12th Rencontres Recherche & Création – Secrets et récits

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!

This 12th edition, dedicated to the theme “Secrets et récits”, will be organized around four sessions linked to the Festival d'Avignon’s program:

• Troubles dans le récit 

• Vérités et mensonges 

• Les tyrannies de l’intime 

• Et s’il pleuvait dans le désert...  

More information to come...

With Émilie Rousset, director of Affaires Familiales

Accompanied by Armelle Andro, Professor of Demography at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Dominique Cardon, Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, Francesco d’Errico, Research Director at CNRS, Jean-Louis Halpérin, Professor of Law at École Normale Supérieure, Pierre Judet de La Combe, Director of Studies at EHESS and Emeritus Research Director at CNRS, Olivier Klein, Professor of Social Psychology at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Jean-Philippe Lachaux, Research Director in Cognitive Neuroscience at INSERM, Didier Lett, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at University Paris Cité, Françoise Rubellin, Professor of French Literature at University of Nantes, Judith Scheele, Director of Studies in Anthropology at EHESS, Benjamin Sultan, Research Director in Climatology at IRD, and other guests.