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A Brief History of Writings in Prison
Culture · Wednesday, November 18 · 19:00 · Paris
Mairie du 10e arrondissement, 72 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin
Free
Philippe Artières, a contemporary historian and a CNRS research director, specializes in the practices and representations of writing: learned writing, professional writing, and writing of oneself. He has particularly focused on prison archives and prisoners' writings, notably in his works The Book of Guilty Lives. Autobiographies of Criminals, 1896-1909 (Albin-Michel, 2000) and A Seminarian Assassin. The Bladier Case, 1905 (CNRS Editions, 2020). This lecture is part of the Dixit cycle and will take place at the M…
