Art And Social Commitment Symposium 2024
Thursday 26 September 2024 from 12pm to 6pm
Auditorium of the musée du Louvre
For the 7th Symposium, artists, writers, NGO founders, activists, journalists, philosophers… will share their concrete actions in favour of democracy.
The Symposium programme to date:
Introduction by Gautier Verbeke, Directeur de la Médiation et du Développement des publics at the musée du Louvre and Marine Van Schoonbeek, Executive Director and co-founder of Thanks for Nothing
Carte Blanche
Louis Norval, Collector and founder of the Norval Foundation (South Africa) in conversation with Audrey Tcherkoff, Editorialist, BFM TV
Kamel Daoud, Writer and journalist, author of Houris (2024), Zabor ou les Psaumes (2017) and Meursault, contre-enquête (2014, Prix Goncourt for first novel)
Elizabeth Breiner, Project Manager, Forensic Architecture
Elisa Peter, Director and Samuel Sigere, Programme Officer, Civitates Foundation, accompanied by representatives of Doc Society, Marom Project and VIA Iuris
Sylvain Kahn, Associate Professor of History and Doctor of Geography, Associate Professor at Sciences Po and researcher at the Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po
Lucrecia Vinhaes, PIPA Prize and Instituto PIPA Board Member
Young People’s Advocacy for Democracy, supported by Maël Coutant, Founder of the Instagram account ASMR Politics and trained by Leslie Coutterand for speak confidently on stage
Conclusion by Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Project Manager to the President at the musée du Louvre
Focus on Young People’s Advocacy for Democracy
In the aftermath of the European and parliamentary elections, Thanks for Nothing is mobilising by organising a Young People’s Advocacy for Democracy.
To highlight their actions, we are giving the stage to 10 young people committed to democracy, on the stage of the Auditorium of the Musée du Louvre. Our aim is to make this initiative a genuine tribune for young people to express their support for European citizenship as a bulwark of democracy.
With interventions from : Josiane Asmane for le camion poétique, Claudia Benítez for Magnitude Zéro, Anna Jégo for Komune, Coline Lepage for Héphaïstos, Maryna Marionneau for S’occuper à l’hôpital, Vladimir Méline for Fédération Les Engagés, Vincent Muteau for Le Relais Jeunes 3 – Cycl’Eau Tour, Lomta Pornaye for Tous Réfugiés, Esther Rejai for Bellastock festival, Jenani Sarveswaran for Rêv’elles.
