Research Area
Active Research fields
French Linguistics and Translation Studies (Comics and Graphic Novels)
Research projects of the last 5 years
H2020 TOPIC: Improving mutual understanding among Europeans by working through troubled pasts
Title: Learning from history to build together the Europe of tomorrow: Creating and using an interactive, multilingual, printed and digital comic books.
Acronyme : C1BD-UE
Abstract:
The aim of our project is to contribute to the consolidation of Europe through the construction of converging memories. Analysing violent pasts and conflicting memories is the first step towards reconciliation. Mutualisation of our knowledge of the past can be attained through a specific tool: a transmedia universe, composed of print and digital comics, an itinerant interactive exhibition, a website of scientific documentation (with webdoc and social networks), will allow us:
-to enhance young people's awareness of conflicting representations and manipulative strategies
-to help construct a shared European memory based on democratic principles through understanding and common narratives.
Habermas's analysis of controversies provides the theoretical framework for our study of official discourse as well as of viewpoints expressed by different categories of participants (witnesses, victims, institutions...).
We intend to reflect on ways in which the medium can affect the message: we will focus on the role of the media, of publishers and print material as well as on the function of iconography (iconization of violence, construction of a popular mythology). A sociolinguistic analysis of key notions in each country as well as the identification of the translation dilemmas posed by the existence of idiosyncratic sociocultural environments and the gender dimension of these discourses will be provided by specialists in our partner institutions.
We also will collect field data by conducting interviews, organizing surveys on the reception of our material, studying creative work, analyzing institutional and political logics.
Our approach is characterized by the comparison of national contexts through an analysis of the dynamics of collective remembering, of strategic uses of the past in the Public space and of obstacles to the development of shared memories in times of conflict which is therefore well adapted to the study of the construction of shared memories by young people