Table ronde 1 Questionner le genre des migrations br Irene BARBIERA, Université de Padouebr (intervention en anglais) Iron and Blood: ideas of Völkerwanderung in the early 20th century : scholars tried to reconcile the particular emphasis on the migratory movements of soldiers based on written sources, with that of post-Roman archaeological data, which reveals the particular importance of female graves. This evidence was then framed into a male-centric nationalistic discourse, which reached its apex during the Second World War.