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Pauline Arrighi

Studies, a new Olympic discipline

There was the first medalist for the refugee team, Cameroonian boxer Cindy Ngamba; the selfie of the South and North Korean table tennis players, united on the podium; and the Australian Rachel Gunn, who distinguished herself with a break dance performance that earned her no points but rather a flood of jeers. It is very likely that she consciously provoked this fiasco to put herself forward in the many media outlets that reported on it.

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Nathalie Heinich

To end the nonsense about academic freedom

There is a lot of talk these days about "academic freedom", but it is mostly to say stupid things, which a little common sense and knowledge of the issue should be enough to dispel.

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Is McCarthyism the most widely shared thing in the world?

[By André Perrin, January 28, 2022 – We are reproducing, with the agreement of Catherine Kintzler, the content of the article originally published on the Mezetulle blog site] On the denigration of the conference “After Deconstruction”. The victim reversal The

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

Letter to the Sorbonne Censors

[by Xavier-Laurent Salvador] We are reprinting here an article previously published in the columns of Marianne on January 25. On January 7 and 8, the conference organized by the Observatory of Decolonialism jointly with the Collège de Philosophie and entitled "Que

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Matilda, a shaky educational resource

by Roland Piochet Here is another fascinating site. Logoted Éducation Nationale, obviously: we will come back to it. This site presents itself as an educational documentation site. Childish presentation, font "white chalk on blackboard style" and division into

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Our open letter to the Sorbonne

by the collective, unanimous Following the injunction addressed to us to withdraw article 1269 by the Provisional Administrator of the Sorbonne, here is the letter that we would like to send to him. Mr. Provisional Administrator, We learn from the letter that you

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The French language at the Sorbonne or the aesthetics of ruins

Fictitious interview The question of the positioning of the Sorbonne in the globalized context of higher education is essential. Today, the major training circuits "do not go abroad" and the Sorbonne, in order not to be outdated, must obviously align itself with its

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