms and dynamics of social life emerging from a former social order? In order to grasp the complexity of this process at the grass roots, different socio-economic and industrial regions have been selected for the field research carried out by the subproject. Each researcher defined a field of work, either in a French-German perspective or in a transregional (Sarre-Lor-Lux). Small and medium-sized industrial cities in Alsace, Lorraine Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt will serve as case studies beside the analysis of the big traditional industrial spaces in the northern part of France, the Ruhr. This project is based on a rich variety of sources. We will produce a shared Oral History Program with overview and specific individual and collective interviews of former workers for each case study We want to gather written and video materials from the companies, the Trade Unions, the local newspaper In this context of depoliticisation and the rise of right extremist movements in territories impacted by the deindustrialisation, our project has also a political significance and a very strong civic dimension. Far away from a negative discours, we aim at focusing on the complexity regarding both the reconfiguration of social and political relations and the transformation of cultural identities in this socalled post-industrial regions