[ACADEMIC EVENT] Collegium de Lyon: introduction of the 2024-2025 fellows

The 17th cohort of the Collegium de Lyon cover around a dozen fields, in which the researchers will work in close partnership with 11 laboratories of the Lyon Saint-Étienne site. The researchers come from all over the world: Austria, Bulgaria, Egypt, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. Their residency at the Collegium de Lyon will last for 4 or 10 months, with arrivals in September and throughout the year.
 

Researchers who arrived in September 2024

Eight researchers are winners of the European FIAS program and will stay for 10 months:

• Patience Epps, American linguist (Esoteric speech forms in Amazonia: new perspectives on linguistic diversity), Dynamique du Langage laboratory.
• Tommaso Giordani, Italian historian (Solidarism and social Catholicism: interactions, networks, rhetorics (1880-1914)), LARHRA and Triangle laboratories.
• Ian Goh, British researcher in Latin literature (The Role of the Farm Manageress (vilica) in Columella’s De Re Rustica Book 12), HiSoMA laboratory.
• Magdi Guirguis, Egyptian historian (Beyond "Islamic Society": Non-Dhimmi Christians in Ottoman Egypt), LARHRA laboratory.
• Svetla Koleva, Bulgarian sociologist (Non-hegemonic theory and post-Western spaces of scientific knowledge production: the case of Central and Eastern European Sociologies), Triangle laboratory.
• Lena Magnone, Franco-Polish historian (Helene Deutsch and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis), IHRIM.
• Shawn Mc Hale, American historian (Violence, Peace, and Vietnamese Engagements With ‘Original’ Buddhism in Asia, 1900-1989), Institut d’Asie Orientale.
• Arno Riedl, Austrian economist (How Background Uncertainty Shapes Social Preferences: Behavioral and Neural Evidence), GATE Lyon/St Etienne.

In connection with other funding programs and invitations, the Collegium is also delighted to welcome:

• Alberto Frigo, Italian philosopher (Life in a frame: modern philosophy and the invention of the feeling of mortality (1580-1778)), 4-month stay, IRPHIL, in collaboration with LABEX COMOD.
• Peter Niesen, German political theory professor (Can Constituent Power Be Split? Pouvoir Constituant Mixte and Public Authority in Contested Orders), 6-month stay, IRPHIL.
• Tiago Pires Marques, researcher at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra (Mental health in search of the “social”), 3-month stay, IHRIM

Other researchers will join the Collegium in the 2^nd semester.

The residencies will be accompanied by scientific work in the form of seminars, conferences and symposiums organized throughout the researchers’ residencies, along with the scientific community in Lyon and various actors from the socio-economic sector. Please note that the Start of the Academic Year Ceremony of the Collegium de Lyon will take place on November 04, 2024.

Sign up for the 2024/2025 intake introduction day

More information on the Collegium de Lyon website