1027 – 2027: The world where Guillaume is born

Colloquium of Caen and Cerisy-la-Salle

The world where the future William the Conqueror was born, between mid-1027 and mid-1028, is marked by relationships and dynamics that interact with each other. Inspired by "connected history," the project aims to highlight mobilities and their consequences, connections, and transfers between different human communities in the early decades of the 11th century.

A global approach has been chosen, which does not exclude any field of knowledge to explore the world where William was born (history, art history, archaeology, philology…) from several entry points: knowing and traversing the world; the places, genres, and ways of living or dying; the ways of believing, thinking, and creating; the Normans and Norman women of the 1020s in Normandy, in the kingdom of France, in the European space, and on the routes that connect them to other horizons.

The project includes an international colloquium to be held at the Auditorium of the Château de Caen and at the International Cultural Center of Cerisy-la-Salle.

This meeting is part of the "Medieval Normandy" cycle of the Cerisy colloquiums.

Various activities aimed at a diverse audience are associated with the colloquium: a public book on the theme of the colloquium in the "A vue d’œil" collection produced with the help of students from the Master's program “Careers in Books and Publishing” at the University of Caen, a public lecture, an educational session involving the Cerisy-la-Salle middle school, visits to Caen and Coutances, a play performed at the CCIC, and a concert at the cathedral of Coutances.

Colloquium co-organized by Pierre Bauduin, Alban Gautier, and Marie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel (CRAHAM, University of Caen)

Practical information:
All audiences
Free in Caen
Paid in Cerisy (according to the length of stay)

Partnerships: International Cultural Center of Cerisy, CRAHAM UMR 6273, University of Caen Normandy, City of Caen