It is the responsibility of the scientific committee to define the parameters of research, and to oversee the fulfilling of Ambronay's double mission of the conservation of a valuable cultural heritage, and the dissemination of knowledge pertaining to it. It therefore comes down to the committee to reflect on possible activities which can be undertaken by the Cultural Encounter Centre, in relation to its theme of music and the sacred, to bring together these dimensions in an approach which is at once both historical and contemporary.

Raymond COURT
Emeritus professor of the Jean Moulin philosophy faculty, he has also taught musicology at Lyon III. He has published works including ‘Le musical: essai sur les fondements anthropologiques de l'art', ‘Adorno et la nouvelle musique', ‘Sagesse de l'art', ‘Force et dérive des principes' and ‘Le voir et la voix'.

Michel CUSIN
Linguist, professor and honorary president of the Université Lyon-II, former president of the Conservatoire de Lyon, president of the Villa Gillet research centre and honorary president of the Ambronay Festival.

Jean-Yves HAMELINE
Musicologist and Doctor of theology, who has held teaching positions in Western catholic institutions and at the Insitut catholique in Paris, his subjects include the anthropology and historical sociology of worship and rites, and the musicology of the Christian religion. He has published, among others, ‘Une poétique du rituel'.

Aline TAUZIN
Ethnologist and researcher at the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) in the ‘Psychoanalysis and Social Practices' laboratory, specialising in Islamic societies. She has explored the concepts of the body and of musicality, and has recently published ‘Figures du féminin dans la société maure'.

Sophie WAHNICH
Teacher and doctor of history, and researcher at the CNRS, occupied with study into political sentiment and its relationship with social cohesion and sociopolitical identity. She has recently published ‘La liberté ou la mort, essai sur la Terreur et le terrorisme' et 'Fictions d'Europe: la guerre au musée en Allemagne, en France et en Grande-Bretagne'.

Dates of meetings and publications

Meetings of the Scientific Committee

The publications and reports

Les Actes du colloque ‘musique et sacré', Ambronay Editions founding symposium. The foundation stone in the research topic of the Cultural Encounter Centre.