The 'Soirées' of the Collegium de Lyon

Presentation of the joint projects supported by the lab Triangle (Université de Lyon) FFL: (Foucault Reading Notes, ANR funded project, 2017-2020) and EDIFOU (Foucault's manuscripts on phenomenology, 1950s at Bibliothèque nationale de France archive: a digital approach to the edition, Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded project, 2019-2021).

Between 1773 and 1840 lived a man called James Henry Lawrence. The son of Jamaican planters who owned hundreds of slaves, he was born and educated to be a member of the British gentry: writing poetry, traveling and living off the wealth inherited from his parents. He could have ended in the army, like his younger brother, or he could have been a rich merchant, or a politician, like another of his brothers. But Lawrence decided he would do something very different: at the age of 20, he would write a feminist utopia. Whether he wanted it or not, this utopia, called “The Empire of the Nairs”, would become the most radical feminist utopia of his time. We’ll follow Lawrence in his utopia, trying to understand what it took, not so much to be so radical, but to think out of the box while dealing with humans as they are.

Dishonesty takes a variety of forms (tax evasion, corruption, book cooking, etc.) and it has major implications for economic growth and trust in society. The standard "economics of crime" approach, according to which individuals misbehave as a result of the comparison of costs and benefits, has shown its limits to analyze decision making in the ethical domain.

Several political and cultural events (Edgar Reitz's Die andere Heimat, far right-wing speeches, the insertion of the word "Heimat" in the name of the German Ministry of the Interior, Nora Krug's best-selling Graphic Novel, Belonging, in 2018) have put the notion of Heimat back at the center of the debate on German identity, while revealing contradictory issues.

Numerous factors have been shown to contribute to dual language acquisition and development in bilingual children, including the quantity and quality of exposure to each language. While studies reported in the literature have uncovered certain tendencies, the nature of the contribution of language exposure remains unclear. Indeed, since family language practices are interwoven with families’ language biographies, bilingual children’s exposure and language experiences are prone to variation over time.

From 1942 to 1944, 76 rail convoys were chartered to deport 74.000 jews – including more than 11.400 children - from France to Nazi death camps. Jean-Luc Pinol proposes a new reading of this history through maps.

Presentation of the project IDEXLyon (2018-2021) bridging Université Lumière Lyon 2 and Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, which focuses on data science approaches to linguistic diversity and health behaviors.

Welcome evening party for the 2019 - 2020 Collegium de Lyon promotion