Why the Humanities matter for Social Sciences: Recent Pedagogical Innovations at the Institute of Political Science/Sciences Po in Paris

Date: 

Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 5:00pm

Location: 

Barker Center, Room 133

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SPEAKER: Delphine Groues, Sciences Po

Doctor in Latin-American studies, Delphine Grouès is currently Sciences Po’s Dean of the Institute for skills and innovation. After having pursued most of her education in King’s College London, she started teaching in this Institution, and joined Sciences Po in 2008 as a lecturer in history. Her research focuses on memory, expression of protest, and popular movements in Chile and the Southern Cone.

In 2010, she was appointed Dean of the Europe-Asia Campus of Sciences Po in Le Havre, France. In 2013, back in Paris, she was asked to fulfill the missions, first as the Executive Dean of the Studies, then as Dean of Studies and Pedagogical Innovation, of the coordination of Sciences Po’s Undergraduate and Master programs, as well as the implementation of academic policies and the development of innovative pedagogic methodologies and tools.

She created the Center for Writing and Rhetoric in 2019 and now also heads Sciences Po's Initiative for Arts and Creation. In 2020, she launched the Institute for Skills and Innovation. She is currently Dean of that Institute.