June 25, 2010 | Call for fellowships: Memory and Memorialization

We are offering 8 short-term fellowships for advanced doctoral candidates
and post-docs who have earned the Ph.D. within the past three years...to learn more about these fellowships , click here

Institutions: CNRS (France), New York University (NY, USA), Memorial de Caen (France), National September 11 Memorial and Museum (NY, USA)

Program Leaders: Edward Berenson (NYU:edward.berenson@nyu.edu) and Denis Peschanski (CNRS: denis.peschanski@univ-paris1.fr)

February, 20th, 2010 |2010 Grants Applications for the Institute for Advanced Studies in Aix-en-Provence (IMERA) are open for American Faculty members and Postdocs.

MéRA residence proposals are open to researchers of all origins in terms of nationality and disciplines prepared to contribute to collective work on new cross-field issues, notably interaction between social and formal/experimental sciences, between basic science and applied science. The Arts and humanities are included. The expectations of IMéRA for the residencies are detailed in the Charte of the IMéRA résident. Call for applications is permanent. Those wishing to take part in the next selection, for residencies in 2011-2012, should send their applications to IMéRA before April 15, 2010. The Institute will be particularly attentive to applications from the Mediterranean area.

February 14th, 2010 | A new journal on humanitarism launched by our CNRS colleague at NYU, Nicolas Guilhot, its executive director:

"Humanity is a semi annual publication dedicated to publishing original research and reflection on human rights, humanitarianism, and development in the modern and contemporary world. An interdisciplinary enterprise, Humanity draws from a variety of fields, including anthropology, law, literature, history, philosophy, politics, and examines the intersections between and among them. to learn more", click here...

January 20, 2010 | Alain Fuchs appointed as president of the CNRS

Alain Fuchs has been appointed as president of CNRS by the Council of Ministers on January 20th, 2010, on the recommendation of the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Valérie Pécresse. He will take over from Catherine Bréchignac, whose term has come to an end. Dr. Fuchs, Senior Professor, former CNRS Senior Researcher, has been director of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP, Chimie ParisTech) since January 1st, 2006.

 

January 12, 2010 | TransitionsPodcast. You can now podcast our seminars on iTunes.

You will now be able to download all our seminars on your computer through iTunes . You can even subscribe to our podcast series on iTunes (TransitionsPodcast). Have a try and listen to the historian Jan Gross (Princeton) and his conference on Opportunistic Killings and the Plunder of Jews by their Neighbors: a Norm or an Exception in German Occupied Europe ?(Memory and Memorialization of Wars and Trauma, Seminar series), just by clicking here...

December 11, 2009 | CNRS, the first European organization and research institution to enter the famous top 10 of the Intellectual Property Today™ 2009 Patent Scorecard

The Intellectual Property Today™has acknowledged the CNRS 's effort to produce industrial patents by giving the French organization the 10th position after South Korean Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute, the American Navy, DOE, Army, NASA, Department of Health, the Japonese MEXT & METI and Singapore's Agency For Science Technology. "New to the top ten is France’s largest governmental research organization, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).  CNRS increased their patent volume by nearly 40% over last year and have the second highest Science Linkage™ of the top 10.  While CNRS consists of six different divisions, their primary patent focus is in the life sciences.  Additionally, CNRS has a high degree of patent collaboration; with nearly 70% of their most recent year of issued patents being co-invented." To learn more, click here...(and here in French...)

December 8, 2009 | Researchers at New York University have developed a non-invasive technique to block the return of fear memories in humans.

The technique, reported in the latest issue of the journal Nature, may change how we view the storage processes of memory and could lead to new ways to treat anxiety disorders. To learn more click here...

 

 

November 14-20, 2009 | Jean Rouch Ethnographic Film Festival in Paris

The Comite du Film Ethnographique, associated with the Musée de l'Homme, the CNRS, the Bibliothèque de France, the CNC, Archives Françaises du Film, and in partnership with other institutions (Ville de Paris, the Ile de France Region, The Ministry of Higher Education and Research) is organizing an international symposium to pay tribute to the scientific and cinematographic works of its founder and coordinator. Throughout one week, anthropologists, sociologists, academics, students, film directors, producers, actors, and cinema critics will come to testify, comment on, analyze and discuss (through round tables, debates, speeches, screenings, etc.) the pioneering, original, and sometimes unconventional role of Jean Rouch, both in France and abroad.

November 10, 2009 | CNRS, the best research organisation in the World

CNRS has been recognized as the best research institution and organization worldwilde by the SCImago Institutions Ranking (SIR, University of Granada, Spain) | to learn more click here...

October 30, 2009 | Death of Claude Levi-Strauss

The famous French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss just died in Paris at 100 years old. As a tribute, you can watch an interview recorded by the CNRS 30 years ago directly through our site | you can read more by clicking on The New York Times or Liberation links.