COLLEGIUM - INSTITUT D'ÉTUDES AVANCÉES DE LYON

We are delighted to introduce the researchers who will be joining the Collegium de Lyon in September for the 2025–26 academic year. Other researchers will be joining us in the winter.

In this edition of the Symposium Cumanum, we hope first to shine some retrospective light on the rich vein of scholarship that enhanced our understanding of these parallels. We seek to uncover further links between Vergil and texts written in Greek, including the position that the poet’s early relationship with Philodemus is fundamental to his work.

This conference will examine South Vietnam between 1945 and 1975 as a political laboratory, characterised by experiments, rivalries, alliances and competitions in the pursuit of power and the realisation of autonomist or independence projects. A historically dynamic region in economic, ethnic and cultural terms, South Vietnam is home to diverse populations and heritages, including the Cam,

Following on from the ANR AgroCCol project and the 'Cultivation in Antiquity' study day organised at the École française de Rome on 9 January 2024, the study of Columella's work, the agronomic tradition and, more broadly, the Roman didactic tradition (encyclopaedic, veterinary, medical, etc.) will be continued. The approach will focus on the gender norms advocated in these treatises, offering a new perspective on these texts.