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Born February 18, 1933 in Lyle, Minnesota, USA. Married, 2 children. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA). Education 1955 : B.A., Macalester College 1957 : M.A., University of Minnesota 1960 : Ph.D., University of Minnesota Professional career …

Agrégé de philosophie, docteur ès lettres, François Recanati joined the CNRS in 1979 after studies in Paris and a post-doctorate in Oxford. He worked his way up through the ranks, taking on numerous responsibilities (including director of the Institut …

Training and professional career 1980-1986 : Professor at the University of Burgundy 1986-1993 : Chief Curator, Director General of the Strasbourg Museums 1993-2001 : Professor at the Université Marc-Bloch Strasbourg, Director of the Institut d'histoire …

Director of Contemporary Studies at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) and research associate at the Contemporary History of the Arab World Chair (Collège de France) and at the Wits History Workshop (Johannesburg), Matthieu Rey's work focuses …

Born in Algiers on July 15, 1942. Career École polytechnique, Paris (1964, class of 62) ; Joined INED (October 1965) ; Expert demographer, Institut de démographie de Paris (1966) ; Diplôme d'études supérieures en sciences économiques, University of Caen …

Born August 25 1911, Paris. Died February 19 1986. Education 1931 : Diploma in Russian from the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes 1933 : Diploma in Chinese from the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes 1945 : Doctor of Letters …

Jean-Paul Laumond is Director of Research at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse. He heads the Gepetto research group, whose work focuses on the computational foundations of anthropomorphic movement, both in humans and in artificial systems (humanoid robots and digital …

Born in 1954, Henry Laurens attended primary and secondary school in Paris. From 1973 to 1976, he attended the literary preparatory classes at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and began studying Arabic that same year. In 1977-1978, he did his national service in …

Born in Paris on May 12 1943. Training and professional career 1966 : Optics engineer 1966 : Degree in physics, University of Paris 1970 : Doctor of Science 1971 : CNRS research fellow 1984 : Director of research, CNRS 1978 : Correspondent of the French …

Begho (Ghana) Revisited: An archaeology of Urbanization, Trade and Craftmanship Begho, a medieval urban market town in pre-modern Ghana, flourished from around the 14th-15th century to the mid-18th centuries AD. Begho's beginnings and developments are …

Perry Anderson , of Anglo-Irish origin, was educated in the UK at Eton and Oxford. He is a research professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) , USA. He has taught in Latin America ; lectured in Russia, China and India ; and …