History and society Investigations and reports
Facultés en alerte ?
2024
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Academic freedom of university lecturers is today sometimes threatened by economic, political or social pressures. Review of the issue, in six episodes.
History and society | Investigations and reports
Episode 1
16 min
La liberté académique en déclin sur la planète
Dans plusieurs pays, les universitaires subissent menaces et violences. Pourtant, la liberté académique est l'un des piliers des sociétés démocratiques. Comment faire pour la protéger ? Pourquoi certains États ont-ils peur des chercheurs et chercheuses ?
Episode 2
16 min
Fonds publics et liberté de recherche
Au Canada, les critères d'équité, de diversité et d'inclusion dans les demandes de subvention en ont indigné plusieurs. Tout comme le financement de recherches répondant à des priorités du gouvernement.
Episode 3
16 min
La liberté académique en salle de classe
L'utilisation de certains mots dans une salle de classe soulève parfois l'indignation des étudiants. En revanche, les censurer équivaudrait à enfreindre la liberté académique. Comment aborder des sujets délicats en classe ?
Episode 4
16 min
Une liberté entravée par le financement privé ?
Pour développer des nouveaux médicaments, des recherches sont menées dans les universités avec le soutien financier des compagnies pharmaceutiques. Les scientifiques qui en bénéficient ont-ils les mains liées ? Comment empêcher les dérives ?
Episode 5
15 min
S'exprimer sur la place publique
Au Canada, les citoyens ont le droit de tout dire sur la place publique, hormis des propos haineux ou diffamatoires. Qu'en est-il de celles et eux qui jouissent de la liberté académique ? Plus de droits leur sont-ils octroyés ?
Academic freedom of university lecturers is today sometimes threatened by economic, political or social pressures. Review of the issue, in six episodes.
Local communities are engaged in conflicts that receive very little media coverage around Kisangani, in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this remote province of Tshopo, the lack of a state, security and consideration for human beings has enabled a simple land dispute to degenerate into a mass massacre.
They were intended to mark the success of a transition process driven by international community engagement. This was not the case. This article highlights the limits of interventionist policies and a country's ability to reinvent its own democratic system.
Could it be that there are reptilians living amongst us? According to those who believe in this theory, lizards capable of shapeshifting into humans have infiltrated our society. Julien Robichaud embarks on an informative and humoristic adventure to investigate the idea of this hybrid race.
In Geneva, the young women of the radical collective 'Engageons les murs' denounce sexual harassment and violence. United by their refusal to be perceived as victims, their actions aim to change the paradigms of a society that they consider too conservative and patriarchal. Svetlana Rodina follows them for a year.
Real estate has become a commodity that attracts speculation and makes it difficult for most Quebec residents to find decent housing. Based on this observation, Diane Bérard, Samuel Gervais and Mathieu Vachon challenge and reinvent the relationship with property. How can we live together without owning real estate?
Boucar Diouf asks: "Why do humans always want more food, more sex, more social recognition, more power? And what if this wish to consume was due to an organ that has been lying deep in our brains for millions of years? A closer look at the "striatum".
Jean-Luc Kanapé, Innu de Pessamit, leads us on the tracks of the last herds of woodland caribou in the vast Pipmuacan territory. This former hunter is committed to protecting the species, which is threatened with extinction if no changes are made.
