- Bertrand Lévy
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CH-1208 Genève
Bertrand Levy
Université de Genève, Department of Geography, Department Member
- Human Geography, Urban Geography, Cultural Geography, Travel & Tourism, Travel Writing, Phenomenology of Space and Place, and 43 moreTravel Literature, Urban Landscape, Literary Geography, Walking (Art), Philosophy of Geography, Humanistic Geography, Hermann Hesse, Geopoetics, Geneva, Existential Geography, Public Urban Square, Place and Identity, Jorge Luis Borges, Brand Image, Destination Image, Archetypes, City Branding, City Imaging, Walking in literature, Place promotion and marketing, Self and Identity, Phenomenology, Sense of Place, Urban Studies, Public Space, Cultural Landscapes, Phenomenology of the body, German Literature, Humanistic-Existential, European intellectual history, Urban Tourism, The City in Literature and Culture, Walking, Robert Walser, Urban Place, Le Paysage Urbain, Claude Raffestin, Camillo Sitte, Geografia E Letteratura, History of geography, Architecture, Geography, and Literary Criticismedit
- Humanistic/Literary Geography, Urban Geography and Ecology, City and Culture in Europe, History and Epistemology of G... moreHumanistic/Literary Geography, Urban Geography and Ecology, City and Culture in Europe, History and Epistemology of Geography at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Presently : Editor of Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie :
https://sgeo-ge.ch/le-globe-la-revue/
email : blevy0157@gmail.comedit
Thematic issue on Decolonial gazes
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Thematic issue on Flânerie
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Thematic issue on Ecology
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Thematic issue in the footsteps of...
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Thematic issue on Alexander von Humboldt and other travellers
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Thematic issue on travel writing seen in the perspective of Humanistic Geography
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Le Globe 2017, Tome 157, 160 pages.
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L'ouvrage examine le lien entre le paysage et le marcheur, sous l'angle perceptif, phénoménologique et géopoétique. La marche dévoile le monde proche et intensifie notre lien avec la terre et le ciel. Elle est une activité du corps, mais... more
L'ouvrage examine le lien entre le paysage et le marcheur, sous l'angle perceptif, phénoménologique et géopoétique. La marche dévoile le monde proche et intensifie notre lien avec la terre et le ciel. Elle est une activité du corps, mais aussi un approfondissement de la pensée. C'est cette-marche-démarche que notre ouvrage met en relief.
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An anthology of travel writing about Geneva during the 19th and 20th century.
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An anthology of literary texts on Geneva with comments.
The book contains following sections : The spirit of Geneva, seing Geneva, tasting Geneva, living in Geneva. Published in a collection of literary guides over cities.
The book contains following sections : The spirit of Geneva, seing Geneva, tasting Geneva, living in Geneva. Published in a collection of literary guides over cities.
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How Geneva, one of the top tourist destinations in the days of romanticism, saw its tourism evolve gradually from a leisure tourism to business and conference tourism How the tourist image of the city and its region has been represented... more
How Geneva, one of the top tourist destinations in the days of romanticism, saw its tourism evolve gradually from a leisure tourism to business and conference tourism How the tourist image of the city and its region has been represented in literature, travel guides and tourism promotion? The book also contains an on-site investigation of the hotels in Geneva, the contradictions between tourism and culture, and the major issues of land use and urban landscape next to the tourism of the future.
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10 authors (geographers, sociologists, writers...) address of a city in complete freedom. They alternate scientific considerations and urban experience, city models and travel books, souvenirs and encounters. The cities covered are:... more
10 authors (geographers, sociologists, writers...) address of a city in complete freedom. They alternate scientific considerations and urban experience, city models and travel books, souvenirs and encounters. The cities covered are: Glasgow-Berlin-Brussels-Geneva-Lausanne-Lyon-Turin-Genoa-Trieste-Venice-Rimini-Bucharest-Lisbon.
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Ten authors in search of an ideal city, almost all "specialists" (geographers, planners, writers, philosophers and poets). A collection of travel reports, unique experiences alternating with landscapes of dreams, poetic views, souvenirs... more
Ten authors in search of an ideal city, almost all "specialists" (geographers, planners, writers, philosophers and poets). A collection of travel reports, unique experiences alternating with landscapes of dreams, poetic views, souvenirs and encounters, but also scientific, theoretical models. During their urban wanderings, the authors also question the current city and what it represents for our society.
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According to a biographical and existential problematic coming from humanistic geography, the space of real life by Hermann Hesse is set in relation to the lived space of his fictional characters. The book emphasizes the ecological... more
According to a biographical and existential problematic coming from humanistic geography, the space of real life by Hermann Hesse is set in relation to the lived space of his fictional characters.
The book emphasizes the ecological consciousness of the author's way of representing the landscape
The book emphasizes the ecological consciousness of the author's way of representing the landscape
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Humanistic Geography and literature ; phenomenology, existential geography ; European landscape, humanist ideal and values.
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This volume contains studies on tourism in Switzerland and studies on travel writings in Mexico, Italy and Armenia.
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Travel, tourism, literature, urbanism, travel guides. Link : https://www.persee.fr/issue/globe_0398-3412_2002_num_142_1
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Articles de Bertrand Lévy, Sylvain Briens, Maria Gal, Anne Coldefy-Faucard, Lionel Dupuy, Jean-Christophe Loubier, Jean-Baptiste Bing, Alice Izzo
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Introduction au Globe 2023 sur les "Regards décoloniaux"
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Le rôle du jardin et du jardinage dans la vie et l'œuvre de Hermann Hesse
The role of garden and gardening in the life and work of Hermann Hesse
The role of garden and gardening in the life and work of Hermann Hesse
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Ce texte fait dialoguer une littéraire et un géographe sur leurs pratiques respectives de l'écriture de voyage. Entre recherche de faits véridiques et création esthétique, le récit de voyage est envisagé tour à tour sous l'angle du... more
Ce texte fait dialoguer une littéraire et un géographe sur leurs pratiques respectives de l'écriture de voyage. Entre recherche de faits véridiques et création esthétique, le récit de voyage est envisagé tour à tour sous l'angle du langage, de la géopoétique, de l'appel du dehors, du parcours, de son rapport avec la carte et le terrain. L'article se conclut par son insertion dans l'enseignement et dans la recherche-création. Abstract This text is a dialogue between a literary scholar and a geographer on their respective practices of travel writing. Between the search for truthful facts and aesthetic creation, travel writing is considered from the angle of language, geopoetics, the appeal from the outside, the route, its relationship with map and field work. The article ends with its insertion in teaching and research-creation. Citer ce document / Cite this document :
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In : Le Globe 2017, tome 157, 5-11.
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In : Georges Amar, Rachel Bouvet et Jean-Paul Loubes, Ville et géopoétique, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2916, pp. 89-107
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Borges considérait Genève comme l’une de ses patries intimes. Il y vécut une partie importante de sa jeunesse entre 1914 et 1918 et y fit plusieurs autres séjours, jusqu’à sa mort, à Genève, en 1986. L’article examine d’abord la... more
Borges considérait Genève comme l’une de ses patries intimes. Il y vécut une partie importante de sa jeunesse entre 1914 et 1918 et y fit plusieurs autres séjours, jusqu’à sa mort, à Genève, en 1986. L’article examine d’abord la contre-image que Borges va donner de Genève par rapport à la littérature hispanophone qui précède. Ensuite est dessinée la topographie mentale de Borges à Genève. Comment le plan de la ville est-il remémoré par le poète malvoyant à partir de 1955 ? Quels sont les lieux privilégiés de sa géographie existentielle, et enfin, l’image mythique que donne Borges de la cité de Calvin, correspond-elle à un archétype de ville ?
Mots clés : Borges, Genève, espace vécu, archétype, perception non visuelle
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Borges considered Geneva as one of his intimate homelands. He lived an important part of his youth between 1914 and 1918 there and stayed in it, up to his death, in Geneva, in 1986. The article examines at first the counter-image which Borges is going to give of Geneva with regard to the Spanish-speaking literature which precedes. Then is drawn the mental topography of Borges in Geneva. How is the city map restored by the souvenir by the visually-impaired poet from 1955? What are the privileged places of his existential geography, and finally, the mythical image which gives Borges of the city of Calvin, does it correspond to a city archetype?
Key words : Borges, Geneva, lived space, archetype, non visual perception
Mots clés : Borges, Genève, espace vécu, archétype, perception non visuelle
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Borges considered Geneva as one of his intimate homelands. He lived an important part of his youth between 1914 and 1918 there and stayed in it, up to his death, in Geneva, in 1986. The article examines at first the counter-image which Borges is going to give of Geneva with regard to the Spanish-speaking literature which precedes. Then is drawn the mental topography of Borges in Geneva. How is the city map restored by the souvenir by the visually-impaired poet from 1955? What are the privileged places of his existential geography, and finally, the mythical image which gives Borges of the city of Calvin, does it correspond to a city archetype?
Key words : Borges, Geneva, lived space, archetype, non visual perception
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Key words : Geography and literature, literary end philosophical tradition in geography, Alexandre de Humboldt, Eric Dardel, methodological implications, city and literature in Latin America
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Ideal urban square, Camillo Sitte, history, memory, identity of the public square ; contemporary redesigning of Place des Nations, Geneva
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The Urban Square is first considered as a place and even a high place of the European town. Criteria established by Camillo Sitte regarding the ideal urban square are then discussed from a morphologic and aesthetic point of view. These... more
The Urban Square is first considered as a place and even a high place of the European town. Criteria established by Camillo Sitte regarding the ideal urban square are then discussed from a morphologic and aesthetic point of view. These criteria are interpreted in the context of more contemporary functions and uses, and Sitte’s criteria are either validated or invalidated.
Keywords: urban square, ideal square, place, form, functions, uses, Camillo Sitte.
Keywords: urban square, ideal square, place, form, functions, uses, Camillo Sitte.
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The notion of urban square is put at first in perspective with those of place, non-place and high place. Having noted down the main functions of places (religious, civic, trade, residential, tourist, playful, festive), we replace the... more
The notion of urban square is put at first in perspective with those of place, non-place and high place. Having noted down the main functions of places (religious, civic, trade, residential, tourist, playful, festive), we replace the urban model of the European squares at the world level. The morphological criteria and the aesthetics of the ideal square according to Camillo Sitte are then discussed in the prospect of the contemporary use of cities. The urban square is then confronted with the model of the sustainable city. Several examples of historic places are reviewed according to these criteria: Campo of Siena, Saint Marc Square of Venice, the Dome Square of Cremona, and the Grand Place of Brussels.
Keywords: urban square, ideal aesthetics, Camillo Sitte, practice of places.
Keywords: urban square, ideal aesthetics, Camillo Sitte, practice of places.
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Epistemology, Jean Piaget, Kant, qualitative revolution in geography, landscape, contemporary problematics, French and German Geographies, human and physical Geography, construction of a scientific object in geography
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Human Geography and travel ; The debate traveler / tourist and stereotypes to avoid ;The evolution of the meaning of the humanist and functionalist definitions of the trip; The evolution of the word "travel" ; The evolution of the meaning... more
Human Geography and travel ; The debate traveler / tourist and stereotypes to avoid ;The evolution of the meaning of the humanist and functionalist definitions of the trip; The evolution of the word "travel" ; The evolution of the meaning of the word "tourism"; Practice and psychology of "traveling".
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Tourism and exclusion at the international (European) level ; history of the Swiss tourism model ; Tolstoï in Lucern ; contemporary Swiss tourism model and budget young tourists.
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The tourist image of Geneva analyzed through literature, travel guides and tourist promotion.
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Sense of place (definition), literature and topophobia : the banks of Geneva ; the eye nearsighted and farsighted on the landscape ; topophilic literature.
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Key words : European City, culture, literature, Geneva
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Geneva region. Cultural and literary identity, Stendhal, language.
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The article examines the evolution of the conception of the journey from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, with its consequences on the birth of exoticism. In the Middle Ages, the journeys, of religious inspiration, go from the... more
The article examines the evolution of the conception of the journey from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, with its consequences on the birth of exoticism. In the Middle Ages, the journeys, of religious inspiration, go from the periphery towards the religious center of the continent. On the contrary, in the Renaissance, the travellers go from the center (the European continent) to the extra-continental peripheries, following the Big Discoveries. This change of scale, orientation and sense of the journey is going to provoke a change of glance on the other one and the distant, which passes from a topophobia in the Middle Ages to a topophilia in the Renaissance.
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Nature, environment, definition, use, philosophical and political implications
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Key words : Poetics of snow, geopoetics, Kenneth White, skiing, Jack London, Hermann Hesse, Sant-Amant, Nicolas Bouvier, Abbas Kiarostami
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Key words : walking, landscape, experience of place, travelling, health, mountain discovery, Renaissance, decounditioning
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L'article établit un lien entre "La Promenade de Robert Walser" (1917) et le paysage régional de la banlieue urbaine de Bienne (Suisse). Il analyse ce texte sous une double perspective phénoménologique et géopoétique.
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"Abstract : In 1925, the German-born writer Hermann Hesse, living then in Tessin, the Italianspeaking part of Switzerland, wrote a visionary text entitled The Tourist City in the South. This text is considered as a primer in the encounter... more
"Abstract : In 1925, the German-born writer Hermann Hesse, living then in Tessin, the Italianspeaking part of Switzerland, wrote a visionary text entitled The Tourist City in the South. This text is considered as a primer in the encounter of humanistic geography and literature. In focusing on both structure and lived experience in a tourist city, the writer anticipates the debate in contemporary tourism geography : how to build a model for a such a tourist city and
what type of criticism may arise from such a social construction ?
Key-words : literature, geography, tourist city, lived space, anticipation"
what type of criticism may arise from such a social construction ?
Key-words : literature, geography, tourist city, lived space, anticipation"
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Résumé : Hermann Hesse est aujourd’hui considéré comme l’un des auteurs les plus « globalisés » du XXe siècle. Le tirage total de son œuvre a largement dépassé les 100 millions d’exemplaires et il a été traduit en une cinquantaine de... more
Résumé : Hermann Hesse est aujourd’hui considéré comme l’un des auteurs les plus « globalisés » du XXe siècle. Le tirage total de son œuvre a largement dépassé les 100 millions d’exemplaires et il a été traduit en une cinquantaine de langues. Pourtant, il fut un écrivain très enraciné dans son monde européen, très influencé par son espace vécu qui s’étendait du Sud de l’Allemagne à l’Italie Centrale, à l’exception de son périple en « Inde ». Hermann Hesse ne s’est pas contenté d’explorer les cultures européennes pour façonner son image du monde : il a beaucoup puisé aux sources indiennes et chinoises anciennes, ce qui a contribué à l’universalité de son message. Nous examinons ici sa place et son attitude par rapport aux littératures européennes, puis nous développons spécialement le rôle de ses voyages en Italie dans la genèse de son œuvre.
Mots clé : Hermann Hesse, Europe, Italie, voyages, représentation, paysage
Mots clé : Hermann Hesse, Europe, Italie, voyages, représentation, paysage
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Hermann Hesse ( 1877-1962 ) travelled through Northern and Central Italy in the early 1900s. We redraw his routes and examine the symbolic values associated with places and visited landscapes. His novelist’s approach (" Peter Camenzind ")... more
Hermann Hesse ( 1877-1962 ) travelled through Northern and Central Italy in the early 1900s. We redraw his routes and examine the symbolic values associated with places and visited landscapes. His novelist’s approach (" Peter Camenzind ") is being compared with that of his travel diaries by relating his writing to his lived space. We compare his Germanic linguistic and cultural code with that of Jean Giono in its " Journey in Italy ".
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Key words : Hesse, City, Heimatstadt, Steppenwolf, modernity, Urban life, 1920s
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The article first draws a parallel between the naturalist conception of landscape and the urban landscape. The main characteristics of nocturnal townscape are then highlighted by building on five literary and human sciences quotations... more
The article first draws a parallel between the naturalist conception of landscape and the urban landscape. The main characteristics of nocturnal townscape are then highlighted by building on five literary and human sciences quotations having two metropolises as geographical frame, Tokyo and Paris. The landscape experiences are then interpreted from a humanistic geography perspective which replaces five chosen excerpts (by Kenneth White, Shiina Makoto, Julien Green, Emile Zola and Pierre Sansot) in their biographical and existential context. The landscape perceptions are analyzed according to a logic which goes from topophobia to topophilia. The article ends on the necessity of incorporating the celestial and cosmic dimension to envisage a nocturnal townscape
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What are the authors who inspired Man and Earth of Eric Dardel, a work that will inspire the movement of humanistic geography and geopoetics ? Among them: Plato, Novalis, Jaspers, Heidegger, Bachelard.
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Humanistic Geography and Geopoetics, expression, poetic footprint, deciphering, humanistic interpretation, Eric Dardel, Kennth White
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Key words : literature, lived space, humanistic and cultural geography, methodology, interpretation
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Since humanistic geography acts as a bridge between art and science, it is broadly concerned with imaginative literature. Writers and poets evoke meaningful places and landscapes in a qualitative and sensitive way. Through literature, the... more
Since humanistic geography acts as a bridge between art and science, it is broadly concerned with imaginative literature. Writers and poets evoke meaningful places and landscapes in a qualitative and sensitive way. Through literature, the geographer may delve more deeply into a concept such as the human experiences of places, and may come to appreciate regional depictions of both physical and cultural landscapes. This is a synthesis of the first major contributions of geographers in the literary field.
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Historical roots of humanistic geography in the French-speaking world. Authors such as : Arnold Guyot, Elisée Reclus, Vidal de La Blache, Eric Dardel
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Clacissism and modernity in geography ; biography of landscapes ; individualization of regional units and cities ; idiographic geography at the times of global cultural homogenization
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Existential philosophy and Humanistic Geography
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Humanistic Geography and Literature : a state of the art 1970-1982, with an emphasis on D.C.D. Pocock (ed), 1981, Humanistic Geography and Literature. Essays on the experience of Place.
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Territoriality, neighborhood, social functions, experience of the city
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Perception and experience of the mountain. European Renaissance. Topophilia. C. Gesner, J.-J. Rousseau
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Geography and literature, landscape and lisibility, geopoetics
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History of cartography, 16th-20th century, regional maps, Lake Geneva
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Contient trois textes de Claude Raffestin, Bertrand Lévy et Armand Brulhart, ainsi qu'un répertoire des cartes et plans présentés sur la la région lémanique et l'espace genevois.
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History of regional cartography of Lake Geneva Region, early maps of the Renaissance, biographical and topographical individualization.
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paru in : Lémaniques, 98, déc. 2015, 2-6.
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A tribute to Claude Raffestin
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Comment of one of the most famous 17th century Dutch landscape painting, The Alley at Middelharnis, by Meyndert Hobbema, Amsterdam, 1689.
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Conférence inaugurale, Université de Gérone, 8-9 oct.2015
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Conférence, Haute Ecole du Paysage, de l'Ingénierie et de l'Architecture, HEPIA, Genève, dans le cadre du cours de Sociologie de l'espace public, org. Blaise Galland
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Book review. PhD dissertation.
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Roman policier sur la disparition d'un professeur d'université en Suisse, déprimé par l'évolution de son université. Inspiré d'un fait réel et hautement révélateur. Detective novel about the disappearance of a university professor in... more
Roman policier sur la disparition d'un professeur d'université en Suisse, déprimé par l'évolution de son université. Inspiré d'un fait réel et hautement révélateur.
Detective novel about the disappearance of a university professor in Switzerland, depressed by the evolution of his university. Inspired by a real fact and highly revealing. Compte rendu/Book Review
Detective novel about the disappearance of a university professor in Switzerland, depressed by the evolution of his university. Inspired by a real fact and highly revealing. Compte rendu/Book Review