L’exposition Esclavage, mémoires normandes a pour vocation de montrer la participation des Normands et de leur territoire à la traite atlantique entre l'Europe, l'Afrique, l'Amérique et l'Asie entre le XVIe et le XIXesiècle.

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L’économie selon Charles Dickens 

Vendredi 23 décembre 2022

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L'économie selon Jane Austen

Vendredi 20 janvier 2023

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L'économie selon Virginia Woolf

Vendredi 31 mars 2023

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Historian of fascism, Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, offers lessons for democracies to resist authoritarianism. Watch on Channel Four News YouTube channel.

"If we don't understand that democracy or more fundamentally the rule of law is something that requires constant human effort - among other things, a human effort at reasonability. If we don't realize that democracy and the rule of law are not the natural result of history but buck up against history all the time and require our input, that's when we really have trouble. (...) The reason why we know fascism is possible is because it already happened once and it happened in places that are not so distant from us either in place or in time (...) It's patently clear that some of the people who were involved in current politics are people who have learned from the 1920s and 1930s and are borrowing some of the tactics of the 1920s and 1930s (...) The fundamental tactic which has been borrowed is a rhetorical one so there's a notorious manual to propaganda which was composed in a Munich prison at the beginning of 1924 which advises that what you should do in political propaganda is always find simple slogans and repeat them over and over again with the effect of dividing your listeners into us and them. That has clearly been revived as a tactic on both sides of the Atlantic, more basically the idea that politics is not about reasoned dispute towards constructive policy but politics is in fact fundamentally about friends and enemies. That's a basic fascist idea which was articulated maybe most famously by Carl Schmitt (...) The essence of the tradition of Anglo-Saxon law going back to the Magna Carta. There's a reason why we have a law and the reason why we have law is that law comes before the king or in modern times law comes before the ruler which means law comes before whatever momentary urges the ruler might say that he is embodying. So, if we say whatever we think at this particular moment is what goes, that means we're saying goodbye to law, we're saying goodbye to predictability, we're saying goodbye to the basis of the system that we have."

Professor Timothy Snyder

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