DECRIPT launch day

The official launch of the DECRIPT program - Dispositif d'Étude des Crises et des Récits cIvilisationnels par la Pluridisciplinarité et les Terrains - will take place from 9am to 6pm, in the presence of the project leaders and consortium partners, and Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Distinguished Professor of History, Irving & Jean Stone Chair in Social Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles), who will deliver an inaugural lecture in the morning entitled "Empires, nations, réseaux: les fabriques des récits civilisationnels".
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The day will provide an opportunity to present the scientific objectives and aims of this multidisciplinary research program, led by Inalco with 15 partner institutions and over 40 stakeholders.

The afternoon will be devoted to the presentation of digital exploration tools that will be mobilized as part of the program, followed by collaborative workshops aimed at opening up discussion between researchers and practitioners from partner institutions, around working groups declining the interactions between civilizational narratives, conflicts and governance arrangements in several key regions.

Project funded by France 2030 - Programmes de recherche en Sciences humaines et sociales (AMI-SHS)

Programme for the DECRIPT program launch day

Morning - Plenary session in the PLC auditorium (9am-.12h)

8:30am - Welcome and coffee (Foyer)

9-9:20am - Official opening of the program

  • Welcome and introduction by Jean-François HUCHET, President of Inalco
  • Address by Guillaume BORDRY, Advisor for Higher Education and Research, General Secretariat for Investment
  • Address by Philippe BAPTISTE, Minister of Higher Education and Research

9:20-9:40am - Scientific stakes and perspectives of DECRIPT

  • Delphine ALLÈS, vice-President of Inalco, scientific manager of DECRIPT

9:40-10:10am - Public action and DECRIPTages

  • Didier LE BRET, Director of the Diplomatic and Consular Academy (MEAE)
  • Véronique VOULAND-ANEINI, Deputy Director of Geographies, French Development Agency (AFD)
  • Post-doctoral projects: LLouise BEAUMAIS; Alexandre GANDIL; Zoé QUETU; Pierre-Louis SIX; Jan-Markus VÖMEL

10:30am-12pm - Inaugural lecture "Empires, nations, networks: the factories of civilizational narratives"

  • Sanjay SUBRAHMANYAM, Distinguished Professor of History, Irving & Jean Stone Chair in Social Sciences, UCLA

12:15-1:30pm - Buffet lunch in the garden of the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations

Afternoon - Thematic and participatory workshops (1:45-5:30 pm)

1:45-2:20pm - Enhancing and DECRIPTing the field: new tools for digital exploration (auditorium)

  • Kevin LIMONIER (deputy director of the Géode laboratory, Université Paris 8)
  • Mathieu VALETTE (ERTIM, Inalco)

2:30-5pm - Parallel thematic workshops by WP (rooms to be specified)

  • Instruments and training for research (WP2) - room 4.10
  • Civilizational narratives, universalisms and multilateral governance (WP3) - room 4.07
  • Indo-Pacific - Focus China (WP4) - room 4.14
  • Africa - Focus Sahel (WP5) - room 4.06
  • Middle East - Focus Near East (WP6) - room 4.15
  • Europe-Eurasia - Focus Ukraine (WP7) - room 4.17

5-5:30pm - Synthesis, agenda and perspectives (auditorium)

  • Introduction by Rima SLEIMAN, Vice President Research, Inalco
  • Cross-referenced presentations from the thematic groups
  • Conclusions and agenda
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