Night of Ideas
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Institut francais
  • About
  • What’s On
  • Before the Night
  • Who’s who
  • UK-Wide
  • Partners
  • Info
  • Replay the Night


  • Welcome Remarks: Rebuilding Together

    18:00–18:50 - Ciné Lumière – Opening

    Onsite & Online

    Bertrand Buchwalter, Cultural Counsellor of the French Embassy to the UK and Director of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, will launch the Night of Ideas 2022. This new edition will focus on “Rebuilding Together”.

    Opening address, online, by Philippe Descola, anthropologist and Professor at the Collège de France, author of Beyond Nature and Culture.
    Opening address, by artist Zineb Sedira, who represents France at the 59th Venice Biennale.

     

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    See the livestream on Youtube
    Watch the Facebook Live



  • Making The Most Of Making

    19:00–19:50 - Les Salons – Debate
    Onsite
     
    The recent crises have made way for unbridled creativity and inventiveness. Artists, craftsmen, and architects are designing new ways of experiencing the world. To what extent will they shape our post-Covid future?
     

     

    Hybrid event with

    • Emmanuel Tibloux, Director of the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (online)
    • Zoe Laughlin, Director of the Institute of Making, University College London (onsite)
    • Jasmina Cibic, Artist (onsite)
    • Douglas McMaster, Chef and Founder of the 0-waste restaurant Silo (onsite)

    Chaired by Caroline Till, Designer (onsite)
     

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  • A Guide To Living In An Apocalypse

    20:10-21:00 - La Médiathèque – Debate
    Onsite
     
    There is no way back in history, no point in trying to return to some kind of normal situation. If, as Rosa Luxembourg put it a century ago, economic catastrophe is the intrinsic, normal mode of existence for capital, shouldn’t we rethink the very concept of a Crisis? To put it less dramatically and in Bruno Latour’s words, the metaphysics of confinement and deconfinement could well be the opportunity for a metamorphosis.

     

    Hybrid event with

    • Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Associate Professor of African Anthropology (onsite)
    • Jack Stilgoe, Professor in Science and Technology Studies, University College London (onsite)
    • Olivier Remaud, Philosopher and Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (online)
    • Daniel Innerarity, Professor in Political Philosophy, University of Saragossa (online)

    Chaired by Tim Beasley-Murray, Associate Professor of European Thought and Culture, University College London (onsite)
     

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