Occupation/occupations" symposium, October 10-11

Organized by Philippe Charlier (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), Anna Gianotti-Laban (Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac) and Michael Lucken (Inalco)

Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 09:30 - 17:00 - Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac - Salle de cinéma
37, quai Jacques Chirac, Paris 7e

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 - 09:30 - 17:00 - Maison de la Recherche de l'Inalco - Auditorium Dumézil
2, rue de Lille - Paris 7e

Free admission subject to availability.

The notion of "occupation" is both ubiquitous and ill-defined. It is used to signify situations of military and social struggle, but it is also used to designate individual activity in the broadest sense, beyond the opposition between work and leisure. In one case, it implies collective interaction and a high degree of constraint; in the other, it conveys the idea of an active, full life. It is therefore a notion that carries within it the contradictions of contemporary man who, on the one hand, realizes the impasse towards which the policies of massive monopolization of territories and resources are leading him, but, on the other, never ceases to resort to the lexicon of prehension (to learn, understand, grasp, apprehend...) to describe the way in which he knows things.

Scientific and Organizing Committee
Michael Lucken (Inalco)
Philippe Charlier (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)
Anna Gianotti Laban (musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac)

Coordination
Anna Gianotti Laban, musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac