Iméra, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Aix Marseille Université, launches its new series of meetings, Ouvertures. It is designed to provide a bright, open space for collective discussion at a time when freedom of research and creation is under unprecedented attack.
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The Ouvertures cycle of meetings is aimed at teacher-researchers, doctoral students and curious, passionate citizens, with the firm intention of preserving a space for intelligence, curiosity and collective discovery in an increasingly gloomy age.
Three meetings per semester, each featuring an Iméra resident who presents an overview of his or her research on a so-called sensitive topic, but one that nevertheless remains a genuine social issue to be discussed together, in complete freedom.
For the first half of 2025-2026, the topics of anti-racism, women's illnesses and bodies, and the price of democracy have been chosen:
- Thursday November 13, 2025: When anti-racism became postcolonial: the anti-racist turn of the 2000s between colonial memory and the "race question" by Itay Lotem, Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster, London, UK.
- Thursday, December 11, 2025: Mon histoire d'amour avec le cancer: l'exploration de la maladie par la BD by Josune Urrutia Asua, artist, illustrator and cartoonist.
- Thursday, January 15, 2026: Le prix de la démocratie - Mondialisation, crises économiques et changements politiques: une perspective historique by Asensio Robles-Lopez, Adjunct Professor at the Pontifical University of Comillas, Madrid, Spain.
Ouvertures lectures take place one Thursday a month from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in the conference room of the Maison des Astronomes de l'Iméra (2 place Leverrier 13004 Marseille).
These meetings will continue in the second half of the year (between February 2026 and June 2026) with three new residents.
For more information and to register: https://www.imera.fr/inscription-a-ouvertures-les-rencontres-de-limera/
About Iméra
Founded in 2007, Iméra, the Institut d'études avancées (IEA) of Aix Marseille Université, sees itself today as a sanctuary of intellectual freedom where a temporary community of top-level international scientists and artists can find the time, space and resources needed to discover, individually and with others, new meaning and content for original interdisciplinary research.
Iméra is part of numerous national, European and global IEA networks and, as such, represents a place open to researchers and ideas from all over the world, without any form of limitation or prohibition linked to their origin or the content of their research.
Article published on Wednesday, November 12, 2025.
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