Following on from the Vis-à-vis Franco-Italian Festival, the museums of the City of Chambéry anduniversité Savoie Mont Blanc , via the Laboratoire Langages, Littératures, Sociétés, Études Transfrontalières et Internationales (LLSETI), are continuing their partnership and offering a series of two lectures on the figure of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
about the conferences
- A little-known source of Rousseau's plan of government for Corsica: James Harrington's Océana
This lecture proposes a rereading of this text, attempting to shed light on what appears to be a hitherto unidentified source of the Geneva citizen's thinking.
By François Quastana, agrégé des facultés de droit and professor of the history of law and political ideas at Aix-Marseille University. - Rousseau's legacy: what kind of democracy for nature?
This lecture examines the legacy of Rousseau, discussing his contribution to current participatory experiments in citizen climate conventions.
By Thierry Ménissier, professor of political philosophy at Grenoble Alpes University and member of the Institut de Philosophie de Grenoble (IPhiG).
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- Full day program
- Open to all, free admission (subject to availability)
- Contact: Pascal Bouvier, day organizer and lecturer in philosophy at USMB
- LLSETI website