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Portrait d'Anne-Marie Thiesse, lauréate de la Médaille d'Argent 2020 du CNRS, chercheuse en études littéraires au sein de l'équipe Transferts culturels au laboratoire Pays germaniques de Paris, spécialisée en histoire culturelle de l'Europe contemporaine.

Portrait de Romain Menini, lauréat de la Médaille de bronze 2020 du CNRS, maître de conférences en Langue et littérature française à l'université Gustave Eiffel et chercheur au laboratoire Littératures, savoirs et arts, spécialiste de la littérature française de la Renaissance et de la philologie humaniste.

The French Institute of Pondicherry houses thousands of manuscripts related to the worship of the God Shiva, one of the most important theistic traditions of India. We take you to the heart of this fragile and unique collection, inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register, which continues to fascinate the experts.

Portrait de Émeline Marquis lauréate de la Médaille de Bronze 2018 du CNRS. Chercheuse en philologie grecque et spécialiste de la littérature grecque en prose des premiers siècles de notre ère au Laboratoire archéologie et philologie d'Orient et d'Occident (Délégation Paris-Centre).

Portrait de Karine Penalba lauréate de la Médaille de Cristal 2018 du CNRS. Elle est éditrice de deux revues électroniques, Nuevo Mundo, Mundos Nuevos et Brésil(s) et en charge de la communication au sein du laboratoire Mondes américains (Délégation Paris-Centre).

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…

Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet, professor of Ancient History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, is a specialist in the Ancient Greek world of the Archaic and Classical periods (8th B. C. - 4th B. C.). She takes a special interest in gender issues and analyses the discourses and practices of that time, which provide information on the meaning of gender differences as perceived by the Ancients. She studied more specifically the case of Artemisia of Halicarnassus, a warrior woman who…

Suzy Platiel, an ethnolinguist and an Africanist, explains what led her to work on the tale. She tries to understand the function of the tales in oral societies, especially in Sanan of Burkina Faso. She intervened, in the 1980s in schools in France, in order to distribute this educational tool. She explains that the mastery of oral and body language is essential in the development of the child, before requiring they may read or write. Jean-Christophe Gary, a French teacher, and others, who…

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…

The Words from Asia and the Pacific series is made up of interviews conducted by Jean-François Sabouret, Director of the Réseau Asie - Imasie (CNRS), with humanities researchers, experts on Asia and the Pacific. Jacques Gernet is a French sinologist who was born born on 22 December 1921 in Algiers, Algeria. He was influenced by his father, a Hellenist and anthropologist, who was influenced by the sociological tradition of Durkheim. Between November 1942 and September 1945, he had to…

"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. Gérard Fussman, who was born on May 17, 1940 in Lens (Pas-de-Calais), is a French Indianist. An admirer of Georges Dumézil's writings, he began learning Sanskrit in his first year at the ENS, even as he intended to join the French School at Athens. He graduated as an agrégé in Classics…

"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. André Lévy was born in 1925 in Tientsin(now Tianjin ), China. His interest in this country became apparent during his primary studies at the Tientsin Municipal School. After obtaining his baccalaureate in philosophy and letters during the troubled time of the German occupation of France…

Jean-Pierre Vernant deciphers the myth of the Gorgon ' s death and the use of the mirror, which reflect can destroy the Gorgon ' s power. It allows understanding how the Ancient Greeks conceived what was the glance of death.

Michel Burnier, a sociologist, interviews twenty scientists from various disciplines about the future of science and culture. This episode of the series Passages is dedicated to Maurice Nadeau, a publisher and editor of the magazine “La Quinzaine Littéraire”.

Portrait of Félix Fénéon, a publisher, journalist and art critic. He was from the end of the 19th century to his death in 1944 an “eminence grise” in Humanities and painting. He knew a very brief celebrity during an anarchist lawsuit, where he was accused of having throwing a bomb into a restaurant.

An interview with Maurice Nadeau, who describes his friend the poet Georges Limbour, recalling their meeting and literary collaboration in the 1960s.When he founded his literary journal, Les lettres modernes, Maurice Nadeau invited Georges Limbour to contribute articles on current exhibitions and on the arts in general. Georges Limbour was on the margins of the literary and artistic world of the time and had no interest whatsoever in the world of politics. Maurice Nadeau also remembers his…

Seven women and three men tell us why they started a secret diary in a specific moment of their life.

The research in textual genetics done in the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes permits the reconstruction, word after word, of the progression of the writer ' s creative thought. The genetic criticism is here applied to the first lines of a Herodias ' s autograph document, written by Flaubert in 1876-1877.

Presentation of the slide show done for the exposition « L ' Archéologie du livre médiéval » (« Medieval Book Archeology »).

The task of the Institute of Research and History of Texts is to study handwritten books.

At the invitation of poet Yves Bonnefoy, Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges gives a lecture on poetic creativity, at the Collège de France.

A narration of a Vietnamese folk legend. The scenes are illustrated with coloured drawings explaining the origin of betel.

Extracts from two folk tales from Aubrac, told in the Occitan language by Maria Girbal, illustrate various principles of the folk tale.

Lecture delivered by science-fiction author Philip K. Dick.

Interview of the American science fiction author, Philip K. Dick.

Recording of a folk tale told by Maria Girbal in the Occitan language.

Recording of a folk tale told by Maria Girbal in the Occitan language.

Recording of a folk tale told by Maria Girbal in the Occitan language.