Felwine Sarr, Judith Butler
Cosmopolitique de l’hospitalité
Moderation Debarati Sanyal
octoberoct 19
© Francesca Mantovani, Editions Gallimard et © Collier Shorr ©
Sunday october 19
11h30 - 13h30
Discussion with Felwine Sarr and Judith Butler. Moderation Debarati Sanyal.
École du soir programme Francesca Corona (artistic director of the Festival d’Automne), Mathieu Potte-Bonneville (director of the culture and creation department at the Centre Pompidou), Jean-Max Colard (head of the speech service, culture and creation department, Centre Pompidou), Joséphine Huppert (programme manager, culture and creation department, Centre Pompidou).
In partnership with Résidence Tallard - a KADIST programme, Théâtre de la Ville-Paris, MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, mk2 Bibliothèque × Centre Pompidou, La Casa do Povo, La Maison des Métallos, Fauvettes City Club and Les Chichas de la pensée
The Centre Pompidou and the Festival d'Automne à Paris are co-producers of this project and present it as a co-creation.
As part of the Centre Pompidou's Constellation programme.
With the support of
For more than 50 years, the Centre Pompidou and the Festival d'Automne have been contributing to the redefinition of the cultural landscape, based on a bold commitment to creation, and thus making contemporary arts shine nationally and internationally. Drawing on a long-standing collaboration, the two institutions are teaming up this year around an ambitious program, honouring the creation of choreographer Noé Soulier and musician and visual artist Tarek Atoui, as well as that of the performer and filmmaker Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha. Together, the Centre Pompidou and the Festival d'Automne also imagine an «Evening School», thought and orchestrated by the philosopher and economist Felwine Sarr.
With their long tradition of conferences, debates and dialogues on ideas, the Centre Pompidou and the Festival d'Automne have come up with a new format: a popular Evening School, open to the imaginations, works and questions of the 2025 edition. To think about community, Felwine Sarr proposes first of all to reflect on a cosmopolitics of hospitality, in conversation with the American philosopher Judith Butler.
Hospitality has often been thought of as an ethical obligation, rooted in the practices of human societies, to welcome the foreign. How can we move from the ethical injunction of the duty of hospitality to a right to hospitality? How can we move from favour (or culture) to law, by establishing a pragmatic principle that would be part of a cosmopolitics of hospitality? What are the resources that make it possible to conceive of a vast social space on the scale of humanity and to build a common world?
Born in Niodior in 1972, Felwine Sarr is a Senegalese economist, writer, musician and academic, now professor of African philosophy at Duke University. Co-founder with Achille Mbembe of the Ateliers de la pensée and the Jimsaan publishing house alongside Nafissatou Dia and Boubacar Boris Diop, he has developed a body of work that combines research, narrative and music, and is attentive to the transformations of the contemporary world.
Judith Butler is an American philosopher and a major figure in contemporary philosophy. She teaches at the University of California at Berkeley and has developed a body of work inspired by Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser and Monique Wittig. She is the author of Gender Trouble (1990), a seminal work on gender studies. In 2012, Butler was awarded the Theodor Adorno Prize and was the Centre Pompidou's intellectual guest in 2023-2024.
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