Christophe Loir interview
Christophe Loir is historian and historian of art, Professor of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
He works on cultural studies in the 18th and 19th centuries, especially the history of the urban circulation : the “promenade” (Christophe LOIR & Laurent TURCOT (éds), La promenade aux 18e et 19e siècles, Belgique/Europe, Brussels, Editions de l’Université, 2011), the question of the circulation around the theaters (Christophe LOIR et Mélanie TRAVERSIER (éds), ‘Aller au théâtre’. Pour une perspective diachronique des enjeux urbanistiques et policiers de la circulation autour des théâtres, Antiquité, 18e-19e siècles, forthcoming publication of the acts of the Conference in the journal Histoire urbaine), the problems of mobility during the markets (Jean-Pierre DEVROEY, Arnaud KNAEPEN, Christophe LOIR, Alexis WILKIN (éds), Se déplacer pour (se) nourrir : circulation urbaine et marché alimentaire, 11e-19e siècles, forthcoming in 2013) and the history of the boulevards and rings (Boulevards & Rings in Europe, 18th – 19th Centuries, forthcoming Conference in 2013 in Brussels and Reykjavik).
Authors: Federico Parolotto, Francesco Maria Cerroni