March 2025
Research
Seminars
For a genetic critique of mathematics
This seminar organized by Emmylou Haffner and David Rabouin focuses on the first stages of mathematical activity, in particular drafts, texts left aside in the study of archives, to better understand the production of mathematical knowledge. The use of methods of genetic criticism, which have shown their fertility in literature, philosophy or linguistics, will allow both to better understand the history of mathematics, but also, and above all, to provide historiographical and epistemological tools and methods for more comprehensive analyses.
Studying epigenetic inheritance at the interface of developmental genetics and evolutionary biology
The workshop organized by Christian Braendle and his team aims to discuss and develop interdisciplinary approaches, both empirical and theoretical, to the evolution of epigenetic inheritance – ranging from perspectives in molecular, cellular and developmental genetics to those in ecology, population and quantitative genetics. Nematodes of the genus Caenorhabditis will be used as model organisms. [learn more]
Research residencies
The Meyers in Simard, Saône-et-Loire, 1940-1945, a family story of survival.
Jean-Marc Dreyfus plans to tell the story of his maternal Alsatian Jewish family who took refuge in a small village in Saône-et-Loire, Simard, during the Second World War. The aim will be to integrate the story into various recent perspectives of the historiography of the period, from the microhistory of the Shoah to the new history of the Resistance, with a reflection on the position of the historian faced not with the writing of oneself, but with that of one’s family. [learn more]
The Young Researcher Prize
Each year, the Fondation des Treilles awards a prize of excellence to young researchers at the end of their thesis in order to recognize the originality and relevance of their research. For the year 2025, the scientific council of the foundation, chaired by Professor Pascal Ory, member of the French Academy, has crowned 33 new winners from the 124 applications received. [learn more]
Creation
The musical composition prize
Vicente Atria
The goal of this residency is to create a 25-minute composition commissioned by the Ensemble Proton Bern. This new work will delve into the imagined intersections of Transylvanian and Swiss folk traditions, European Renaissance practices, and early colonial music of the Americas, specifically inspired by the cultural richness of the Viceroyalty of Peru. [learn more]
Residency
The intercontemporary Ensemble
During his residency, musicologist Jean-Louis Leuleu will discuss Pierre Boulez’s Livre pour quartet with four soloists from the Ensemble intercontemporain, formed as a string quartet: Jeanne-Marie Conquer (violin), Diego Tosi (violin), Odile Auboin (viola) and Renaud Déjardin (cello). The work will be performed in several concerts (the first on March 17 at the Musée Picasso in Antibes) before being recorded for the album in 2025.
Exhibition
Château de Lourmarin: Travels
To pay tribute to its creator, Robert Laurent-Vibert (1884-1925), the Fondation de Lourmarin Laurent-Vibert is dedicating an exhibition to the travels he loved so much. On this occasion, the Fondation des Treilles is presenting the photographs of Clément Chapillon and Mohammed Mahdy, taken during their respective residencies in 2019 and 2024. To be discovered at the Château de Lourmarin from March 22, 2025.