Les Procès du siècle - Daring to be Utopian
Season 4
From Monday, November 18, 2024 to Monday, March 17, 2025
At the crossroads of debate, theater and judicial investigation, this space for citizen deliberation examines the struggles that are shaking up our contemporary societies, bringing together witnesses, specialists and exhibits.
This fourth season of Les Procès du siècle explores concrete, real-life utopias and the new models we need to invent to move towards more democracy, more ecology and more solidarity. To live better, together.
In season 4, we’ll be talking about education, care, digital technology, the economy, architecture, agriculture, traffic, respect, consent, artificial intelligence, trees and birds. Sometimes, we’ll even try to laugh about it.
A series of encounters conceived and produced by the Mucem.
Events (19)
The Commission of Inquiry with LICA and its Tiers-Lab des Transitions
Les Procès du siècle - Daring to be Utopian
The Commission of Inquiry is a workshop for thinking and speaking out, a place to share our questions on the various subjects addressed during the Trials of the Century.
During this half-day session, participants work together to develop arguments and testimonials. Here, the construction of discourse intersects with that of theater. We “play” at thinking, we “dialogue” points of view, we “embody” different experiences.
The Commission d’Enquête is a...
On Saturday, Jan 25, 2025
at 15h
Fort Saint-Jean
Warming up history: an essay in multi-species history
Opera Mundi 10 years: Rethinking our interdependence
With Vinciane Despret, philosopher of science
Moderator: Eric Giraud (Opera Mundi)
Free admission on reservation
Belgian philosopher Vinciane Despret gives an exceptional lecture on the long-standing and complex interdependencies between “living beings other than humans” and our species.
At the crossroads of philosophy, ethology and psychology, Vinciane Despret’s reflections invite us to sensitively rethink our alliances with the living world, and to appreciate both what...
On Thursday, Jan 30, 2025
at 20h
Fort Saint-Jean
Free of charge
Is ecology a rich man's fight?
Trials of the Century - season 4
Moderator: Paloma Moritz
With Sanaa Saitouli, co-founder of Banlieues Climat and Axelle Cuny, PACA Action contre la Faim coordinator.
With the participation of Julia Ferloni, heritage curator in charge of the Crafts, Trade and Industry section at Mucem.
Even today, many people from the working classes feel excluded from environmentalist discourse, even though they are the first victims of the effects of climate change and the extinction of biodiversity. Yet they are struggling to cope with...
On Monday, Nov 18, 2024
at 20h
J4 / Auditorium
Me too, together
Trials of the Century - season 4
Moderator: Rokhaya Diallo
With Nadège Beausson-Diagne, actress, and Anne Bouillon, lawyer specializing in women’s rights and domestic violence.
With the participation of Caroline Chenu, in charge of research and collections at Mucem.
To mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we take a look back at the Me Too movement, questioning its ability to set an example as a viral social movement capable of changing mentalities and shifting legal lines.
On Saturday...
On Monday, Nov 25, 2024
at 20h
Fort Saint-Jean
What place for the people?
Trials of the Century - season 4
Moderator: Nora Hamadi
With Magali Della Sudda, political scientist and socio-historian, and Nicolas Rio, territorial cooperation consultant and lecturer at Sciences Po.
With the participation of Caroline Chenu, in charge of research and collections at Mucem, or Claire Dufour, in charge of documentation at Mucem.
The Citizens’ Climate Convention, the post-Gilets jaunes debate, participatory budgets, neighborhood councils, public inquiries, public meetings, citizen panels…...
On Monday, Dec 2, 2024
at 20h
Fort Saint-Jean
Singing birds
Trials of the Century - season 4
Moderator: Anne-Cécile Bras
With Sébastien Blache, farmer and naturalist and Frédéric Jiguet, ornithologist and biologist
With the participation of Françoise Dallemagne, in charge of research and collections at Mucem.
Among common species, nearly 17% of birds in France have disappeared since 2001. Is this a sign of the collapse of ecosystems and the food chain? Are we heading for widespread environmental impoverishment?
Between industrial agriculture, landscape standardization, urbanization...
On Monday, Jan 6, 2025
at 20h
Fort Saint-Jean
Rebuilding society?
Trials of the Century - season 4
Moderated by Thomas Legrand
With Vincent Tiberj, sociologist and Quitterie de Villepin, politician.
With the participation of Mireille Jacotin, Head Curator of Heritage, in charge of the Public Life Department at Mucem.
Urban-rural divide, social inequalities, questions of identity, generational divide… are our societies so irrevocably divided and archipelagic that citizens no longer live side by side, but face to face, with no common concerns? Between long-term trends and the...
On Monday, Dec 9, 2024
at 20h
Fort Saint-Jean
Can committed humor reconcile us?
Trials of the Century - season 4
Moderator: Nora Hamadi
With Matthieu Longatte, actor, screenwriter, director, video artist and Bérénice Hamidi, university professor, specialist in cultural representations, honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
With the participation of Mireille Jacotin, chief curator of heritage, head of the Public Life Department at Mucem, and the complicity of Nelly Quemener, sociologist in information and communication sciences.
“Humor is just one way of defending yourself against...
On Monday, Jan 13, 2025
at 20h
Fort Saint-Jean
How can we reenchant digital technology?
Trials of the Century - season 4
Moderator: François Saltiel
With Anne Alombert, philosopher and member of the Conseil national du numérique, and Sébastien Shulz, digital sociologist.
With the participation of Charles Riondet, digital and open data project manager at Mucem.
Digital technology has invaded our lives. For better or for worse.
The omnipresence of screens, big data, artificial intelligence, connected objects, platformization: as digital technological advances turn all sectors upside down, they also invite us to...
On Monday, Dec 16, 2024
at 20h
Fort Saint-Jean
From boomers to alphas, there's strength in numbers
Trials of the Century - season 4
Moderator: Rokhaya Diallo
With Cornelia Hummel, sociologist and professor at the Institut de recherches sociologiques, University of Geneva, and Marion de Boüard, author and producer, with Héloïse Pierre, of the podcast “Mamie dans les Orties”.
With the participation of Anna Millers, heritage curator in charge of the Sport and Health department at Mucem.
Sharing wealth, financing pensions, caring for the environment, the real estate crisis… blamed for all the ills, the...
On Monday, Jan 20, 2025
at 20h
Fort Saint-Jean
On the marine mammal front: XXL sorority!
Trials of the Century - season 4
With Fabienne Delfour, ethologist and ketologist, and Lamya Essemlali, environmental and anti-speciesist activist, founder and president of Sea Shepherd France.
Moderation: Paloma Moritz
With the participation of Hélia Paukner, heritage curator, head of the Contemporary Art department at Mucem.
They have always been a source of fascination and wonder, and play an essential role in the marine ecosystem. They can contribute to climate change… Cetaceans!
Beyond the crucial issues of...
On Monday, Feb 10, 2025
at 20h
Fort Saint-Jean
Mystical AI, ethical AI?
Trials of the Century - season 4
Moderator: François Saltiel
With Charleyne Biondi, PhD in political science and Filipe Vilas-Boas, artist.
With the participation of Sarah Dietz, in charge of computerized collection management at Mucem.
In March 2023, a thousand experts called for a “pause” in the advance of artificial intelligence. Generative artificial intelligence, currently the dominant technology and the creator of a certain vision of the world, is creating quite a buzz. Generating hopes and fears, can AI free...
On Monday, Jan 27, 2025
at 20h
Fort Saint-Jean
Popular education, an old recipe for the future?
Moderator: Nora Hamadi
With Hélène Balazard, Political Science researcher, and Robin Renucci, actor, comedian, director, director of Théâtre de La Criée.
With the participation of Caroline Chenu, in charge of research and collections at Mucem,
Do we need to rethink our educational models to encourage citizenship and collective action?
Popular education, which promotes learning by doing and experimentation, is perhaps a model that is still proving its worth, and one that is being seized upon by...
On Monday, Feb 17, 2025
at 20h
Fort Saint-Jean
How are Generation Zers embracing humanism?
Trials of the Century - season 4
Moderated by Thomas Legrand
With Jean Massiet, political popularizer on the Twitch platform, and Claire Thoury, sociologist, President of Mouvement associatif.
With the participation of Anna Millers, heritage curator in charge of the Sport and Health department at Mucem.
Ecological crisis and destruction of life, migratory crisis, international conflicts, deregulated economy, new technologies and augmented man, gender equality and gender fluidity… How is generation Z defending the idea of...
On Monday, Feb 3, 2025
at 20h
Fort Saint-Jean
Where are the new territories of solidarity?
Trials of the Century - season 4
Moderator: Nora Hamadi
With Kamel Guemari, founder of l’Après-M, a social fast-food restaurant, and Juliette Rousseau, author and publisher.
With the participation of Mireille Jacotin, Head Curator of Heritage, in charge of the Public Life Department at Mucem.
And what if solidarity were first experienced on a local scale, then dreamed up on a grander scale?
For decades, new forms of solidarity have been emerging in urban and rural areas. What do these spaces have to say about the social...
On Monday, Feb 24, 2025
at 20h
Fort Saint-Jean
Friendship: a different way of sharing?
Trials of the Century - season 4
Moderator: Nora Hamadi
With Alice Raybaud, journalist, and Céline Sciamma, writer, director, actress
With the participation of Mireille Jacotin, Head Curator of Heritage, in charge of the Public Life Department at Mucem.
In our imaginations, the passage to adulthood often relegates friendship to second place, well behind the loving couple. While couple and family models are evolving, friendship remains a less visible, less valued bond in our society.
And yet… For some years now,...
On Monday, Mar 17, 2025
at 20h
Fort Saint-Jean
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...
On Monday, Mar 3, 2025
at 20h
Fort Saint-Jean
Taking inspiration from trees
Moderator: Nina Guérineau de Lamérie
With Thomas Brail, arborist climber, and Laurent Tillon, biologist and forestry engineer at the Office national des forêts (French forestry agency)
With the participation of Françoise Dallemagne, in charge of research and collections at Mucem.
Did you know that trees live in constant interference with their environment? They have the gift of making it rain. Their roots form an incredible communication network enabling them to exchange information, with...
On Monday, Mar 10, 2025
at 20h
Fort Saint-Jean
The Inquiry Commission with the Après M
Les Procès du siècle - Daring to be Utopian
The Commission of Inquiry is a workshop for thinking and speaking out, a place to share our questions on the various subjects addressed during the Trials of the Century.
During this half-day session, participants work together to develop arguments and testimonials. Here, the construction of discourse intersects with that of theater. We “play” at thinking, we “dialogue” points of view, we “embody” different experiences.
The Commission d’Enquête is a...
On Saturday, Nov 16, 2024 and on Saturday, Feb 22, 2025
at 15h
Fort Saint-Jean