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A look back at the first edition of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Days

On October 4 and 5, 2023, Inalco's Events and Cultural Action Department organized the first Intangible Cultural Heritage Days (JPCI). The twentieth anniversary of the signing of the "Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage", on October 17, 2003, was an opportunity to highlight this UNESCO initiative. This first edition was devoted to oral tradition.

Signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Inalco Foundation and the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (AGDA)

The Inalco Foundation is pleased to announce the signing, on October 17, 2023, of a memorandum of understanding with the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (AGDA) of the United Arab Emirates.

Presentation of Inalco's DEPHI 2030 project

DEPHI 2030 (Development of Executive Education and Philanthropy at Inalco) is a project dedicated to accelerating philanthropy and continuing education. Spearheaded by the Inalco Foundation and the Continuing Education Department, its mission is to strengthen the institution's skills in order to better disseminate and promote the knowledge and expertise available at Inalco to the socio-economic world (associations, companies, NGOs, public administrations and private individuals).

Continuation of our "Les Explorateurs" project: follow Éric Dugelay's adventures in Canada's Far North

The Inalco Foundation opens a new phase in its "Explorers" project by continuing its collaboration with Eric Dugelay, a travel writer and Inalco graduate in Chinese studies, also known by his pen name Tanguy Piole. After "Billets du hasard - Entre Maputo et Kigali", the story of an African journey from Mozambique to Rwanda in September 2023, Eric Dugelay invites you to follow his adventures in a second series entitled "Quête arctique - Douze billets de voyage du Grand Nord canadien".

Anne Grynberg and George Alao return from a cooperation mission in Nigeria

At the end of March 2019, Anne Grynberg - then vice-president of Inalco, responsible for international relations - and George Alao - HDR lecturer in Yorùbá language and literature in the Africa department - went on an eight-day mission to Nigeria to develop existing partnerships with two of the country's leading universities, Ibadan and Ilé-Ifè. They were accompanied by Professor Lars Berge, historian and professor in the Department of African Studies at Dalarna University in Sweden, with which Inalco has been actively cooperating for twelve years. The mission was particularly interesting and fruitful, and enabled the structuring of joint teaching and research projects.

Documentation of the Pesh language spoken in Honduras

The main aim of linguistic documentation is the oral conservation (audio/video), transcription and analysis of languages that are often little-known and sometimes threatened with extinction. With the accelerating loss of linguistic diversity in our world, it is important to record as much as possible of the linguistic and cultural wealth still present today. In North America, for example, as mentioned by Goddard (1996: 3), of the 329 native languages once spoken, 120 are already extinct, 72 are spoken only by the elderly, 91 by adults and some children, and only 46 are spoken by both adult and child speakers. Linguistic documentation is fundamental to the knowledge of indigenous languages, and even to their preservation if certain conditions are met, in particular the willingness and involvement of community members in the documentation project. This experience will be illustrated in this article through the project to document the Pesh language spoken in Honduras.

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Social workers, bound by professional secrecy, help students experiencing social, family or personal difficulties. They help with study projects, inform students about CROUS services and/or direct them to various outside organizations (CAF, BAPU, social services).

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Areas of expertise

Inalco has been teaching languages and civilizations since 1669. Since then, it has cultivated its role of understanding a living heritage outside any Western reference. It offers students the chance to discover the world as it is, in all its richness and diversity, and to immerse themselves in the thinking of others.