Cycles for the 2011-2012 season
For Tuesdays at the Grand Palais, read Mondays at the Grand Palais!
Our round table cycles, organized jointly by the Grand Palais and the publisher Presses universitaires de France have been a great success and will be back in the projection room every Monday, excluding school holidays, as from October 2011, from 6:30 p.m. till 8:00 p.m. The programme will include a wide range of original contemporary topics from video games to heritage sites. Guest personalities, academics, artists and other specialists offer their opinions, analyses and insights, in lively debates moderated by Arnaud Laporte, journalist at the France Culture radio station. Entrance is free and during the last half hour the debate is thrown open to the floor and the audience is invited to participate.
Our round table cycles, organized jointly by the Grand Palais and the publisher Presses universitaires de France have been a great success and will be back in the projection room every Monday, excluding school holidays, as from October 2011, from 6:30 p.m. till 8:00 p.m. The programme will include a wide range of original contemporary topics from video games to heritage sites. Guest personalities, academics, artists and other specialists offer their opinions, analyses and insights, in lively debates moderated by Arnaud Laporte, journalist at the France Culture radio station. Entrance is free and during the last half hour the debate is thrown open to the floor and the audience is invited to participate.
Cycles for the 2011-2012 season
Cycle: The virtual experience
- October 3: "Does digital technology make universal knowledge accessible to us all?"
- October 10: "Is the virtual world more appealing than the real one?"
- October 17: "Personal data in the virtual world: do they have files on us all?"
Cycle: Art today
- November 7: "Do you have to know art history to appreciate art?"
- November 14: "Is collecting about love of art or investment?"
- November 21: "Is the art market a world for the initiated?"
Cycle: Video games
- November 28: "Are video games a stimulating pleasure or a threat to the neurons?"
- December 5: "Are video games a new art form?"
- December 12: "30 million players in France! Are we all hooked on video games?"
- December 19: "Are games networks technological progress or a complete social mutation?"
Cycle: Ethics
- January 9: "Is our society violent?"
- January 16: "Can art show everything?"
- January 23: "What is left of morality in this day and age?"
Cycle: Heritage
- January 30: "Ramparts, borders, defences: a defensive strategy or an illusion of security"
- February 6: "Is the cult of heritage a secular religion?"
- February 13: "Is there a place for contemporary creativity in heritage sites?"
- October 3: "Does digital technology make universal knowledge accessible to us all?"
- October 10: "Is the virtual world more appealing than the real one?"
- October 17: "Personal data in the virtual world: do they have files on us all?"
Cycle: Art today
- November 7: "Do you have to know art history to appreciate art?"
- November 14: "Is collecting about love of art or investment?"
- November 21: "Is the art market a world for the initiated?"
Cycle: Video games
- November 28: "Are video games a stimulating pleasure or a threat to the neurons?"
- December 5: "Are video games a new art form?"
- December 12: "30 million players in France! Are we all hooked on video games?"
- December 19: "Are games networks technological progress or a complete social mutation?"
Cycle: Ethics
- January 9: "Is our society violent?"
- January 16: "Can art show everything?"
- January 23: "What is left of morality in this day and age?"
Cycle: Heritage
- January 30: "Ramparts, borders, defences: a defensive strategy or an illusion of security"
- February 6: "Is the cult of heritage a secular religion?"
- February 13: "Is there a place for contemporary creativity in heritage sites?"
Pratical information
Every Tuesday from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. except during school holidays.
Entrance free with prior booking (the number of seats is limited) via lundis@rmngp.fr. Access to the Grand Palais Projection Room is via the Alexander III Rotunda, on the corner of avenue Winston-Churchill and Cours-la-Reine, Paris 8th arrondissement.
Entrance free with prior booking (the number of seats is limited) via lundis@rmngp.fr. Access to the Grand Palais Projection Room is via the Alexander III Rotunda, on the corner of avenue Winston-Churchill and Cours-la-Reine, Paris 8th arrondissement.
