Sylvie Lindeperg is a historian, a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and a professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Her research focuses on the connections between cinema, memory and history, with a particular inclination toward the Second World War.

She draws her inspiration at the junctures of history and art history, in the works of Carlo Ginzburg, Michael Baxandall and Daniel Arasse, thereby contributing to the revival of a field pioneered in France by Marc Ferro, Michèle Lagny and Pierre Sorlin.

Sylvie Lindeperg was one of the first researchers to focus on the relations between digital techniques and the writing of history. At the invitation of Bernard Stiegler, she participated in preparatory work for the Inathèque, the National Audiovisual Institute’s department in charge of legal deposit, and experimented with the Georges Pompidou Centre’s “Lignes de temps” software during a residence at the Centre’s Research and Innovation Institute. In parallel, she collaborated on a large number of multimedia projects and publications.

In the 1990s, she embarked upon a still-ongoing conversation in the form of books, lectures and films with the historian Annette Wieviorka and the filmmaker Jean-Louis Comolli.

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Educated at the undergraduate and graduate level at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Paris, Sylvie Lindeperg was awarded a PhD in history and subsequently became a lecturer at the University of Southampton. In 2000, she was appointed as lecturer at the Sorbonne Nouvelle; since 2008, she has occupied the Chair in Film History at the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne.

She has been a guest professor at a number of universities abroad: Middlebury College, Vermont; Freie Universitat Berlin; Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic; film faculty of the University of Arts in Jakarta, Indonesia; the Federal University of Sao Paulo ; New York University.

Lindeperg has written and edited one dozen books. She is the author of Les Écrans de l’ombre (1997 and 2014), Clio de 5 à 7 (2000),

Nuit et Brouillard. Un film dans l’histoire (2007), Univers concentrationnaire et génocide. Voir, savoir, comprendre, in collaboration with Annette Wieviorka (2008), and La Voie des images (2013).

Lindeperg has served as the joint scientific director of several multimedia publications, including Images de guerre (INA/Nouveau monde édition).

Her book about Nuit et Brouillard has been translated into several languages and her articles have been published in British, American, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Argentinian, Chilean, Czech and Brazilian journals.

Nuit et Brouillard. Un film dans l’histoire was the inspiration for Jean-Louis Comolli’s film Face aux fantômes in 2008; it was adapted for the stage by Nalini Menamkat and performed at the Comédie de Genève (Olga, un regard, 2012).

In 2013, together with Myriam Tsikounas, she curated the exhibition “René Allio: from Marseille to the Great Gallery”, at the Great Gallery of the Museum of Natural History in Paris.

Sylvie Lindeperg was awarded the Institut Jean Vigo’s Jean Mitry Prize for her book Les Écrans de l’ombre ; the Prix de la Critique Cinématographique and the Italian Limina Prize for Nuit et Brouillard, Un film dans l’histoire ; and, also in Italy, the Maurizio Grande Prize for La Voie des images.

She runs the CERHEC (the centre for research in film history and aesthetics) at the University of Paris 1

http://hicsa.univ-paris1.fr/page.php?r=49&id=6&lang=fr.

She is the scientific director of the research programme “Collections of audiovisual archives in post-conflict situations” at the Création Arts et Patrimoines Laboratory of Excellence. She co-founded the research group “Théâtres de la Mémoire” with Christa Blümlinger, Michèle Lagny and Sylvie Rollet.

 http://theatresdelamemoire.blogspot.fr.

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