VOICES OF URGENCY 2015 (Science meets Poetry)
22 to 25 OCTOBER 2015 – from 6 to 8pm
Chapelle des Petits-Augustins
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
PARIS
Devised and orchestrated by Alex Cecchetti, Voices of Urgency invites science to meet poetry. Four events where researchers, scientists and philosophers are called in direct confrontation to poetry and poets.
This Year the 4 days panels will unfold the sentence that titles the program:
WE ARE THE WORLD WITHOUT THE WORLD, MADE BY IMAGINATION AND IN DEFENCE OF WHAT ONCE WE CALLED NATURE.
With: Paul Broks (Neuropsycologist UK), Dorothea Lasky (Poet USA), Emma Bennett & Holly Pester (Poets UK), Markus Gabriel (Philosopher, Germany), Jolanda Insana (Poet, Italy), Clare Pollard (Poet, UK), Agnès Devictor (Political scientist, France), Dunya Mikhail (Poet, Irak), Brian Turner (Poet, USA), Homero Aridjis (Poet, Mexico), Timothy Morton (Philosopher, UK), Ko Un (Poet, Korea)
Voices of Urgency is framed in the official program FIAC Hors les murs
And is supported by Maison de la Poésie, Centre Culturel Coréen à Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Paris, British Council, and Maison de L’Amerique Latine.
Here is the link for the full program and more info.