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What’s the ideal city? Philosophers, historians, urban planners, archaeologists and other specialists will attempt to answer this question at a forthcoming symposium, La Ville idéale, Entre utopie et réalité, at the University of Lausanne. What did the ideal city look like in ancient times? A short journey from utopia to reality. For Plato,Atlantis undoubtedly represented […]

Spend a brilliant summer with the selection of documents prepared by the Riponne site librarians on the theme of color. Primary or complementary, simple visual perception or highly symbolic notion, colors are constantly occupying both our visual field and social space. They allow us to express our emotions, indicate our state of health, are either […]

Is there anyone who hasn’t heard at least one of the preludes and fugues that make up Johann Sebastian Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier? Probably not! In 1722, 300 years ago, the Leipzig Cantor composed the first part of his famous Wohltemperierte Klavier (BWV 846-869). The second book (BWV 870-893) was published 22 years later, in 1744. […]

The BCUL’s Africanist library has recently been enlarged thanks to a gift from Professor Jean-Marie Volet. After leaving Switzerland in the mid-1980s, his academic career took place in Australia, where he discovered the literature of French-speaking African women. 3500 volumes – as well as boxes of the researcher’sarchives , the heart of the links forged […]

Discover the third episode in our series From Sign to Sound, dedicated to the art of interpretation. In the spotlight this time, one of the most famous pianists, who died 10 years ago: Sviatoslav Richter. “The performer is really an executor, having to reproduce the composer’s intentions to the letter; he must add nothing that […]

Lausanne’s film magazine is now available online! “Why “TRAVELLING J”? Because it didn’t exist. While there are several film magazines in Switzerland, none are written in French specifically for young people. As a popular art form, cinema touches every stratum of society. But film culture? “Travelling J”: the young, objective guide you need! […] In […]