BERTHERAT BRUNO

Subjects taught

  • History of France in the 19th century (1815-1870) (L1).
  • Cultural history of war in 19th-century Europe (L1).
  • History of international relations in Europe in the 19th century (L2).
  • Analysis of 19th-century iconographic sources (L2).
  • History of death in France in the 19th century (L2-L3).
  • History of cultural policies in the 19th and 20th centuries (M1).
  • History of contemporary archives (M1).
  • Contemporary history question for the History-Geography CAPES (2014-2016 and 2018-2020) (M1).

Structure(s)

Component and department


CER History
UFR Humanities and Social Sciences

Research topics

  • History of death and the corpse (forensic medicine, mortuary anomie, funerary practices, imaginary worlds).
  • History of the news, particularly audiovisual.
  • History of identity.
  • History of prison.

Biography

Biography :

  • 1990: Graduate of the École du Louvre.
  • 1992: Graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris
  • 1995: Agrégé d'histoire
  • 2002: Dissertation: "La Morgue de Paris au XIXe siècle (1804-1907): les origines de l'institut médico-légal ou les métamorphoses de la machine" (The Paris Mortuary in the 19th century (1804-1907): the origins of the medico-legal institute or the metamorphoses of the machine), history dissertation under the supervision of Alain Corbin, University of Paris I.
  • Secondary school teacher in 1995-1997 and 2002-2008
  • 1997-1999: ATER at the University of Paris I, then at the University of Blaise Pascal-Clermont II
  • 2000-2002: Secondment to the CNRS
  • Since 2008: Lecturer in contemporary history at the University of Avignon