Meet Marie-Pierre Rey, historian specializing in Russia (Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne)

27 May 2025
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"Portraits de chercheurs(e)s en études aréales" (PEA) takes a look at the academic career and research and teaching work of researchers and teachers specializing in a given cultural area. Each month, discover a video and podcast interview with one of these specialists.
Marie-Pierre Rey et Bastien Sepúlveda
Marie-Pierre Rey et Bastien Sepúlveda (Collection PEA) © Dimitri Galitzine‎
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The collection "Portraits of Researchers in Area Studies" (PEA) is a series of large-format interviews produced by Inalco as part of the Language and Cultural Area Studies (LaCAS) project. Deposited on the MediHal open archive, this series of portraits joins a set of collections on the LaCAS platform. These collections aim to build up a living, freely accessible scientific heritage of research on the world's languages, societies and cultures.

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Video:A history of Russia through the prism of international relations. An interview with Marie-Pierre Rey (Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne)
An interview conducted by Bastien Sepúlveda, in charge of Digital Humanities (DIRVED, Inalco), directed by Dimitri Galitzine, produced by Inalco (11/10/2024, 61 mn).

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Marie-Pierre Rey
Marie-Pierre Rey (Collection PEA) © Dimitri Galitzine‎

Marie-Pierre Rey is Professor Emeritus of History at the Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne and a member of the Sorbonne - Identities, International Relations and Civilizations of Europe laboratory (SIRICE, UMR 8138). In this interview, she looks back on her academic and scientific career, while discussing the evolution of research and teaching in Russian history in France. In the process, she presents her objects and themes of research on Russian history, viewed through the prism of its relationship with Europe.

Marie-Pierre Rey was, until 2024, holder of the Chair of History of Russia and the Soviet Union until 2024, Director of the Centre de recherches en histoire des Slaves, and Director of the UMR SIRICE Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (from 2017 to 2024). She is a member of the editorial board of the journals

Among her latest publications:

With François-Xavier Nérard, Atlas historique de la Russie. D'Ivan III à Vladimir Poutine (Autrement, 2024), and Le premier des chefs. L'exceptionnel destin d'Antonin Carême (Flammarion, 2021), awarded the Prix Spirit by the Académie culinaire de France (2022 ) and Coup de cœur by the Jury of the Centre Méditerranéen des Lettres, 2022.