Guillaume Lancereau

Guillaume Lancereau is a historian of nineteenth-century Western Europe and Russia, with a particular interest in intellectual and political history. After graduating from Sciences Po and the École Normale Supérieure, he defended his thesis on the historians and historiography of the French Revolution (1881-1939) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and worked at the European University Institute as a Max Weber Fellow.
His broader research interests include the problem of time in modern political thinking and the regimes of uncertainty in revolutions.
He has published several books on the contemporary uses of history by the French far-right. He is currently involved in the Invisible University for Ukraine and publishes translations and comments on the war in Ukraine in the Grand Continent and other media.

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War, Peace, and the Politics of Uncertainty

The course aims to problematize politics as a practice of contestation that engages with the meanings of modern historical events. Combining approaches from political theory, intellectual history, and social theory, it introduces students to various academic and public discussions on wars, revolutions, modalities of peace, and their political interpretations. To do so, the course reconsiders uncertainty as the key quality of historical events, which manifests both in the course of their development and in later reinterpretations. The course intends to introduce students to critical work with historical sources and master the critical analysis of texts, debates, and events.