About the Major Program Faire Collection

This Major Program Faire Collection stems on the recent renewal in the History of Science and Knowledge, bringing together research on collections, considered both as instruments and products of research and of teaching practices. Its title not only refers to institutionalized realities, such as libraries, archives, museums, but also to invisible collections made of fragmented assemblages that are not yet documented by researchers, such as sociological data sets or biological samples.

Faire Collection draws on the rich collections of the 11 member schools of Université PSL, which brings together a vibrant and unique community of researchers and students in the sciences and humanities. By taking PSL collections as research objects, the Faire Collection project intends to deploy transdisciplinary and diachronic approaches. It aims to accompany and support research in all the disciplines which are represented at PSL (such as History, Antique Studies, Social Sciences, Art, Architecture, Physical Sciences and Life Sciences) and in a broad temporal perspective. In addition to well-known and identified collections, il will also involve collections that have disappeared, have been handed down or are “in the process of being created”.

It also aims to track down collections that need to be built in order to document our current practices in the future. Faire Collection thus bears a strong reflexive and educational value, the history of collections being a powerful unifying tool among an academic community in which its researchers are attached to the “sciences of objects” (from cuneiform tablets to mineralogical series) and are strongly committed to training through research, where objects have often been pivotal.
 

The governing bodies

Faire collection operates under a board of directors composed of Emmanuelle Chapron, Muriel Le Roux, Cécile Reynaud, Valérie Theis, and Stéphane Verger. 

The programme is managed financially and administratively by Manon Labourie, project manager at the Pôle ressources Lettres (PRL/ ENS - PSL).

Finally, Faire collection has established a scientific advisory board composed as follows: 

For PSL research units

AOrOc: Julien Zurbach or Annick Fenet or Anis Mkacher
ACS: Alice Sotgia or Isabelle Chesneau
ANHIMA: Antony Hostein
CJ-M: Christine Bénévent
CMH: Anne Lhuissier or Florence Weber
DRM: Albert David
HISTARA: Émilie d’Orgeix or François Queyrel
IBENS: Alice Lebreton
IHMC: Léa Saint-Raymond or Maria Pia Donato
Orient & Méditerranée: Ioanna Rapti
SAPRAT: Brigitte Mondrain or Virginie Leroux
SYRTE: Denis Savoie

For PSL institutions

Collège de France: Patrick Boucheron or Cécile Surprenant
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris: Amandine Pras or Arthur Macé
École Française d’Extrême-Orient: Valérie Gillet or Alain Arrault
École normale supérieure - PSL: Valérie Theis
École pratique des hautes études - PSL: Cécile Reynaud
Mines Paris - PSL: Brigitte d'Andrea-Novel or Alexis Paljic
Université PSL: Stéphane Verger

For PSL documentation services

Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique - PSL, library: Cécile Bernal-Beauger
École nationale des chartes - PSL, library: Rémi Mathis or Camille Dégez-Selves
École normale supérieure - PSL, libraries: Cécile Gobbo or Iegor Groudiev
École normale supérieure - PSL, CAPHÉS: Nathalie Queyroux or David Dénéchaud
ESPCI Paris - PSL, library and historical resource centre: Brigitte Leridon
Institut Curie, Curie Museum: Renaud Huynh or Denis Guthleben
Mines Paris - PSL, library: Sébastien Perrin or Amélie Dessens
Observatoire de Paris - PSL, library: Véronique Stoll or Aleth Tisseau des Escotais
Université PSL - Documentary Policy and Open Science Department: Sylvie Fayet
Université Paris Dauphine - PSL University, library: Claire Nguyen

For partners outside PSL

National Archives: Yann Potin or Clothilde Roullier
National Library of France: Thierry Pardé or Peter Stirling
Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine: Nathalie Léger or François Bordes
Humathèque-Campus Condorcet: Clément Oury or Julie Lauvernier

Figures outside Université PSL

Hélène Chaudoreille, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, library and museum
Valérie Kobi, University of Neuchâtel
Anne-Solène Rolland, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art
Bruno Strasser, University of Geneva