Humanities, Arts, Literature and Languages Department

Disciplinary research at Institut Polytechnique de Paris is based on the expertise of its founding schools. Humanities, Arts, Literature and Languages is one of ten disciplinary research fields bringing together top researchers and PhD students at state-of-the art laboratories and facilities. Research in the humanities at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris focuses on analyzing the relationship between science, technology and society by combining the expertise from the various fields of humanities and the social sciences. It aims to develop new knowledge configurations to respond to cross-cutting issues, often situated at the boundaries between the disciplines of epistemology and the history of science, philosophy, history, literature, political science, geopolitics and the study of conflict, sociology, "the cognitive sciences, arts, architecture and sustainable urban planning."