GLOBALVAT. Rebuilding the World, Society, and Human Identity (1939-1958): The Global Perspective of the Vatican Archives

Acronym: GLOBALVAT

Project ANR-21-CE41-0026-01

Related five-year-EFR program : ArchivesPie12

Presentation

The GLOBALVAT project is linked to the five-year-EFR program ARCHIVESPIE12. This project seeks to access data of exceptional value to history and the social sciences – namely, the Vatican archives on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII, opened in 2020 – and to harness it as a resource for twentieth-century world history. Beyond the Second World War and purely ecclesiastical matters, this previously unseen collection sheds new light on a wide range of subjects and places, which the project will study with regard to a central issue: how did the Catholic Church commit to rebuilding a world destroyed by war through its involvement in numerous areas, from the reorganization of international relations to the redefinition of human identity? The project aims to answer this question by using a multi-scalar approach to study three areas – the international system, the regulation of society, and human identity – and will also include the creation of a cross-cutting database.

Led by an experienced and close-knit multidisciplinary team and backed by a consortium associating the École française de Rome and the LARHRA (CNRS-UMR 5190), the GLOBALVAT project aims to provide a resource and training platform that will enable the French research community, in collaboration with its network of colleagues abroad, to play a pivotal role in this international field of research.

The project will span four years (2022-2025): it supports field research in the Vatican archives, fosters international scientific cooperation (monthly general seminar, thematic conferences), elaborates tools to facilitate research into these complex archives including through digital humanities (database Udienze on Pope XII’s audiences), organises training of young researchers and delivers a wide range of resources.

Partner

• UMR 5190 Laboratoire de recherches historiques Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA, CNRS-Université Lumière Lyon 2-Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3-Université Grenoble Alpes-ENS de Lyon)

Scientific blog

https://archivespie12.hypotheses.org/

Social networks

Account X / Twitter : twitter.com/Globalvat1

Team

Scientific coordinator & EFR scientific leader

• Laura PETTINAROLI (École française de Rome)

LARHRA scientific leader

• Christian SORREL (LARHRA, Université Lyon 2)

Other persons involved in the project

• Fabien Archambault (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
• Luc Berlivet (CNRS-Cermes3)
• Xavier Boniface (Université  de Picardie- CHSSC)
• Maddalena Cataldi (École française de Rome)
• Olivier Chatelan (Université de Lyon 3 – LARHRA )
• Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel (Sciences Po)
• Édouard Coquet (École française de Rome)
• Agnès Desmazières (Centre Sèvres-Facultés jésuites de Paris)
• Magali Della Sudda (CNRS-Centre Émile Durkheim)
• Andràs Fejérdj (RCH- Budapest)
• Arthur Hérisson (CNRS-École française de Rome)
• François Jankowiak (Université de Paris-Saclay)
• Fabrice Jesné (Université de Nantes)
• Frédéric Le Moigne (CRBC-Université de Brest)
• Marie Levant (École française de Rome et Institut français du Proche-Orient)
• Bruno Morandière (RésEFE)
• Natalia Núñez-Bargueño (Universidad de Castilla la Mancha)
• Raffaella Perin (Università Cattolica di Milano)
• Laura Pettinaroli (École française de Rome)
• Blandine Pont-Chélini (Université d’Aix-Marseille)
• Stéphanie Roulin (Université de Fribourg, Suisse) 
• Olivier Sibre (Institut Georges Pompidou)
• Christian Sorrel (LARHRA-Université Lyon 2)
• Clarisse Tesson (Université Jean Monnet)
• Fabien Théofilakis (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
• Nina Valbousquet (Manchester University)

Calendar / Meetings & Events

See the French version