Allez savoir - Festival des sciences sociales

Social Sciences Festival: 3 days of talks, debates, exhibitions,... The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and the City of Marseille invite you to explore the major challenges facing the contemporary world in a friendly and stimulating atmosphere. Join us for three days of round tables, film screenings followed by discussions, performances, tours, literary conversations, meetings at the museum, fun workshops and listening sessions across around fifteen emblematic sites and cultural venues throughout the city. Allez Savoir #7 — “Money. What Does That Mean?” From Thursday, September 24 to Saturday, September 26, 2026 Both a force for emancipation and domination, a foundation of trust as much as belief, and a material and symbolic object, money shapes our societies, institutions and daily lives. Come explore, debate, play and observe alongside researchers, artists, authors and journalists, around numerous themes: - money and happiness; - money in couples and families; - influencer marketing; - media ownership and editorial control; - environmental regulation; - nature conservation and ecological damage; - mining in South Africa; - crypto-assets and the European Union; - the redistribution of wealth, assets and taxation; - the organization of markets; - parallel economies and illicit trafficking; - corruption cases; - debt and work, from antiquity to the present day; - the experience of money in prison; - the disappearance of cash and digital currencies; - non-European currencies; - giving in Kyrgyzstan; - economic insecurity in Mexico; - the value of works of art; - money in literature, but also in the afterlife, etc. The program for the 7th edition of Allez Savoir can be found at: allez-savoir.fr