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Scientific report on Julien Sibileau's field mission to Kuwait (April 2023)

Conference: Multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific: re-defining cooperation formats to meet regional challenges on June 16, 2023

The Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (FRS) and the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco) will hold a one-day conference: Multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific: re-defining cooperation formats to meet regional challenges on June 16, 2023.

14th ISOLA symposium "Humans and non-humans in the arts of speech in Africa. Environmental narrativities and poetics at the dawn of the climate crisis", July 5-8

The 14th ISOLA (International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa) symposium "Humains et non-humains dans les arts de la parole en Afrique. Environmental narrativities and poetics at the dawn of the climate crisis" will be held at Inalco. Its aim is to investigate the ecological theme, at the forefront of scientific and social demand, in oral literature in Africa and its diaspora, from the perspective of several approaches that place the relationship between the spoken word and the environment at the center of research.

Seventh Board Meeting of the Inalco Foundation at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

On June 6, the Foundation held its seventh Board Meeting at the BNF's Richelieu site, recently reopened after more than ten years of renovation. The event marked a return to our roots in this building, which in 1795 was the historic birthplace of Inalco.

Explorers #1: a look back at the story of an African journey from Mozambique to Rwanda

The Inalco Foundation has launched an exciting and captivating project for lovers of travel and cultural discovery: Explorers. The aim of this innovative project is to revive the tradition of travel writing by the great explorers of the "O" languages in a resolutely contemporary way. For this first adventure, the Foundation asked travel writer Eric Dugelay, a graduate of Inalco with a degree in Chinese, also known by his pen name Tanguy Piole, to relay his travel experience on Swahili soil live via a "travel blog" accompanied by superb photographs.

Lao (Laotian)

This page has been translated automatically. Taught in the South-East Asia and Pacific Department, Lao, closely related to Siamese, is an invariable language with tones and durations. Originally monosyllabic, it has been enriched with numerous polysyllables through contact with Khmer, Mône and, above all, the liturgical languages of Buddhism: Pāli and Sanskrit.

Alexis Ogor's sociology dissertation, "Studying Arabic at Inalco", receives special mention from the OVE

The jury of the 32nd annual Observatoire national de la vie étudiante (OVE) awards its doctoral prize (Prix Louis Gruel) and its Master 2023 prize. It also awarded a special mention to the M2 dissertation by Alexis Ogor (Université Paris Cité) on the social and academic trajectories of Arabic students at Inalco. In so doing, it underscored the quality and originality of his research carried out within Inalco's Department of Arabic Studies.

The Inalco Foundation partners the "Penser ailleurs" lecture series organized by the town of Issy-les-Moulineaux

As part of its 2023/2024 cultural season devoted to Elsewhere, the town of Issy-les-Moulineaux is organizing a series of lectures on world philosophies. The Foundation is delighted to have been asked to contribute to the programming of this cycle.

Catherine Despeux, winner of the Stanislas Julien medal from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (AIBL) has awarded the Stanislas Julien Medal to Catherine Despeux for her annotated edition of LU-YU's "Classique du thé" (Les Belles Lettres, 2023), the first major text on tea, published under the Tang in 780.