Festival Allez Savoir dans les bibliothèques

For three days, EHESS and the City of Marseille invite you to explore money in all its facets through the perspective of the social sciences. For its 7th edition, the Allez Savoir social sciences festival puts money on the table! For three days, EHESS and the City of Marseille invite you to explore together money in all its facets through the perspective of the social sciences. From sovereign currency to alternative forms, from inequalities to economic strategies, from everyday uses to artistic representations, money reveals, in particular, dynamics of power, trust and identity. Discover the full program for this edition at allezsavoir.fr and below the program hosted at the Alcazar library. Program subject to change. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 AT 2:30 P.M. > Alcazar, conference room The Romance of Money. What Money Does to Literature This round table will bring together a historian and a historian of the 19th and 20th centuries, Judith Lyon-Caen, Christophe Prochasson, and a contemporary writer published by Gallimard: Frédéric Verger. Session primarily open to school groups and to the general public subject to available places. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 AT 6 P.M. > Alcazar, conference room Festival opening and inaugural speech followed by a round table: Does Money Make You Happy? With Jérôme Dokic, philosopher, and Claudia Senik, economist. Moderated by Cédric Enjalbert, deputy editor of Philosophie Magazine. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 AT 2 P.M. > Alcazar, conference room Game: The Words of Economics, a quiz for informed citizens Inflation, debt, growth, inequalities… These words are certainly familiar to you, but are you sure you understand them properly? Come test your knowledge, challenge your preconceptions, separate fact from vagueness and falsehood, and decipher the major economic mechanisms! You will leave with useful tools for social debates With Léa Dispa, scientific outreach officer, Nicolas Gravel, economist, Esther Loubradou, illustrator, and Timothée Vinchon, journalist. Session primarily open to school groups and to the general public subject to available places. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 AT 5:30 P.M. > Alcazar, conference room Round table: How Can Wealth Be Better Redistributed? How are economic inequalities produced, and what role does money play in our societies? A discussion to shed light on the mechanisms of inequality and open up avenues for reflection on possible ways to act. With economists Clément Carbonnier and Lucas Chancel, and philosopher Mélanie Plouviez. In collaboration with Coude à Coude. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 AT 6 P.M. > Alcazar, auditorium Discussion on purchasing power around the special issue of the journal L’Homme: “Ethnographing Purchasing Power” What can ethnographic studies teach us when they show that purchasing power is neither universal nor homogeneous nor strictly monetary, but takes multiple forms, linked to differentiated social, historical and political contexts? With Sophie Chevalier Hart, ethnologist, and Emmanuelle Lallement, anthropologist. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 AT 5:30 P.M. > Merlan Library Meeting with Fatma Çingi Kocadost, author of The Promise That Was Made to Us Money has historically structured domestic life through the evolution of the gendered division of labor, with men taking on the role of providing for the family. In her latest book, The Promise That Was Made to Us, Fatma Çingi Kocadost undertakes a twofold demystification: that of marriage for Maghrebi women, and that of women’s emancipation through salaried employment. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 AT 9:30 A.M. > Alcazar, conference room Discussion: The History of the Rich in the West and Beyond This public debate proposes examining these questions on the basis of a recently published book, As Gods Among Men. A History of the Rich in the West (Princeton University Press). With Guido Alfani, historian, and Anne-Christine Trémon, anthropologist; moderated by Cécilia D’Ercole. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 AT 11 A.M. > Alcazar, storytelling room, 1st floor Game: Class Struggle Professor Bertell Ollman (New York University) invented the board game Class Struggle (La Lutte des classes) in the 1970s, in reaction to games such as Monopoly, which in his view “encouraged individual competition, greed and the thirst for power, while offering a very distorted image of how our society functions.” With Léa Dispa, scientific outreach officer, Miriam Teschl, Stéphane Luchini and Patrick Pintus, economists. Registration required through allez-savoir.fr. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 AT 11 A.M. > Alcazar, conference room Round table: Who Pays Calls the Shots? Media Ownership and Editorial Control In public debates about the media and journalism in France, the question of media concentration in the hands of a few billionaires has been one of the most debated issues in recent years. With Valentina Grossi, sociologist, Alexandre Joux, professor of information and communication sciences, and Nicolas Kaciaf, sociologist. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 AT 2 P.M. > Alcazar, conference room Screening: Marx and the Critique of Money in Capitalism Social sciences film discussion around The Young Karl Marx (2017), tracing his youth in the 1840s, when he observed the emergence of capitalism, and developed the foundations of his critical and revolutionary thought alongside Friedrich Engels. In collaboration with APSES. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 AT 5:30 P.M. > Alcazar, conference room Round table: Can Money Repair? The Legal Perspective How do we assess the “price of pain” or repair what cannot be restored? What alternatives are there to financial compensation? With Paolo Napoli, legal historian; Frédéric Audren and Liora Israel, sociolo