Institut_d'histoire_du_temps_présent
Institut d'histoire du temps présent
One of the Research units of the French CNRS
The Institut d’histoire du temps présent, also known as IHTP (English: Institute of the history of the current age), is a French research unit within the CNRS. Since September 2019 IHTP has been located on the Condorcet campus of the Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis at Aubervilliers.[1] IHTP focuses on the phenomenon of war in the 20th-century and on systems of political domination such as authoritarianism, totalitarianism and colonialism. It also examines the cultural history of contemporary societies and the epistemology of present day history in terms of its relationship to the past through the specific medium of memory, witness and the role of historians amidst population centres.[2]