Anaïs VIDAL-JAUMARY

Keywords: History, Peru, commemoration, independence, Bicentennial, Centennial, Sesquicentennial, comparative history, national history, collective memory

Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in History and a Master 1 in Modern History from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne directed by Gregorio Salinero and a Master 2 in Contemporary History from the IHEAL, directed by Olivier Companion, Anaïs Vidal-Jaumary started her PhD at the CREDA (UMR 7227, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle/CNRS) in 2018.

After working on the recourse to justice of the Indian populations in the 17th century, her second Master’s thesis followed her subject over time and focused on the Peruvian war of emancipation.

The beginning of the 19th century and the independence of Peru thus became the heart of her research, analyzing the different narratives existing at the dawn of the Bicentenary. The changes imposed by the Covid crisis in the Bicentenary program lead to a reorientation of her research and in 2022 it turned into a comparative history of the commemorations of Peruvian independence since 1821, marked by certain jubilees: the Centenary, the Sesquicentennial and the Bicentenary.

Her PhD thesis entitled "Celebrating Independence: 200 years of commemorations in Peru" is directed by Christophe Giudicelli, associated with CREDA, member of Mondes Américains (UMR 8168) and the CLEA (EA 4083) Sorbonne University, and also counts on the help of Jesús Cosamalón Aguilar, director of the Maestría in History at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) of Lima, visiting professor at the IHEAL in 2024.