What if we slowed down?
Posted on 19 June 2025
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In recent years, the need to slow down the pace of our lives has become increasingly apparent. Especially since the pandemic, our relationship with time has tended to evolve. This desire to slow down is not new. The Slow movement, for example, was initiated in the 80s in response to global acceleration. It invites us […]
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Women and literature
Posted on 28 September 2021
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In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf writes that “a woman must have some money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction” (Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, trans. Clara Malraux, 2016: 8 ). This observation sums up what the British author develops in the rest of her […]
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Tribute to Michel Corboz
Posted on 13 September 2021
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Michel Corboz, a choral and orchestral conductor from Fribourg who was born in Lausanne, died on September 2 at the age of 87. He leaves a deep and indelible mark on choral life in French-speaking Switzerland. Yes, because choirs and the human voice were certainly his passion! Founder of the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne, which […]
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