ABSTRACT
Cultural history as it has been practiced in France since the 1980s immediately included the interlinked questions of history and memory among its objects of study. From 1984, the disclosure of the Lieux de mémoire, historiographical and editorial monument (whose genesis goes back to 1978 and 1979 in a seminar run by Pierre Nora), was decisive, as it led to a whole series of studies on the history of objects, and material or ideal places, stemming from the past but still having a more or less active presence in our consciousness, or even our subconscious. Among these studies, we must mention those directed by Mario Isnenghi in Italy and étienne Franéois in Germany, who both came in 2007 to present their respective works to the ADHC congress. These various scientific and publishing projects show that the relations between history and memory, but also between national memory and specific memories, have swung to a new age. This is also what the historian Avner Ben-Amos, invited by the ADHC in 2015 to present his vision of the Israeli national memory between formation, variations, and objections, expresses in another perspective.
