Debates, performances, shows, literary meetings, autograph sessions and workshops will set the tone for this sixth edition of the Night of Ideas, which will explore the theme Power to Act – In search of a new horizon of universality.
From 6pm to midnight, writers, poets, dancers, scientists, journalists, musicians, illustrators and philosophers will debate and act on key issues.
How can we live together in an increasingly segmented and pluralised world? What can we do to face or halt the effects of climate change and reconnect with the living world? How can we effectively combat social and cultural inequalities so that we all have the full right to citizenship?
Restoring and reinventing the power to act collectively to open up a new, broader horizon of universality at a crucial moment in the history of humanity and the planet: this is the ambition of the Night of Ideas.
Programme
OPENING SESSION
Sala Luis Miguel Cintra
7 pm – Opening speeches
7:10 pm – Inaugural conference – Djaimilia PEREIRA DE ALMEIDA – Ilhas da Gentileza
7:20 pm – Inaugural conference – Antoine LILTI – Actualité des Lumières
7:30 pm – Show – Étienne SAGLIO and Madeleine CAZENAVE – Variation pour piano et polystyrène
PATH 1 – DEMOCRACY!
Sala Bernardo Sassetti
8 pm – Literary Performance – MERAI – Novas Cartas Portuguesas
8:10 pm – Round table: Feminism: a pillar of democracy?
With Ilda MENDES, Agnès LEVECOT, Cristina ROBALO-CORDEIRO
Moderation: Margarida CALAFATE RIBEIRO
8:55 pm – Open mic
What is democracy?
With Barbara STIEGLER, Christophe PÉBARTHE, Raquel VARELA
Moderation: Margarida DAVIM
The role of education in democracy.
With Diogo RAMADA CURTO, António ARAÚJO, Antoine LILTI
Moderation: Margarida DAVIM
PATH 2 – UNIVERSAL?
Sala Luis Miguel Cintra
8 pm – Round table: ‘We’ and ‘the others’ in Camões
With Isabel ALMEIDA, José BERNARDES, Gonçalo M. TAVARES
Moderation: Pedro SOUSA PEREIRA (KHRON)
8:45 pm – Literary Performance – MERAI – Os Lusíadas
9:00 pm – Round table: For another history of the world?
With Evalina DIAS, Pierre SINGARAVELOU, Djaimilia PEREIRA DE ALMEIDA
Moderation: Marta LANÇA
9:45 pm – Performance – Vanessa FERNANDES and Ivo REIS/ESPECTRO VISÍVEL – Na Kolonia
9:55 pm – Classical music recital – Jérôme FRÉJAVILLE (piano) and Grégoire TOROSSIAN (violin) – Between Portugal and France
10:30 pm – Round table: How to live the post-colonial condition?
With Isabel CASTRO HENRIQUES, José Eduardo AGUALUSA, Filipa LOWNDES VICENTE
Moderation: Ângela BARRETO XAVIER
PATH 3 – CITIZENSHIP…
Fauna & Flora Restaurant
8:30 pm – Open mic: How to think about and share wealth?
With Emmanuel RENAULT and Timothée PARRIQUE
Moderation: Duarte ROLO
8:45 pm – Open mic: Science, a global story.
With Carlos FIOLHAIS, Jean-Pierre BOURGUIGNON, Étienne SAGLIO
Moderation: António GUERREIRO
CLOSING – PONGO CONCERT
Sala Bernardo Sassetti
11:30 pm – PONGO Concert
NIGHT BOOKSHOP – FOYER AND FIRST FLOOR
7 pm – 00:30 am
Sale of books by the Night of Ideas speakers (Almedina and Nouvelle Librairie française) and books related to the theme ‘Power to act’, in French and Portuguese. The speakers will be available for autograph sessions.
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