History workshop

Led by Véronique Lamazou-Duplan (researcher-lecturer specialised in medieval history, affiliated to the ITEM research unit), Chantier d’Histoire is an off-site workshop that integrates students into a research team.
Based on the model of an archaeological site, « chantier d’histoire » is an immersive workshop set up in the framework of archive rooms, and followed by the exploitation of all the data gathered there.
Its main (expected) purposes are :
- A training in medieval paleography (19th century)
- A practical training in the elaboration of databases, as well as the implementation and exploitation of GIS (geographic information system)
- Collective work on data collection, compilation and analysis; this work is integrated in a multidisciplinary research which combines texts study, work on field, sites visits…
- An initiation to digital humanities.
Supervised by UPPA lecturers and researchers, as well as professionals from the archives, students - either in their last year of Bachelor or in Master and PhD - receive specialized courses and contribute to a collective research project affiliated to the hosting laboratory.
Over the year these students are expected to hand in different assessments :
- archives digitisation
- scientific reports
- transcriptions
- databases
- cartography
- scientific publications