Entretiens PEA - Portraits of researchers in Areal Studies

The PEA collection

These long-form interviews with experienced researchers offer an immersion into a field of research through the stories they tell of their careers and their fields.

The main objectives of this program are to:

• Contribute to the discovery of the great diversity of the world's languages, societies and cultures, and to its enlightened, respectful and responsible appreciation;
• Value the academic career and work of researchers specializing in the studies of a given cultural area ;
• To publicize the specificity of Inalco's vision for apprehending a cultural area - a vision that considers in-depth knowledge of local languages to be a sine qua non condition for theoretical research and practical expertise in the lato sensu textual productions and heritages (oral and written, verbal and non-verbal) of the world's civilizations ;
• Constitute a living, freely accessible scientific heritage of research on world languages, societies and cultures;
• Participate in Inalco's initiatives in favor of open science, for research and teaching of world languages and civilizations.

This audiovisual collection joins the multimodal data set offered by the LaCAS platform. It feeds into a new type of publication, the focus, which, based on interviews with a researcher, highlights research carried out in the field of areal studies.

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A new portrait presented every month in the News section of our site, available in two versions:

Videos already available

• Meeting Marie-Christine Bornes-Varol, specialist in the Judeo-Spanish area (CERMOM, Inalco)
• Meeting Matteo de Chiara, specialist in Pashto language and Iranian philology (CeRMI)
• Meeting Gilles Guiheux, specialist in the socio-history of China and Taiwan (CESSMA)
• Meet Jean-François Huchet, specialist in the economy of China and comparative economic systems in Asia, president of Inalco
• Meeting Yitskhok Niborski, specialist in Yiddish language, literature and civilization, president of the Maison de la culture yiddish
• Meeting San San Hnin Tun, specialist in Burmese linguistics
• Meeting Mark Van de Velde, specialist in Bantu languages (LLACAN)
• Meeting Anne Bayard-Sakai, specialist in modern and contemporary Japanese literature (IFRAE)
• Meeting Sophie Vassilaki, specialist in modern Greek linguistics (SeDYL)
• Meeting Michel Vieillard-Baron, specialist in poetry (waka) and poetics of classical Japan (IFRAE)
• Meet Michel Bozdémir, specialist in Turkish language, literature and history (CERMOM)
• Meeting Thomas Pellard, specialist in the languages of Japan (CNRS-CRLAO)
• Meet Laurent Sagart, specialist in archaic Chinese and Chinese dialectology (CRLAO)
• Meeting Jean-Jacques Thibon, specialist in Islamology (CERMOM)
• Meeting Dominique Samson Normand de Chambourg, specialist in Siberian studies (CREE)
• Meeting Mourad Yelles, specialist in Maghreb literature (LACNAD)
• Meeting Alessandro Guetta, specialist in Jewish intellectual history and literature in the modern era (CERMOM)
• Meeting Philippe Erikson, specialist in Amazonian Amerindian societies (Université Paris Nanterre)
• Meeting Bernard Hourcade, geographer and Iran specialist (CeRMI)
• Meeting Isabelle Bril, specialist in Austronesian languages (LACITO)
• Meeting Capucine Boidin Caravias, specialist in Tupi-Guarani languages (IHEAL-CREDA, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
• A la rencontre d'Emmanuel Poisson, historien de la bureaucratie-imperiale au Vietnam et des savoirs lettrés (IFRAE, UPC)
• Meeting Danielle Elisseeff, sinologue (Ecole du Louvre, CECMC-EHESS)
• Meeting Irène Bellier, anthropologist specializing in indigenous peoples
• Meeting Géraud Magrin, geographer specializing in Africa (Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne)
• Meeting Marie Roué, specialist in arctic and subarctic peoples (CNRS)
• Meeting Françoise Robin, specialist in Tibetan language, literature and cinema (IFRAE)