Doctoral Contract of the Graduate+ ARTS

Call for proposals for a 3 years doctoral contract (2025-2028).

Deadline : 15 May 2025 

ARTS Institute

ARTS (Arts, Research, Territories, Knowledge) was born from the desire of the Jean Monnet University of Saint-Etienne to develop a research and training dynamic about the arts and the societal, territorial, ethical and political questions they raise, in their own way, enlightened by a historical and epistemological approach.

ARTS is based on an original association between the Jean Monnet University, the art schools of the Lyon – Saint-Étienne area (École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Saint-Étienne, École Supérieure d’Art et Design, École de la Comédie) and cultural institutions (Cité du design, Comédie de Saint-Étienne, Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain, Musée d’Art et d’industrie, Musée de la Mine). The consortium thus formed, resolutely open, is built on an ambition of academic and cultural influence.

The scientific direction is ensured by Anne Damon-Guillot, Professor of Ethnomusicology (UJM / ECLLA Laboratory) and Zoé Schweitzer, Comparative Literature Profesor (UJM / IHRIM Laboratory)

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Scientific axes of the Institute

Multidisciplinary and unifying, in accordance with its acronym – arts, research, territory, knowledge, – the ARTS Institute proposes a scientific project that considers doing so at the crossroads of theory and practice, questioning territories through the prism of the traces and memories they draw, within an epistemological reflection that is always attentive to the part of the construction of knowledge and representations. The creative gesture, past or present and without disciplinary exclusion, is thus at the heart of his concerns.

The ARTS Institute is based on the articulation of fields of creation and research, represented by the members of its consortium: design, architecture, theatre, visual arts, digital arts, music, literature. They are considered both as practices and as objects of research and knowledge, in the light of the art sciences, the humanities and social sciences, and the relations between the arts and sciences.

To address these scientific issues, the Institute is organized around four axes, voluntarily open and complementary, in touch with current research and creation, which combine artistic issues and aesthetic questions with the concerns of the humanities and social sciences in a critical and reflective approach. These four axes aim to federate but also to encourage the ideas and projects of the Institute’s members and partners

Inhabiting, Representing, Imagining

“Inhabiting, Representing, Imagining” scientific axis is dedicated to the different ways of inhabiting (and being inhabited by) spaces, times and works. Digital ubiquity, ecological upheavals and intercultural hybridizations of today renew the aesthetic, ethical and social approaches and issues of this question. The work of artists and researchers highlights the different ways, singular or collective, both material and immaterial, of conceiving and organising our presence in the world, to ourselves and to others, of constructing our relationship to our heritage and to the present time as well as anticipating, to the point of utopia, the ways of living-together to come.

Keywords : landscapes, construction, cultural heritage

 

Art, Childhood, Territory

The “Art, Childhood, Territory” scientific axis questions the intersection of art and childhood through the prism of creation and the young public: it is a matter of questioning the proposals and commitments of artists as much as the mediation mechanisms put in place. Based on the model of childhood studies, while not ignoring the historical dimension, this axis wishes to favour multidisciplinarity in order to better understand the societal, aesthetic and political issues that affect projects associating art and childhood, in terms of rights (cultural rights and children’s rights), territories (in particular those, like Saint-Etienne, marked by popular education), inclusion and interculturality. 

Keywords : young audiences, writing, mediation, education

 

Arts X Sciences

The “Arts x Sciences” axis wishes, on the one hand, to shed light on and analyze the relationships that the arts and sciences have maintained in the past in order to better denounce the stereotype of a supposed ancillarity of the arts vis-à-vis the sciences or the prejudice of the uselessness of the artist in the face of the necessity of the scholar. The challenge is, on the other hand, to understand the major changes brought about for creation by the contemporary digital and technological revolution in that it modifies our imaginations and our relationships with the world.

The axis thus encourages projects that study these relationships, old or past, and supports exchanges between arts and sciences, guarantors of knowledge and creativity, through research and creation actions. Past or present, these exchanges between specialists in the arts and sciences, theorists and practitioners, as well as the experiments undertaken, also allow us to take a distanced look at our methods and our disciplinary protocols and invite us to imagine new approaches.

 Keywords: crossovers, complexity, experimentation

 

 

Creation, Training, Research

The “Creation, Training, Research” axis is conceived as a reflective and methodological axis that accompanies and supports the emergence of a Graduate School within ARTS. Its pedagogical innovations, whether it wil be the actions carried out with the support of the SFRI GRADUATE+ project labelled by the ANR, the setting up of a transversal preparatory year for the PhD in the arts or the Arts/Sciences scholarships, are conducive to a critical and dynamic reflection on the current challenges of a training of excellence in the arts based on openness and multidisciplinarity and aimed at developing niche training.

Keywords: innovation, collaboration, methods, pedagogy

Call for proposals