Discover the 2023-2024 scientific activity report from Iméra, the Institute for Advanced Study of Aix Marseille Université. It presents the researchers in residence, their activities, awards, publications and more.
Key information from the report
- 2023-2024 researchers in residence
- Iméra welcomed a class of 24 academic researchers and artists over the two semesters, from a variety of disciplines and countries.
- This class includes a significant number of researchers at the start of their careers, whose stay at Iméra seems to have had a positive impact on their scientific career (CNRS recruitment, career advancement in their country of origin).
- Research programmes
- Arts & Sciences: Indisciplined Knowledge: Confirmation of its cross-disciplinary nature and welcoming of the first holder of the Research and Creation Chair in Cancer and Immunology, in partnership with the ICI Institute.
- Interdisciplinary Explorations: A Senior fellow was selected to hold an Amidex Chair of Excellence, a circumstance that led to the creation of a new Transdisciplinarity and Complex Systems Chair that Iméra will hold from 2025-26.
- Mediterranean: Intensification of the programme’s activities with the launch of the ‘Belonging in the Mediterranean/Belonging to the Mediterranean’ cycle.
- Necessary Utopias: Welcoming the first holders of the CNRS-LEST ‘Worlds of Labour’ Chair and strengthening Iméra’s role in the CNRS ‘Groupe de réflexion nationale sur le travail’ (National focus group on work).
- Activities and events
- Organisation of seminars, conferences and workshops, including the ‘Inter-disciplines’ lecture series and artistic events such as the ‘Drawn Perspectives’ seminar.
- The development of dance and drawing as fields for theoretical discussion, but also as a tool for capturing and reproducing the objects of research.
- Iméra’s first participation in the Festival d’Avignon, as well as the Festival de Sciences sociales de l’EHESS, the organisation of the sixth Franco-German Mediterranean Forum and the start of a stable collaboration with the Camargo Foundation.
- Publications and awards
- Publications in academic journals and collective works.
- Awards for residents, such as the Annelise Thimme Article Prize for Dominique Reill.