Collegium       Diary   International cinema symposium - Thursday 11 and Friday 12 June 2009 “Images, memories and movements”   Call for applicants 2009   The Collegium de Lyon invites leading international researchers for 5-10 month periods to its Lyon facility. During this stay, researchers are freed from their usual teaching and research management obligations. They work on the development of their own scientific projects ...     More details   More details       Olivier Faron’s editorial   The Collegium de Lyon, IEA (Advanced Studies Institute), the result of an innovative concept in France, exists to create an international scientific community of excellence and to encourage exchange between disciplines, cultures and languages. Its research activities are mainly centred on human and social sciences, but also on the exact sciences, with a view to ensuring a transversal approach and in genuine world vision via a truly innovative inter-disciplinary perspective ...     Read more       Language, a social, technological, medical and cultural challenge   Language is at the heart of many major scientific considerations, raising questions related to social, technological, medical and cultural issues, requiring efforts to push back the barriers of knowledge. The scientific approaches developed in Lyon call on all levels of language analysis, bringing a multi-modal perspective to human communication ...     Read more       Health: a major challenge for the 21st century   Health in all its forms is becoming a major scientific priority. In terms of research, life sciences is a highly promising field in terms of potential discoveries, as well as in terms of public policy construction ...     Read more       “Remembrance, culture and multi-culture chair”: the Collegium de Lyon provides its scientific guarantee   The Collegium de Lyon is participating in this new UNESCO chair, created in November 2007, by the Catholic University of Lyon. This training, research, information, documentation and international exchange chair aims to encourage links between different cultures ...     Read more       Research in the city centre   The Collegium de Lyon is backed by local authorities, welcoming researchers to the city and its main academic centres. It provides access to all the resources of a major European city: a leading centre for university and higher education institutes, five competitive clusters and a dense, highly diversified industrial fabric ...     Read more       Focus on the researchers                       Ioana CHITORAN, linguist specialising in phonetics   Yvan ROSE, linguist specialising in the acquisition of phonology in infants   Isabelle MARINONE, historian, specialising in silent films and documentaries in France     More details   More details   More details     Collegium de Lyon A l'ENS LSH 15, Parvis René Descartes BP 7000, 69342 Lyon Cedex 07 collegium-lyon@ens-lsh.fr