The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers from diverse scholarly and disciplinary backgrounds, working in different geographical and cultural contexts, to address the following question: how do individuals experience political events? Comité scientifique : Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi (UNIL) Youssef El Chazli (UNIL) Ivan Ermakoff (UW-Madison) Olivier Fillieule (UNIL) James Jasper (GC-CUNY) Hervé Rayner (UNIL)