Visiting professors

Inter-university hosting programme

The CONFLUENCE Sciences & Humanities Research Center (EA1598) welcomes international researchers and professors.

The aim of this programme is to foster collaboration with UCLy's research faculty on common scientific themes.

The hosting periods must be compatible with the annual university programme (excluding school holidays) and range from one to six months. The researcher is hosted on the Carnot or Saint Paul sites in the city center of Lyon (Rhône - 69).

A scientific advisor, member of the UR CONFLUENCE Sciences & Humanities, accompanies the visiting researcher during his/her stay. The Research Center is also available to help with administrative procedures.

You can apply by contacting the Research Vice-Rectorate headed by Pr Valérie Aubourg: direction.recherche@univ-catholyon.fr.

Unité de recherche CONFLUENCE : Sciences et Humanités – EA1598

Université catholique de Lyon
10, place des Archives – 69002 Lyon, FRANCE

Visiting professors

  • 2023

    Aviad HEIFETZ

    Professeur en mathématiques, Open University of Israel

    Professor Aviad Heifetz is a mathematician specialising in game theory. In recent years his research focuses on behavioural ecology and on political theory emanating from the thought of Simone Weil.  He co-edited, with Denis Charbit, a volume of Hebrew translations of Weil’s essays.

    At the Open University of Israel he served as the executive vice president for academic affairs during the years 2014-2017. He developed, among others, courses on economic and social justice.

    His research stay will be supervised by Dr Francesca Simeoni from Pôle 2. In particular, he will be working with her on the Weilian reinterpretation of the Good in Plato and on other projects based on Simone Weil’s thought.

    Hosting research group: Group #2 / Bible, Literature and Ancient Cultures

    Hosted in June 2023


    Carla CANULLO

    Professor of Philosophy, University of Macerata, Italy

    Carla Canullo is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Intercultural Hermeneutics at the University of Macerata. She is interested in the French philosophy of the XX and XXI century. Before working on contemporary philosophy, she dedicated part of her research to Maine de Biran, a philosopher to whom she wrote her thesis at the University of Perugia in 1997 (the other part was devoted to the Philosophy of Mind and in particular to Louis Lavelle and René Le Senne). As a translator and specialist of Jean Nabert, she then studied contemporary French phenomenology (notably Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry and Jean-Louis Chrétien). She has also been interested in questions of contemporary hermeneutics, to which she has devoted a research project on the question of translation as a method of intercultural hermeneutics.

    Four major publications attest to this path: oscienza e libertà. Itinerario tra Mainde de Biran, Lavelle, Le Senne (Naple 2001) ; La fenomenologia rovesciata. Percorsi tentati in Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, René le Senne (Turin 2004) ; L’estasi della speranza. Ai margini del pensiero di Jean Nabert (Assise 2005) ; Il chiasmo della traduzione. Metafora e verità (Milano 2017 ; translation into Portuguese in 2020). More recently she has dedicated a book to Michel Henry: Padecer la immanencia. Diálogos con Michel Henry (San Luis de Potosi, 2022).

    The CV and the complete list of her publications is available by following the link: https://docenti.unimc.it/carla.canullo

    She is currently hosted at the Institut des Études Avancées – Collegium de Lyon, where she is conducting her research on the project “From vulnerability to vulnerabilities: the contribution of philosophy” within the “Chaire d’Université Vulnérabilités – Université Catholique de Lyon”.

    Hosting research group : Chaire d’Université Vulnérabilité / Chaire d’Université Vulnérabilités – UCLy

    Reception from February 2023 to June 2023


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Research support team

Its mission is to promote the research activities of the Confluence: Sciences and Humanities Research Center (EA 1598), and to report to the Research Vice-Rectorate, which is responsible for coordinating all research-related issues at UCLy.