The CTELA Lab is a major research laboratory within the Faculty of Humanities, while the AOEE Lab is a prestigious laboratory affiliated with the Faculty of Science. Both are part of UniCA, University of Côte d'Azur (FR)
CTELA, research group joined in 2018
The CTELA is dedicated to the study of literary texts from Antiquity to the present day and develops a reflection on the problems of analysis and interpretation of artistic practices, as they arise in dance, music and theatre. One of the main objectives of the CTELA is to closely link artistic theory and practice. Its research programme is organised around four themes:
Theme I, Mimesis: literature and representation :
literature, history of theatrical art.
Theme II, Poiéma: genesis and forms of poetic creation:
poetry and performance, avant-gardes.
Theme III, Writings of singularity and otherness:
Literature-arts and migration, displacement, otherness, cultures.
Theme IV, Practices of the living arts:
Arts and creation, dance, music, photography, theatre, living arts and digital.
Multidisciplinary Research Group, AOEE, joined in 2017
Université Côte d’Azur (FR)
The world’s first research center dedicated to asymmetry!
This interdisciplinary project aims to answer a range of fundamental questions by combining perspectives from diverse fields. Asymmetry plays a major role across all scales of biology — from the spiral twist of DNA to the heart’s position on the left side, or even our preference for one hand over the other. Proteins themselves, essential building blocks of life, exhibit asymmetric structures dating back to the origins of life.
Is there a connection between all these forms of asymmetry? This question reaches across many scientific domains: genetics, neuroscience, paleontology, developmental biology, biochemistry, astronomy, and fundamental physics, among others.
To support the development of research centered on asymmetry, the creation of a European research institute is currently under consideration. This future structure aims to bring together not only the natural sciences but also the social sciences and economics to explore these issues collaboratively, and shed light on fundamental questions such as:
What does it mean to be right- or left-handed? Are we anatomically asymmetrical? Is asymmetry everywhere?
Asymmetry has also been skillfully discussed in a program on France Inter — you can listen to it by following [this link].
Through the creation of this institute, Université Côte d’Azur intends to establish a virtual, transdisciplinary infrastructure that will promote academic exchange — including conferences, presentations, and summer schools held at the university — offering a collaborative framework for leading researchers while fostering innovative education.
AOEE