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Reading at the Cluny Museum
Monday, March 8th at 7pm
Rutebeuf, «Et il ventait devant ma porte»
Reading by Olivier Py, texts chosen and presented by Michel Zink, Professor at the Collège de France, director of the « Gothic Letters » collection at the Livre de poche. Rutebeuf was, in the 13th century, the first great poet of Paris. The poet of destitution as well, with his caustic cheekiness, his troubled faith and his caricatured self-portraits. He put his pen at the service of the great debates and great causes of his time. But the verses which have remained most vivid in our minds are those in which, playing on words with lean and muscular facility and nonchalant weariness, he drones out his « soliloquies of the poor, » victims of poverty and prisoners of vice.
Organized by the Cluny Museum – National Museum of the Middle Ages, in the framework of the Exhibit  Paris, the Radiant City – Architecture and Sculpture of Parisian churches in the 13th century.

> Cluny Museum, 6 place Paul-Painlevé 75005 Paris
Reservations advised 01 53 73 78 16 (9 :15 am – 5 :15 pm), starting January 13th, 2010, ticket prices on : www.musee-moyenage.fr


Reading
Tuesday, March 9th at 6pm
Why do you like « Alice in Wonderland » ? (2/6)
Reading of excerpts from « Alice in Wonderland, » by Lewis Carroll and a meeting with Véronique Ovaldé.
Organized in collaboration with Flammarion Publishers.

> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin / All tickets 5€
Reservations at 01 44 85 40 40


Philosophical Crossroads 6/6
Thursday, March 11th at 6pm
Christianity : Subversion and/or Perversion?
Slavoj Zizek
On the subject of The Puppet and the Dwarf. Christianity between Perversion and Subversion.
Encounter hosted by Nicolas Truong.
In partnership with Seuil Publishers and the Courrier International.

> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin / All tickets 5€
Reservations at 01 44 85 40 40


Thought Workshop
Saturday,  March 13th at 3pm
America : Emergence from Myth, Entry into the Real
On the occasion of several performances of A Streetcar Named Desire
 hosted by Laure Adler. The question raised is to what extent Obama ‘s election has restored the American people’s faith in themselves, while admitting the need to confront the challenges reality will inevitably force upon him.

> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Grande salle / Free admission upon reservation at :
present.compose@theatre-odeon.fr / 01 44 85 40 44



Thought Workshop
Monday, March 15th at 8pm
Is French Literature Once Again Contemporary?
Round table hosted by Nelly Kaprielian, on the occasion of the 2010 Book Fair and the publication of the special issue of Les Inrockuptibles.

> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Grande salle / Free admission upon reservation at :
present.compose@theatre-odeon.fr / 01 44 85 40 44



Reading by the Author
Tuesday, March 16th at 6:30 pm
«Les derniers de la rue Ponty» by Sérigne M’Baye Gueye (Disiz)
Reading by the author of excerpts from his first novel (published by Naïve 2009). A strange young man, who says he has already died and claims to be an angel, arrives in Senegal. Gabriel wanders through Dakar, perhaps in quest of redemption, certainly in search of some kind of salvation. He hadn’t known how to love two women ; above all he hadn’t known how to protect them. As a wise old man suggests to him in all simplicity, his soul will find peace if he undertakes to save two other women.

> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin / All tickets 5€
Reservations at 01 44 85 40 40


Symposium at the École Normale Supérieure
Wednesday, March 17th, from 10am to 6pm
Legacies, Movements and Influences Of Mediterranean Cultures
Taking as a starting point our Greek theatrical and philosophical roots, imagining a history, in the broadest sense of the term, of the complex movement of texts and ideas throughout the Mediterranean basin . Recounting the decisive contribution of Muslim and Jewish societies to the literary and scientific bodies of knowledge which were later the source of the Enlightenment in Northern Europe, as well as the extraordinary place of Arabic poetry in today’s Middle East societies. A voyage, which will take us from antiquity to the present day.
 Co-hosted by Laure Adler and Donatien Grau, with (subject to confirmation) Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh, Zeev Sternhell, Amos Gitai, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Gilles Pécout, Marwan Rashed, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Costa Gavras...
March 16th and 17th at 8pm: two exceptional performances of Les Suppliantes.

> École Normale Supérieure / Free admission upon reservation at :
present.compose@theatre-odeon.fr / 01 44 85 40 44



Thought Workshop
Monday, March 22nd from 10am to 9pm
Act Up : «They’ve been protesting for 20 years and it’s gotten them nowhere»
At the moment when Act Up-Paris is celebrating its 20th anniversary, the association wishes to create a day of reflection on what constitutes radical protest in France in 2009. In the current state of affairs, which compels us to keep our hard-fought-for social gains rather than fight to improve the rights of those who are sick, how can we best prepare for the struggle of the next ten years? Sponsored by Marina Foïs.
• From 11am to 1pm and from 2pm to 3 :30pm : Workshops
1. HIV and public health policies : what place is there for democracy ? What place for those who are sick?
2. Between the media and political activism : what new forms of action exist ? What communications strategies to adopt?
3. The inextricable link between HIV and insecurity : how effectively to combat this on all levels ?
• 4pm: Public Presentation of Workshop Results
• 6pm: Public Reading by Marina Foïs of texts by Act Up
In partnership with Act Up - Paris.

> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Grande salle / Free admission upon reservation at :
present.compose@theatre-odeon.fr / 01 44 85 40 44



Reading
Tuesday, March 23rd at 6pm
Why do you like « Swann’s Way? » (3/6)
Reading of excerpts from Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust and a meeting with Daniel Mendelsohn.
Organized with Flammarion Publishers.

> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Salon Roger Blin / All tickets 5€
Reservations at 01 44 85 40 40


Meeting
Thursday, March 25th from 2pm to 7pm
Humanities
Meeting and presentation of the work Humanities, 10 Years of Arts and Culture in the University Medical Teaching Hospitals (CHU).
Culture at the Hospital, or how better to live together : citizenship and hospitality.
In the framework of the Conference of the General Directors of the University Medical Teaching Hospitals /Cultural Commission.

> Théâtre de l’Odéon – Samon Roger Blin / Free admission upon reservation at :
present.compose@theatre-odeon.fr / 01 44 85 40 44