All these training courses are offered under the Bordeaux MSH.
Priority audience: doctoral students.
Public concerned: doctoral students, post-doctoral students, teacher-researchers from Bordeaux universities and schools and researchers from research organizations.

Commitment and distancing: what place for academic freedom in the humanities and social sciences?
• March 23, 2023

Historically, the legitimacy and validity of knowledge in the human and social sciences have been built through the development of methods based on a double principle of rationality and neutrality. Faced with this founding myth, epistemological work and critical studies have highlighted that neutrality is only illusory...

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Can a brainless bird fly?
Ethology and political psychology in Gustave Le Bon • November 15, 2022

Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) is best known today for his Psychology of Crowds (1895). His thoughts on irrational crowds influenced the development of twentieth-century social sciences, from psychoanalysis to sociology and political theory. But what exactly does “irrational” mean?…

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For an ethology of “voluntary servitude”
• October 28, 2022 (9 a.m.-5 p.m., Room 2, MSH Bx)

According to La Boétie, “custom” (habit) is a second nature that makes enslavement acceptable. The analogy between human behavior and animal behavior helps support this argument, but raises a question that has remained largely unanswered…

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Bilingual education
• October 27, 2022 (9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Room 2, MSH Bx)

This seminar aims to bring together researchers from different backgrounds around the theme of “ bilingual education ”, which is located at the crossroads of different disciplines such as linguistics, cognitive psychology, law, language teaching and more broadly related disciplines such as sociology, philosophy, sociolinguistics, sociology, etc.

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