12th Rencontres Recherche & Création – La Traversée des secrets

Arts, fiction, and live performance continuously enrich our experience of the world and our reflection, while the scientific approach, through analysis, observation, and experimentation, constantly pushes the boundaries of knowledge. Research advancements bring new insights, showing how culture is a key driver of human evolution and the formation of societies. Now more than ever, both culture and research must engage their forces in describing the world, reflecting on it, and inventing.

By bringing together artists featured at the Festival d’Avignon and scientists from various fields, these Rencontres help resonate the ideas behind the works and the most recent research. It is a new space for sharing knowledge created with the public to think differently about the present world!

In the presence of Milo Rau, director of LA LETTRE – Pièce commune / Volksstück.

Joan of Arc and Her Contemporaries: A Fragmented Figure
Claude Gauvard, Professor Emerita of Medieval History, University Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne, Senior Honorary Member of the Institut Universitaire de France

Smuggling Traffics: Reality, Imagination, and Fiction
Jean-Marie Schaeffer, CNRS Research Director, Director of Studies at EHESS, Philosophy and Aesthetics (partner of the SublimAE project, funded by the ANR)

Plural Histories of the Stage
Alice Folco, Professor of Theatre Studies, Director of the LITT&ARTS Research Unit, University of Grenoble (member of the HERMES – Patrimoines en devenir project, funded by France 2030)

The Bodily Inscription of Emotions
Béatrice de Gelder, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Maastricht University

With Milo Rau, director of LA LETTRE