Claire Bourhis-Mariotti, Isaac Mason. Isaac Mason, une vie d’esclave

La collection « Récits d’esclaves » des Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre permet au public français et plus largement francophone de découvrir une sélection de récits d’esclaves essentiellement issus d’Amérique du Nord. Inaugurée en 2012 par la publication du récit de William Wells Brown, un classique étatsunien du genre, la collection continue de s’étoffer et consacre son cinquième volume, paru en 2021, à la traduction inédite d’une œuvre très peu connue d’un côté comme de l’autre ..

Cécile Cottenet (ed.), Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America

Cet ouvrage, publié sous la direction de Cécile Cottenet, constitue le prolongement d’un colloque international organisé à l’université Aix-Marseille en 2012. Il vient enrichir un domaine de recherche multidisciplinaire pour lequel chercheurs français et étrangers montrent depuis plusieurs années un intérêt grandissant. En effet, les études présentées se situent à la croisée des disciplines de l’histoire du livre et des études ethniques (notamment les études afro-américaines), mais aussi des ..

Cécile Cottenet (ed.), Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America

Cet ouvrage, publié sous la direction de Cécile Cottenet, constitue le prolongement d’un colloque international organisé à l’université Aix-Marseille en 2012. Il vient enrichir un domaine de recherche multidisciplinaire pour lequel chercheurs français et étrangers montrent depuis plusieurs années un intérêt grandissant. En effet, les études présentées se situent à la croisée des disciplines de l’histoire du livre et des études ethniques (notamment les études afro-américaines), mais aussi des ..

Language in autism: domains, profiles and co-occurring conditions

This article reviews the current knowledge state on pragmatic and structural language abilities in autism and their potential relation to extralinguistic abilities and autistic traits. The focus is on questions regarding autism language profles with varying degrees of (selective) impairment and with respect to potential comorbidity of autism and language impairment: Is language impairment in autism the co-occurrence of two distinct conditions (comorbidity), a consequence of autism itself (no comorbidity), or one possible combination from a series of neurodevelopmental properties (dimensional approach)? As for language profles in autism, three main groups are identifed, namely, (i) verbal autistic individuals without structural language impairment, (ii) verbal autistic individuals with structural language impairment, and (iii) minimally verbal autistic individuals. However, this tripartite distinction hides enormous linguistic heterogeneity. Regarding the nature of language impairment in autism, there is currently no model of how language difculties may interact with autism characteristics and with various extralinguistic cognitive abilities. Building such a model requires carefully designed explorations that address specifc aspects of language and extralinguistic cognition. This should lead to a fundamental increase in our understanding of language impairment in autism, thereby paving the way for a substantial contribution to the question of how to best characterize neurodevelopmental disorders

The LifeCycle Project-EU Child Cohort Network : a federated analysis infrastructure and harmonized data of more than 250,000 children and parents

Early life is an important window of opportunity to improve health across the full lifecycle. An accumulating body of evidence suggests that exposure to adverse stressors during early life leads to developmental adaptations, which subsequently affect disease risk in later life. Also, geographical, socio-economic, and ethnic differences are related to health inequalities from early life onwards. To address these important public health challenges, many European pregnancy and childhood cohorts have been established over the last 30 years. The enormous wealth of data of these cohorts has led to important new biological insights and important impact for health from early life onwards. The impact of these cohorts and their data could be further increased by combining data from different cohorts. Combining data will lead to the possibility of identifying smaller effect estimates, and the opportunity to better identify risk groups and risk factors leading to disease across the lifecycle across countries. Also, it enables research on better causal understanding and modelling of life course health trajectories. The EU Child Cohort Network, established by the Horizon2020-funded LifeCycle Project, brings together nineteen pregnancy and childhood cohorts, together including more than 250,000 children and their parents. A large set of variables has been harmonised and standardized across these cohorts. The harmonized data are kept within each institution and can be accessed by external researchers through a shared federated data analysis platform using the R-based platform DataSHIELD, which takes relevant national and international data regulations into account. The EU Child Cohort Network has an open character. All protocols for data harmonization and setting up the data analysis platform are available online. The EU Child Cohort Network creates great opportunities for researchers to use data from different cohorts, during and beyond the LifeCycle Project duration. It also provides a novel model for collaborative research in large research infrastructures with individual-level data. The LifeCycle Project will translate results from research using the EU Child Cohort Network into recommendations for targeted prevention strategies to improve health trajectories for current and future generations by optimizing their earliest phases of life.Peer reviewe