Sélections

Discover the third episode of Tour de danse. After tango and ballet, let yourself be carried away by rock! The music that has made generations of people dance! Who is one of rock’s greatest icons? Certainly Jim Douglas Morrison, aka Jim Morrison, who died 50 years ago. Essential member and singer of The Doors, artist […]

The series Dance Tour series continues. This time, you’ll be swinging! Discover the music of Louis Armstrong, the best ambassador of jazz for over 40 years. Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Dippermouth, Satchmo (short for satchel-mouth) or Pops for his wide mouth, has played a key role in music history since his death 50 years ago. It […]

The 2020-2021 academic year has come to an end, although most of it has taken place at a distance. As is customary at the University of Lausanne, it closes with the Dies Academicus ceremony, held under the banner of uncertainty. Among the three honorary doctorates awarded on this occasion, one, proposed by the Faculty of […]

Whether you prefer sea or mountains, forest or countryside, north or south, round-the-world tours or local vacations… BCUL takes you on a journey this summer with our selection of novels and stories set in the four corners of the globe (and without even needing to take a PCR test!). To spice things up, we’ve mischievously […]

Due to the current exceptional situation, the fashion week and catwalk schedule has naturally been modified. Glamour, which had almost been forgotten, resurfaced at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s back-to-school time for theaters and cultural venues too. Why not take advantage of the season to assert your style? We have selected for you documents on […]

Dante Alighieri certainly needs no introduction! His work La Divina Commedia has been a source of inspiration for generations of composers over the centuries. The feelings and, above all, the characters of the poem’s three canticles – Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso (Paradise) – have been set to music in a wide variety of […]