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Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

Season 3

From Monday, November 20, 2023 to Monday, March 11, 2024

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 third season brings together the struggles for human rights and the rights of the Earth. It explores the causes that need to be defended if we are to live together better, and inhabit our planet more fully.
From November 2023 to March 2024, we’ll be debating (and putting on trial) climate disruption, discrimination and precarity. What are the causes of these deadly imbalances? What are the tools, the proposals, the rights acquired and yet to be conquered?

A series of encounters conceived and produced by the Mucem in collaboration with Grégoire Ingold.
Illustrations and diary drawn by Benoît Guillaume.

Events (16)

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"Postcolonial", "neocolonial", "decolonial": theories, resiliencies or catchphrases?

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

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With Mame-Fatou Niang (teacher-researcher and artist) and Seumboy Vrainom :€ (artist and activist) Moderator: Nora Hamadi With the participation of Hélia Paukner, heritage curator, head of the Contemporary Art department at Mucem. This new season of Les Procès du siècle aims to go back to the origins of class, race and gender assignments that are still prevalent in our societies, and whose origins lie in the mechanisms of colonial domination. Throughout the season, we’ll come across...

On Monday, Nov 27, 2023

at 19h

J4 / Auditorium

Benoît Guillaume

Women, water and land: a life of struggle

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

Debate-
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Conference, Hors-Série By Vandana Shiva, witness of the Trials of the Century Moderated by Éric Giraud (Opera Mundi) and Paloma Moritz (Procès du siècle, Mucem) With the participation of Hélia Paukner, heritage curator, head of the Contemporary Art department at Mucem. On the occasion of the translation of her memoirs, Indian environmental activist Vandana Shiva gives an exceptional lecture on ecofeminism, water and agriculture, subjects she has been working on for almost fifty years.

On Thursday, Nov 16, 2023

at 19h

J4 / Auditorium

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The Black Cause: from Claude McKay to Black Lives Matter

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

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With Nadia Yala Kisukidi (philosopher, writer) and Maboula Soumahoro (teacher-researcher) Moderator: Rokhaya Diallo With the participation of Françoise Dallemagne, in charge of research and collections at Mucem. To mark the 100th anniversary of Claude McKay’s arrival in France, Les Procès du siècle revisits the figure of the famous author of Banjowritten in 1929, recounts the adventures of a band of vagabonds living in the Marseilles harbor underworld. A true precursor of the black cause...

On Monday, Dec 4, 2023

at 19h

J4 / Auditorium

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Climate: can recourse really change the game?

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

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With Camille Étienne (activist) and Jérémie Suissa (general delegate of Notre Affaire à Tous) Moderation: Paloma Moritz With the participation of Enguerrand Lascols, heritage curator, head of the Domestic Life department at the Mucem. In December 2018, four NGOs took the French state to court for its inaction on climate change. Their objective? To have judges recognize the State’s obligation to act to limit global warming to 1.5°C, in order to protect French people from the risks induced...

On Monday, Dec 11, 2023

at 19h

J4 / Auditorium

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You're young and you're seizing?

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

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With Salomé Saqué (journalist, author) and David Assouline (politician, history-geography teacher) Moderator: Thomas Legrand With the participation of Mireille Jacotin, chief curator of heritage, head of the Public Life department at the Mucem. This episode aims to revive intergenerational solidarity in the face of the upheavals that affect us all. But why should young people be in crisis? In her book Sois jeune et tais-toi, journalist Salomé Saqué gives a voice to French youth who are being...

On Monday, Nov 20, 2023

at 19h

J4 / Auditorium

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Feminicides, the more we talk about them, the more they increase?

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

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With Souad El Maysour (visual artist) and Christelle Taraud (historian) Moderator: Rokhaya Diallo With the participation of Caroline Chenu, in charge of research and collections at Mucem. In a November 2022 study, the UN estimated that every hour, an average of five women had been killed by someone close to them in 2021… Five women per hour! The report called this figure “a stark reminder that violence against women and girls is one of the most frequent human rights abuses in the...

On Monday, Dec 18, 2023

at 19h

J4 / Auditorium

Ecocide and colonial crimes

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

With Thuy-Tiên Hô (filmmaker and activist) and Philippe Sands (international lawyer) Moderator: Thomas Legrand With the participation of Justine Bohbote, heritage curator, head of the Sport and Health department at the Mucem. Colonial crimes are also ecocides. In 2012, with her documentary “Agent Orange: A Time Bomb”, director Thuy-Tiên Hô opened up the painful subject of “Agent Orange”: a powerful herbicide used by the US army during the Vietnam War, which is still...

On Monday, Jan 8, 2024

at 20h

Fort Saint-Jean

Feminist struggles: an eternal restart?

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

With Myriam Bahaffou (philosophy researcher and activist) and Françoise Picq (historian, sociologist, activist) Moderator: Nora Hamadi With the participation of Amélie Lavin, chief curator of heritage, head of the Bodies, Appearances, Sexualities section at Mucem. Are we really experiencing a fourth feminist wave? Or are these struggles a slow continuum? Feminist struggles are becoming richer, more united and more complex, as they converge with ecological, social and anti-racist struggles....

On Monday, Jan 15, 2024

at 20h

Fort Saint-Jean

Climate migration: traffic jams on the horizon?

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

With Marine de Guglielmo Weber (researcher) and Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (president of France terre d’asile) Moderator: Paloma Moritz With the participation of Julia Ferloni, heritage curator, head of the Crafts, Trade and Industry section at Mucem. Last September, more than 11,000 migrants landed in Lampedusa in the space of a few days, doubling the population of this tiny 20-square-kilometer island and plunging the European Union into yet another existential crisis. This scenario is...

On Monday, Jan 22, 2024

at 20h

Fort Saint-Jean

Parenthood for all?

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

With : Judith Duportail (journalist) and Gabrielle Richard (sociologist) Moderator: Thomas Legrand With the participation of Caroline Chenu, in charge of research and collections at Mucem. Ten years after the introduction of the Taubira law opening marriage to same-sex couples, equality is still far from being achieved for LGBTQIA+ people, and new legislative advances are being called for by associations, particularly on the issue of parenthood: PMA, GPA, adoption, where exactly do we stand?...

On Monday, Jan 29, 2024

at 20h

Fort Saint-Jean

Should we talk about police violence?

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

With Slim Ben Achour (lawyer) and David Dufresne (journalist, film-maker, writer) Moderator: Nora Hamadi With the participation of Mireille Jacotin, chief curator of heritage, head of the Public Life Department at Mucem. On June 27, 2023, the death of Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old teenager shot dead by a police officer in Nanterre after refusing to comply, once again highlighted the increase in deaths and serious injuries during law enforcement operations. It also calls into question the term...

On Monday, Feb 5, 2024

at 20h

Fort Saint-Jean

Faced with discrimination: how do you keep a cool head?

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

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With Rachida Brahim (sociologist and historian) and Malika Mansouri (psychologist) Moderator: Rokhaya Diallo With the participation of Justine Bohbote, heritage curator, in charge of the Sport and Health department at Mucem. What is the impact of discrimination on mental health? In her book La race tue deux fois. Une histoire des crimes racistes en France (1970-2000), sociologist and historian Rachida Brahim speaks of a “double violence” in racism: the first, purely physical...

On Monday, Feb 12, 2024

at 20h

J4 / Auditorium

Ecology and traditional cultures

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

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With Irène Bellier (anthropologist) and Alessandro Pignocchi (researcher and comic strip author) Moderator: Paloma Moritz With the participation of Justine Bohbote, heritage curator, in charge of the Sport and Health department at Mucem. The opposition between nature and culture, theorized by the West, is showing its limits when it comes to preserving living things. In Africa, Oceania and even Europe, populations have managed to keep their traditional cultures alive, and maintain a strong link...

On Monday, Feb 19, 2024

at 20h

J4 / Auditorium

Colonized childhoods, exiled childhoods

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

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With Joohee Bourgain (teacher and activist) and Philippe Vitale (sociologist, AMU professor and researcher at LEST-CNRS) Moderator: Thomas Legrand With the participation of Caroline Chenu, in charge of research and collections at Mucem. In Canada, “residential schools” were designed to bring aboriginal children together and assimilate them into Canadian society. It is estimated that 150,000 Inuit or Métis attended these schools between the end of the 19th century and the end of...

On Monday, Feb 26, 2024

at 20h

J4 / Auditorium

General siesta! Slow down or perish?

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

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With François Briens (engineer, researcher) and Jean-Philippe Decka (researcher, essayist) Moderated by Nora Hamadi With the participation of Vincent Giovannoni, head curator of the Performing Arts Department. For some, it’s inevitable, and the only alternative to the end of the world. For others, it’s an unthinkable regression, a joke, even a nightmare! But what exactly is “degrowth”? Is reducing the production of goods and services “enough” to save us...

On Monday, Mar 4, 2024

at 20h

J4 / Auditorium

Decolonizing the arts: debunking or pedagogy?

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

With Eva Doumbia (author, director, actress) and Nacira Guénif-Souilamas (sociologist, anthropologist). Moderator: Rokhaya Diallo With the participation of Julia Ferloni, heritage curator, head of the Crafts, Trade and Industry section at Mucem. Between the restitution of works of art and the unbolting of statues, the “decolonization” of art and culture seems to be gaining new momentum. But how far should we go? Is it really necessary to wipe the slate clean? Erase everything? How...

On Monday, Mar 11, 2024

at 20h

Fort Saint-Jean