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Humanities and Social Sciences
Why Do We Understand the World?
Wed, 26/08/2026
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Bernard Lahire is a sociologist, a CNRS research director, a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France, and a member of the Max Weber Center as part of the “Dispositions, Powers, Cultures, Socializations” research team. He has published the book Pourquoi comprenons-nous le monde? (Why Do We Understand the World?) with La Découverte.

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Electrical Wonders: Literature, Visual Culture, and Popular Science (1740–1940)
Fri, 24/07/2026
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Claire Barel-Moisan, a CNRS research fellow and member of IHRIM, and Delphine Gleizes, a professor of 19th-century French literature at the University of Grenoble-Alpes, have published Merveilles électriques: Literature, Visual Culture, and Popularization (1740–1940) with Savoirs en textes.

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The Mystery of Blue Porcelain
Fri, 24/07/2026
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Sébastien Pautet is a research fellow at the French Institute of Education at ENS de Lyon and an associate researcher at Université Paris Cité. He has published Le Mystère de la porcelaine bleue with Payot.

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Lire la romance – Femmes, patriarcat et littérature populaire
Fri, 13/02/2026
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Co-published by ENS Éditions and the Ministry of Culture (DEPS), the book Lire la romance offers a new translation of the 1991 edition of Reading the Romance, published under the title Lire la romance in the early 1980s, in an academic context marked by the emergence of women's studies and feminist studies in the United States.

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Abolishing Patriarchy: The Feminist Utopia of James Henry Lawrence (1773–1840).
Thu, 05/06/2025
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Anne Verjus is a research director at the CNRS, Section 40 (Politics, Power, Organization), and director of the Triangle laboratory. She is publishing Abolir le patriarcat : l’utopie féministe de James Henry Lawrence (1773-1840).

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Intentional Invisibilization in Modern Asian History: Concealing and Self-Concealed Agents
Tue, 08/04/2025
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Mònica Ginés-Blasi, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut d'Asie Orientale (IAO), in ENS de Lyon, publishes Intentional Invisibilization in Modern Asian History, published by De Gruyter Brill.

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2021 JoRISS call for Sino-French research projects
Mon, 20/09/2021
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The 2021 JoRISS call for Sino-French research projects is open as of September 15, 2021.

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2020 JoRISS call for Sino-French research projects
Tue, 01/09/2020
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The 2020 JoRISS call for Sino-French research projects is open as of September 1, 2020.

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2019 JoRISS call for Sino-French research projects
Sat, 01/06/2019
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The 2019 JoRISS call for Sino-French research projects is open as of June 1st 2019.

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Stéphane Corcuff awarded the 2018 Franco-Taiwanese Scientific Grand Prize
Tue, 11/09/2018
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Pinar Selek, Turkish sociologist and writer
Fri, 04/10/2013
Portrait

Doctor Honoris Causa of ENS de Lyon - October 4, 2013

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Boualem Sansal, Algerian writer
Fri, 04/10/2013
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Doctor Honoris causa of ENS de Lyon, October 4, 2013

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International Symposium: Maps in American Literature
International Conference / Symposium
from Wed, 01/04/2026 to Sat, 04/04/2026
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PostCol - transformations et traversées : une étude transversale du monde postcolonial
PostCol—Transformations and Crossings: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Postc
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Logic, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

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Student Engagement and Learning: Strategies and Challenges
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Mon, 22/09/2025
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Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon (BDL) is home to some 1.2 million documents and electronic resources that can be consulted by students, teachers and researchers from Lyon and its region.

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Scientific breakthrough program 2019: information meeting
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Thu, 10/01/2019

Information meeting for researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences about the Scientific breakthrough program 2019 call for projects.

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Symposium “Printers and booksellers in networks, 1500 - 1650” May 14-16
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Application for the ENS de Lyon 4-year Degree through competitive exam (from Bachelor 3rd year)
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AINIGMA - L’Avenir à Interpréter, ImaGiner et Méditer dans l’Antiquité - AINIGMA
AINIGMA - The Future to Be Interpreted, Imagined, and Contemplated in Antiq
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