I am an assistant professor in contemporary history at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History. My research focuses on social media and what some AI systems do to the ways we are understanding our historical past. I am the managing editor of the Journal of Digital History and I co-edited the Goût de l’archive à l’ère numérique with Caroline Muller (Rennes 2). Caroline recently published Écrire l’histoire to which I contributed.
This page is a repository for some of my prez, for my non-academic and my academic writings. I will publish some unpublished texts on a sort of blog.
You’ll also find here a dataviz of my 18 years of zotero use (as of October 2026): the themes that caught my attention, year after year. Built with zotero-as-your-archive, a small tool that does the same for any Zotero library, on your own machine.
And, of course, have a look at ClioDeck, an AI-based writing environment for historians and a vibe-coding experiment.
prez
(date format: dd.mm.yyyy / in some cases, you can access the presenter’s text by pressing the ‘s’ key)
- 19.102026 du bricolage individuel à l’infrastructure collective - Invited presentation (in French) for the ReligiS project.
- 25.09.2026 des prompts comme sources aux sources comme contexte - Presentation (in French) at the Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism, Graduate Institute, Geneva.
- 18.06.2026 chatbots as sources - GLOW-Ready (Getting Government Archives GenAI-Ready) Workshop 1
- 28.05.2026 quels besoins numériques pour les historiens et les historiennes? - Journée d’étude de la section des archivistes régionaux, Metz.
- 26.05.2026 a critical approach to ai education - Talk at the first Blooming AI Erasmus+ cooperation partnership meeting.
- 29.04.2026 AI and Historical Practice: the Archipelago and the Method - Keynote, Journée de l’histoire contemporaine (Antwerp – Dag van de Nieuwste Geschiedenis – Journée de l’Histoire Contemporaine, organised by the Belgische Vereniging voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis – Association belge d’Histoire contemporaine BVNG-ABHC)
- 24.03.2026 Vers une histoire cyborg des relations internationales? – Intervention avec Caroline Muller dans le cadre du séminaire de Laurence Badel.
More on the archive page.
non-academic writings, podcasts, etc
(date format: dd.mm.yyyy)
- 18.08.2025 (English version) | « En choisissant l’IA pour sa politique mémorielle, le gouvernement automatise un travail intellectuel »
- 10.11.2023 « Commémorer les Guerres mondiales en 2023 » (AOC)
- 08.08.2023 - « Chatting with the Past ». Geschichte ist Gegenwart! Der History & Politics Podcast der Körber-Stiftung and the preparatory notes
- 16.07.2023 - « Humans ever more important in a world of AI », The Lisa Burke Show (RTL Luxembourg).
- 16.06.2023 « Les conversations sur les médias sociaux sont des expressions démocratiques qui ne sauraient être cachées à la recherche » (op-ed signed, but the text was not written by me).
- 05.04.2023 - I participated to a round-table in French at the Université de Montréal. I’ll put here the link to the recording as soon as possible.
- 09.02.2023 - I have organized an event on ChatGPT (French). The video’s is on the C2DH’s website.
- 01.02.2023 - I participated to the History Communication Institute’s ChatGPT, AI & history event (English). My prez is here). The round-table is available as a podcast and as a YouTube Video.
- 17.12.2022 « Préservons notre patrimoine numérique grâce au contre-archivage décentralisé et collaboratif »
- 12.05.2021 « Un autre numérique reste possible » (with Chloé-Agathe Azencott, Anne Baillot, Alix Deleporte, Julie Giovacchini, Anne Grand d’Esnon and Catherine Psilakis)
videos
Talks, seminars and round-tables I participated in: all videos
recent writings
- CLAVERT, F. (09 May 2026). Glory and Pitfalls of Digital Bricolage: How constant Technological Changes Drives Constant Changes of Humanities Methods. Quinto Sol: Revista de Historia Regional, 30 (2). doi:10.19137/qs.v30i2.9728 DOI
- SCHAFER, V., CLAVERT, F., & Muller, C. (March 2026). Les sources nativement numériques. Enjeux de documentation et de redocumentarisation. Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 80 (4), 791-814. doi:10.1017/ahss.2025.10139 DOI
- CLAVERT, F., & MULLER, C. (2026). Pour une histoire cyborg. Journal of Belgian History, 2026 (1), 118-122. ORBilu
- SCHAFER, V., CLAVERT, F., Aasman, S., de Wild, K., & Sirajzade, J. (2025). The challenges of searching for women in the COVID-19 web archive collections: Promises, achievements, and pitfalls. In N. Brügger, S. Aasman, ... A. Ben David, The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies (pp. 177-191). Taylor & Francis. doi:10.4324/9781003398998-13 DOI
- CLAVERT, F. (2025). Mémoire, histoire et IA: l’Union européenne dans les imaginaires homme-machine. Journal of European Integration History, 31 (2), 341-358. doi:10.5771/0947-9511-2025-2-341 DOI