Urbanism, Olympism & Migrations: Marseille Historians Stéphane Mourlane and Céline Regnard Share their Perspectives in Atlanta
Conference
Atlanta, GA, US
October 26 - November 2, 2024
This October, as part of France-Atlanta and City/Cité, Villa Albertine invites Marseille historians Stéphane Mourlane and Céline Regnard to Atlanta, where they will share their perspectives on the impact of olympism and migrations on urbanism.
During their trip to Atlanta, there will be several public events including one or both historians:
- Atlanta Studies Meetup on October 29 at from 6-9pm at Manuel’s Tavern with Stéphane Mourlane. The meetup will focus on Atlanta 1996 and Paris 2024 with a view towards the 2026 World Cup.
- Conference and talks at Georgia Tech with Stéphane Mourlane and Céline Regnard on migrations
- Talk with Stéphane Mourlane at Emory University with a comparative lens on olympism and urbanism between Atlanta 1996 and Paris 2024
- Talk with Céline Regnard with the Department of French & Italian at Emory University on her MarsImperium research project, a history and memory of (post)colonial Marseille in the 19th-20th century
Stay tuned for more information!
This event is part of City/Cité Atlanta x Marseille, Villa Albertine’s transatlantic cooperation and exchange program on urban issues and city making. Launched in 2022, exchanges between these two cities notably explore the fertile relationships between culture and ecology, as well as urban policy and communities, and their ability to transform the way we make cities.
Stéphane Mourlane, PhD, is Associate Professor in Modern History, Aix-Marseille University (France). A researcher with TELEMMe, he is Deputy Director of the Mediterranean Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities. His research focuses on the history of migration and the history of sport. He recently co-edited Atlas des migrations en Méditerranée de l’Antiquité à nos jours (2021), Marseille l’italienne. Histoires d’une passion séculaire (2021), Italianness and Migration from the Risorgimento to the 1960s (2022), Une histoire mondiale de l’olympisme (2023) and Olympisme une histoire du monde (2024). For the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, he co-curated a great exhibition on the history of Olympism (Palais de la Porte Dorée, April 26-September 8).
Céline Regnard is professor in modern history at Aix-Marseille University and a member of TELEMMe research unit. She is a specialist of Marseille’s social history, of international migration history and global history from 19th to 20th century. Among several books, she has published Empreintes italiennes. Marseille et sa région 1840-1940, (avec S. Mourlane), Lyon, Lieux Dits, 2013; Policer les mobilités en Europe et aux Etats-Unis du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours (avec A. Conchon et L. Montel), Paris, Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2018; Italianness and Migration from the Risorgimento to the 1960s (avec S. Mourlane, C. Brice et M. Martini), Londres, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022; and more recently En transit. Les Syriens à Beyrouth, Marseille, Le Havre, New York (1880-1914), Paris, Anamosa, 2022. She currently leads two research projects: « MarsImperium. History and memory of (post)colonial Marseille 19th-20th century” and “GlobalMed. The Mediterranean and the world from prehistoric times to present, interdisciplinary and international approaches”.
