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M. Marcus Rediker, professeur à l' Université de Pittsburgh, donnera une conférence sur "The Real Pirates of the Caribbean"dans la salle de conférences du nouveau siège de l'École nationale des chartes, 65 rue de Richelieu, 75002 Paris, le matin du jeudi 16 octobre prochain à 10h.Résumé:This lecture explores the "Golden Age" of Atlantic piracy and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. Pirates were a "motley crew" who created their own distinctive egalitarian society, electing their officers, dividing their booty equally, and maintaining a multinational social order. They included cross-dressing women, people of color, and the "outcasts of all nations." Pirates challenged and subverted prevailing conventions of race, class, gender, and nation, posing a radical democratic challenge to the society they left behind. The authorities hanged them for it, but the pirates triumphed in the end, winning the battle for the popular imagination in their own day and in ours.M. Rediker est diplômé de la Virginia Commonwealth University et de l'université de Pennsylvanie. Son dernier essai paru en France en 2013, A bord du négrier. Une histoire atlantique de la traite, a été salué par la critique.