What are the realities of modern-day slavery, and how can we combat these forms of exploitation?
A session moderated by Nora Hamadi.
Featuring Cécile Allegra, journalist and filmmaker, and Alizée Depierre, sociologist.
Human trafficking, forced labor, cyber slavery, forced marriage, child exploitation, domestic slavery… While an estimated 50 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery, they remain largely invisible.
To mark the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery on December 2, this episode of “Trials of the Century” examines the persistence of slavery and the roots of this taboo that the modern world must confront.
After the meeting, join us for a signing session at the Mucem Librairie-boutique.
Nora Hamadi, journalist
Nora Hamadi is a journalist. Since July 2026 on France Inter, she has been taking us on a journey through “Dans la place”—those everyday places that are home to our practices and habits and tell the story of how they’ve evolved. Dog parks, nail salons, barbershops, gyms, shopping malls… delving into their essence is like looking in a mirror at who we are, both as individuals and as a community.
In 2025–2026, she presented the news roundup on France Inter’s morning show. Prior to that, Nora Hamadi was a producer at France Culture and, since September 2024, had been hosting the program *Douce France*, which sought to explore and engage with France in all its complexity, diversity, and nuances, while staying closely connected to its citizens. Before that, she had been hosting *Sous les radars* since 2021, bringing to light topics overlooked in political debate yet central to citizens’ concerns.
In addition, she is the editor-in-chief of *Fumigène, littérature de rue*, a magazine dedicated to current events as seen from the perspective of working-class neighborhoods, and she leads numerous community-based media and information literacy workshops in schools, social centers, and community centers. She chairs the Collectif ŒIL and ZEP (Zone d’expression prioritaire), two organizations committed to bringing the voices and stories of the “invisible” into the public sphere.
Long a familiar face on Arte and Public Sénat, she has also directed in-depth reports and documentaries.
In September 2025, she published *La Maison des Rêves*, a history of the French suburbs, with Flammarion.
Cécile Allegra, journalist, filmmaker, and author
Cécile Allegra is a journalist and filmmaker, and the director of numerous documentaries (which have won more than 20 awards in France and abroad). In 2015, she received the Albert Londres Prize alongside Delphine Deloget for *Voyage en barbarie*, an odyssey of six survivors of torture camps, from Egypt to Sweden. She published *Le Salaire des enfants*, a finalist for the European Book Prize (2017). Her first series, *800 fois le Watergate*, received support from FAIA (Itinéraires). In 2019, as a winner of the Cannes Storytelling Institute award, she wrote the feature-length film *Vésuvio* (Picomédia).
In January 2023, *Le Chant des vivants* hits theaters, bringing to the screen the story of a year spent with a group of survivors of torture camps as they wrote their song of exile. At the same time, she is developing *The Fix*, a sports-themed mafia thriller, with Nils-Antoine Sambuc and Alex Kendall.
Alizée Delpierre is a sociologist and researcher at the CNRS
Alizée Delpierre is a sociologist and researcher at the CNRS, specializing in exploitative relationships, particularly in the workplace.
After completing a dissertation on paid domestic work among the ultra-wealthy, which led to the book *Serving the Rich* (2022), she continued her study of domestic work in the context of globalization to examine the continuities between different forms of delegating domestic and care tasks (*Les domesticités*, 2023). Relationships of domination and exploitation lie at the heart of her analyses: building on the concept of “golden exploitation,” she expanded her reflections on exploitation through field research on “overexploitation,” which led to a new book, *Like Slaves* (2026).
His work lies at the intersection of the sociology of work, the family, justice and law, immigration, economic sociology, and public policy.
What are the realities of modern-day slavery, and how can we combat these forms of exploitation?
A session moderated by Nora Hamadi.
Featuring Cécile Allegra, journalist and filmmaker, and Alizée Depierre, sociologist.
Human trafficking, forced labor, cyber slavery, forced marriage, child exploitation, domestic slavery… While an estimated 50 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery, they remain largely invisible.
To mark the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery on December 2, this episode of “Trials of the Century” examines the persistence of slavery and the roots of this taboo that the modern world must confront.
After the meeting, join us for a signing session at the Mucem Librairie-boutique.
Nora Hamadi, journalist
Nora Hamadi is a journalist. Since July 2026 on France Inter, she has been taking us on a journey through “Dans la place”—those everyday places that are home to our practices and habits and tell the story of how they’ve evolved. Dog parks, nail salons, barbershops, gyms, shopping malls… delving into their essence is like looking in a mirror at who we are, both as individuals and as a community.
In 2025–2026, she presented the news roundup on France Inter’s morning show. Prior to that, Nora Hamadi was a producer at France Culture and, since September 2024, had been hosting the program *Douce France*, which sought to explore and engage with France in all its complexity, diversity, and nuances, while staying closely connected to its citizens. Before that, she had been hosting *Sous les radars* since 2021, bringing to light topics overlooked in political debate yet central to citizens’ concerns.
In addition, she is the editor-in-chief of *Fumigène, littérature de rue*, a magazine dedicated to current events as seen from the perspective of working-class neighborhoods, and she leads numerous community-based media and information literacy workshops in schools, social centers, and community centers. She chairs the Collectif ŒIL and ZEP (Zone d’expression prioritaire), two organizations committed to bringing the voices and stories of the “invisible” into the public sphere.
Long a familiar face on Arte and Public Sénat, she has also directed in-depth reports and documentaries.
In September 2025, she published *La Maison des Rêves*, a history of the French suburbs, with Flammarion.
Cécile Allegra, journalist, filmmaker, and author
Cécile Allegra is a journalist and filmmaker, and the director of numerous documentaries (which have won more than 20 awards in France and abroad). In 2015, she received the Albert Londres Prize alongside Delphine Deloget for *Voyage en barbarie*, an odyssey of six survivors of torture camps, from Egypt to Sweden. She published *Le Salaire des enfants*, a finalist for the European Book Prize (2017). Her first series, *800 fois le Watergate*, received support from FAIA (Itinéraires). In 2019, as a winner of the Cannes Storytelling Institute award, she wrote the feature-length film *Vésuvio* (Picomédia).
In January 2023, *Le Chant des vivants* hits theaters, bringing to the screen the story of a year spent with a group of survivors of torture camps as they wrote their song of exile. At the same time, she is developing *The Fix*, a sports-themed mafia thriller, with Nils-Antoine Sambuc and Alex Kendall.
Alizée Delpierre is a sociologist and researcher at the CNRS
Alizée Delpierre is a sociologist and researcher at the CNRS, specializing in exploitative relationships, particularly in the workplace.
After completing a dissertation on paid domestic work among the ultra-wealthy, which led to the book *Serving the Rich* (2022), she continued her study of domestic work in the context of globalization to examine the continuities between different forms of delegating domestic and care tasks (*Les domesticités*, 2023). Relationships of domination and exploitation lie at the heart of her analyses: building on the concept of “golden exploitation,” she expanded her reflections on exploitation through field research on “overexploitation,” which led to a new book, *Like Slaves* (2026).
His work lies at the intersection of the sociology of work, the family, justice and law, immigration, economic sociology, and public policy.
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