Institut d'Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités

Can we assert anything about laïcité? Three truisms, one theorem

What if one could reason about secularism — not hurl convictions, but demonstrate? This column runs the experiment in miniature: from three observations no one refuses, logic alone leads to a result that unsettles both camps — what a mathematician would call a theorem. Its lesson...

Insiders and Outsiders: The Historiography of Immigration in France

Abstract The history of immigration has become a dynamic subfield of French history since the 1970s. We examine its origins in both academic and activist milieus, and we consider its development in relation to some of the most important civic debates that have animated the French...

Transposed-letter effects as a function of the location of transpositions

We examined how Transposed-Letter effects (TL effects: e.g., ASBENT, derived from ABSENT, compared to the substituted-letter [SL] control ALPENT) might vary as a function of the location of the TL effects relative to fixation. The positions of the TL and the initial fixation loca...