Sorbonne!
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Marc Chevrier

Universities under control

The collective work Critique de la raison universitaire, edited by Arnaud Bernadet, explores how certain identity-based, managerial, and activist ideologies undermine the foundations of science, reason, and academic freedom within Western universities, particularly in Canada and France. Through contributions from various academics, the book denounces the erosion of intellectual pluralism caused by censorship, EDI policies, the indigenization of knowledge, and the transformation of law into an instrument of activism, calling for a rigorous defense of academic autonomy as a requirement of truth.

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Marc Chevrier 24 April 2025
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Observers Collective

When intimidation replaces debate: support for Fabrice Balanche

Fabrice Balanche, a researcher at Lyon 2 University, was prevented from giving a lecture by masked activists claiming to be pro-Palestinian. The University Ethics Observatory responded to this climate of intimidation in a statement demanding sanctions and strong commitment from university and government authorities.

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Observers Collective 10 April 2025
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Florence Bergeaud-Blackler

Deciphering censorship disguised as scientific rigor – a look back at the cancellation of Florence Bergeaud-Blackler's conference in Lille

Bergeaud-Blackler responds to the arguments put forward by Karim Souanef and Julien Talpin (Mediapart), who claim that the cancellation of his lecture at the University of Lille was based on scientific and ethical reasons, not political ones. They present the case from a political angle while claiming the opposite, omitting certain elements and biasing their analysis.

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Florence Bergeaud-Blackler March 18, 2025
The editorials
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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Pauline Arrighi August 19, 2024
The editorials
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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Nathalie Heinich August 1, 2024
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Collective

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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Collective 31th January 2022
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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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Xavier-Laurent Salvador 31th January 2022
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Collective

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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Collective 12th November 2021
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Collective

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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Collective 12th November 2021

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