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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 (10)

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...

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?...

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....

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...

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...

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...