3 governing bodies ensure the Pasts in the Present cluster's governance :

The steering committee

Chaired by Jean-François Balaudé, President of the university Paris Nanterre (UPN), it is composed of a representative from each partner organization, it is the executive committee.

Its members

Pierre Allard, researcher CNRS, director of the laboratory Prehistory and Technology

Jean-François Balaudé, president of the UPN

Annette Becker, university professor (history), UPN, scientific advisor

Baptiste Buob, assistant director of LESC with Philippe Erikson, research director, CNRS, director of LESC

Ghislaine Glasson Deschaumes, cluster project leader

Lucile Grand, assistant director of the Heritage and Collections Department, responsible for the Quai Branly Museum’s media library

Emmanuel Grimaud, researcher CNRS, LESC, scientific and technical director of the cluster

Hilaire Multon, director of the National Archaeology Museum, with Corinne Jouys-Barbelin, responsible for the National Archaelogy Museum's resources center

Rémi Labrusse, university professor (art history), UPN

Marie-Claire Lavabre, director of research, CNRS, director of the ISP, with Jérôme Tournadre-Plancq, researcher, CNRS, assistant director of ISP

Jean-Luc Minel, emeritus university professor, UPN, scientific advisor

Fabien Plazannet, director of the Department of Philosophy, History, and Human Sciences, French National Library

Isabelle Sidéra, research director, CNRS, director of the MAE with Myriam Danon, administrative director of the MAE

Miguel Angel Rodriguez Lizana, chargé de mission to the service the service promotion of research, department of research and doctoral studies, UPO

Pierre Rouillard, research director emeritus, CNRS, scientific advisor

Valérie Tesnière, curator general of libraries, director of the BDIC with Frédérique Joannic-Seta, assistant director of the BDIC

François Villeneuve, university professor, university Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (archaeology of Roman and Hellenistic Mediterranean and Near-Eastern region), director of ArScAn with Brigitte Boissavit-Camus, university professor, UPN (archaeology and art history) and Anne-Violaine Szabados, research engineer, CNRS, assistant directors of ArScAn

The operational structure office

The steering committee’s work is prepared by the operational structure office composed of Marianne Cojannot-Le Blanc, university professor (art history), UPN; Myriam Danon, administrative director of the MAE; Ghislaine Glasson Deschaumes, cluster project leader; Marie-Claire Lavabre, director of the ISP, scientific and technical director of the cluser; Jean-Luc Minel, director of Modyco; Miguel Angel Rodriguez Lizana, chargé de mission to the service management of research and doctoral studies, UPN; Pierre Rouillard, scientific advisor; Emmanuel Grimaud, scientific and technical director of the cluster; Valérie Tesnière, director of the BDIC

The advisory board

The advisory board is made up of accomplished individuals exterior to the cluster, including the Vice-Presidents of Research of the Universities of Paris West Nanterre La Défense and Paris I as well as the President of the UPN’s Graduate School. Its mission is to act as guarantor of the cluster’s orientations and to evaluate its projects and scholarly conformity to the cluster’s founding themes. Thierry Meyer, Vice-President of the Advisory Board for the University Paris Nanterre chairs the advisory board.

Its members

• Anne Bationo-Tillon, chercheur en ergonomie chez Orange Labs
• Pierre Bonin, Vice-Président à la Commission de la Recherche de l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, professeur d’histoire du droit
• Bénédicte Bucher, responsable du service de la recherche de l’IGN
• Lou Burnard, consultant en TEI, TGIR Huma-Num
• Catherine Chevillot, conservateur général du patrimoine, directrice du musée Rodin
• Jacqueline Eidelman, ancienne responsable du département de la politique des publics, Direction générale des patrimoines, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
• Gérald Grunberg, président du comité français Mémoire du Monde, UNESCO
• Claire Hanen, professeur d’informatique à l’université Paris Nanterre, rattachée au LIP6 (UPMC, Sorbonne universités) pour la recherche. Vice-présidente chargée des questions numériques, Université Paris-Lumières
• Marien van der Heijden, membre de l’Institut international d’histoire sociale (IISH), à Amsterdam
• Paolo Jedlowski, professeur de sociologie à la faculté de Sciences politiques de l’Université de la Calabre, Cosenza
• Philippe Joutard, historien, ancien recteur et  professeur des universités émérite
• Marc-Antoine Kaeser, directeur du Laténium, Parc et musée d’archéologie de Neuchâtel (Suisse)
• Sandra Laugier, professeure des universités, membre senior de l’IUF, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Christel Müller, professeur des universités (histoire grecque), présidente du Collège des écoles doctorales de l’Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)
• Pierre Lanapats, directeur-adjoint  de la culture, de l’enseignement, de la recherche et du réseau au Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international
• Rosine Lheureux, archiviste paléographe, conservateur en chef du patrimoine, Archives nationales
• Pascal Liévaux, conservateur du patrimoine, Chef du département du pilotage de la recherche et de la politique scientifique, Direction générale des patrimoines au Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
• Thierry Meyer, professeur des universités, Vice-Président de la commission scientifique de l’UPN
• Laurent Romary, directeur de recherche à l’INRIA, France, et chercheur invité à l’université Humboldt de Berlin
• Hervé Serry, Vice-Président adjoint de la commission recherche de l’université Paris 8, directeur de l’Umr CRESPPA
• Anne Simonin, historienne, directrice de la Maison française d'Oxford
• Michaël Werner, directeur de recherche CNRS, historien, directeur d’étude à l’EHESS
• David Zeitlyn, professeur d’anthropologie sociale à l’Université d’Oxford
• Henri Zerner, professeur émérite d’histoire de l’art et d’architecture, université d’Harvard

Scientific and technical director : Emmanuel Grimaud

Emmanuel Grimaud is an anthropologist, a research fellow at CNRS within the Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (LESC). He is the scientific and technical Director of the cluster Pasts in the Present since september 2017. 

Biography of Emmanuel Grimaud on the LESC website.

Cluster project leader : Ghislaine Glasson Deschaumes

Ghislaine Glasson Deschaumes is the director of the MSH Mondes (CNRS, Université Paris Nanterre, Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). She also coordinates the cluster of excellence Pasts in the Present. She cofounded and codirected the Scientific Network (GIS) “Heritage Institutions and Intercultural Practices”(CNRS/ministry of Culture). She is the founder and director of the international journal of critical thought Transeuropéennes (1993-2015) and, as such, she initiated and led many international cooperation programs in the field of humanities and social sciences and artistic creation before working at Paris Nanterre University, especially in the Balkan region and in the Mediterranean area. Her research interests include cultural translation, language and translation issues in heritage institutions (museums, archives, libraries), and conditions for knowledge production and circulation, notably from the perspective of the center-periphery relationship.

Short bibliography here
 

Project assistant : Marina Egidi

Marina Egidi is an engineer at the University of Paris Nanterre. With a degree from the École du Louvre (Art History and Museum Studies) and from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (Art Market and Cultural Heritage Law), she works as Project assistant for the cluster Pasts in the Present.

Contact the cluster's team

All of the researchers, instructors-researchers, engineers, and curators who coordinate at least one operation in the cluster constitute the general assembly.

It is composed of 14 members, appointed for 4 years, representing institutions involved in all forms of transmission and promotion. It is an advisory body, conceived as a confluence point between research and society, that is a support to the dissemination of the Pasts in the Present cluster’s research. It is also a place of information, mutualization and discussion on the cluster’s research, on the education offer, on the socioeconomic impact of the results.

Its members :

• Vincent Charpentier, France Culture
• Jean-Pierre Dalbera, President of the advisory board; Músic, Museum of music instruments at Céret
• Cécile Duvelle, Chief of Intangible Cultural Heritage Section, Division of Cultural Objects and Intangible Heritage, UNESCO
• Guy Krivopissko, National Resistance museum, Champigny-sur-Marne
• Geneviève Lagardère, archeologist, Hauts-de-Seine Regional Council
• Jean-Philippe Legois, President of the association of French Archivists
• Gilles Manceron, Human Rights league
• Huguette Meunier-Chuvin, L’Histoire
• Olivier Muth, Hauts-de-Seine departmental archives
• Guillaume Nahon, Seine-Saint-Denis departmental archives
• Mohamed Ouaddane, association Trajectoires, network Memories and Histories in the region Île-de-France
• Valérie Perles, director of the museum Albert Kahn
• Hubert Tison, association of the history and geography teachers
• Florence Vielfaure, Department of publics (new technologies), Ministry of Culture and Communication