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FRANÇOIS HÉRAN IN THE WORLD: "DENIAL OF IMMIGRATION, AS THERE ARE DENIALS OF PREGNANCY"FRANÇOIS HÉRAN IN THE WORLD:

[We are reproducing with her agreement the text of La Tribune by Michèle Tribalat available at the address: http://www.micheletribalat.fr/453469042] https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2022/11/08/francois-heran-l-impuissance-de-la-politique-migratoire-ne-tient-pas-au-manque-de-volonte-ou-de-moyens-mais-a-la-demesure-des-objectifs_6149039_3232.html This is a botched column that does not hide its bias. As usual, there are many errors and imprecisions, even

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Collective November 16, 2022
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Cyrille Godonou

The mechanisms underlying gender disparities in mathematics: preferences, performance, discrimination or stereotypes?

Several studies show that parents perceive girls as less gifted in mathematics, less interested in this discipline, and therefore more compelled to work to succeed. Perhaps more importantly, these perceptions persist even when girls obtain identical or even higher grades than boys! Jussim and Eccles surveyed a hundred mathematics teachers about the competence and effort made in this discipline by each of the students in their 6th grade class (ages 11-12).

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Cyrille Godonou November 15, 2022
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On Academic Activism

(Conference by Nathalie Heinich, University of Antwerpen, 12th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research September 12th, 2022) My topic will be academic activism. And the issue of activism in the university raises two problems: the first has to do with its

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Collective September 26, 2022
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LGBTQI+ Human Rights

[by François Rastier] Intersectional ideology is not limited to campus conflicts or imported cancel culture; it certainly finds support in universities, but also in democratic institutions. In short, half a century after the

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Collective September 15, 2022
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"The fanatics achieve the goal they set for themselves"

The topic of "gender" was to be discussed at Humboldt University in Berlin, which caused a great deal of discontent. Historian Jörg Baberowski explains what is really behind this protest. Jörg Baberowski, born in 1961, teaches Eastern European history

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Collective September 2, 2022
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Gender Debate: A Biologist's Perspective

Interview with zoologist and evolutionary biologist Axel Meyer published on July 20, 2022 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Am Ende kommen immer Männchen und Weibchen heraus) Biology and the gender debate: In the end, we always find

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Collective September 2, 2022
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Francois Rastier

Decolonial Tyrannies

Since independence, the colonial past has often been denounced by the regimes in power; but after three generations, the liberated peoples have the right to demand accountability from them, or at least to no longer be satisfied with invoking the past: this was the meaning of the remarkable essay by Hélé Béji, Nous, décolonisés (Arléa, 2008).

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Francois Rastier 16th June 2022