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 Radouan Mriziga, dancer and choreographer of Magec / the Desert.

Floods in the Desert
Benjamin Sultan, Director of Research, Climatologist, Institut de recherche pour le développement (lead of the project ESCAPE, and partner of the ANR-funded projects AfrADAPT, AFRICOOLING, STEWARd, ANORHYTHM, PICREVAT)

Water, Desert, Societies and Climate Change
Marie Revel, Lecturer, Quaternary Paleoclimatologist, GéoAzur Laboratory Earth, Ocean, Space, UMR 7329 CNRS – UR 082 IRD, Université Côte d’Azur (lead of the project NILAFAR, funded by the ANR)

The Sahara, Crossroads of the World
Judith Scheele, Director of Studies, EHESS, Anthropology

What If the Desert Wasn’t One?
Vincent Battesti, CNRS Research Fellow, Anthropology, Eco-anthropology Laboratory (UMR 7206), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle

A Million Years of Bodily Culturalization
Francesco d’Errico, CNRS Director of Research, Archaeology, Pacea Laboratory (De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie), Université de Bordeaux (Co-leader of the QUANTA project, ERC Synergy Grant 2020)

Encounter as Brushstroke: Engravings and Sacred Mountains from Angola to Tuscany
Cécile Fromont, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

With Radouan Mriziga director of Magec / the Desert