Art & Culture Replays

This conference will explore literary trends and revolutions. Come and meet the great writers and their works. A moment to test your knowledge of literature together.

Don't forget paper and pencil!

Over the past ten years, the Internet and social networks have tended to become one of our main sources of information. However, it is not uncommon to find everything and its opposite there. Connect your brain and sharpen your critical thinking; In this conference, we will explain why we tend to believe this fake news and give some keys to protect you from it.

Insults and other swear words are sacred paradoxes: these are words that we create, pass on from generation to generation and which are nevertheless not intended to be used profusely. They are said to be fat, because they impose themselves so much and obstruct the passage of decorum. These transgressive words constitute a stock from which it is appropriate to draw sparingly. This conference will reveal the processes surrounding the use of such words. It will immerse us in social speech, the said and the transgressive, the forbidden and we will see, with courtesy, what these words reveal in the background of our societies. We are extremely familiar. So familiar, that it did not even seem appropriate to our philosophical ancestors to pay any “attention” to it. Indeed, everyone uses it, everyone designs it, but can we define it precisely?

At home, in the street, in town, in the office, on vacation, we are surrounded by real concentrates of technology, which show that, sometimes, reality has caught up with fiction; from the touch screen, to the smart card, including the microwave oven, the USB key and the hard drive, remote controls or contact lenses…

Did you know that there is a second life for nylon stockings?

Do you know the date of the first remote control?

Do you know how many batteries are sold in France?

Answers to discover and an exploration of Science and Technology on a daily basis.

Cinema has often brought the imagination of scientists to life, particularly with all so-called “science fiction” films.

Scientists were able to see an exoplanet up close with Avatar. In this conference we will see some examples of the 7th art, and if they are credible from a scientific point of view (can we really hear explosions in space?) We will also see how science can serve cinema, with example the video of the group Ok Go “Zero Gravity”, shot entirely in weightlessness.

Drawing is omnipresent in Egyptian art and yet little known to the public: this presentation highlights its fundamental importance in art and its role in the development of other artistic mediums, such as relief, painting, architecture, and the decorative arts. It also makes it possible to explain the principles and characteristics of the Egyptian image and to combat some preconceived ideas!

This conference also nourishes a reflection on the notion of art in ancient Egypt, very different from that which is traditionally accepted in Western culture. Art and crafts were in fact not subject to any differentiation, because it was not the beauty of a work that took precedence, but its function and its efficiency.

This will then be an opportunity to present some masterpieces from the Louvre Museum restored in 2013 and others from London and Turin in particular.

Attention is a concept that is extremely familiar to us. So familiar, that it did not even seem appropriate to our philosophical ancestors to pay any “attention” to it. Indeed, everyone uses it, everyone designs it, but can we define it precisely?

I invite you to learn a little more about this concept, as well as some pitfalls that are sure to attract your attention.

“Women are the future of man” according to the poet Aragon.
But what about their past? This conference is a picturesque journey, full of images, facts, quotes and portraits.
Appreciate their exploits along a winding journey, woven with spectacular advances and painful setbacks.

Insolent, disrespectful, grotesque,… the propensity for irony in contemporary art has been repeatedly highlighted and even denounced. But in his snub to “great art”, good taste and good manners, it is not only a question of provocation. With the shock, a rupture is created, a small opening from which a hearty burst of laughter and lovely surprises could well emerge. After depicting emotions, art claims to make us experience them.

Space X, Tesla, Hyperloop, Paypal, etc.
There is a man behind each of these companies: Elon Musk.
It arouses both admiration and distrust in the world of technology. It is revolutionizing our world and our future.

The Greek heritage has endured for 25 centuries in this area of ​​Western Art. Through their monuments, the Greeks imposed their conception of the world and their way of acting.
The Greek orders, their origins, their principles. Development of architecture. Monuments: temples, propylaea, porticoes, theaters, odeons, stadiums...and their decorations. Origin and history of the temple. Origin and history of theater. The myth of White Greece: polychromy and its history.