THE AUTHORS
Ariella Azoulay
Ariella Azoulay teaches the visual arts and contemporary philosophy at the Bar Ilan University in Israel. Her latest work, The Civil Contract of Photography, constitutes a fascinating study of the political and ethical status of photography via a discussion of the disasters of contemporary history and the way in which these events and their victims have been presented. This is an unprecedented analysis of the link between photography and citizenship.
Political and ethical power of photography today, Monday 19 October at 19h30, Villa Gillet
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François Beaune
François Beaune was born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1978. He currently lives in Lyon. He has founded a number of magazines, namely Louche, the digital serialisation, ‘Les bonnes nouvelles de Jacques Dauphin’ and, most recently, the fanzine Gonzo. He also launched the cinema festival, ‘Du cinéma à l’envers’, for which directors are asked to make a film from Plasticien poster art. He has also written a unique stage-play, Victoria, which has already been staged in Lyon. Un home louche is his first novel
Dodgy novels, crazy novels, Tuesday 22 September at 19h30, Villa Gillet
Luc Boltanski
Luc Boltanski, born in 1940, is a sociologist. He is currently director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. In the 1970s he founded the journal Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales with Pierre Bourdieu. Disagreeing in part with Bourdieu’s stance on sociological criticism, in 1984 he founded the Groupe de sociologie morale et politique with Laurent Thévenot. He has published Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme (with Eve Chiapello - Gallimard, 1999), La Condition fœtale : Une sociologie de l’engendrement et de l’avortement (Gallimard, 2004) and, most recently, Rendre la réalité inacceptable (Demopolis, 2008) and De la critique : Précis de sociologie de l’émancipation (Gallimard, 2009). He also published an opera with Champ Vallon in 2009, Déluge.
From social criticism to social recognition – towards emancipation ?, Tuesday 10 November at 19h30, Grand amphithéâtre de l'Université Lumière Lyon 2
De la critique - Précis de sociologie de l'émancipation - Gallimard - 2009
Céline Curiol
Beautiful Strangers (1) : the anatomy of feelings, Monday 16 November at 19h30, Villa Gillet
Agnès Desarthe
Agnès Desarthe was born in Paris in 1966. Formerly a student at the École Normale Supérieure and trained as an English-teacher, she began her career as a translator before publishing novels for teenagers. She has also written six novels for adults, such as Quelques minutes de bonheur absolu (L’Olivier, 1993 – Seuil, 2007), Mangez-moi (L’Olivier, 2006) and, most recently, Le remplaçant (L’Olivier, 2009). This book, intended to be the story of Janusz Korczak, a Polish educator who directed a number of orphanages during the Second World War, actually recounts the tale of another great man, the second husband of her grandmother. It is this ‘stand-in’, the mysterious story-teller who becomes the real subject of the novel.
"Seen from elsewhere" // When literature serves as a tribute, Tuesday 29 September at 19h30, Villa Gillet
Jacques Drillon
Jacques Drillon was born in Paris in 1957. He has written over fifteen books (on musicography, grammar, literary criticism, as well as works of fiction). He has also completed numerous translations. Formerly a radio producer and a teacher in linguistics and stylistics at Cergy-Pontoise and Paris-VIII universities, since 1981 he has been a journalist for the Nouvel Observateur. His latest book is about the musician Gustav Leonhardt (Sur Leonhardt, Gallimard, 2009).
Le musicien et son double, ou de l’utilité de l’exercice biographique, Tuesday 9 February at 19h30, Villa Gillet
Éric Fottorino
"Seen from elsewhere" // When literature serves as a tribute, Tuesday 29 September at 19h30, Villa Gillet
Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander was born in Virginia in 1956 where he grew up and studied English Literature and Geology. He then lived in San Francisco, Mexico and Arkansas. Since 1982, he has been living in Rhode Island. He is famous as a poet in the United States where he has published over a dozen anthologies. He is an essayist and translator (from Spanish) and teaches Literature at Brown University. His first novel, As a Friend, has just been published in France.
Beautiful Strangers (1) : the anatomy of feelings, Monday 16 November at 19h30, Villa Gillet
Axel Honneth
Axel Honneth, born in 1949, is a philsopher and sociologist and professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he followed in Jürgen Habermas’ footsteps. He is also director of the Institut für Sozialforschung. He is author or a number of books on social philosophy, namely La Lutte pour la reconnaissance (Éditions du Cerf, 2000), La Société du mépris: Vers une nouvelle Théorie critique (La Découverte, 2006), La Réification : Petit traité de Théorie pratique (Gallimard, 2007) and Les Pathologies de la liberté: Une réactualisation de la philosophie du droit de Hegel (La Découverte, 2008).
From social criticism to social recognition – towards emancipation ?, Tuesday 10 November at 19h30, Grand amphithéâtre de l'Université Lumière Lyon 2
Les Pathologies de la liberté. Une réactualisation de la philosophie du droit de Hegel - La Découverte - 2009
Emmanuel Hoog
Memory, year zero, Thursday 26 November at 19h30, Villa Gillet
Randall Kennedy
Randall Kennedy enseigne le Droit à l’Université de Harvard. Reconnu comme l’un des experts de la question raciale aux États-Unis, il est l’auteur de livres à la fois érudits, provocants et engagés sur la question de la discrimination dans la société américaine (Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word ou Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal). Il est aujourd’hui membre des barreaux du District de Columbia et de la Cour Suprême des États-Unis, de l’Académie Américaine des Arts et des Sciences et de l’Association Américaine de Philosophie. Dans son prochain livre à paraître aux États-Unis, il propose une analyse sans précédent de la campagne présidentielle et du « phénomène Obama ».
L'Amérique d'Obama : "The Race Question", Wednesday 27 January at 19h30, L'Institution des Chartreux
Bernard Lahire
Franz Kafka - Éléments pour une théorie de la création littéraire , Wednesday 10 March at 19h30, Villa Gillet
Franz Kafka, Éléments pour une théorie de la création littéraire - La Découverte - 2010
Vincent Message
Vincent Message was born in 1983. Les Veilleurs plunges us into the world of Oscar Nexus, a misfit who has just killed three people in the street before falling asleep over their bodies. Using this grisly tale as a starting point the novel then leads us into a fascinating exploration of madness and sleep. Using some formulae borrowed from the great Hollywood thrillers, the author paints a picture of the role the imaginary plays in a modern society which is fascinated by virtual worlds and the shady underside of reality
Dodgy novels, crazy novels, Tuesday 22 September at 19h30, Villa Gillet
François Noudelmann
François Noudelmann, professor at Paris-VIII University and “visiting professor” at John Hopkins University, has written several books on the fiction of time. He hosts ‘Les vendredis de la philosophie’ on France Culture and has recently published a book on the relationship between philosophy and music: Le toucher des philosophes. Sartre, Nietzsche et Barthes au piano (Gallimard, 2008).
Le musicien et son double, ou de l’utilité de l’exercice biographique, Tuesday 9 February at 19h30, Villa Gillet
Le Toucher des philosophes. Sartre, Nietzsche et Barthes au piano - Gallimard - 2008
Orhan Pamuk
An exceptional encounter with Orhan Pamuk, Wednesday 7 October at 19h30, L'Institution des Chartreux
Orhan Pamuk receives a medal from the City of Lyon , Wednesday 7 October at 18h00, Villa Gillet
André Pichot
André Pichot, historien des sciences, est chercheur au CNRS. Spécialiste de l’histoire de la biologie, il s’est concentré sur la période contemporaine pour comprendre les interactions entre discours racistes ou eugénistes et la biologie officielle. Il a publié récemment : La Société pure. De Darwin à Hitler (Flammarion, 2001) et Aux origines des théories raciales. De la Bible à Darwin (Flammarion, 2008).
La Villa Gillet accueille l'École Normale Supérieure de Lyon : « Biologie et religion : une fausse antithèse ? », Thursday 28 January at 19h30, Villa Gillet
Alain Planès
Alain Planès is one the most distinguished pianists of his generation. His career as a soloist has led him to participate in the most well-known festivals. He has done a complete recording of Schubert’s sonatas for the label, Harmonia Mundi. This recording has, like all his others (Chopin, Haydn, Scarlatti) been widely praised by international critics. His latest record, Debussy – Estampes / Images inédites, was awarded a ‘Choc’ prize by the Monde de la Musique and the German magazine Fono-Forum.
Roger Pouivet
Roger Pouivet, philosophe, est professeur de philosophie à l’Université Nancy 2. Il est également directeur des Archives Henri Poincaré (CNRS). Spécialiste de philosophie des sciences autant que de philosophie de la religion, il a publié notamment : Après Wittgenstein, Saint Thomas (Presses Universitaires de France, 1997), Qu’est-ce que croire ? (Vrin, 2003).
La Villa Gillet accueille l'École Normale Supérieure de Lyon : « Biologie et religion : une fausse antithèse ? », Thursday 28 January at 19h30, Villa Gillet
Fred Ritchin
Political and ethical power of photography today, Monday 19 October at 19h30, Villa Gillet
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FICHE_Ritchin_Fred_-_French.pdf (644Kb)
Élisabeth Roudinesco
Élisabeth Roudinesco, historian and psychoanalysist, is director of research at Paris VII University and vice-president of the International Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis Society. She is the author of an extremely important book on the history of psychoanalysis and she has published numerous reference books, such as Histoire de la psychanalyse en France (new edition due to be published by Hachette in October 2009 as part of the series ‘Pochothèque’). More recently, she has published a history of perversion: La part obscure de nous-mêmes (Albin Michel, 2007). She has also just published a much-awaited book on the Jewish question and antisemitism with Albin Michel : Retour sur la question juive.
Retour sur la question juive, Thursday 3 December at 20h00, L'Institution des Chartreux
Raphaëlle Rérolle
Raphaëlle Rérolle has been a journalist at Le Monde since 1986. She first worked for the ‘société’ section, then for the Monde des Livres, where she was responsible for foreign literature for ten years, and then for Le Monde 2. She participates to the organisation of the Forum. She is currently assistant director at the Monde des Livres.
Brigitte Salino
Brigitte Salino est critique de théâtre au Monde. Elle signe la première biographie de Koltès. Tout en finesse et retenue, jouant d’un équilibre fragile entre le commentaire des œuvres et les notations plus privées, elle abonde en témoignages de proches, toujours d'une extrême pudeur. C’est le parcours d’une vie qu’elle nous propose ici : celui de la maturation d’une œuvre majeure, celui de l’écriture des pièces, celui d’un voyageur, passionné par l’Autre et l’ailleurs, le désir, celui de l'invention d'une langue pour dire cette altérité.
Bernard-Marie Koltès, une vie, Tuesday 19 January at 19h30, Villa Gillet
Yuri Slezkine
Yuri Slezkine is professor of history and director of the Institute of Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North (Cornell University Press, 1996) and co-directed the work, In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War (Princeton University Press, 2000). His book, The Jewish Century, translated into French as Le Siècle juif by Marc Saint-Upéry, will be published in France in Autumn 2009 by La Découverte
Beautiful Strangers (2) : For an anthropology of minorities, Tuesday 17 November at 19h30, Villa Gillet
Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber, anthropologue et linguiste, est aussi un spécialiste des sciences cognitives. Par son concept d’épidémiologie des représentations, grâce auquel il développe une théorie naturaliste de la culture en général et de la religion en particulier, il a contribué au renouveau des recherches en sciences cognitives sur le sujet. Il a publié, entre autres : La Contagion des idées (Odile Jacob, 1996) et Metarepresentations: A mutidisciplinary perspective (Oxford University Press, 2000).
La Villa Gillet accueille l'École Normale Supérieure de Lyon : « Biologie et religion : une fausse antithèse ? », Thursday 28 January at 19h30, Villa Gillet
Jean-Yves Tadié
Jean-Yves Tadié, a enseigné la littérature française aux universités d’Oxford et de la Sorbonne et est actuellement éditeur chez Gallimard (Folio classique et Folio théâtre). Ses travaux portent principalement sur l’esthétique des genres. Il a dirigé la nouvelle édition d’À la recherche du temps perdu, ainsi que celles des œuvres de Nathalie Sarraute, d’André Malraux et de Walter Scott dans la « Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ». Il a également consacré plusieurs ouvrages à Marcel Proust. Son dernier livre, Le Songe musical : Claude Debussy, a paru en 2008 aux Éditions Gallimard.
Le musicien et son double, ou de l’utilité de l’exercice biographique, Tuesday 9 February at 19h30, Villa Gillet
Richard White
Richard White is professor of history at Stanford University. Until now, his work (Land Use, Environment, and Social Change : The Shaping of Island County, Washington ; The Roots of Dependency : Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos…) has never been translated into French. The Middle Ground, published in English in 1992 was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. It was published in French this year by Anacharsis.
Beautiful Strangers (2) : For an anthropology of minorities, Tuesday 17 November at 19h30, Villa Gillet
