
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.
Évènements passés (20)

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
de 20h à 22h
Fort Saint-Jean
- Free

The Inquiry Commission
Trials of the Century - season 4
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...From Saturday, Nov 30, 2024
to Saturday, Mar 15, 2025de 15h à 19h30
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
de 20h à 22h
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
de 20h à 22h
Fort Saint-Jean
- Free

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...On Monday, Feb 24, 2025
de 20h à 22h
J4 / Auditorium

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
de 15h à 19h30
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
de 20h à 22h
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
de 20h à 22h
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
de 20h à 22h
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
de 20h à 22h
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
de 20h à 22h
Fort Saint-Jean

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
de 15h à 19h30
Fort Saint-Jean











