100 years of conferences in Monaco: discover the program
The anniversary edition honors emblematic personalities of the Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation.
The Foundation gives you several appointments on Mondays, at 6:30 p.m., at the Théâtre des Variétés.
- Monday January 16: Dany Laferrière – “Racism in America”
The Little Treatise on Racism in America, which appears in January 2023, is his 36th book. Dany Laferrière invites us to go through this long night streaked with violence and tenderness that goes from the cotton fields of the South to the factories of the North.
- Monday January 30: Bruno Podalydès – “The speed of film” (Interviewed by Jacques Kermabon, film critic)
Talking about the rhythm of a film means looking at the direction of the actors, the way the camera embraces the space, the duration of the shots, the biases of the editing, a whole set of parameters that will be discussed. on the occasion of this meeting with Bruno Podalydès, punctuated by the screening of extracts from his films.
- Monday, February 6: Hélène Carrère d’Encausse – “The revolutionary feminism of Alexandra Kollontaï”
Russian aristocrat, Alexandra Kollontaï rejects very early her environment, her country and prefers the revolution and the world. In 1917, she was a minister in Lenin’s first government, although women only took up this post after the Second World War. Five years later, she is the first female ambassador in history.
- Monday, February 13: Philippe Rahm – “Climate Architecture”
The fight against climate change obliges architects and town planners to take precise control of the climate issue, in order to base their design on a better price taking into account the local climate context and resources. Having acquired an international audience in the field of architecture and sustainable development, Philippe Rahm is offering a conference around this theme, which is more topical than ever.
- Monday, March 6: Georges Vigarello – “The body and its cultures: the surprises of a journey”
Returning to a professional career, retracing a slow intellectual search, cannot lack subjectivity, even frank illusion. How to avoid intimate drifts, false interpretations, the traps of the ego? How to reason with fairness on an itinerary seen “from the inside”? How, moreover, to make it communicable, comprehensible, sufficiently generic and revealing to make it share?
- Monday, April 17: Jean-Marie Rouart – “Writers respond to our deep aspiration for justice”
Many writers have entered into a struggle against injustice. Voltaire, Balzac, Hugo, Zola, Mauriac, have committed themselves with all their might to defend the innocent. But more broadly, writers respond in their books outside the legal order to another aspiration: to offer a fairer world. Jean Marie Rouart is a writer and journalist, author of around thirty books, mainly novels.
- Monday, April 24: Julian Anderson – “Music composition as a cultural crossroads”
Julian Anderson, composer, winner of the 2023 Grawemeyer Composition Prize, comments on his oratorio Exiles, created in 2022 under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle. It will highlight the multiple links that connect this work, as well as his other recent works, to his participation in the Music Council of the Prince Pierre Foundation.
- Monday, June 5: Barbara Cassin – “Expose an idea”
Philosophers are used to expounding their ideas: they practice the art of speaking, giving lectures, lectures and public interventions; they also know how to write and publish articles and books. In recent years, Barbara Cassin has wanted to exhibit her ideas through “exhibitions”, in institutions that are no longer universities but museums, and how this has appeared to her as a necessity, including a philosophical one.