MIGRACT
This project is meant as an intervention within the global redefining of “postcolonial studies” which has taken place over the past 20 years. It explores notions of mobility and migration through a questioning of the impact of Humanities, and especially Arts, on public life. It relates to REMELICE’s two research areas, namely: “Interculturality and educational transmission” and “Cultural fact and citizenship”.
The multidisciplinary research team specializes in arts, languages, culture and education. We are currently working on a corpus of literary and artistic representations of migrations with a focus on geographic and cultural areas - French, English, Spanish and Japanese - which belong to REMELICE’s areas of expertise.
This corpus aims to:
- Analyze the literary and artistic propositions and angles in relation to migrations
- Explore new lines of investigation associated with mobility, migration, flow, uprootedness and displacement.
The exploration of mobility and migration through art and its aesthetic receptions proposes a shift from border control, activism, political, legal or diplomatic strategies, towards subjectivity and cultural representations. Such a shift will question the ideological models that support the notions of integration and assimilation in the chosen cultural areas. It will also highlight what Alexandre Gefen calls “useful” cultural productions when “literature proclaims itself useful because it relates to experiences of thoughts of moral value, and it allows us to recapture otherness in a fragmented society that is organized around individuals.”
The partnership implemented with ERCAE (Educational Sciences - University of Orleans) is aimed at reaching out to the specific issues of educational practices. We wish to rethink the social and educational integration of migrant children with the support of a domain (arts) that is often overlooked in this particular curriculum (for newly arrived populations).
This project encompasses the visual arts, languages and participatory sciences in their capacity to develop dynamics of co-creation with local communities. It considers the works of artists (migrants or not) as informative and ethical resources or, to put it another way, as ways of knowing and of thinking related and adapted to integration and education.
- Key words: migration, emigration, immigration, representations, art, culture, education, languages, language learning, identity.
- Project leader: Geneviève Guetemme
- Scientific committee: Brigitte Natanson (Spanish studies), Kerry-Jane Wallart (Anglophone studies).
- Project website: https://migract.msh-vdl.fr/
| Access the Canal U page for the study day “Migrating and eating: never without my smartphone” on April 25, 2022: |
| https://www.canal-u.tv/chaines/iehca/migrer-et-manger-jamais-sans-mon-smartphone |
INSULARITIES AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUES
This project is led by Catherine Pélage, Françoise Morcillo and Mayumi Shimosakai (Rémélice EA 4709, University of Orléans), Sophie Large (ICD EA 6297, University of Tours) and Vicente Cervera (Escrituras Plurales: Intertextualidad e Interdisciplinariedad E061-11, University of Murcia). It is supported by Rémélice and the MSH Val de Loire.
The aim of this project is to carry out innovative research on insularity by bringing together, in a resolutely international, intercultural and interdisciplinary perspective, researchers working in areas of mediation that are rarely tackled in French academic circles. The result will be original research on insularity and cross-views involving all five continents.
It addresses several objectives:
- A theoretical objective: to take stock of research in the human sciences on insularity.
- An analysis of poetics: research into the writing of island worlds, conceived as a changing cultural heritage linked to the issues of the contemporary world.
- “Voices of Insularity”, a project to disseminate texts and translations of works by little-known island authors, and to renew existing literary cartographies.
- A series of cultural events in relation with the Region, “Insularity at a Glance”, bringing together researchers and creators.
Powerpoint presentation of the project:
Publication of two collective works
- Catherine Pélage, Françoise Morcillo, Mayumi Shimosakaï (éds), , Écrire et vivre les insularités. Inspirations littéraires, Paradigme, Orléans, 2022, 444p.
- Catherine Pélage, Françoise Morcillo, Mayumi Shimosakaï (éds), Pensées insulaires. Aspirations socio-culturelles, Paradigme, Orléans (o be published in 2022).