The RÉMÉLICE laboratory brings together teacher-researchers and doctoral students working in the fields of arts, literature, languages and human and social sciences from an international perspective, with a particular interest in the study of language-cultures and the notion of cultural transfer. Its members study the English-speaking world, Spain, Latin America, Japan, China and the French-speaking world, often with a comparative focus.
The laboratory aims to go beyond disciplinary, national or linguistic boundaries, to study the various existing forms of cultural transfer (links between various forms of art or artistic expression from the visual to the written word, studies on translation and its evolution, intercultural approaches in education, in the working world, etc., relationships between media and politics or media and history...). Its members also examine all related questions regarding the relationship with the other, the very notions of “foreignness” or “strangeness”, cultural heritages, choices of culture/language/society, considering their transfers/transformations in an international context.
RÉMÉLICE is a member of the Federation for the Study of Contemporary Civilizations (FE2C, in collaboration with the universities of Poitiers, Limoges, La Rochelle, Clermont-Ferrand) as well as a member of the ALMOREAL network (composed of the universities of Angers, Le Mans and Orléans), which works on cultural exchanges and intersecting views between the Hispanic and Hispano-American worlds.
In 2018, it joined the newly created EIRE Scientific Interest Group (Irish Studies: Networks and Challenges), launched with the support of the Irish Embassy in France, and which brings together about twenty French and Irish universities.
In 2021, the laboratory also joined the MiDiB Scientific Interest Group (Migrations and Diversities in the British and Irish Isles), which aims to bring together civilizationists, historians, political scientists and sociologists working on the historical, institutional and social issues surrounding the history of immigration in the British Isles in the 20th and 21st centuries in an interdisciplinary perspective.
RÉMÉLICE also nurtures international exchanges with numerous universities in the aforementioned linguistic-cultural areas.