Tag: empire
“The last empire of the press”, a surprising sociology of journalism in Japan
The French sociologist César Castellvi has made the Japanese press his subject of study. In a book, he recounts the functioning of Japanese newspapers, the organization of the work of…
“The Empire of Silence”: in the heart of darkness, with Thierry Michel
For twenty-five years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been torn apart by a war largely ignored by the media and the international community. The victims number in the hundreds…
“The Empire of Silence”, Thierry Michel points to unpunished crimes in the Congo
This Wednesday, March 16 is released in French theaters the new film by Thierry Michel, author of thirteen films in thirty years on the Congo. In “The Empire of Silence”,…
War in Ukraine: the threatened empire of billionaire Roman Abramovich
He felt the tide turn as Russian tanks advanced into Ukraine. And decided to take the lead. On Wednesday March 2, billionaire Roman Abramovich confirmed that he was selling Chelsea…
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
Born on the ruins of the Carolingian Empire in 962, with the coronation of Othon Ier, the Empire is said to be “Saint” from the middle of the 12the century,…
Stéphane Audeguy, the empire of metamorphoses
Stéphane Audeguy’s new novel strolls through a century of Japanese history. A kaleidoscope of intersecting women’s destinies, in a Japan torn between tradition and modernity. A young American bride who…
Fanny Clamagirand and Vanya Cohen, under the empire of Saint-Saëns
Prodigy composer, orientalist, traveler, grumpy and elusive, Camille Saint-Saëns will have marked his time with his music. The author of Carnival of the Animals died 100 years ago today. Violinist…