Elise Haddad -

Languages spoken.

Fluent:

• french mother tongue, teaching of french for foreigners,
• english every day practice, teaching experience, academical or regular context,
• german every day practice, work in Germany for one year in 2010, academical or regular context.
• spanish fluent, written and spoken,

Communicating level:

• italian acceptable level, currently improving.
• modern greek basic level, currently learning.
• esperanto good understanding, basic expression.
• tseltal (maya language)transcription of records, translation.

Ancient languages I can read (and write if submitted to either torture of a fit of fancy) :

• latin,
• ancient greek,
• classical nahuatl.

Rudimentary or residual notions:

• arabic (very basic: learned for one semester, 2h/week),
• african languages: eve [Togo], bambara [Mali].

Studies.

September 2019-June 2021 : Diploma for languages and cultures of Mesoamerica, INALCO, with highest honors. This diploma provides additional linguistic, anthropological and historical training on the Mesoamerican cultural area.

Summer 2019-Spring 2023, intermittent: Training in spoken Latin and Greek in an educational context in order to teach using the so-called active or inductive-natural method, i.e. by speaking Latin to learners in order to promote their learning, in Latin at Schola Latina (short session near Naples, summer 2019) and, most importantly, Accademia Vivarium Novum: summer session 2020 (level 1), summer session 2022 (level 2), on-site stay in Frascati in summer 2022, spring session 2023 (de auctoribus);
in Greek: summer session 2020 (level 1), winter session 2020-21 (level 2).


Ph. D. thesis/dissertation defended on June 19th, 2019 : prepared at the EHESS, Paris, section "history and civilization", research team : GAHOM, advisor: Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu,
thesis committee : Jérôme Baschet, Jean-Claude Bonne, Pierre-Olivier Dittmar,
defense reporting board :
Didier Méhu (University of Laval, Québec, Canada),
Jérôme Baschet (EHESS, Paris and UNACH, Mexico),
Jean-Claude Bonne (EHESS, Paris),
Maria Cristina Correia Leandro Pereira (University of Saõ Paulo),
Cécile Voyer (University of Poitiers).
Le bien à l’épreuve du mal. À partir du tympan de Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne,
adversité apocalyptique et image analogiste.
Good tested by evil. About the tympanum of Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne and beyond : apocalyptic adversity and analogist imaging.

2010, whole year : Fellowship, integrated graduate college (IGK), research team "Transcendence and sense of community"(SFB 804, "Transzendenz und Gemeinsinn"), Dresden University, Germany. Subject : study of analogical representation, a semiology of romanesque art.

2008-2009 : gap year, volunteering in West Africa.

2007-2008 : 2nd (and last) year of Master, EHESS, section "theory and praxis in langage and arts", advisor: Yves Hersant,
subject : "thought through analogy, analogy in thought". with distinction.
2006-2007 : Preparation class for the "agrégation" in classics, Paris IV-Sorbonne. Eligibility.
2004-2006 : 1st year of Master, Paris IV-Sorbonne. with distinction,
subject: "ancient greek music during late antiquity".

Degree* in music, Paris IV-Sorbonne, 2014.
Degree* in philosophy, Paris X-Nanterre, through postal tuition, 2005.
Degree* in history, Paris X-Nanterre, through postal tuition, 2005.
Degree* in archeology and art history, Paris IV-Sorbonne, 2005.
First year (L1) physics, Paris VII-Denis Diderot, 2005.
Degree* in classics, Paris IV-Sorbonne, 2004
+ added certification "teaching of french as a foreign language" in 2008, Université du Maine.


2004, sous-admissibilité at the entrance examination to the ENS Ulm.
2001 à 2004 "Hypokhâgne" and "khâgnes classiques", lycée Fénelon, Paris VIe,
Juin 2001 : A-level in sciences, magna cum laude, Lycée Blanche de Castille, Villemomble, 93.

*french degree: "Licence", three years of study, in one academic discipline.

Academic publications.

Papers.

• In press : «La coloración de la piel en los manuscritos de la Conquista: ¿marcador de alteridad étnica?» in Forjando Mexico, ed. Guillaume Gaudin, Presses Universitaires du Midi.
• « Délimiter le champ des exempla dans les lettres de Pierre Damien - retour sur une expérience d’indexation. » in Pierre Damien et les exempla. Stratégies auctoriales et réception, Patrick Henriet, Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu Eds, Garnier, 2023.
• « Bête eschatologique, bête sauvage. Quelle place pour la bestia au sein de la création? », dans Trier, classer, organiser : Ordonner le monde au Moyen Âge, Questes, 2022, https://doi.org/10.4000/questes.5854.
• "Iconography. Dynamics of Innovation at Work in the Representation of the Hellmouth" in Culture of Contagion, Béatrice Delaurenti, Thomas Leroux, dirs,Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, 2021.
• « Iconographie. Dynamiques d'innovation à l'œuvre dans la représentation de la "gueule d'enfer". » in De la contagion, Béatrice Delaurenti, Thomas Leroux dirs, Paris : Vendémiaire, 2020.
• « Le bien à l'épreuve du mal : iconographie du portail et de l'église à Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne. », Cahiers de Saint-Michel de Cuxa, n°50, 2020.
• « Former une communauté par la fin. Options eschatologiques romanes. », portfolio in Terrain n°71, avril 2019. pp. 158-181.
• « (Ré)utilisation de formes anciennes dans le décor sculpté de Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne », Questes, 40, 2019.
• Coordination of proceedings, with Alicia Viaud and Doina Craciun : 
Moyen-Âge et Médiévalisme, les formes de la domination, as a special edition of the Cahiers du CRH, 2018.
• «Common space or cleft places? The example of Beaulieu, an architectural and figured space.», in Place and Space in the Medieval World, Meg Boulton, Jane Hawkes, Heidi Stoner Ed., Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2017.
• «ONTIC STRUCTURES, SOCIAL CONJUNCTURES: Images of the Twelfth Century through the looking-glass of a contemporary anthropological proposition.» in Proceedings of the II. international philosophy Conference, Istanbul, 2015.
• "Palimpsest", in Elkins, McGuire et al. Ed., Theorizing Visual Studies, Writing through the discipline, NY and London : Routledge, 2013.
• «Sémiologie de la symbolique romane, l'exemple de Vézelay», intervention prononcée devant le séminaire doctoral du CRAL, publiée sur HAL-SHS (halshs-00670727), 2010.

Book reviews.

• «Passé médiéval et présent de la révolution : deux figures de l’ailleurs dans les écrits de Jérôme Baschet.», [Cross-review of Jérôme Baschet, Adieux au capitalisme. Paris : La Découverte, 2016 and Une Juste Colère, Interrompre la destruction du monde. Paris : La divergence, 2019.]
  in Écrire l’histoire, «le carambolage des temps», dir. Sophie Wahnich and Mélanie Henry, May 2023.
• Review of Costilla Martínez Héctor Alejandro, Ramírez Santacruz Francisco, Historia adoptada, Historia adaptada : la crónica mestiza del México colonial, Madrid : Iberoamericana ; Frankfurt : Vervuert, 2019. Cahiers d’Amérique Latine, 2022.
• Review of Richard Foltz, Les religions de la Route de la soie, les chemins d’une mondialisation prémoderne, trad. Benoît Léger, Montréal : Presses de l’université Concordia, 2020, first ed., english: 1999. Bulletin bibliographique de l’ASSR, 2021.
• Review of Marcello Angheben, Les portails romans de Bourgogne. Thèmes et programmes, Turnhout: Brepols, 2019, Francia-Recensio, 2021-4. []
• Review of [Migrating Art Historians on the sacred ways, dir. Ivan Foletti, Katarína Kravčíková, Adrien Palladino et Sabina Rosenbergová, Rome : Viella, 2018], Sehepunkt 20, nr. 7/8, 2020.
• « L’historien devant l’anomalie », Review of [Dialectique du Monstre, Sylvain Piron, Bruxelles : Zones Sensibles, 2015], Acta Fabula, 2018.

Commitment to non-profit organizations.

Prominent : creation and sustainment of activities.

• Volunteering in West Africa : Kpalime, Togo, october 2008 to may 2009, in support to the NGO Astovot ;
  improvement in the teaching methods of french as a foreign language; education to reading, relating to books and using them, with secondary school (already alphabetized) children and youth ; on the impulse of togolese faculty, co-foundation on the NGO L.I.R.E., plus organization and managment of its activities, including reading workshops, mobile library, reading contests, etc; writing of a (serious and informative) blog La valise en carton.
  From summer 2009, still ongoing, french contact for L.I.R.E. :
  - collect and shipping of specially chosen books,
  - volunteers recrutement,
  - fundraising,
  - creation and translation of written and visual material, - coordination of a cultural programm for Togolese Youth in Mexico, with full linguistic, cultural, financial and administrative support (4 participants from Togo, 3 months stay in Mexico, 2016).
• 2014, 2015, 2016 Human Right Watcher in Mexico, prepared and enrolled through Carea e. V., Germany.
• 2011 and 2012 Member of the "Conseil National" of Solidarité Jeunesses, commitment to the values and activities of the association.
• 2001-2014, Alumni organization A2BDC : board of organizers, envents for students and alumni.

Volunteer help.

• From 2013 : volunteer tutoring with the entraide scolaire amicale,
• since 2003 : annual summer guiding in cultural monument with the association CASA, Bourges (2003), Orcival (2004), Vézelay (2005), Conques (2007), Assy (2008), Saint Benoît sur Loire (2010), Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne (2011), Le Puy en Velay (2011)...
• 2010-2011 : social patrolling, protection civile, section du 6e arrondissement.
• 2007-2008: alphabetization, at the social work center of the Xth arrondissement, Paris.

Support.

• Oxfam France,
• Survie,
• Survival International,
• Médecins sans frontières.

Here I am :

• on Academia,
• on Linkedin, here,
• on the international network for theory of history,
• on Facebook, there,
• on the Be Welcome project,
• on the musicians' network musomap,

If you think you've seen something about me anywhere on the web, and it's not listed here, , so that I can list it as mine, or deny (more or less sincerely) any implication.