For all November performances, tickets go on sale starting Tuesday, October 18th (Tuesday October 11th for subscribers.)
The Enlightenment – a philosophical dictionary
Revolution
Thursday, November 3rd at 6 :30 pm
From the Age of Enlightenment to our present era of Globalization, what echoes can be heard, what breaks in historical continuity have occured ? If, as is the case, intellectuals have been debating our entry into the « post modern » age for over 30 years now, it seems that we are experiencing a return, in new shapes and forms, of the questions and the stakes that rocked the « critical century ». From new claims for freedom to the conflictual relationship between politics and religion, from Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopedia to Wikipedia…in order to debate all of this, the Collège Interntional de Philosophie invites you to a series of lectures where 18th century historians and philosophers whose critical thinking targets the contemporary world, will weave together with words from the enlightenment and during a whole series of encounters, the blueprint for what Voltaire referred to as a « Philosophical Dictionary »
With Sophie Wahnich and Olivier Roy
Hosted by Mathieu Potte-Bonneville
Sophie Wahnich is Research Director at the CNRS. Historian and specialist of the revolutionary period, she investigates from this historical vantage point, representations of the foreigner, violence and war. She has published, amongst other works : L’impossible citoyen, l’étranger dans le discours de la Révolution Française / The impossible citizen: the « foreigner » in discourse of the French Revolution (Albin Michel, 1997-2010), and La Longue patience du peuple, 1792, naissance de la République / Interminable Patience of the People : 1792 and the birth of the Republic (Payot, 2008).
Olivier Roy is Research Director at the CNRS and Professor at the EHESS. Political Scientist and world renowned specialist of Islam, much of his work deals with the relationship between the political and the religious. Amongst his many published works are: Le Croissant et le chaos / The Crescent and Chaos (Hachette, 2007) et La Sainte ignorance/ Saint Ignorance (Seuil, 2008).
In partnership with the Collège International de Philosophie
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Roger Blin Auditorium / All tickets 5€
Bords de plateau / The edge of the stage
NO83
Saturday, November 5th at 5.30pm
Hosted by Laure Adler.
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Roger Blin Auditorium / free admission upon reservation : present.compose@theatre-odeon.fr or 01 44 85 40 44
The writer’s salon
Anne-Marie Garat
November 8th and 9th at 6.30pm
Anne-Marie Garat was born in 1946 in Bordeaux.
Tuesday November, 8th at 6:30 pm: How do images become fiction ?
Encounter with Philippe Ortel, specialist in the relations between literature and photography. How do images become « writing » ? Anne-Marie Garat and Philippe Ortel will discuss the unique relationship the writer maintains with the world of images, notably with photography, and how this interest affects her representation of the world and intervenes in the elaboration of her work
Wednesday November 9th at 6 :30 pm : What writing for the contemporary world ?
A meeting with Arlette Farge, historian
How does the novel « speak with History » ? How are stories born ? Often with their endings it seems. In this way, the present is dictated by yesterday. Arlette Farge and Anne-Marie Garat will dialog around the confrontation between Romanesque fiction and History as means for acquiring knowledge.
In partnership with Actes Sud
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Roger Blin Auditorium / All tickets 5€
Literature and politics
Antonio Negri
Critical Trilogy : Prometeo (couch critic)
Saturday, November 12th at 8pm
With Marc Bodnar, Gilles David de la Comédie-Française, Pierre-Félix Gravière, André Marcon, Julie Pilod, Laurent Poitrenaux, Nina Greta Salomé, Vincent Schmidt
Toni Negri is one of the inescapable figures in our contemporary political theory landscape. A young professor of philosophy at the university of Padua during the 1960’s and 70’s, he was one of the primary thinkers of the Italian Autonomist movements. His political commitment led to his being one of the most wanted men in Italy and he was obliged to spend number of years in exile in France and then in prison back in Italy, before being finally acquitted for good. His essay Empire, co-written with Michael Hardt, followed by Multitudes and Commonwealth, became in the early years of 2000, a world-wide bestseller and has since become one of the landmark theoretical reference books of the anti-globalist movement. His theatrical work, which to date is composted of two trilogies, is the logical extension of his political thought and political action. His quest is nothing less than « a theatrical dialogue capable of expressing resistance, doubts, the choices, necessities, pain but also the desire to live – together – with less suffering. » The three plays in his Trilogy of Resistance, develop a « critique of politics », « a critique of arms » and « of the couch ». (Arte TV web site.)
Prometeo is being read for the very first time in France.
The Man who laughs (a critique of « the political ») and Renzo the activist (a critique of arms), two plays from the Trilogy of Resistance, will be performed at the Théâtre Gérard Philipe from November 18th-November 28th, 2011 (for more information go to : theatregerardphilipe.com).
in partnership with Courrier international
Series « Literature and politics », co-produced by : France Culture
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Main auditorium / Tickets: 12€, 6€
Debate/Encounter
Rafael Chirbes
« The boomerang strategy »
Wednesday, November 16th at 6.30pm
A dialogue between Rafael Chirbes and Camille Laurens
Reading by Catherine Argand
Debate hosted by Jean-Maurice de Montremy
Where does the power of novels come from ?
Rafael Chirbes, one of today’s great European writers, offers us a literary manifesto for the 21st century with his « The Boomerang Strategy ». From Cervantes to Proust and Vargas Llosa, from Lucretius to Marx and Walter Benjamin, Chirbes opens our literary workshop by examining the tools and working with the present. What René Char called « the furious craft » : « Literature – like lovers – takes revenge upon those who don’t take the risk of touching the limits. » In 1977 for his novel Cremation (published in France by Rivages), Rafael Chirbes received the Critica National Prize, the highest distinction awarded by Spanish critics.
In partnership with Alma éditeur.
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Roger Blin Auditorium / All tickets 5€
Concert
Rodolphe Burger
Wednesday, November 16th at 8pm
The Song of Solomon and A tribute to Mahmoud Darwich.
With
Rodolphe Burger guitar and voice
Mehdi Haddab oud
Julien Perraudeau bass and keyboards
Yves Dormoy electro and clarinet
Rayess Bek Arabic songs
Ruth Rosenthal Hebrew songs
As part of the 4th Arab Spring at the Odeon.
This show, created in March 2010 on the stage of the Théâtre Molière in Sète, is a double tribute by Rodolphe Burger to Alain Bashung and to Mahmoud Darwich, a reflecting mirror of two sublime love songs.
The Cantique des Cantiques / The Song of Solomon – translated by Olivier Cadiot – is sung in a version with two voices, the Hebrew text being sung by the Israeli singer Ruth Rosenthal from the group « Winter Family » (that you discovered during the Impatience Festival in 2011). An excerpt of Jean-Luc Godard’s film, Notre Musique, will then give us the opportunity to hear the unique voice of Darwich.
The second part of this performance is a totally new musical creation inspired from the poem « S’envolent les colombes / And the doves fly » translated by Elias Sanbar. This poem appears to be an Arabic reply to the Songs.
« As you know, I studied in an Israeli school and certain books from the Old Testament in Hebrew, were on our school curriculum. I read the Bible as a literary work and not as a religious or historical reference. Three texts in the Old Testament are extremely poetic and denote a profound human experience : Job, The Ecclesiastics and the Son of Solomon. The Song of Solomon is considered a pure masterpiece by the greatest poets in history.. It’s ancestors can be found in Egypt of the Pharos and in Mesopotamia. » Mahmoud Darwich, Conversations about Poetry.
Co produced by the Compagnie Rodolphe Burger, Scène Nationale de Sète and du Bassin de Thau (associate producer), Wart
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Main Auditorium / Tickets : 32€ – 24€ – 14€ – 10€ (series 1, 2, 3, 4)
Unesco's Day / Philosophy Week
The Arab Spring : A revolution of the « Word » ?
Thursday November 17th, from 9.30am to 1pm
With Mathieu Potte-Bonneville, Barbara Cassin, Françoise Balibar, Wissam Arbache...
As part of the 4th Arab Spring at the Odeon..
The political upheavals, first amongst them the Tunisian Revolution, have opened up a whole new cycle of freedom in the Arab world and notably, the freedom of speech, which cannot be reduced to its simple slogans. The dynamic phrases, the songs and formulae that were invented during the uprisings, have transformed the symbolic distribution of social space and genres, and gone as far as totally disrupting the vocabulary of our own democracies and upsetting and overturning the names we would be tempted to use to talk about such events. Rather than evoking too quickly as if it might restrict the novelty of what is happening, the « Arab Enlightenment », composed of philosophers, poets and men and women of theater, has searched and questioned together, this profound shock that has left its imprint all over language, building a critical vision from a few fragments and the testimony of these remarkable phrases and gestures.
In partnership with Unesco and the Collège International de Philosophie
> Unesco – salle 4, 125 rue de Suffren, Paris 15e. Free Admission / reservation required, consult the web site ciph.org
Philosophical Crossroads
Gisèle Sapiro
«Is the Writer Responsible ?»
Thursday, November 17th at 6.30pm
Can the writer say everything and if not, what are his or her limits ? Have they evolved or are certain prohibitions and taboos permanent ? Must a writer say all, and if such is the case, do the laws of the Republic of Letters oblige him to infringe those of Power and Morality ?
Gisèle Sapiro is research director at the CNRS and runs the Centre Européen de sociologie et de science politique / European Center for Sociology and Political Sciences.
In partnership with le Seuil
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Roger Blin Auditorium / All tickets 5€
Leonis’s « Music at Noon »
Cendrillon
Friday, November 18th at 12 noon
The Leonis quartet will perform a musical show in conjunction with the play Cinderella
With
Guillaume Antonini Violin 1
Sébastien Richaud Violin 2
Alphonse Dervieux Alto
Jean-Lou Loger Cello
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Roger Blin Auditorium / All tickets 5€
Unique Performances
Jean-Louis Trintignant
November 18th and 19th at 8 pm, November 20th at 3pm
Three libertarian poets / Prévert, Vian, Desnos
Accompanied by Daniel Mille, accordion, Grégoire Korniluk, cello
Gabor Rassov director Orazio Trotta lighting director
Jean-Louis Trintignant, who is going to climb on stage at the Odeon Theater for the very first time will be reading 20 poems from the works of Jacques Prévert, Boris Vian et Robert Desnos.
«The inspiration that is shared here by these three poets is that of fantasy, comicalness and a talent for juggling with words, all finely honed by the three masters’ pens. (…) This is followed by a more political overtone, militant texts (…) Trintignant embodies a man who is looking at his imminent death, and in one last mortal leap, he gives it shape through language. A man face to face with the end, staring it down, the portrait of a man that the three poets depicted with such brilliance and verve »
Nicolas Blondeau, Le Progrès / Progress.
Series «Literature and Politics » coproduced by France Culture
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Main Auditorium / Tickets: 32€ – 24€ – 14€ – 10€ (séries 1, 2, 3, 4)
The Enlightenment today
– a philosophical dictionary
Europe
Thursday, November 24th at 6.30pm
with Chantal Mouffe and Marc Crépon
Debate hosted by Diogo Sardhina
Chantal Mouffe is professor of political theory at the University of Westminster in London. Her work has highlighted the concept of « agonism », which she prefers to pure antagonism, and in which contemporary Europe appears as a new space for its blossoming. Amongst her many publications are Le Paradoxe de la démocratie / The Paradox of Democracy (London, 2000) and On Politics (London, 2005).
Marc Crépon is researcher at the CNRS in Paris. He has written about Europe from a historical, political and philosophical point of view, concentrating most notably on the diversity of its languages. The idea of participative democracy occupies a place of predilection in his writing. He is the author of, amongst other works, La Guerre des civilisations / The War of Civilizations (Paris, 2010).
In partnership with the Collège International de Philosophie
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin Auditorium / All tickets 5€
The Gaze of the Other
Sex and seduction
Tuesday, November 29th at 6.30pm
An encounter with Elaine Sciolino
On the occasion of the publication of a special issue of the review Books on sexuality, a reflection on the meanderings and pandering of seduction. Paris correspondent for the New York Times, Elaine Sciolino published in 2011, La Seduction : How the French Play the Game of Life (Times Books). She has previously published books on the Irak of Saddam Hussein and another one on Iran.
In collaboration with the review « Books »
> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Roger Blin Auditorium/ All tickets 5€
