Cultural and Discursive Interactions (ICD)

The interdisciplinary research group ICD (EA 6297) allows the collaboration of academics working in the Letters, Languages, Human Sciences sector: English, German, Spanish, Italian, Latin, French and comparative literature, performing arts, musicology and philosophy.

Its 2024-28 programme, «The Individual and the Collective», is structured around three themes:
•    Area 1: The individual in the political/public arena.
•    Area 2: Individual practices and literary, artistic and scientific traditions.
•    Area 3: Minorities and the Collective; Gender Studies; Environmental Humanities.

Research topics: 

Culture and politics, colonial and postcolonial studies, democracy and federalism, liberalism and neoliberalism, freedom and censorship, analysis of discourse (of a political, literary and artistic nature), translations, constructions of identity, gender studies, representations of the body and relationship between human being and nature.

Skills and know-how:

• Cultural history of the ancient (Greek and Roman), modern and contemporary worlds (in a French-, English-, German-, Spanish- and Italian-speaking context)
• Literature and the analysis of discourse (press, politics, philosophy)
• Analysis of musical, iconographic and filmic discourses
• Gender studies and studies pertaining to identity
• Environmental Humanities