July 2025
Research
Seminars and research workshops
Shared Logic
This research workshop organized by Julie Brumberg-Chaumont aims at the scientific structuring of the ‘Network for the Interdisciplinary Study of Logic’ (Interlog network). The network proposes to study logic as a boundary object, logic as structure, norm, competence, and discipline, understood within a variety of social, cultural, and political configurations, within an intercultural and global approach to logic. The meeting will allow for the creation of a common language as well as a foundation of shared skills and methods.
The physiology of inter-organ communication
This seminar organized by François Leulier and Irène Michel-Aliaga, invites us to discover the complex network of interactions between the organs of an organism. The aim is to study the different ways in which organs communicate with each other, the influence that external factors such as diet or microorganisms have on these exchanges, and finally, the plasticity of the organism, meaning its ability to adapt by “reprogramming” this communication to maintain balance in the face of disruptions.
Research residency
A study of gender dynamics in Iranian film adaptations of American literature
Zahra Nazemi’s study examines how Iranian cinema adapts American literature, with a particular focus on gender politics. It explores how Iranian filmmakers incorporate cultural elements such as dress, religion, and social roles, reshaping American concepts of masculinity and femininity to fit Iranian cultural and ideological frameworks.
Heritage residency
The correspondence between Jacques Rivière and Jean Schlumberger
Olivier Dhénin will study the correspondence between Jacques Rivière and Jean Schlumberger published by Jean-Pierre Cap at Schlumberger’s request in 1980. It is essential for anyone who wants to understand the genesis of the foundation of the Nouvelle Revue Française of which Rivière became the emblematic director. [learn more]
Author’s residency prize
Olivier Ciechelski continues his stay at the foundation to write his next novel, which tells the story of Nora, a very religious young woman who joined the police in the hope of bringing justice and peace to the streets of her city. This book falls within the genres of noir fiction, vigilante movie, fantasy, and the Golden Legend.
Jean-Noël Orengo returns to residency for his project Paris and the Nothing, in which the narrator, Noël Stavisky, has become the personal secretary of Alberto Giacometti and Samuel Beckett. They see him more as a model than a secretary, and encourage him to undertake extreme experiences necessary for their inspiration. [learn more]
Archives Prize
Ophelie Colomb‘s project will revolve around the preparatory manuscript of ‘Souvenirs de la cour d’assises’ by André Gide: archives straddling law and literature’. This project aims to fill a gap in the landscape of genetic editions of Gide’s work and invites the exploration of the intertextual relationships that bind Gide’s archives and judicial archives. [learn more]
Photo Exhibition
Karine Pierre
The photographs of our winner of the 2021 photography residency prize will be exhibited at the Jacqueline de Romilly media library in Draguignan in the Var, from July 5 to August 31. Her project “Shredded Lands” tells the story of the Gaza Hospital building in Beirut, which was destroyed by the militiamen of the Shiite party between 1985 and 1987, and has become an empty shell to which refugees and migrants flock. Gaza Hospital has thus become a condensation of the history of migratory movements from the eastern basin of the Mediterranean Sea. Free entry. [learn more]