La Forge Numérique in English

A selection of audio and video materials in English produced by the MRSH.

Digital platform for multimedia productions by the Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines (MRSH) of the University of Caen Normandy.

The MRSH’s Forge Numérique (Digital Forge), which allows users to listen to or watch conferences they were unable to attend, reaches an audience of 15,000 where only 100 were physically present. The partnership with Canal U and the Visio platform channel of the national MSH network helps extend this dissemination to both academic audiences and the general public.

Access all our productions on our channel la Forge numérique on Canal U

Pictorial Punch – Treasures from the Archive

The Education of Henry Silver

In Search of Punch’s Pocket Book: A Digital Treasure Hunt

ERIBIA seminars 2025-2026

Redefining British social realism through the female migrant gaze: the work of Sarah Gavron

Auteur, auctorialité et autorité : dimensions orales et performatives

ERIBIA PhD students’ seminars

Transatlantic perspectives from Ulster to North Carolina : the Ulster-Scots frontier society at the forefront of revolutionary America (2025)

Good Girls, Bad Boys and School Story Stereotypes (2025)

I say old chap!’ Speech and social class in British School stories 1900-1950 (2024)

One-day conferences: Northen Ireland, 1969-2007: the long road to peace (ERIBIA – 2025)

Northern Ireland, 1998-2007: the ambitions, achievements and vulnerabilities of the peace process

From “What a bloody awful country!” to “Hi Gerry, Hi Martin”: Examining the shift in British State discourse and posturing on and throughout the Troubles

Unionisms and the Peace process

The role of the voluntary and community sector in the Northern Ireland conflict (before and after the Good Friday Agreement)

Dealing with the past in Northern Ireland: the limits of conflict resolution theories and practices

La dimension européenne du conflit et du processus de paix en Irlande du Nord

Watch all the videos of the workshop on the La forge numérique channel on canal U.

Events (MRSH – 2025)

Colloque centenaire de la naissance de Nuno Oliveira

Documentary MRSH – 2025

The Other D-Day: War correspondents in Normandy. (52min)

Voix en SHS / Récits de thèse, portrait de Sarah Levy Valenci

Portrait de Shannon Leinster, doctorante au sein de l’institut caennais de recherche juridique de l’université de Caen Normandie

Conference: “We are Amused”: VICTORIAN HUMOUR IN THE DIGITAL AGE (ERIBIA – 2024)

Endings: Seriality, Sustainability, and Carrying on

Pickings From Punch: Reprinting Humour in the Transnational Press

Events (MRSH – 2024)

Interview with Marc Treib

Interview with Dorothée Imbert

Interview with Anna Jakobsson

Interview with Sonja Dümpelmann

Interview with Marc Graber (ICREJ)

Conference : Tracing the Curve of Evolution: Syntactic change through text types (CRISCO- 2024)

Corpora presentations : Katalin Gugán

“Language change through narration: A diachronic view on German”

“Variants of sentential negation across registers: a case study of Middle Hungarian”

Corpora presentations: Anne Breitbarth

“Personne in ne-sentences from 14th to 16th centuries: a contribution of text-type calibrated corpora”

“You are what you is. Understanding Dutch agreement variation through historical letters”

Watch all videos on the La Forge Numérique channel of Canal U

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