On November 7, 2007, the Alcazar – Regional Municipal Library in Marseille hosted the first meeting of Iméra, the Institute for Advanced Studies (IEA) of Aix-Marseille University (formerly named Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Research).
This meeting was held in partnership with Espaceculture / Marseille, Marseille Provence 2013, and the Alcazar Library registered “under the sign of Averroes”.
In this context, 3 round tables were organized:
- The idea of crisis
- The crisis of science, and then what?
- The Mediterranean, a state of permanent crisis?
Around the question of “Crisis Outputs,” the capacity of scientists to isolate, analyze, and treat this phenomenon was interrogated through the reflections and points of view of different participants and researchers, including philologists, philosophers, epistemologists, doctors, geologists, physicists, psychologists, mathematicians, political scientists, historians, sociologists, etc. Three round tables, moderated by Thierry Fabre, thus addressed the main stages of this initial reflection. Participants first examined the concept (The idea of crisis). They then focused particularly on the field of science (The crisis of science, and then what?). Finally, the debate analyzed the political, historical, and scientific question through the case of the Mediterranean (The Mediterranean, a state of permanent crisis?).
Discover the round tables of Iméra’s first public meeting
Presentation of Iméra by Bernard Morel
Presentation of Iméra by Robert Ilbert
Session 1 – The idea of crisis – The philosopher’s view – Intervention by Pierre Livet
Session 1 – The idea of crisis – The physicist’s view – Intervention by Jacques Pantaloni
Session 1 – The idea of crisis – The philologist’s view – Intervention by Gilles Dorival
Session 1 – The idea of crisis – The geologist’s view – Intervention by Pierre Choukroune
Filmed by Khamis Mesbah and published by the MMSH.
