The FAn team welcomes two new PhD candidates

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The GPR PSL FAn is pleased to announce the recruitment of two PhD candidates as part of its 2025 call for applications. Following the selection committee held on June 17, 2025, the applications of Sophie Fabre-Hoffmeister and Emilie Poiré were successful.


Sophie FABRE-HOFFMEISTER

Graduated of the École Pratique des Hautes Études with a master's degree in Art History and Archaeology, specialising in Archaeology, Sophie Fabre-Hoffmeister built her career, after completing a preparatory class in literature, on the basis of training in history, art history and museology before devoting herself fully to archaeology. During her master's degree at the EPHE, she worked under the supervision of François Queyrel on ‘The cults of Artemis and Iphigenia in the sanctuary of Brauron in the classical period’, using an approach that emphasised the material and archaeological perspective. As an extension of these reflections, she is currently preparing a doctoral thesis, in conjunction with the PSL Grand Research Project – ‘Les Fabriques de l'Antique’, under the supervision of François Quantin, on ‘Spaces and monuments of heroic cults in the Greek world: the materiality of community memory from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period’. This project aims to re-examine these heroic monuments as archaeological objects in their own right, at the crossroads of the funerary, cultic and civic spheres of Greek communities, in order to highlight their role in inscribing community memory in the religious space and landscape of the Greeks. Sophie Fabre-Hoffmeister also practises field archaeology through her participation, over several years, in excavations at Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges (France) and Apollonia in Illyria (Albania).


Émilie POIRÉ
 
After completing her preparatory classes, Émilie Poiré obtained her undergraduate degree from the École du Louvre before enrolling in the Master's programme in Art History and Archaeology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. There, she wrote a research thesis on the ‘modern’ copies of Pseudo-Oppian's Cynégétiques (Paris, BnF Grec 2736; Paris, BnF Grec 2737) produced in Italy and France in relation to their Middle Byzantine model (Venice, Marcianus graecus Z479). Émilie Poiré is a doctoral student under contract with the PSL Grand Programme de Recherche ‘Les fabriques de l'antique’ (The Making of Antiquity). Under the supervision of Ms Ioanna Rapti, she is currently preparing a doctoral thesis at the EPHE entitled "Between Antiquity, Byzantium and the Renaissance: reconsidering the posterity of the illustrated Byzantine manuscript in the 15th and 16th centuries in the West," which aims to analyse the restitution of antiquity in the Renaissance through the reception of the Byzantine image copied and reinterpreted in Greek manuscripts produced in the 15th and 16th centuries for Western patrons by copyists based mainly in Italy and France.

Alongside her research, Émilie Poiré is responsible for practical work in the subject area “History of Art and Archaeology of Byzantium and Eastern Christianity” on the undergraduate course at the École du Louvre.

Publications:

POIRÉ, É., « Entre Antiquité, Byzance et la Renaissance : la copie du cycle illustré des Cynégétiques d’Oppien », dans Actes de la journée d’étude Histara La copie II : technique, usages, valeurs, Paris, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, 20 novembre 2024, Rome, Paris, à paraître.

POIRÉ, É., « D’Antioche à Fontainebleau : les divinités chasseresses des Cynégétiques d’Oppien », Actes du séminaire « Usages et exploitations des mémoires de l’Antiquité », Caen, Université de Caen – Normandie, 7 février 2025, à paraître.

Recent communication:

AEMB – XVIe Rencontres internationales des jeunes byzantinistes (thème : Byzance intime. Regards sur soi et sur l’autre) – (3 – 4 octobre 2025) : « Dans l’intimité des manuscrits de chasse : la copie du cycle illustré des Cynégétiques d’Oppien ».