Institut d'histoire du temps présent
Condorcet campus, research building South where the IHTP is centred | |
| Abbreviation | IHTP |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1978 |
| Type | Research unit within French National Centre for Scientific Research |
| Purpose | to research Contemporary history, authoritarianism, totalitarianism and colonialism and to teach |
| Headquarters | UMR 8244 CNRS/PARIS 8, Campus Condorcet 14, cours des Humanités, 93322 Aubervilliers cedex Greater Paris |
Region served | France and international fora |
| Membership | research academics |
Director | Christian Delage |
Main organ | CNRS and University of Paris 8 |
Parent organization | French National Centre for Scientific Research |
| Website | http://www.ihtp.cnrs.fr |
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. 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.