Stéphane MICHONNEAU

43 years
Director of studies modern and contemporary of the EHEHI
Mail: stephane.michonneau@cvz.es

Academic background

Member of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Fontenay-St Cloud in 1987, Fellow in 1991, he was a professor at the French Lycée in Barcelona between 1992 and 1993 and Teaching assistant at the University of Aix-Marseille between 1993 and 1996 and Lecturer at the University of Poitiers in 1996. Member at the Casa de Velazquez between 1997 and 1999 and then Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Poitiers in 2000, is currently Director of Modern and Contemporary Studies at the Casa de Velazquez since 2009.

Current Research

His research developed in two directions. First, the history of memory: in 2000 he defended a thesis entitled "Policies of memory in Barcelona, 1861-1931" which attempted to understand the functioning of the commemorating society. His interest was then directed to the myth and memories of the War of Independence in Spain in the nineteenth century. Currently, he works on the heritage of the ruined village of Belchite after the Civil War. Second, his work focuses on nationalism Hispanic history of Catalan, Spanish history of nationalism in the twentieth century (Project I + D), formation of the nation-state in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. Finally, it is particularly interested in relations between history and literature through the issue of testimony.

Featured publications

  • Barcelona, memòria i identitat. Monuments, commemoracions i mites, Barcelona, Eumo, coll. Referències, 2002, 429p. (publication de la thèse – Prix de la Ville de Barcelone Duran i Sampere 1999)
  • -, Sandrine Kott, Dictionnaire des nations et des nationalismes dans Europe contemporaine, Paris, Hatier, Initial, 2006, 414p.
  • Barcelone, mémoire et identité. 1830-1930, Rennes, PUR, 2007, 349p.
  • Sombras de mayo. Mito y memorias de la Guerra de la Independencia en España, 1808-1908, Madrid, Casa de Velazquez, 2007, 491p. : introduction.
  • "La politica del olvido de la dictadura de Primo de Rivera : el caso barcelonés", Historia y Política, " Nacionalismo espanol, las politicas de la memoria", n°12, 2004/2, pp. 105-132.
  • “Les papiers de la guerre, la guerre des papiers. L’affaire des archives de Salamanque”, Sociétés et Représentations, CREDHESS, n°19, pp. 250-269.
  • “Para una historia social de la memoria : sociedad y conmemoraciones en Barcelona a finales del siglo XIX”, Spagna Contemporanea, n°25, 2004, pp. 113-124.
  • “Gerona, baluarte de España”, Historia y Política, “El nacionalismo catalán, Mitos y lugares de memoria”, n°14, 2005/2, pp. 191-218.
  • “Le document comme trace ou la trace du document”, Communications, n°79, 2006, pp. 41-61.
  • “Clientélisme, caciquisme, caudillisme”, Genèses, 62, mars 2006. Introduction et coordination.
  • “La mémoire au service d’une nouvelle culture politique : le cas barcelonais du début du XXe siècle”, Patrick Fournier, Jean-Philippe Luis et alii, Institutions et représentations du politique. Espagne, France, Italie XVIIe-XXe siècle,  Clermont-Ferrand, Université Blaise Pascal, 2006, pp. 231-244.
  • “Un récit contemporain. A propos d’un récit de témoignage de la répression franquiste”, Vox Poetica, décembre 2006, www.vox-poetica.org/t/rl/michonneauRL.html
  • avec Richard Hocquellet, “Le héros de guerre, le militaire et la nation”, Mélanges de la Casa de Velazquez, Les acteurs de la guerre d’Indépendance, 38-1, 2008, pp. 95-114.
  • "La memoria, ¿objeto de historia?", Justo Beramendi, María Jesús Baz, Identidades y memoria imaginada, Universitat de València, 2008, pp.43-60
  • « Conmemorar la Guerra de la Independencia en Barcelona: ¿Tradición o modernidad política? (1814-1823) »,  Guerra e ideas. Política y cultura en la España de la Guerra de la Independencia, Institución Fernando el Catolico – Universidad de Zaragoza (à paraître).