Are all men guilty? Trial of the century #5 © Benoit Guillaume / Mucem

Are all men guilty?

Les Procès du siècle - Which way to the future?

  • Debate-
  • Meeting

Moderator: Rokhaya Diallo
With Giulia Foïs (journalist) and Corentin Legras (doctoral student in anthropology)

With the participation of Caroline Chenu, in charge of research and collections at Mucem.

“Not all men”? And yet. There are a great many of them, and they bear a striking resemblance to the men we are and those around us. This is what the Mazan trial, among others, has brought to light, and the many debates it has raised about society’s collective responsibility. So, how can we continue to fight against this dynamic of violence which seems to be a system in our patriarchal society, and which was brought to light by this landmark trial? Between misandry, the education of the young and masculinist backlash, the subject never ceases to raise questions.


After the meeting, appointment at the Bookshop table-shop from Mucem for a signing session.


BIographies

  • Rokhaya Diallo - journalist, author, director

    Rokhaya Diallo is an award-winning French journalist, author and film-maker. She is a columnist for the Washington Post and the Guardian, and a researcher at the Gender+Justice Initiative Research Center at Georgetown University (Washington). In France, she teaches cultural studies at Paris 1 – Sorbonne and is a columnist for television and radio. Rokhaya Diallo is the author of a dozen books and comic strips, and has made several documentaries. With Grace Ly, she also created “Kiffe Ta Race”, the first French-language podcast dedicated to racial issues and ranked as one of the best podcasts by Apple. In 2022, Rokhaya Diallo founded W.O.R.D., the first school dedicated to public speaking, with the aim of democratizing access to the public sphere. In March 2025, she published “Dictionnaire amoureux du féminisme” with Plon.

  • Giulia Foïs - Journalist, radio producer

    Journalist and radio producer Giulia Foïs has long worked on gender issues for Radio France – Le Mouv’, France Culture and France Inter. As an author, she has written Je suis une sur deux(Flammarion), an account of the violence she suffered, from which she drew the strength and meaning of her feminist commitment. Pas tous les hommes, quand même, is her latest essay, published by La Meute.

  • Corentin Legras - doctoral student in anthropology

    Corentin Legras is a doctoral student in anthropology at EHESS, the Centre d’études des mouvements sociaux and the Centre Norbert Elias. His doctoral thesis focuses on incest committed by minors. More broadly, he works on sexual violence from the angle of gender, age and kinship relations. He is one of fourteen social science researchers specializing in gender studies who took part in the book Mazan, Anthropologie d’un procès pour viols (Mazan, Anthropology of a rape trial ), published in October 2025 (Le Bruit du monde): for a month and up to the verdict of the Mazan rape trial, a group of anthropologists conducted an ethnographic survey to assess the extent to which this event changed the order of things.

Moderator: Rokhaya Diallo
With Giulia Foïs (journalist) and Corentin Legras (doctoral student in anthropology)

With the participation of Caroline Chenu, in charge of research and collections at Mucem.

“Not all men”? And yet. There are a great many of them, and they bear a striking resemblance to the men we are and those around us. This is what the Mazan trial, among others, has brought to light, and the many debates it has raised about society’s collective responsibility. So, how can we continue to fight against this dynamic of violence which seems to be a system in our patriarchal society, and which was brought to light by this landmark trial? Between misandry, the education of the young and masculinist backlash, the subject never ceases to raise questions.


After the meeting, appointment at the Bookshop table-shop from Mucem for a signing session.


BIographies

  • Rokhaya Diallo - journalist, author, director

    Rokhaya Diallo is an award-winning French journalist, author and film-maker. She is a columnist for the Washington Post and the Guardian, and a researcher at the Gender+Justice Initiative Research Center at Georgetown University (Washington). In France, she teaches cultural studies at Paris 1 – Sorbonne and is a columnist for television and radio. Rokhaya Diallo is the author of a dozen books and comic strips, and has made several documentaries. With Grace Ly, she also created “Kiffe Ta Race”, the first French-language podcast dedicated to racial issues and ranked as one of the best podcasts by Apple. In 2022, Rokhaya Diallo founded W.O.R.D., the first school dedicated to public speaking, with the aim of democratizing access to the public sphere. In March 2025, she published “Dictionnaire amoureux du féminisme” with Plon.

  • Giulia Foïs - Journalist, radio producer

    Journalist and radio producer Giulia Foïs has long worked on gender issues for Radio France – Le Mouv’, France Culture and France Inter. As an author, she has written Je suis une sur deux(Flammarion), an account of the violence she suffered, from which she drew the strength and meaning of her feminist commitment. Pas tous les hommes, quand même, is her latest essay, published by La Meute.

  • Corentin Legras - doctoral student in anthropology

    Corentin Legras is a doctoral student in anthropology at EHESS, the Centre d’études des mouvements sociaux and the Centre Norbert Elias. His doctoral thesis focuses on incest committed by minors. More broadly, he works on sexual violence from the angle of gender, age and kinship relations. He is one of fourteen social science researchers specializing in gender studies who took part in the book Mazan, Anthropologie d’un procès pour viols (Mazan, Anthropology of a rape trial ), published in October 2025 (Le Bruit du monde): for a month and up to the verdict of the Mazan rape trial, a group of anthropologists conducted an ethnographic survey to assess the extent to which this event changed the order of things.

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