How can interdisciplinarity lead to the construction of new knowledge, and under what optimal conditions? How can we bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and everyday/social behavior? How can we take better account of the diversity of the Mediterranean? These issues are the DNA of the Institut d'études avancées d'Aix-Marseille Université (IMéRA), which has welcomed nearly 330 academics, thinkers and artists since 2009.
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IMéRA: a place of welcome and interdisciplinarity
Anchored in the scientific ecosystem of Aix-Marseille University, IMéRA is also an active member of three national and international networks of advanced study institutes (RFIEA, NETIAS and UBIAS). Each year, IMéRA plays host to an international community of academic and artistic excellence, conducting its research in a framework of maximum intellectual freedom, and taking its time.
Residencies at IMéRA are open to a wide range of profiles. Whether informal or structured, they provide an appropriate space for cross-fertilization of ideas, as well as the initiation or deepening of interdisciplinary cooperation. Whether it's a weekly seminar attended by all residents, a series of workshops, discussions behind closed doors or by invitation, or events open to more or less targeted audiences, these different types of meetings give each researcher the opportunity to share his or her renewed questioning.
Diverse research
The institute's research activities are organized around four programs:
- Arts and sciences: undisciplined knowledge
- Interdisciplinary Explorations
- Mediterranean
- Necessary Utopias
For the academic year 2022-2023, 27 researchers in residence are carrying out research ranging from the synchronization of speech movements in people who stutter to the revival of psychedelics as a treatment for depression, or from the modernity of a 14th-century Arab thinker to the mediation of minority narratives in museums.
Visit the Iméra website to find out more about our residents and our academic activities.
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