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Professeur de Sciences économiques et sociales et formateur en IUFM, Philippe Watrelot, président du CRAP-Cahiers Pédagogiques, témoigne de l'impréparation et de la lourde charge de travail des nouveaux enseignants lancés dans le grand bain de la rentrée scolaire 2010 sans formation (...)

Au moment où le Parlement commence l'examen de la réforme des retraites, il est instructif de se pencher sur l'évolution du chômage en fonction de l'âge des personnes concernées. Les moins de 25 an ...

Pour la première fois, une évaluation économétrique met en évidence la discrimination salariale subie par les homosexuels sur le marché du travail français.

Culte du diplôme, carte scolaire, enseignement professionnel, formation continue..., François Dubet et Marie Duru-Bellat livrent leurs réflexions sur l'école et des pistes pour parvenir à plus d'égalité.

Dans le cadre de la réforme des retraites, discutée ce mois-ci au Parlement, la prise en compte de la pénibilité des tâches constitue l'un des sujets les plus controversés. Non sur le principe: l'accord est large pour considérer que les salariés ayant subi des conditions de travail pénibles doivent (...)

Chômage aux Etats-Unis, ralentissement en Chine, austérité en Europe et hausse des prix des matières premières..., la reprise est mal partie.

Le prix du blé a considérablement grimpé pendant l'été - de plus de 50 % depuis juin - pour atteindre son niveau le plus élevé depuis ...

La France émet 410 millions de tonnes de CO2 par an (chiffre 2005), auxquelles il convient d'ajouter 120 Mt d'équivalent CO2 dues au méthane et à l'oxyde d'azo ...

Suite aux violences survenues à Saint-Aignan dans le Loir-et-Cher, en juillet dernier, le gouvernement s'est fixé comme objectif d'évacuer 300nbsp ...

Plusieurs mesures en faveur du logement devraient faire les frais de la rigueur budgétaire. L'annonce la plus spectaculaire concerne la suppression d'une mesure emblématique du paquet ...

For Sam Harris, a science of morality is simply an account of the behaviors, rules, cultural artifacts, and emotions that constitute the moral life... more H.L. Mencken: ready to bust up the joint with his combative, beautifully sprung, ingeniously funny style, as irresistible as a laughing (...)

China's advantage as a low-wage producer will in time disappear. Will jobs then leave for Bangladesh and Vietnam?... more Too bad that the human race is so prone to make mistakes. But our capacity to err comes with our imagination, and with it our power to grow... more The death of the book (...)

The printing press was not at first used to make books. Rather, almanacs, calendars, municipal orders, indulgence certificates... more In America, what passes for freedom, or so Jonathan Franzen implies, is a refusal to accept limits, to shoulder the burdens of an inheritance... more In the (...)

Benjamin Lee Whorf exaggerated. But still, our mother tongue can give us habits of thought that shape our experience in surprising ways... more Reading old science fiction offers a distinct pleasure, says Wendy Lesser: to compare playfully visionary forecasts with what actually took place... (...)

Emerging from deep prehistory, humans muscled their way up the food chain, with everything on the menu - including ourselves... more In the 17th century, handfuls of men using small boats, scaling ladders, and sheer nerve made piracy a profitable line of work. Not unlike the 21st century... (...)

Emerging from deep prehistory, humans muscled their way up the food chain, with everything on the menu - including ourselves... more In the 17th century, handfuls of men using small boats, scaling ladders, and sheer nerve made piracy a profitable line of work. Not unlike the 21st century... (...)

Emerson knew that "under every deep, another deep opens." He might have been talking about mowing the lawn. Jerry DeNuccio explains... more The horrible U.S. air raids on Japan were so successful that at the end of WWII it was hard to find suitable targets for the A-bombs... more As regards (...)

Whatever happened to quicksand in the movies? It was once the perfect deadly pit to consume Hollywood's expendable characters... more The breathless admiration bestowed on China and India is not all justified. That breakneck pace of growth will not last... more Susan Jacoby finds herself in a (...)

Psychology varies across cultures and chemistry doesn't. Chemistry experiments thus do not need cross-cultural verification. But psychology... more Drive-thru punditry, the intellectual's fast food. Those tasty sound bites may appeal at first, but in the end they are devoid of genuine (...)

The tug-of-war between U.S. domestic and foreign obligations, between guns and butter, is intense. Americans cannot afford just everything... more My Dog Tulip, perhaps the most repellent dog book ever written, has now become the weirdest dog movie ever made. Alex Beam describes the action... (...)

Feminist icon, anti-Catholic fabrication – or just a woman battling in a man's world? The German film "Die Päpstin" has already been written off by the Italian Bishops' Conference as a hoax. Sally Feldman explores reasons for the power and tenacity of the myth of Pope (...)

"New Humanist" sees no humanitarian solutions to political crises; "Fronesis" asks who the People are; "Osteuropa" examines the gaffe-prone politics of European identity; "Dilema veche" says leaving Romania is the most effective form of protest; "L'Homme" revisits 19th-century arguments for the (...)

According to the conventional view, the far-Right in Europe is antithetical to the values of liberal democracy. New research showing that far-Right ideology is a radicalization of mainstream values has a major impact on how rightwing populism is understood, writes Cas (...)

Humanitarian activists' refusal of politics, combined with their willingness to identify with politics, elicits doubt and even scorn from human-rights critics. Susie Linfield evaluates the controversial debate on the future of (...)

When I was 22 I wanted to find a different way of writing about being a man, says Norwegian novelist Geir Gulliksen. It should be possible to be as gentle as a boy or as reckless as a girl. But gender stereotypes have not changed as radically as we (...)

The memory of socialism in Georgia is a contradictory one. Some romanticize it as a golden age of stability, others construe it as foreign rule. The textbook has become the link between politics, pedagogy and history. How the past is construed is in (...)

The attraction of opera -- the sanctuary of bourgeois culture -- to critical artists has to do with its formal strictures, argues Diedrich Diederichsen. Opera's high degree of "definition" provides a counterpoint to the variety of non-European-white-heteromasculine (...)

It is not the Internet that is responsible for the "crisis of the press", but subordination of journalism to the market, writes the political editor of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung". For the first time since 1945, German journalism risks becoming trivialized. [Polish version (...)

9/11 organizer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed exploited his trial to remind the court of its human rights obligations, while Osama bin Laden's statements include appeals to religious pluralism. Al-Qaeda's use of liberal categories is central to its rhetoric, writes Faisal Devji. [German version (...)

As the ideological frenzy of modernism gives way to "content management systems", and as global megacities render obsolete the urban grid and its certainties, societies of discipline become societies of control. Daniel Miller cracks open the password protected "post-city". [Polish version (...)

[ Contacts ]- Responsable scientifiqueMaurice Aymard- Gestion du programmeGilles Desfeux

Eligible countries Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia

Anciens programmes- F. Braudel / Ville de Paris (2003-2007)- Mellon (1993-2009)

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Created in 1993 with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation represented by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) in Washington, the Mellon program enables East-Central European scholars in the humanities and (...)

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[ Actualités ]ActivitésLes 15 ans du programme Mellon / FMSHLettre d information de la FMSHOctobre 2008-janvier 2009

[ Contacts ]- Responsable scientifiqueHinnerk Bruhns- Gestion du programmeGilles Desfeux

[ Pays concernés ] Bulgarie, Estonie, Hongrie, Lettonie, Lituanie, Pologne, Roumanie, Slovaquie, Tchéquie

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation East-Central European Research Fellows Program Le programme s est terminé avec la sélection 2009 et les séjours des derniers boursiers ont lieu en 2009/2010 !

Résumé : Peut-on résoudre une dispute ontologique de façon satisfaisante en se fondant sur des raisons pratiques ? C'est la question que je me propose d'examiner dans ce texte, en l'appliquant au problème du statut ontologique des propriétés esthétiques. La question de savoir si ces propriétés sont (...)

Résumé : Les interactions sociales mettent en jeu une forme de possible qui exige, quand on part de l'actuel, de pouvoir y revenir : le « virtuel ». Les liens sociaux fondamentaux — l'échange, par exemple — mettent en jeu des virtualités qui doivent pouvoir se substituer l'une à l'autre, formant ainsi (...)

Résumé : De nombreux tenants du physicalisme non-réductif défendent l'idée qu'adopter la théorie interventionniste de la causalité développée par James Woodward permet de résoudre le problème de l'exclusion causale. Je m'intéresse ici à l'argument proposé par Panu Raatikainen, selon lequel les propriétés (...)

Résumé : Doit-on exclure certaines pensées de la délibération morale ? Pour répondre à cette question de psychologie morale, je propose, à la suite d'un exemple de Bernard Williams, de définir les mauvaises pensées comme des représentations mentales imaginées. On peut qualifier ces pensées de mauvaises (...)

Résumé : Penser ensemble la simplicité divine et une forme robuste de réalisme ontologique peut paraître impossible. Jeffrey Brower, grâce à la théorie des vérifacteurs propose de ne pas abandonner la simplicité au profit du réalisme. L'article vise à montrer que la théorie des vérifacteurs est (...)

Résumé : J'examine la thèse pacifiste selon laquelle la permission militaire de tuer ne peut être justifiée par la légitime défense. Deux théories tranchées de la légitime défense, la théorie causale et la théorie morale forte, conduisent, lorsqu'on les applique à la question des homicides militaires, à des (...)

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Twelve actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated in August 2008 and only one improved. War broke out between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia with enormous geopolitical implications. Deadly clashes escalated across Somalia as the August (...)

Despite its political woes, Thailand’s embattled government needs to give more attention to tackling the bloody insurgency in the Muslim-dominated Deep South. Facing serious challenges in Bangkok, Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has left southern policy in the hands of the military. The (...)

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The Russia-Georgia conflict has transformed the contemporary geopolitical world. The urgent need is to implement fully the 15-16 August ceasefire, and most significantly, to ensure that Russian troops return immediately to pre-7 August positions. Current rhetoric in Moscow and Western capitals (...)

Burundi’s political crisis is not solved and may yet jeopardise the country’s future stability. The current political impasse stems from the crisis within the ruling CNDD-FDD leadership and President Pierre Nkurunziza’s refusal to conclude a power-sharing agreement with the leaders of opposition (...)

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