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For some years now, you’ve been familiar with BCUL’s eLectures platform, which lets you borrow e-books on your favorite e-reader/tablet/PC/smartphone. Recently, you’ll also find a selection of over 650 audio books that you can stream from your favorite browser or download from the Aldiko (iOS or Android) or Thorium (laptop) app. For streaming, we recommend […]

Archaeologist, paleontologist, Egyptologist, archaeozoologist, paleopalynologist… Neutral terms that don’t say their gender! Let’s explore the feminine facet of these specialties through a non-exhaustive bibliography of works by female researchers who also interpret science in feminine terms, to continue the reflection prompted by the two UNIL exhibitions, ArchéoSexisme and L’ASA 1980-2020: une histoire d’hommes et de […]

Back to classical music for this final episode of Tour de danse. In the spotlight this time is Camille Saint-Saëns, on the 100th anniversary of his death. Music can accompany a dance – classical, jazz or rock – as we’ve seen in previous episodes. But it can also describe and translate musically texts or images […]

Black, white, eighth-note or round, a musical score printed in black and white remains mute to a person who can’t see. How can a blind music lover get started in reading and practicing this art form? Braille! A tactile writing system with raised dots, in which every letter, number and even every musical, mathematical and […]

A pioneer of political liberalism, a precursor of intimate writing and the psychological novel, a theorist of religious sentiment and a thinker of modernity, Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) is today considered a major figure in the intellectual history of the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Born in Lausanne in 1767 into a family of […]

“What a bummer our lack of poetry (…)!” This is how Virgile Elias Gehrig , the poet from the French-speaking part of Switzerland, describes his dual relationship with Switzerland, without omitting the qualities of the rösti… It’s true that the romantic and bohemian spirit don’t easily go hand in hand with the great Swiss virtues, […]