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The BCU Lausanne, site Riponne sees life in blue and offers you a thematic selection tinged with humor! Working in a library sometimes means having superpowers. Every librarian has surely been confronted at least once with this type of request from a reader: “I can’t remember the title but…” “…it was sitting on this display” […]

As Laurent de Sutter explains in Qu’est-ce que la pop’philosophie? the genesis and late fortune of this concept coined by Gilles Deleuze in the 1970s, “pop’philosophie is the philosophical practice of transforming anything into something” (p. 31). But more than just a concept, it’s another way of philosophizing: “what we’re talking about, in practicing pop’philosophie, […]

In 1975, at the request of the Swiss National Commission for UNESCO, a report was drawn up by the Institute of Sociology at the University of Zurich on the status of women in Switzerland. Four years after obtaining the right to vote at federal level, after some 80 years of struggle, it highlighted the multiple […]

At the request of UNIL philosophy students, the teaching staff of the philosophy section have drawn up four reading lists. The aim is to enable students and the most inquisitive readers to explore some important philosophical works for themselves, and to delve more deeply into the various fields of philosophy on their own: ancient and […]

In line with the BCUL’s annual Cultural Events theme, the Unithèque collection managers have put together a selection of documents on transhumanism. This intellectual movement advocates the use of science and new technologies to enhance human physical and intellectual capacities and thus improve the human condition. But augmented man, widely represented in the science-fiction imagination, […]

2019 Year of Da Vinci The great Italian man is celebrated everywhere. From Florence to Amboise, via Martigny, Milan, Turin, Vinci, Venice and Paris. Numerous events and exhibitions pay tribute to him. Born in 1452 in Vinci, Tuscany, he learned painting and sculpture from Verrocchio in Florence. Misunderstood in Florence, he moved to Milan to […]