LE LABORATOIRE HISOMA

The Research Center HiSoMA (Histoire et Sources des Mondes Antiques, History and Sources of the Ancient Worlds, UMR 5189 of the CNRS) is one of the constituent units of the Research Federation « Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux ». It unites about 80 tenured academics, postdocs, research support staff and administrators from one of its five founding institutions (CNRS, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon), 90 doctoral students and about 40 associated researchers. Current research projects concern the ancient worlds, studied through specialist disciplines of Sciences of Antiquity (such as archaeology, history, literary studies, philology, epigraphy, numismatics, iconography) over a very long period which stretches from the ancient Pharaonic empire to the end of late Antiquity, and within a coherent geographic context that corresponds basically to the civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean.

The importance of the Center’s research has broad recognition abroad, and in some cases the Center takes the lead in international research networks. [More]