Centre d’Histoire Culturelle des Sociétés Contemporaines (CHCSC)

Laboratory presentation

The Center for Cultural History of Contemporary Societies (CHCSC) was created in 1992 and in 1994 it was awarded the hosting team status (EA 2448).
The only history laboratory in France whose sole mission is research in contemporary cultural history (from the end of the 18th century until today), CHCSC understands culture as the whole of collective representations specific to a society and cultural history as the social history of representations.
With a multidisciplinarity emphasis, it federates all its members around the concept of cultural history and intends to continue to play a major role in the study and practice of this concept, both at University Paris-Saclay as well as national and internationally.