We offer her our warmest congratulations. 

Bibia Pavard completed her thesis in December 2010, on the subject: “Contraception and abortion in French society (1956-1979: history of a political and cultural change” under the supervision of Jean-François Sirinelli, Professor of contemporary history and Director of the Center for History at Sciences Po.

City of Paris Prize: to encourage research on mal/female relations, promote policies of equality and contribute to the spread of knowledge on these subjects, the City of Paris, in partnership with the Institut Emilie du Châtelet, each year awards a prize for the best Parisian thesis on gender issues.

The Institut Emilie du Châtelet (IEC) was founded in 2006 on the initiative of the Conseil régional d'Île-de-France. Its creation was part of a number of initiatives aiming to combat France’s lag in studies on male-female relations and gender constraints, an area of studies that is booming in other countries due to its intrinsic academic and social interest.

Emilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) was a key player in the spread of Newtonian thought. In 1759 she commented on and translated the Principia mathematica of 1687 from Latin into French. A major contribution was her transposition of Newton’s Euclidean language into the analytical language codified by Leibniz.