International conference organized in the presence of Luce Irigaray on her latest book, The Mediation of Touch, published in March 2024, dedicated to a philosophy and ethics of touch, but also to (the) difference of gender and sexuality, and to contemporary reappropriations of a major feminist philosophical work, still too little publicized in the French-speaking world.

Program from 9:30am to 7pm  

9:30 - 10am : Welcome, coffee and introductory remarks

10am - 12 : Session 1, Chair: Marie-Dominique Garnier, Université Paris 8

2:30 - 5pm : Session 2, Chair: Laurie Laufer, Université Paris Cité

5:30 - 7pm : Session 3, Luce Irigaray, CNRS 

Download the full program (FR)

BILINGUAL EVENT: French and English translations will be projected on screen.

On the occasion of two international study days organized on May 23 and 24, 2025 by Fabrice Bourlez, Professor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and Psychoanalyst, Luce Irigaray, Director of Research in Philosophy at the CNRS and Marie Dominique GARNIER, Professor in Gender Studies and British Literature, Université Paris 8. 

Free admission, subject to availability.

Visual credit: © Antoine Sigur