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To address climate change, the Sahelian countries have started a forest regeneration initiative called Great Green Wall. Senegalese and French researchers participate in this programme by surveying under a cross-disciplinary perspective the impacts on local environments and societies.

Ce film nous conduit sur les traces de Bakary Diallo, berger peul connu pour être un des premiers tirailleurs sénégalais à avoir relaté en français son expérience de la Première Guerre Mondiale dans son roman “Force-Bonté". De retour parmi les siens en 1928, il compose en peul, sa langue maternelle, de longs poèmes chantant la beauté et la luxuriance des paysages de son enfance. Aujourd'hui disparus, la redécouverte de ses poèmes permettrait de rendre sa place à Bakary Diallo dans l'histoire de…

Promised Memory, filmed in 2012 between the cities of Ouidah, a former slave-trading port, and Abomey, the former capital of the slave-state kingdom of Danhomé, attempts to chronicle the quest for two memories that search for each other, that intersect, that continually blend as one and separate: the memory of the transatlantic slave trade and that of cults known as voodoo. At the site of the of UNESCO Slave Route program, we observe efforts to reverse the stigmas of the past, which should…

Founded in 1983 in the wake of Roland Barthes, the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le langage (CRAL) at the CNRS-EHESS (CNRS school of higher studies in social sciences) is dedicated to the study of arts, language and aesthetics. The unit brings together literary scholars, art historians, musicologists, philosophers, linguists, sociologists of art and literature. Featuring interviews with several prominent members the centre over its long history, this documentary provides an original…

C'est dans la région du Shaanbei, dans la boucle du fleuve Jaune que se construisent les yaodong. Ces habitation en voûte, à l'origine troglodytes et désormais adossées à la montagne, sont construites sans plan d'architecte, selon un savoir-faire transmis oralement. Les étapes de la construction suivent le travail très précis des maîtres tailleurs de pierre, des maîtres menuisiers, des maîtres de Fengshuiet des manoeuvres, tous vivant dans des yaodong avec leur familles. Une rencontre avec ces…

The Italian filmmaker Mario RUSPOLI shot "Les inconnus de la terre", or the unknown of the earth, produced by Argos film, in Lozere in 1961, . This film about the farmers of this French department, and beyond, about the disinherited, about the isolated man, as Ruspoli himself has it, is a landmark in the history of documentary film. 50 years later, Jean-Christophe Monferran, director, Françoise-Eugénie Petit and Martin de la Soudière, as researchers who are familiar with these fields of…

A special evening to celebrate Edgar Morin's 60th career year at the CNRS was organized on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower. Various personalities from the world of research but also from politics came to pay tribute to the outstanding career of this global thinker. In a speech that was both funny and moving, Edgar Morin recalled when he joined the CNRS in 1951, at the age of 31. This gave the opportunity for the sociologist to outline the incredible freedom he enjoyed as a researcher in…

"Words from Asia and the Pacific" is a series of interviews conducted by Jean-François Sabouret, Director of the Asie-Imasie Network (CNRS), with humanities researchers and experts on Asia and the Pacific. Maurice Godelier is a French anthropologist who was born on February 28, 1934 in Cambrai in northern France. A philosopher by training, he very quickly became interested in economics. He entered the EPHE as works supervisor to Fernand Braudel, then became assistant professor to Claude…

5,000 years ago, large polished jade stone axes played an important social and religious role among populations that were geographically very distant from one another. To this day, some villages in Papua New Guinea still consider the polished jade stone axe a particularly valuable item. This can also be seen at various European archaeological sites, where as a result of encounters and trade, jade from the Monte Viso mountains in the Italian Alps could…

During the second half of the twentieth century, the dramatic decrease of rainfall over the whole of West Africa has been a real cause for alarm…AMMA, the scientific programme for Multidisciplinary Analysis of the African Monsoon, seeks to improve meteorological and climate forecasts on different time scales and in different places in west Africa. Its originality is that it also focuses on impacts linked to climatic fluctuations, and the repercussions on agriculture, health, and on the…

Glimpses of the lives of residents of the Rothschild Foundation retirement home in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. Sociologist Daniel Friedmann films his mother and other residents of this large retirement home while talking with them, and captures some special and not-so-special moments.

Sociologist Daniel Friedmann poses the fundamental question, "What does it mean to be a psychoanalyst?" to ten analysts, who respond by "deconstructing the stereotypical role of the analyst and exploring their vision and practice of their profession." Each of them describes in his or her own way their desire or decision to become an analyst, by describing some part of their careers, addressing the problems of the analyst's responsibility vis-a-vis the analysand, the training…

Eleven psychoanalysts respond to sociologist Daniel Friedmann's questions about Lacan. Several of them were in analysis with Lacan, and it was this that decided them to become psychoanalysts. They situate themselves with reference to Lacan and his heritage, recalling the importance of his re-reading of Freud, and emphasizing the role of language, the real, the imaginary, and the symbolic. They discuss the philosophical stance which he brought to psychoanalysis and his training of analysts…