Inalco doctoral students at the service of the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris

This initiative is both a continuation of the collaborations developed between Inalco and partner museum institutions, and part of the dynamic of the Experimentarium program, which trains young researchers in encounters with a variety of audiences.

Each chose a work from the exhibition Brion Gysin. Le dernier musée, inviting visitors to discuss the links it might have with their own research.

The exchanges were particularly rich, with a curious and available audience. Some of the encounters took unexpected directions: several doctoral students were asked to present their research in Armenian, Mandarin or English, while others were offered the chance to speak to laboratories in the future, or discovered new ways of approaching their own work thanks to questions from the public.

This experience enabled the young researchers to gauge just how much interest their subjects could arouse beyond the university setting. Visitors, for their part, discovered another aspect of research, in all its linguistic, cultural and disciplinary diversity.

The scheme also offered PhD students a particularly stimulating space in which to experiment with more flexible, direct and conversational mediation. Rather than a formal presentation, the idea was to create a lively exchange based on a work and a research topic, adapting to the questions and curiosity of each visitor.

This day marks a new stage in the development of Inalco's scientific and cultural mediation actions. It testifies to the establishment's desire to strengthen links between research, artistic creation, cultural institutions and the public.

Through the Experimentarium, Inalco is thus offering young researchers new opportunities to share their work outside the traditional academic framework, while renewing the ways in which knowledge, works and society are brought into dialogue.