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Sylvain Venayre

Picture of Venayre Sylvain. Copyright : Claire Delfino

Sylvain Venayre has been a professor of Contemporary History at the University of Grenoble Alpes since 2013. A specialist in 19th century history, his work focuses on the history of movement (travel, tourism, military expeditions), as well as the history of the imagination, sensibilites and emotions. His publications include Une guerre au loin (Les Belles Lettres, 2016), Jardin des colonies (with Thomas B. Reverdy, Flammarion, 2017), Histoire du monde au XIXe siècle (with Pierre Singaravélou, Fayard, 2017) and Les Guerres lointaines de la paix (Gallimard, 2023). Also a comic book writer, his latest book was published by Delcourt: Les crieurs du crime, with Hugues Micol (2024). He edits the series "Histoire dessinée de la France" (La Découverte/La Revue dessinée), for which he co-authored the first volume with Etienne Davodeau: La Balade nationale in 2017, and the "La Découverte-Delcourt" series of humanities and social sciences books in comic book form.

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Faire la Guerre Maëlle Lefeuvre/MSF Conference

Waging war for peace

05/05/2026 - 06:30 PM 08:30 PM Sylvain Venayre

On Tuesday, May 5th, 2026, at the headquarters of MSF (14-34 avenue Jean Jaurès, 75019), the CRASH team was delighted to welcome Sylvain Venayre, professor of contemporary history and writer, for a conference on the distant wars of the 19th century and the debates they continue to spark today. This exchange was prepared and moderated by Rony Brauman. 

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