Annual-Report-2019

HOST LABORATORIES IN
HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
CENTRE D’ÉTUDES SUPÉRIEURES DE LA RENAISSANCE (CESR)
UMR 7323 - UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS, CNRS
Set up through the initiative of Gaston Berger in 1956 and affiliated at that time with the University
of Poitiers, the CESR became an integral part of the newly established University of Tours in 1970.
Successive agreements in 1983 and 1992 enhanced the institutional links between the CESR and
the CNRS. In 1996 the CESR reaffirmed its commitment to interdisciplinary research into key
themes of European patrimony (for instance, around musicology, art history and the history of the book), in an accord
with the French Ministry of Culture, the CNRS and University of Tours. The CESR celebrated its half-centennial in
2006. The CESR is an education and research centre, which welcomes students and researchers wishing to acquire
an initial or additional university education in all domains of the Renaissance. The CESR’s research programmes are
structured according to disciplinary teams (history, history of art, French, neo-Latin and European literature, philosophy,
musicology, history of science and techniques), research fields and team projects.
CITÉS, TERRITOIRES, ENVIRONNEMENT, SOCIÉTÉS (CITERES)
UMR 7324 - UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS, CNRS
The interdisciplinary research unit (CNRS UMR) CITERES was created in 2004 to
strengthen and structure the research capabilities of the University of Tours on the broad
topic of “Cities, Territories, Environment and Society”, performed by a team of specialists
from sociology, geography, anthropology, history, economics, urban planning, and political sciences. Four research
teams work on archeology and paleontology of the Loire Basin (LAT), on social-political analysis (COST), on the Arab
World and North African Mediterranean (EMAM, and on Environmental and Urban Management (DATE).
INTERACTIONS, TRANSFERTS, RUPTURES ARTISTIQUES ET
CULTURELLES (InTRu) - EA 6401 - UNIVERSITE DE TOURS
Human & Social Sciences 2019
The InTRu research unit was created in 2008 by the art historians Eric de Chassey,
Jean-Baptiste Minnaert, France Nerlich and Pascal Rousseau (Université de Tours).
The aim was to create a formal structure for the work they had started to carry out
together with several colleagues based in other universities, and different institutions, such as museums, art schools
and the Services de l’Inventaire (Inventory of Architectural Heritage), around the methodological issues and historical
investigation of modes of circulation, cultural transfer and legitimisation strategies in the creative industries (visual
arts, architecture, literature, etc.) and cultural practices using images. The team decided to structure their collaboration
around the following research themes: modes of cultural transfer (reception, influence, intertextualities), transmediation
between the arts (visual arts, music, dance, architecture, literature) and hierarchies (image/ text, mass-culture/ high
culture, banal/ unique, etc.). The idea was to advance the study of cultural circulation, by looking beyond simple shifts
from one medium to another, to consider the recycling, translation or transformation of images, and to look at practices
and knowledge acquisition.
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