Avec Yves Meessen, architecte et théologien, enseignant-chercheur à l’Université de Lorraine.

Avec Paul-Laurent Assoun, professeur émérite à l’Université Paris-Cité, psychanalyste.

Avec Jean-Marc Ghitti, philosophe, animée par Christophe Boureux avec la participation de:

Jean-Paul Rogues, maître de conférence émérite en littérature à l'université de Caen. Il se demandera notamment comment habiter en poète un territoire partagé ?  Comment penser le sentiment d’appartenance ?

Aude Volpilhac, maître de conférence en littérature française à l'UCLY (Lyon). Ses travaux portent sur la représentation du vivant en littérature et notamment sur la poétique animale.

With Gérard Pfister, writer, translator and publisher (Arfuyen), and Grégoire Laurent-Huyghues-Beaufond, Dominican friar and poet.

Gérard Pfister, editor, writer and heir to the Rhineland-Flemish spiritual tradition, offers us poetry that is both free and rigorous, celebrating life and therefore welcoming its dramas without giving in to complaint.

For him, language is a material to be worked and given rhythm according to an inner pulse, and his poetry is spiritual in that it is solidly carnal, certain that there is an "absolute present". It's not just a question of expressing it or bearing witness to it, but rather of inviting us to experience its very high joy, or even arousing it.

"It is not the book that must be spoken of, but the experience", he writes at the end of his latest work. It is this literary, musical and spiritual experience that he has come to share with us, as a reader and translator - notably of Rainer-Maria Rilke, Etty Hillesum and Stefan Zweig - and as a poet.

With Daniel Marguerat, theologian, honorary professor at the University of Lausanne.

Famous among all the apostles, Saint Paul is also the most misunderstood. He is said to be angry, dogmatic, solitary, anti-feminist... but who has really read his writings? Who has looked behind these caricatures to listen to the 'real' Paul? It's true that this brilliant thinker didn't make our task any easier, with his dense, squat letters. To understand them, we need to place them at the heart of his tormented, militant life.

Daniel Marguerat offers us a chance to (re)discover Paul in his humanity and his fight for the dignity of the believer. His thinking is surprisingly bold and modern. And we will see that Paul is not the conservative we imagine, but that he is driven by an ambitious vision for the Church.

Enough to give new life and confidence to Christianity today. Without a doubt, Paul deserves to be remembered.

With Rémy Valléjo, Dominican friar, art historian and director of the "les Dominicains" cultural centre in Lille.

According to Giorgio Vasari, the pious disciple of Michelangelo, Jacopo Robusti, known as Tintoretto (1512-1594) had "the most original, capricious, prompt and resolute mind, in a word, the most terrible spirit that painting has ever had".

In Venice, the art of the painter of the Scuola San Rocco - a veritable "Sistine Chapel of the Lagoon" - is a deflagration of the Holy Scriptures which, through "fantastic", even "extravagant" compositions, reveals what no theologian dares to say or preach in a city where the all-powerful Inquisition reigns.

With Julien Farges, associate professor of philosophy, researcher at the CNRS.

The life and work of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) are inseparable from the history of the Soviet Communist regime, from its revolutionary beginnings through the years of Stalinist terror to its bureaucratic sclerosis. While many artists chose exile, he remained in his homeland, linking his life as a composer to the vicissitudes of a regime that kept a close eye on his work and constantly imposed a populist aesthetic on him that he had to come to terms with.

Whether in symphonies, quartets, concertos, solo pieces, film scores or works commissioned by the regime, Shostakovich's music is constrained, condemned to ambiguity or irony, where lightness is the mask of gravity, where laughter lies beneath tears, where the grotesque and the tragic constantly overlap.

With a focus on listening to musical extracts, this day will take you on a journey through the immense work of this composer.

This multifaceted work is deeply marked by the upheavals of twentieth-century history, and bears witness to the resources of artistic creation in the face of war and political violence.

With Maÿlis Dupont, sociologist, Christophe Boureux, Dominican friar, Alexandre Monnin, Master director, Vivian Dépoues, project manager, Jean-Léon Pallandre, sound artist.

Bruno Latour (1947-2022) has gradually established himself as one of the leading figures, on an international scale, for thinking and acting in the era of the "new climate regime". He has left behind a powerful body of work, which we need to put to good use. This meeting will give the floor to researchers and practitioners who are all familiar with the dynamic of experimentation and enquiry that lies at the heart of Latour's work. In particular, it will examine two 'modes of existence': the political and the religious.

Speakers will include Maÿlis Dupont, sociologist and director of experimental programmes (public policies on inclusion and training); Christophe Boureux, Dominican friar and theologian; Alexandre Monnin, director of the MSc in 'Strategy and Design for the Anthropocene' and author of Politiser le renoncement (published by Divergences, 2023); Vivian Dépoues, member of the 'Where to land? "consortium and head of the 'Adaptation to climate change' project at the Institut de l'Économie pour le Climat; Jean-Léon Pallandre, sound artist and performer of Jubiler ou les tourments de la parole religieuse.

With Yves Meessen, architect and theologian, lecturer at the University of Lorraine.

"My father was a wandering Aramean" (Dt 26:5): this is the statement that Moses and his people were called upon to proclaim when they settled in the land of promise. Are we not also concerned by this instruction? As soon as human communities began to live in a particular place for a long time, they built walls and fences and appropriated the land. Once they became landowners, they behaved as if they owned the land, thereby changing the relationship between people living on the same land.

The Bible proposes a modus vivendi which, while not inviting humans to return to the nomadic state, nevertheless urges them to a form of disappropriation. Didn't Paul make this point when he said: "what is seen is temporary, but what is not seen is eternal" (2 Cor 4:18)?

Together, we need to explore the extent to which we can live as transients, passengers in a body that will be destroyed, while continuing to build, to live, and to engage with the world.

With Paul-Laurent Assoun, Professor Emeritus at Université Paris-Cité, psychoanalyst.

The theological dogma of the Incarnation of the Word finds resonance in the relationship between language and corporeality in psychoanalysis.

How can we conceive of the interaction between the 'being' that is the subject and (his or her) body? The dizzying leap from the psychic to the somatic remains an enigma that is constantly being rediscovered through the exploration of the symptom. What is 'flesh' for a speaking being? A re-reading of 'possession', a striking phenomenon of demonology, through the unconscious body, will enable us to grasp its significance as a 'delocalisation of jouissance'.

From Freud to Lacan, we will present the theoretical operators likely to shed light on this major question, drawing on the diversity of spectacular manifestations that 'work on the body' of the speaking subject in its relationship to otherness.

With Dominique Lambert, physicist and philosopher, professor at the University of Namur, and Pascal Marin, Dominican, professor at the Catholic University of Lyon.

For some time now, artificial intelligence has been a fast-growing theme in media culture. We are still amazed at the prodigious performance of this so-called 'intelligent' technology: image recognition algorithms, software that has the answer to almost everything and is capable of producing high-quality works, autonomous robotics, and so on.

We need to take this context into account, but without giving in to the prevailing fascination. We need to distinguish between projections and achievements, between technology and the surreptitious aims that accompany it.

The challenge today is to look beyond technophobia and technolatry, and to restore human beings to their often obscured place at the centre of all this technological development. Putting into words, categorising, to better understand and understand to better situate ourselves in this context.

With Jean-Marc Ghitti, philosopher, moderated by Christophe Boureux with the participation of:

Jean-Paul Rogues, emeritus lecturer in literature at the University of Caen. How can we inhabit a shared territory as poets? How can we think about the feeling of belonging?

Aude Volpilhac, lecturer in French literature at UCLY (Lyon). Her work focuses on the representation of the living in literature, particularly animal poetics.

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In his book Avec et par-delà l'écologie : la Camargue, Jean-Marc Ghitti shows how the shared ecological awareness that has become so prevalent today cannot simply be confined to the field of life sciences or political action.

Having taught in architecture schools and at the Collège international de philosophie, his reflections over the last few years on 'places' have led him to propose a poetic ecology in which affection for regions, countries and landscapes, as well as the traditions that are conveyed there by resource people, leads to genuine eco-citizenship and an attachment to the land by eco-citizens.