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Speaker Events
Annie Ernaux and Raphaelle Rérolle, 2010
Between current media events and university research, the debates, seminars, meetings organised by the Bpi shed light on modern society and culture.
The series, seminars and debates:
The series of debates are so many meetings in a year or over a period of years, in order to follow the evolution of modern thought and creation.
Some examples of the topics:
- Urban cultures
- Write, write, but why?
- Spotlight on the XXIst Century
- Publishing, a challenge
- Ink and exile: international encounters on the theme of exile literature
The Bpi organises study days or seminars to accompany the major exhibitions of the Pompidou Centre:
- Literature and the Sacred (with the "Traces du sacré" exhibition)
- Does the Future have a future? (with the "Futurisme" exhibition)
- Gender norms in modern creation (elle@centrepompidou)
- Dreamlands (with the exhibition of the same name)
Current issues are covered during the year, linked to what is happening in the cultural field in general or to the programme of the Pompidou Centre.
Invited Speakers
The spoken word promotes the contact with living thought, with its strong points and its questions which come from the encounter with the public or the confrontation with an equal.
This is why there is a mix of expertise and points of view at each event in order to inform and open the discussion: from writers, academics, doctors, designers, story-tellers, members of associations, activists, artists, journalists, all ready to dialogue and exchange. The audience intervenes at will, with respect for different opinions and the time available.
Partners
These programmes provide the Bpi with opportunities to develop partnerships with many bodies, including:
- universities, EHESS, IHEJ, CNRS, IMEC
- various cultural actors like the International Cartoon Festival in Angoulême, the Slam Tribu collective, the Festival of the First Novel in Chambéry, the "Maison du Conte de Chevilly-Larue", Books magazine
- municipalities and libraries
Focus on :
Read, Listen, Watch
- The Speaker Events can be listened to, whenever you want, on the Sound Archives page of the Bpi.
- The web-radio of France Culture presents a selection of recordings in "Culture Académie", in the framework of its partnership with the Bpi.
- Les éditions de la Bibliothèque publique d'information / Centre Pompidou publish the reports of certain seminars in its "En actes" Collection (to be ordered from your bookshop) or in its "Paroles en réseau" Collection (in PDF format, that can be downloaded free of charge).
- De ligne en ligne, the Bpi's free magazine, contains interviews and articles connected with the Library's programme.