Night of Ideas - Institut français du Royaume-Uni

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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Common Good For Common Ground

19:00–19:50 - Ciné Lumière – Debate
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Common good is what cements society and binds people as a civic collective. But after decades of increasing individualism and a palpable decrease in a defined national identity, shouldn’t we now care more about a global common good? Isn’t the G20’s landmark decision of making multinational companies pay their fair share of tax around the world a step in that direction?

Hybrid event with
- Mariana Mazzucato Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London (onsite)
- Philippe Aghion, Economist, College de France, INSEAD, and London School of Economics (online)
Chaired by Julian Limberg, Lecturer in Public Policy, King’s College London (onsite)

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What’s Essential? Tales From Lockdown

20:10–21:00 - Ciné Lumière – Debate
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The pandemic has made us reflect on what is crucial to our well-being, reshuffling the social order. How do we define what is necessary and what is optional? Who should decide about it? Putting this reflection on the political agenda seems unprecedented in the history of mankind. Now it’s time for essential thinking about what’s essential.

Hybrid event with
- Elif Shafak, Writer (onsite)
- Tim Waterman, Associate Professor in Landscape Theory, University College London (onsite)
- Timothée Parrique, Degrowth Activist (online)
Chaired by Agnès Poirier, Journalist (onsite)

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A Planet Of Everyone’s Own

21:20–22:10 - Ciné Lumière – Debate
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During this last decade, the refugee crisis, the dramatic acceleration of climate change and the pandemic has made us question the limits to citizenship and international mobility. On the one hand, emergencies of all sorts have made state borders suddenly look old-fashioned, while on the other hand, frontiers have been elevated to a level of importance and scrutiny absent in Europe since the Second World War.

Hybrid event with
Chaired by Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, Journalist (onsite)

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The State In All Its States

22:30–23:20 - Ciné Lumière – Debate
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Whether weakened by the power of big cities, undermined by mistrust towards political elites, or its national sovereignty infringed upon by supranational entities, the State, in the European sense of the term, has undergone a severe crisis during the last decades. However, the emerging need to strengthen Health and Education sectors, to name but two, has redefined the role of the State once more.

Hybrid event with
- Bobby Duffy, Professor of Public Policy, King’s College London (onsite)
- Alain Supiot, Professor Emeritus in Law, Collège de France (online)
Chaired by Alan Rusbridger, Editor in Chief of Prospect (online)

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Welcome Remarks: Rebuilding Together

Common Good For Common Ground

What’s Essential? Tales From Lockdown

A Planet Of Everyone’s Own

The State In All Its States