Doctor Honoris Causa Ceremony
The Doctor Honoris Causa Ceremony is scheduled from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm and will be followed by a round table discussion entitled ‘Thinking and Writing on the Human Condition Today’ from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm. The event will end with a cocktail reception.
‘Thinking and Writing on the Human Condition Today’
This round table brings together a philosopher and a writer whose works, in different but deeply convergent paths, question what it means to be human in the contemporary world. Through philosophy, literature and memory, Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Guéorgui Gospodinov explore human languages, the transmission of experiences, vulnerability and the possibility of dialogue.
Their exchange will offer a cross-perspective reflection on thought and writing as spaces of encounter, reflection and openness in a world undergoing profound transformations.
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Senegalese philosopher of international renown, Souleymane Bachir Diagne is professor of philosophy and French at Columbia University in New York. A specialist in the history of science, logic and Islamic philosophy, his thinking is deeply influenced by the dialogue between African, Islamic and Western philosophical traditions. His work, translated and discussed around the world, questions the languages of thought, the circulation of ideas and the conditions for universal humanism. Committed to intellectual and civic life, he has been working for several decades to promote a philosophy of dialogue, hospitality and cultural plurality.
Guéorgui Gospodinov
The most widely read and translated Bulgarian writer, poet and playwright of his generation, Guéorgui Gospodinov is the author of a major work in contemporary European literature. His novels, poems and essays, recognized by numerous international prizes including the International Booker Prize (2023), explore individual and collective memory, empathy for fragile and marginalised lives. His writing, both intimate and universal, renews narrative forms and questions the human condition in an era of major historical, social and political upheavals.
About the Doctor Honoris Causa
Created in 1918, the title of Doctor Honoris Causa is one of the most prestigious distinctions awarded by French universities to honour ‘foreign nationals for outstanding services to science, literature or the arts, to France or to the university’.