Welcome or perish?
Trials of the Century - season 4
Moderator: Rokhaya Diallo
With Cédric Herrou, farmer, activist and Kubra Khademi, artist and performer.
With the participation of Vincent Giovannoni, Head Curator of the Performing Arts Department.
Since 2015, the massive arrival of migrants in Europe has profoundly changed the European Union’s asylum policy and prompted numerous reactions from both states and citizens, ranging from rejection and hostility to new outpourings of solidarity, both spontaneous and organized.
At a time when the principle of hospitality is being called into question in Europe, how can we think and practice it anew? How can we create the conditions and contexts for hospitality?
Rokhaya Diallo
Rokhaya Diallo © George T
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” (Binge Audio), 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.
Cédric Herrou
Cédric Herrou, is a French farmer living in the Roya valley, active in helping illegal foreigners. He gained media notoriety in France and abroad after his arrest in 2016 for helping more than 150 migrants cross the French-Italian border, which was described as an offence of solidarity. He was acquitted in 2021.
Kubra Khademi
Kubra Khademi is an Afghan Hazara feminist performance and visual artist based in Paris. Her work is informed by her life as a woman and refugee. She began creating public performances in Kabul, where her work was a response to a male-dominated society with extreme patriarchal politics. After her performance Armor in 2015, she was forced to flee her home country. She continues her performative work in Europe, accompanied by Latitudes Prod. and develops her drawing and painting practice, represented by Galerie Eric Mouchet. In 2022, she designed the poster for the Festival d’Avignon and presented a solo show at the Collection Lambert and the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern in Germany. In 2023, her new stage creation, The Golden Horizon (افق طلائی), premiered at the Théâtre de la Ville, Paris. In 2024, she published her first graphic novel, La fille et le dragon (The Girl and the Dragon), published by Denoël, with sociologist and anthropologist Nicole Lapierre as story editor.
Moderator: Rokhaya Diallo
With Cédric Herrou, farmer, activist and Kubra Khademi, artist and performer.
With the participation of Vincent Giovannoni, Head Curator of the Performing Arts Department.
Since 2015, the massive arrival of migrants in Europe has profoundly changed the European Union’s asylum policy and prompted numerous reactions from both states and citizens, ranging from rejection and hostility to new outpourings of solidarity, both spontaneous and organized.
At a time when the principle of hospitality is being called into question in Europe, how can we think and practice it anew? How can we create the conditions and contexts for hospitality?
Rokhaya Diallo
Rokhaya Diallo © George T
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” (Binge Audio), 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.
Cédric Herrou
Cédric Herrou, is a French farmer living in the Roya valley, active in helping illegal foreigners. He gained media notoriety in France and abroad after his arrest in 2016 for helping more than 150 migrants cross the French-Italian border, which was described as an offence of solidarity. He was acquitted in 2021.
Kubra Khademi
Kubra Khademi is an Afghan Hazara feminist performance and visual artist based in Paris. Her work is informed by her life as a woman and refugee. She began creating public performances in Kabul, where her work was a response to a male-dominated society with extreme patriarchal politics. After her performance Armor in 2015, she was forced to flee her home country. She continues her performative work in Europe, accompanied by Latitudes Prod. and develops her drawing and painting practice, represented by Galerie Eric Mouchet. In 2022, she designed the poster for the Festival d’Avignon and presented a solo show at the Collection Lambert and the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern in Germany. In 2023, her new stage creation, The Golden Horizon (افق طلائی), premiered at the Théâtre de la Ville, Paris. In 2024, she published her first graphic novel, La fille et le dragon (The Girl and the Dragon), published by Denoël, with sociologist and anthropologist Nicole Lapierre as story editor.