In keeping with its role of promoting French Institutes for Advanced Study, the RFIEA is publishing its first newsletter, in both French and English. This quarterly publication will inform readers of the major events and scientific activities at the Institutes and offer the insights of resident fellows and of prominent scholars on current issues in research.
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Have a pleasant read!

by Jacques Commaille, President of the RFIEA

The supposed universality of culture and of the humanities and social sciences has long been based on a misconception: it has generally masked a Euro-centric or “Western-centric” viewpoint that anthropology has perhaps been the only discipline to call into question. We seem now to be entering an historical period marked by a paradox: an ever-greater desire for internationalisation − that is no longer a half-truth but rather is engendered by a genuine universality −, and the disappearance of major cross-disciplinary paradigms, the renunciation of the meta-theories that were supposed to help us understand the meaning of the world. More

Inauguration of the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study 23 - 27 February 2009 Located on the banks of the Loire in a contemporary building, the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study celebrated its inauguration with a series of events from 23 to 27 February 2009. More

"Memory and history: competitors in collusion" by Étienne François, Emeritus Professor of History at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University and at the Free University of Berlin, resident fellow at Nantes IAS. More

A year at the Collegium de Lyon The Collegium de Lyon, whose ambition is to link science to knowledge dissemination and public policy, welcomed its first resident fellows in September 2008. More

Since June 2008, the Institute for Advanced Study - Paris has been developing a research programme entitled "Paris Métropoles en miroir : L’Île-de-France comme région métropolitaine" ("Paris: reflecting metropolises, Île-de-France as a metropolitan area"). Cristiana Mazzoni, coordinator of the programme, reports on the workshop held in March 2009. More

Yvan Rose, linguist, specialist in children's acquisition of phonology and Associate Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada). Yvan Rose has been in residence at the Collegium de Lyon from September 2008 to July 2009. More

Based on the call for applications published in February, the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Research (IMéRA) in Marseille, which questions the human condition of sciences, will welcome its first resident fellows in the autumn of 2009. More How to apply to a French Institute for Advanced Study.

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