Night Talks - Paris, zone de frictions

"PARIS, ZONE DE FRICTIONS"
Saturday April 2
From 7:00 to 9:30 pm

A group of PSOE mem­bers, refugees in Paris due to Spanish civil war, 1955.

An evening’s dis­cus­sion ani­mated by Françoise Vergès (polit­ical sci­en­tist; Chair Global South(s), Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris) and her guests Gerty Dambury (author, play­writer) and Léopold Lambert (The Funambulist).
As a part of the City of Paris "Night Talks" pro­gram

Paris : an "open city", a refuge zone, a ter­ri­tory of artistic exchanges ; it is also the stage of fric­tions, of con­flicts, even of evic­tions. A place where deci­sions are taken that affect the cir­cu­la­tion and pres­ence of trav­el­ling and migrating bodies on a much larger scale. Paris where since the begin­ning of the 20th cen­tury artists and intel­lec­tuals from all around the globe gather, will­ingly or not, fleeing for some the rise of Nazism, for others the spanish civil war, or closer to us, the syrian con­flict. Taking as a starting point some of the paths weaving through the exhi­bi­tion Groupe Mobile at Villa Vassilieff and a short selec­tion of texts, this evening’s dis­cus­sion invites to draw the com­plexity of the cir­cu­la­tions that con­sti­tutes Paris’ intel­lec­tual, artistic, social and polit­ical space, between hos­pi­tality and rejec­tion. Together, we will wonder how those mul­tiple nar­ra­tives can nur­ture the way we look at pre­sent times, reflect on them and act upon them.

In asso­ci­a­tion with the Global South(s) pro­fes­sor­ship at Collège d’études mon­di­ales, FMSH.