May 2025
Research
Seminars and workshops
Spatio-temporal control of growth and morphogenesis
Jean-Paul Vincent and Yohanns Bellaïche
In this seminar the objective is to understand how organs control their size and shape in a timely manner. The way in which growth, structuring and morphogenesis are coordinated in time and space, both within and between tissues, has far-reaching implications for cancer biology. This seminar will bring together biologists and physicists who share an interest in tissue dynamics during development and homeostasis. Together, they will define the next challenges and the conceptual frameworks needed to try to answer this fundamental question in biology.
Research residencies
Erasmus as a letter writer
Christine Bénévent
The aim of her stay will be to prepare for the publication, profoundly revised, of her doctoral thesis entitled “Erasmus’ correspondence: between the Republic of Letters and Secret Letters. For a study of the relationship between private and public in the sixteenth century”, with a view to its publication by Droz. In addition to the reduction work requested by the publisher in 2004 (it was necessary to go from 870 pages of text to 450 pages), there is now a reorientation of the subject, which aims to better take into account the contributions of the material bibliography and the history of the book to understand the very numerous editions of Erasmus’s letters, wanted by the author or published without his knowledge
Fabric portraits
Sandrine Colard
This exhibition explores the entanglements – material and theoretical – of photography with textiles through histories and geographies, taking the African continent as a link. Beyond the primacy of optics and reproducibility in the understanding of photography, the exhibition will offer new points of view to approach the medium making visible the haptic, gendered, material and decolonial dimensions of photographs.
Creation
The composition prize
Vicente Atria
The objective of this residency is to create a composition commissioned by the Proton Bern Ensemble. This new work will delve into the imagined intersections of the folk traditions of Transylvania and Switzerland, the practices of the European Renaissance, and the early colonial music of the Americas, specifically inspired by the cultural richness of Peru’s viceroyalty.
The author’s residency
Maïa Hruska
Her book aims to shed light on the ways in which a language also, and above all, carries a vision of itself. Who says “I” in a polyglot? How does a polyglot understand other polyglots? Reading their works, their correspondence and their diaries will allow him not only to note the multiplicity of languages that manifest themselves there, but also to capture the moment when “their” language tipped over into strangeness. A language is not foreign, it becomes so.
The photography prize
Dana Cojbuc
The En levko series (which could be translated as Carte blanche or Libre cours), will be part of the continuity of his poetic and plastic research by taking as its starting point the mineral and lunar landscape of the village of Volax, on the island of Tinos in Greece. This work will allow him to deepen his explorations around white, considered in its entirety as colour, presence and essence