Laurent-Michel VacherLaurent-Michel Vacher (26 May 1944 – 8 July 2005) was a French-born, French Canadian philosopher, writer, journalist (Le Devoir, Hobo-Québec, Chroniques, Spirale) and teacher (Ahuntsic College, Montreal). He was a proponent of scientism, rationalism, positivism, pragmatism and materialism, a critic of mainstream schools of today's philosophy and of the usual history-centered pedagogy in the field of philosophy.
ANAQ-SupL’Autorité Nationale d’Assurance Qualité de l’enseignement Supérieur (National Authority for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, ANAQ-Sup) is a state agency in Senegal under the supervision of the Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (Ministry of Higher Education and Research, MESR). It serves to ensure and improve the quality of higher education programs and institutions in the country. It was created in August 2012 in the wake of governance reforms undertaken in higher education.
Academic ranks in FranceThe following summarizes basic academic ranks in the French higher education system. Most academic institutions are state-run and most academics with permanent positions are civil servants, and thus are tenured (after a one-year probationary period). Several parallel career paths exist, depending on the type of institution. The three paths correspond to teacher-researchers (enseignants-chercheurs), researchers, and teachers. It is possible to be promoted from one path to another. Several ranks exist within each path.
Jean C. BaudetJean C. Baudet is a Belgian philosopher and writer, born in Brussels (May 31, 1944) and dead in Laeken (July 18, 2021). J.C. Baudet taught philosophy and history of science, from 1966 to 1973, in Africa (Congo, Burundi). From 1973 to 1978, he was a biology researcher (agronomy faculty of Gembloux, Belgium, and Université de Paris-VI). In 1978, he was the founder of the periodical Technologia (history of Science-Technics-Industry). Since 1996, he was an editor of the Revue Générale (Bruxelles).
Jean-François ZevacoJean-François Zevaco (جان فرنسوا زيفاكو,1916–2003) was a French-Moroccan architect born in Casablanca. He is considered an emblematic figure of the modernist architectural movement in Morocco and in Africa, and his legacy is important in terms of the number of constructions built across Morocco, the diversity of his works, and their international aura. After his finishing his studies at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Marseille in 1945, he established a private practice in Morocco and started a career spanning from 1947 to 1999.
Victory Medal 1914–1918The Victory Medal is the Belgian variant of the Inter-Allied Victory Medal 1914–1918 ("Médaille de la Victoire 1914–1918, "Zegemedaille 1914–1918") was a Belgian commemorative war medal established by royal decree on 15 July 1919 and awarded to all members of the Belgian Armed Forces who served during the First World War. Later royal decrees enlarged the list of potential recipients to include service in African campaigns and under special circumstances, to members of the merchant navy and fishing fleet.
Marc KocherMarc Kocher (* 1965 in Bern) is a Swiss architect, known for his residential building designs. Studying architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (1984-1989), Kocher started working for Italian architect Aldo Rossi in Milan and continued from 1989 until Rossi's death in 1997, becoming Rossi's junior-partner. In 1995 Kocher founded his own office in Munich, later moving to Zurich (1997). In 1998/99, Kocher was an assistant at ETH Zürich, and in 1999 and 2000 guest professor at Syracuse University.
Arconovaldo BonaccorsiArconovaldo Bonaccorsi (1898 – 2 July 1962) was an Italian Fascist soldier, politician and lawyer. Nicknamed "Conte Rossi", he played a prominent role in organising the Falangist conquest of the island of Majorca during the Spanish Civil War. Born in Bologna in 1898, Bonacorsi was a fanatical and idealistic fascist from the first moment he met Benito Mussolini after World War I. In 1922 he participated in the March on Rome as leader of the fascists from Bologna.
Hubert DamischHubert Damisch (28 April 1928 – 14 December 2017), was a French philosopher specialised in aesthetics and art history, and professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris from 1975 until 1996. Damisch studied at the Sorbonne with Maurice Merleau-Ponty and, later, with Pierre Francastel. In 1967 he founded the Cercle d’histoire/théorie de l’art that would later become the CEHTA (Centre d'histoire et théorie des arts) at the EHESS.
Pierre-André TaguieffPierre-André Taguieff (born 4 August 1946) is a French philosopher who has specialised in the study of racism and antisemitism. He is the director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in an Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris laboratory, the Centre for Political Research (fr). He is also a member of the Cercle de l'Oratoire think tank. Taguieff is the author of a number of books and papers on racism and antisemitism, including The Force of Prejudice: On Racism and Its Doubles (2001) and Rising from the Muck: The New Antisemitism in Europe (2004).
