Monique Dagnaud: ‘My research no longer focuses on the elites but on Generation Z’. What do the elites, communication and young people have in common? Monique Dagnaud, Emeritus Director of Research at the Marcel Mauss Institute (CNRS), explains. In the following interview, Monique Dagnaud, former lecturer at Sciences Po Paris (1977 to 2008) and former member of the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel [French audiovisual regulatory council] (1991 to 1999) and the Supervisory Board of the Le Monde group (2005 to 2010), looks back over her academic career and discusses her research. How and why did you switch from researching the elites to studying communication? The transition was natural. Communication is so important for the elites that it would be contradictory to study these groups without also thinking about communication. Little [lire plus]

The Great Witness Regularly, via its site, the FEDE will offer you the opportunity to meet up with a person who holds, or has held, a particularly important role in the world of teaching, education, training or the construction of Europe.    Catherine Lalumière : “More than ever we need Europe”. Catherine Lalumière has been a minister and elected member of parliament on several occasions; she has held the posts of general secretary of the European Council, and has been vice-president of the European Parliament. Currently she is president of the Maison de l'Europe de Paris (House of Europe of Paris) as well as La Fédération française des maisons de l’europe (The French Federation of the Houses of Europe, le Relais Culture Europe (The European Creative Office) and finally president of the European [lire plus]