The “Locations, Identities, Spaces, Activities” laboratory (UMR 6240 LISA)

The main objective of the “Locations, Identities, Spaces, Activities” laboratory (UMR CNRS 6240 LISA), created on 1 January 2008, is to study the relationship between society and nature in their spatial, temporal and symbolic dimensions. It serves a dual purpose:

• Exploring the paradigm of sustainable development from a unique angle - that of island spaces and societies: the island space becomes a "place" for analysing and understanding the complexity of this concept
• Contributing to the definition of sustainable land management. Here again, the island space can be the "location" for simulating or even experimenting with sustainable development policies

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The Media Library of Corsica and Corsican Culture (M3C)

The M3C is the first open science platform on Corsica that provides free access to publications and research data in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Directly and immediately accessible to any public, it is a tool for the free dissemination of ancient, popular, folkloric and scientific knowledge at the service of the university community of teachers, researchers and students who are taking courses at the Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli.

On 1 January 2008, the “Places, Identities, Spaces, Activities” laboratory (UMR 6240 LISA) was opened in Corte. Dedicated to research in Human and Social Sciences, one of its main lines of action requires a strategy based on new digital technologies applied to the Corsican domain to be set up, at the same time as the question of building a traditional documentary archive centre dedicated to Corsican, and to minority languages and literatures in general. Both of them would replace a scientific function, training through research and a policy of restitution of knowledge to civil society, all three of which are capable of promoting the development of the island through the production and democratisation of knowledge about Corsica.

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The ICPP team

Researchers working on the theme ‘Identities and cultures: the processes of heritage creation’ analyse in an interdisciplinary way (through literature, art, languages, communication, education, history, archaeology, anthropology) and in a Mediterranean perspective the notion of heritage in the Corsican and Mediterranean context.

For the last ten years, the island's heritage has been subject to a very strong social demand, linked to both the assertion of identity and a new tourist market, which makes Corsica a privileged field of study for the analysis of heritage creation processes. The work aims in particular to determine scientific criteria for defining heritage that place Corsica in its Mediterranean area and to propose new tools for development based on digital humanities (Media Library of Corsica and the Corsicans). The ICPP team thus brings an original island perspective to the study of the Western Mediterranean in the literary, linguistic and historical fields. Through the Paul Valéry Chair, a fruitful dialogue between the team's researchers and doctoral students and the best specialists in the Mediterranean world is being established.

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Ongoing projects

Presentation of the Boost Cultural Competence in Corsica (B3C) programme

Developed around the central place given to Corsica in its relationship with its Euro-Mediterranean environment, the research conducted within the B3C project is intrinsically multidisciplinary. Its members (anthropologists, historians, linguists and sociolinguists, literary scholars, specialists in educational sciences and information and communication sciences) work on themes and fields of research that are structured around four themes understood in a comparative approach:

• Corsican language and literature in a multilingual and intercultural framework ;
• Literary, cultural and artistic transversalities ;
• The transformations of a society on the move: modern and contemporary Corsica ;
• The challenges of the heritage creation of local know-how.

The work carried out by researchers in the four B3C themes addresses the following two transversal areas:

• Identities and their reconfigurations as a result of social, political and cultural practices ;
• Cultural creation and the challenges of mediation.

All research activities are supported by the M3C (Media Library of Corsica and the Corsicans). The aim is to produce the tools necessary for the social use of the knowledge and experiments conducted in the laboratory.

General description of the B3C research projects

1. Corsican language and literature in a multilingual and intercultural framework

• Elaboration of a common frame of reference for the Corsican language (coordinator: Nicolas Sorba)
• GymCorsu learning method (coordinator: Dominique Verdoni)
• Al Di Là (ALlarghera di u DumIniu Literariu IsulAnu) (coordinator: Sébastien Quenot)
• Biblioteca di Corsica - Library of Corsica (coordinator: Jean-Guy Talamoni)

2. Literary, cultural and artistic transversalities

• RIMe (Representing Mediterranean Identities) through the arts, performative practices and literature (coordinator: Davia Benedetti, Fabien Landron)
• Anthology: “Corsica and the Corsicans in major speeches (XVIIIth-XXIst century)” (coordinators: Kevin Petroni, Christophe Luzi)
• Insularity - Insularisation: the island and the intimate (coordinators: Jacques Isolery, Alexandra W. Albertini-Schuffenecker)
• Paoli-Napoleon project (coordinators: Jean-Guy Talamoni, Eugène Gherardi)

3. The transformations of a society on the move: modern and contemporary Corsica

• Historical Atlas of Contemporary Corsica (coordinator: Didier Rey)
• Casa Rivarola. A Corsican family in European history (17th-20th century) (coordinator: Eugène Gherardi)
• I Maistrelli: Attori di a suceta corsa da 1900 à u 1945: un arnese di riflessione per a scola d'oghje e di dumane (coordinator: Denis Jouffroy)
• Elements for a climatic history of Corsica, from modern times to the present (coordinator: Denis Jouffroy)
• Research Network “Republic and Republicanisms” (coordinator: Jean-Guy Talamoni)
• Restrictions imposed on families, 'confiscation' of the dead and funeral rites, limitations on human relations in Corsica. What are the societal risks during the COVID pandemic and afterwards? (Coordinator: Vannina Lari)

4. The challenges of the heritage creation of local know-how

• Inventory of traditional Corsican mythical stories (coordinator: Don Mathieu Santini)
• MARE (coordinator: Muriel Poli)
• Understanding of paremias and transmission of cultural heritage (coordinator: Claude Devichi, Muriel Poli)
• Re-appropriation of forestry skills (coordinator: Tony Fogacci)
• The M3C, a tool to be connected to local development issues (coordinator: Julien Angelini)
• Purchasing heritage data for the M3C (coordinator: Christophe Luzi, Sébastien Quenot)

Other scientific platforms and databases of UMR 6240 LISA

LOCUS geomatics platform

The LOCUS geomatics platform is a tool for knowledge, analysis and support for the scientific work of researchers in the context of their research themes.

Corsican Language Data Bank

The Corsican Language Data Bank (BDLC) of the University of Corsica and the UMR LISA 6240 is a database in linguistics and ethnolinguistics.

Other databases of the Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli

University Library

The library offers books, newspapers and magazines, audiovisual documents, theses, electronic resources, organised around 5 thematic areas, which cover all the disciplines taught at the University of Corsica.

Interromania (Associu di Sustegnu di u Centru Culturale Universitariu)

Interromania's goal is to offer a small patrimony of cultural realization made in Corsica, but also to give information, to publish poetic texts or other documents, and to increase the exchange of ideas and points of view about the literature and the culture of Corsica