Research projects
Research interests
- History of the Human Sciences (esp. Philology and Linguistics)
- Transnational history of Oriental studies
- Humanism and Orientalism
- History of institutions of knowledge (Congresses, Museums, Universities)
- History of Postcolonial theories
- Comparative method in the human sciences: historical rise and diffusion
- 18-20th century, with a special focus on 19th century Germany
Ongoing personal projects
- History of the International Congress of Orientalists 1873-1973
- German Indologists in Britain and British India
- German and French sources of Italian Indology
Collaborative research
- PHILINTER - Philology and Interculturality : project holder, together with Kevin Ku-Ming Chang (Academia Sinica, Taipei). 2-Year Joint Research Program (PRC) CNRS-Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, 2019-2021.
- European Networks of Orientalism : member, international network directed by Julia Hartley (Warwick), since 2020.
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Circulation of linguistic and philological knowledge between Germany and the
world : project holder, Labex TransferS, 2017-2018.
- DELI - Dictionnaire encyclopédique des littératures de l'Inde : member, ANR Project, 2015-2019.
- CRAA-ETRE - comprendre les relations Afrique-Asie : member, GIS of the Research University PSL, 2015-2018.
- Historiographie de la philologie et historiographie des mathématiques : member, sub-project of the ERC project SAW (Mathematical Science in the Antique World), 2013-2016.
- Zukunftsphilologie - Revisiting the canons of textual scholarship : member of the Collegium, Research project and network funded by the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Freie Universität Berlin, 2012-2018.
- La dimension transnationale dans l’histoire franco-allemande des sciences humaines : member, ANR project, 2007-2010.
- Das 18. Jahrhundert in globaler Perspective : member, French-German-Italian Research Project funded by the Villa Vigoni, the CNRS, the University of Leipzig and the University of Milan, 2005-2007.
- Ornement et culture nationale III : Exotisme et culture nationale: member, French-Austrian Research Project (Amadeus Program), 1999-2001.
Lecture "Cultural transfers in Oriental scholarship" ( in French: L'orientalisme au prisme des transferts culturels), Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, 24 November 2020.
Conference cycle "La France vue d'ailleurs", org. Cristina Ion, Antoine de Baecque, 2020-2021.
Lecture "Transcultural identities in postcolonial studies", Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux, 2 April 2019.
Conference cycle "Sommes-nous les citoyens d'un même monde?", Musée d'Aquitaine, Spring 2019.
Roundtable "Tools of analysis of the relations between Asia and the West", Musée Guimet, Paris, 30 January 2019.
Keynote lecture: "Geopolitics of knowledge. The International Congress of Orientalists at the time of the Cold War, 1948-1973" (in French: Géopolitique du savoir. Le Congrès international des orientalistes à l'époque de la guerre froide, 1948-1973).
Conference "Linguistics and its historical forms of organization and production", S.H.E.S.L./Université Paris VII-Diderot, 24-26 January 2019.
Keynote lecture: "Integral Humanism? The International Congress of Orientalists and the Challenges of Interculturality".
Conference "Portuguese Orientalism(s)", Center for comparative studies, School of Arts and Humanities, Lisbon, 22-24 November 2018.
Lecture series "The transnational perspective in the history of knowledge" (La perspectivia transnacional en la historia de los saberes), Escuela de sciencias humanas, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, 24-26 november 2017.