Humans at their limits
Science fiction and fantasy allow us to think about humans from their margins. Through a gallery of twelve characters, T.
Medicine and race under the French Empire
Drawing on the works of naturalists and doctors, as well as reports from colonial missions, historian Delphine Peiretti-Courtis studies the
The actor's coronation
At XVIIIea century of revolutions, the spectator is born with the advent of the actor, consecrated by several features of
Kill in democracy
Targeted assassination increasingly seems to be establishing itself as a new way of waging war. Based on a comparison between
Connecting history and literature
The “fixers” are interpreters, mediators who allow linguistic contact between foreigners and locals. In the Middle Ages, they were used
The Church faces its sexual predators
The Sauv report counts 3,000 priests and religious pedocriminals, the majority of the actions having taken place before the 1970s.
The arbitrariness of chances
Merit is a dubious concept: our talents are most often undeserved and very largely dependent on social and family contexts.
Migration through the prism of inequality
While international migrations are often seen as security, economic or cultural problems, Mirna Safi invites us to think about the
Legal geography
Eyal Weizman advocates for forensic architecture, which reveals to the public the extent of the destruction caused by conflict in
Down with authority!
An unprecedented series of lectures sets out pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty's views on religion, truth and ethics, centering on the