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    Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research
    Université de Paris
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    Campus des Grands Moulins
    75205 Paris Cédex 13
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  • "Les midideux" : 6 short talks

    THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, FROM 12 TO 2 P.M.

    "Midi­deux" are talks about love given by aca­­demics rep­re­senting var­ious dis­­­ci­­plines: Martine Beugnet (visual studies), Fanny Cardin (lit­er­a­­ture and cinema), Jean-François Cottier (latin lan­guage and lit­er­a­­ture), Gabrielle Houbre (con­tem­po­rary his­­tory), Pierre Kerner (life sciences) and Jonathan Weitzman (epi­ge­­netics).


    MARTINE BEUGNET, THE LOVE OF CINEMA

    What does it mean to love cinema today? At a time when film images are scat­tered on screens of all sizes and in all kinds of places? For Walter Benjamin, cinema was the art of crowds – the crowds of spec­ta­tors in a room, facing their reflec­tion on the screen ... An illus­trated midideux con­fer­ence will ques­tion the value of the shared expe­ri­ence of "watching together".

    Martine Beugnet is a pro­fessor of Visual Studies at the English lan­guage studies depart­ment, Paris Diderot University, and a member of the UMR LARCA.


    FANNY CARDIN, WHEN THE CINEMA SHOWS LOVE BEING CHALLENGED BY THE ORDINARY

    What hap­pens to love once it becomes a rou­tine? Whilst the cinema is obsessed with its most spec­tac­ular aspects (love at first sight, pas­sion, heart­break), is it rare for love to be explored via the daily life of a couple – a more com­mon­place sub­ject. From Pialat to Jarmusch, the talk will address sev­eral films, which make the iter­a­tive of love life more per­cep­tible, both in its most ordi­nary man­i­fes­ta­tions and in its cru­ellest effects.

    Fanny Cardin is a grad­uate of Lettres Modernes and a con­trac­tual doc­toral stu­dent at Paris Diderot University. Since fin­ishing her master’s degree, she has been working on the formal and polit­ical issues arising from the depic­tion of ordi­nary life in lit­er­a­ture and cinema.


    JEAN-FRANÇOIS COTTIER, FROM THE HOLY GRAIL TO AIDS: THE BLOOD TEST OF LOVE

    Many reli­gious and mys­tical texts explore the con­cept of blood. By studying their pres­ence in the visual arts and con­tem­po­rary per­for­mances, some reflec­tions appear, and deserve to be deep­ened on a sym­bolic level, on this bodily fluid that can be per­ceived as ben­e­fi­cial or deadly, pure or impure. The rela­tion­ship between blood and love will be ques­tioned, both in its tran­scen­dent dimen­sion and in its gen­dered and polit­ical sig­nif­i­cance.

    Jean-François Cottier is a pro­fessor of Latin Languages and Literatures at Paris Diderot University. He is also an asso­ciate pro­fessor at the University of Montreal, spe­cial­izing in reli­gious and mys­tical lit­er­a­ture and, for two years, has been run­ning an inter­dis­ci­plinary sem­inar that deals with the pres­ence of blood in the Western imag­i­na­tion.


    GABRIELLE HOUBRE, VALTESSE DE LA BIGNE, HER FRIENDS, HER LOVES, HER WILL...

    How to approach the his­tory of affects through a mate­ri­al­istic archive? The tes­ta­ment of the famous cour­tesan Valtesse de la Bigne (1848-1910), who divided her immense for­tune amongst friends, is a cap­ti­vating and trans­gres­sive example. It reveals how the one that inspired Zola’s Nana, dis­in­herited her bio­log­ical family in favor of elec­tive friend­ships, and how she, an out­spoken bisexual, blurred the bound­aries between friend­ship, love and sex­u­ality.

    Gabrielle Houbre is a his­to­rian at the Paris Diderot University (Cerilac / GHES), spe­cial­izing in social and cul­tural his­tory of the 19th cen­tury, as well as in gender issues. Amongst her pub­li­ca­tions: La Discipline de l’amour. L’éducation sen­ti­men­tale des filles et des garçons à l’âge du roman­tisme (1997) and Le Livre des cour­tisanes. Archives secrètes de la police des mœurs (2006). She recently co-directed Prostitutions. Des représen­ta­tions aveuglantes (2015) and worked on the 19th cen­tury in Une his­toire des sex­u­al­ités pub­lished in 2018 (ed. PUF).


    PIERRE KERNER, PARASITES: UNLOVED, YET VERY ENDEARING

    Parasites are not pleasant. Sticky manip­u­la­tors and thieves... reminding us of our worst romantic part­ners. And yet par­a­sites do not lack the know-how in love, starting with their inge­nuity in seducing (and infecting) their guests. Moreover, they are capable of incred­ible inven­tive­ness when it comes to repro­ducing, and the par­a­site Kama-sutra should give you many sur­prises.

    Pierre Kerner is a pro­fessor-researcher in Animal Biology, Development and Evolution at Paris Diderot University. Digital science pop­u­lar­izer, oper­ating under the pseudonym Taupo on his blog Strange Stuff and Funky Things, as well as on Youtube, Podcast Science and in books, such as La Science à Contrepied (book col­lec­tive Café des Sciences) and Moi, Parasite (ed. Belin).


    JONATHAN WEITZMAN, LOVE AND CHROMOSOMES

    Four hun­dred years ago, William Shakespeare wrote : "Love is blind, and lovers cannot see ..." (The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 6). What can new dis­cov­eries in genetics and epi­ge­netics bring to the debate about the ori­gins and con­se­quences of love and the blind­ness of lovers?

    Jonathan Weitzman is pro­fessor of Genetics at Paris Diderot University and a director of the Epigenetics and Cell Fate Unit. He is inter­ested in genetic iden­tity, epi­ge­netics, and the impact of the envi­ron­ment on DNA. He co-directs the European Masters in Genetics and the G.E.N.E. With Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, he founded the Académie Vivante, a col­lab­o­ra­tive Arts & Science pro­gram. In 2017, he pub­lished his first book, 3 min­utes pour com­prendre les 50 décou­vertes fon­da­men­tales de la géné­tique, pub­lished by Le Courrier du Livre.

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