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Festival des anomalies 2026

Festival in Nancy
  • The Festival des Anomalies is a cultural and scientific event for the general public, exploring the frontiers of knowledge, perception and human experience. It features lectures, fun events, hands-on workshops, exhibitions and performances focusing on so-called "atypical" phenomena: exceptional experiences, consciousness, creativity, intuition, the paranormal, human and cognitive sciences.

    Workshops include
    - Cafés des anomalies
    - Ludomalies
    - Mysteries at the Chanomalies Festival" Escape...
    The Festival des Anomalies is a cultural and scientific event for the general public, exploring the frontiers of knowledge, perception and human experience. It features lectures, fun events, hands-on workshops, exhibitions and performances focusing on so-called "atypical" phenomena: exceptional experiences, consciousness, creativity, intuition, the paranormal, human and cognitive sciences.

    Workshops include
    - Cafés des anomalies
    - Ludomalies
    - Mysteries at the Chanomalies Festival" Escape Game
    - Concert by the Atelier Choral
    - Space for speaker interviews and dedications
    - Art exhibitions
    - Role-playing games with an original scenario
    - Public broadcast of the podcast Le très sérieux Collège de Patapsychologie

    13 lectures:
    Emmanuel-Juste Duits and Renaud Évrard: Face à face avec l'invisible : dialogue entre EJD et RE (for the collective book Face à l'invisible : paranormal, du mythe à la réalité, Kimé)
    Julie Ewa: Au-delà: quand l'expérience défie la science (Novel, Albin Michel)
    Renaud Evrard: La finalité, le paranormal et la science (Editions IMI)
    Jonathan Giné: Camille Flammarion et les fantômes (JMG Editions)
    Romain Jallet: 16 cas de clinique des expériences exceptionnelles (Dunod)
    Keynote: Yann Caroff: Non-human intelligences (1h)
    Fanny Charrasse: La terre des enchantements (postdoc in progress)
    Estelle Barthélémy: Hypersensitivity (thesis in progress)
    David Galley: Des enfants pas comme les autres (L'opportun)
    Fabrice Défontaines (Tarrin): Baffling experiences: the paranormal told in comics
    Sylviane Bauer-Motti: La médiumnité ordinaire (essay in progress)
    Mallory Clément: Phenomenology of hauntings (JMG éditions)
    Claude Berghmans: Le concept de "forme-pensée" et le processus de visualisation (published article)

    Organized by the AnHomalies association, the Interpsy laboratory of the Université de Lorraine, with the support of the Orion Program: dare research and the MJC Lillebonne.
Services
  • Services
    • No pets allowed
  • Rates
  • Free
Schedules
  • From April 4, 2026
    until April 5, 2026
  • Saturday
    10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
  • Sunday
    10:00 AM - 6:00 PM