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 Thomas Ostermeier, director of Le Canard sauvage.

Memory and Attention
Jean-Philippe Lachaux, Research Director in Neuroscience, INSERM, Neuroscience Research Center, Lyon (lead of the projects ATOL, SEMAINE, MLA, and partner in the projects INNERSPEECH and FORCE, funded by the ANR)

Modesty and Indecency Online: The Boundaries of Intimacy
Dominique Cardon, Professor of Sociology, Sciences Po, Medialab (partner in the projects ALGODIV, ALGOPOL, and WEBFLUENCE, funded by the ANR)

When the Child Disturbs
Alain Ehrenberg, Sociologist, CNRS Emeritus Research Director

The Intruder’s Theorem
Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, Professor of Aesthetics and Film History, Université Paris Nanterre, Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (member of Labex Arts H2H and EUR ArTec, funded by France 2030)

The Unspoken in Marivaux’s Theatre: Between Concealment, Desire, and Revelation
Françoise Rubellin, Professor of French Literature, Nantes Université (lead of the projects EarlyPerf, CIRESFI, and POIESIS, funded by the ANR)

With Thomas Ostermeier, director of Le Canard sauvage