Itinéraire(s) 11 - November 2021 - Contents

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Already 10 years!!

Inalco is 225 years old, Bulac 18. Both are celebrating their first decade in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, in a building built for these two establishments open, like the neighborhood, to the world and all its cultures. 

Inalco has also just inaugurated its fully restored research premises after more than a year's work. (You can take a virtual tour of all our premises here.)

Finally, on October 1, Inalco officially created its own Inalco Foundation, the Fondation des langues et civilisations orientales. 

In connection with a concomitant symposium (27-28/10) and exhibition (26/10 to 24/12 2021), you'll find in this eleventh issue of Itinéraire(s) a dossier on some of the world writings and typographies taught at Inalco and subjects of research in many possible fields: linguistics, history, ethnography, anthropology, etc. 

It would take several folders to cover all the writings gathered in our teaching and research establishment. 

This time, we present contributions on Amharic, Tifinagh (Berber), Mayan, Aztec, Quechua (oral numeration), syllabic Inuktitut, "Mongolian Biching", Tibetan with the evolution of printing characters, and a "forest of brushes" with examples of Chinese calligraphy.

Our outstanding researchers, PhD students and collaborators present this ensemble in 9 richly illustrated texts. 

We hope you enjoy reading this Itinéraire(s) n°11.

Dossier writing systems


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News from Inalco and research at Inalco

10th anniversary of the Pôle des langues et civilisations - Study days "Japanese scripts: designing typographic typefaces" and exhibition at Les Grands Moulins
Read article
View the presentation video

International colloquium "Writing and geopolitics in the contemporary Arab and Mediterranean world"

Frosa Pejovska-Bouchereau, winner of the "Blaže Koneski"
gold medal. 
2nd International Symposium "Family language policy: orality and transmission"

The "ArmenYouth Rest&Rev" project, led by Sophie Hohmann, winner of the Emergences-Idex 2020 call
Portrait of Sophie Hohmann

Edouard L'Herisson, winner of the Shibusawa Claudel Prize 2021

The ANR project, led by Stéphane Arguillère, crowned with success

Prize in numbers for Inalco researchers

International relations

At the start of this academic year, and after an interruption in incoming and outgoing mobilities due to the covid-19 pandemic, Inalco's international activities have resumed. This academic year, if the health situation does not deteriorate, nearly 230 outgoing mobilities are planned, including around 40 under the Erasmus + program. Unfortunately, the closure of certain countries to which our students are accustomed to travelling in fairly large numbers (China, Taiwan, Japan) has forced students and researchers to further postpone their mobilities, which we hope to be able to take place in semester 2 of 2021-2022.

This year, more than 150 incoming mobilities are also planned, and the number of incoming international students under the Erasmus+ program is approaching the normal level of pre-pandemic years (around 70 students).

International research projects have also actively resumed, and international conferences at Inalco are once again able to welcome face-to-face researchers and students from countries outside Europe.

From an institutional point of view, there are four key events to note at the start of this academic year:

  • On September 24, 2021 in Bucharest, Inalco's President, Prof. Jean-François Huchet, was elected to the Board of Directors of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) for the Western Europe region.
  • As part of its AIMES program (Accueil et Intégration des Migrants dans l'Enseignement Supérieur), the Agence Universitaire de Francophonie, operating on behalf of the program's partners (Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation, Ministère de l'Intérieur, Ministère de la Culture, Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères, Ville de Paris, Association de Directeurs des Centres Universitaires d'Études françaises pour Étrangers, Fondation Michelin), have awarded the establishment a grant of 9,000 euros to continue the program of our Diplôme Universitaire Passerelle for refugee and exile students. Once again this year, the AUF and its partners have enabled our DU Passerelle to continue its activities with confidence.
  • For the first time, a delegation from the Franco-American Fulbright Commission, made up of representatives from twelve American universities, visited Inalco on October 18. The delegation spent part of the day at the Pôle des langues et de civilisations and then at the Maison de la Recherche on rue de Lille. Members of the delegation met several members of the President's office, as well as professors, researchers and students. The visit was an opportunity for Inalco to pursue its objective of forging links with several universities in the United States.
  • Finally, since the start of this academic year, Inalco's international relations department has a new director: Mr. Jules Leconte has taken up his post on September 1, 2021.

    Gilles Forlot - Vice President International Relations

Presses de l'Inalco

Latest publications

Books

First steps in foreign language acquisition
Marzena Watorek, Arnaud Arslangul & Rebekah Rast (eds.)
https://books.openedition.org/pressesinalco/41438

The Japanese Diet
Ōyama Reiko
https://books.openedition.org/pressesinalco/42665

Reviews

Cahiers de littérature orale no 87 - Éc(h)opoétiques
https://journals.openedition.org/clo/8278 

Forthcoming

Reviews

Cipango no 24 - Eugenics in Modern and Contemporary Japan

Balkan Notebooks no 48 - The evolution of embroidery in the Byzantine tradition in the Eastern Mediterranean and Slavic world (1200-1800)Watch video interviews with our authors house conducted by Inalco.

And always the Presses de l'Inalco catalogue! 



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