The early period of French presence in India offers insights into the nature of imperialism and the strategies that strengthened colonialism.

The series of coups in Africa in nations of the former French colonial empire is unfolding amid a growing radicalization among workers and youth on the continent. After a decade of relentless NATO-led ...

French president Emmanuel Macron chaired a Pacific-France summit on June 10, on the sidelines of the UN Oceans Conference held in Nice from June 9-13. Leaders from Papua New Guinea, Palau, Samoa, ...

This short-term Kahn project seeks to gather an interdisciplinary group of participants to closely examine the 19th-century sculpture Bust of a Chinese Man by Jean Baptiste Carpeaux to generate ...

Philippe Faucon Directors’ Fortnight entry Les Harkis is another movie about French imperialism. This time it’s set in Algeria during the Algerian War of Independence from 1954 to 1962 between France ...

To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept of ...

In May-June 2005, during the electoral campaign about the European Constitutional treaty in France, there was a lot of discussions in French medias about the famous "Polish plumber", presented as a ...