10th Rencontres Recherche et Création – What makes our societies

Uncovering the buried history of those who have been deprived of rights, to approach their conditions of existence in order to understand the regimes of domination in the slave societies of the 18th century, to grasp the contemporary forms of trafficking in human beings in order to understand the weight of social norms in the exercise of justice, to explore the ideal of liberty in order to nourish new emancipations, or to trace the paths of a politics of humanity.

Émilie Monnet, director of Marguerite: le feu

Theatre in Santo Domingo in the 18th century: presence and participation of enslaved people
Julia Prest, Professor of French and Caribbean Studies, St Andrews University

Sexual exploitation on trial, between legal and gender norms
Mathilde Darley, CNRS research fellow, deputy director of the CESDIP (Centre de recherches sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales) and associate researcher at the Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin (coordinator of the French team of the CrimScapes project and of the Franco-German ANR-DFG ProsCrim project, funded by the ANR)

Thinking about emancipation
Abram de Swaan, Professor Emeritus, Sociology, University of Amsterdam

Liberating the imagination: emancipation in the thought of Simone de Beauvoir
Kate Kirkpatrick, Tutorial Fellow and Director of Studies in Philosophy at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford

For a politics of humanity
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor, Philosophy, Columbia University, New York

CLOSING

Catherine Courtet, Scientific Director, Humanities and Social Sciences Department, French National Research Agency