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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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Considering the difficult, if not impossible, task of finding political solutions to the health crisis, scientists were often praised as those who should act as real decision-makers. However, contradictory stances may emerge depending on which science is prioritised. And isn’t political decision-making precisely what exceeds the sheer sum of all varied expertise?

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Tania de Montaigne’s performance Noire. La Vie méconnue de Claudette Colvin, a theatrical adaptation of the biography she has written about the American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement, will be shown before her participation in the conversation The problem with universalism.

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The political discourse often claims to be about the people, playing on the vagueness of such a concept. Who feels unconcerned by it? The crisis of political representation might stem precisely from a misunderstanding of what “the people” means. In Les Impatients, a film-essay in the form of a “chronopolitical” series, art theorists Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quirós – founders of the contemporary art curatorial platform A People is Missing – unravel those who are engaged in a movement of reconstruction of the future, of futures, those who carry within them an impatience with regard to a History that now seems motionless, stopped.

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Once praised as a pathway to liberation, universalism is now criticized by new inclusive movements that don’t believe in its emancipatory effect anymore. Is universalism definitely over?

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