Research events
from May 6, 2026 to May 7, 2026
Research events
Published on April 24, 2026– Updated on April 24, 2026
Death and Stage-Set up
Location: Université de Lorraine, METZ- Campus Saulcy
Seminar coordinated by Julie Amiot-Guillouet from Heritage reserch center.
Questions relating to death and the anxiety it provokes have been and continue to be driving forces behind the creation of beliefs (and superstitions) designed to imagine it, prepare for it and protect oneself from it, attempting to represent it by sometimes constructing a parallel and invisible world, yet one that is very present and tangible in the collective imagination of a community. Contemporary artistic practices, in all their diversity (theatre, performance, cinema, visual arts), draw on this representation using a variety of staging techniques, which call for an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach in order to bring together a discussion from a range of disciplines (history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, medicine, visual arts, film studies, visual arts, aesthetics).
Welcoming established researchers and doctoral students, as well as health professionals and artists, we will examine the role and agency of actors around these devices (the dead, the living, spirits, ghosts, the undead). In this real or imagined backdrop, what stories and narratives are constructed? How are they received and circulated? What forms of memory are
constructed through these theatrical devices?
Questions relating to death and the anxiety it provokes have been and continue to be driving forces behind the creation of beliefs (and superstitions) designed to imagine it, prepare for it and protect oneself from it, attempting to represent it by sometimes constructing a parallel and invisible world, yet one that is very present and tangible in the collective imagination of a community. Contemporary artistic practices, in all their diversity (theatre, performance, cinema, visual arts), draw on this representation using a variety of staging techniques, which call for an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach in order to bring together a discussion from a range of disciplines (history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, medicine, visual arts, film studies, visual arts, aesthetics).
Welcoming established researchers and doctoral students, as well as health professionals and artists, we will examine the role and agency of actors around these devices (the dead, the living, spirits, ghosts, the undead). In this real or imagined backdrop, what stories and narratives are constructed? How are they received and circulated? What forms of memory are
constructed through these theatrical devices?
