Patrick Boucheron has been a professor at the Collège de France on the "History of Powers in Western Europe, 13^th-16^th century" chair since 2015. While his work focuses primarily on the urban history of medieval Italy, he is also interested in the writing and epistemology of history, attempting to re-articulate literature and the social sciences. He is involved in several projects, both editorial and audiovisual, which aim to defend the voice of a committed and scholarly discourse at the heart of the public uses of history.

Since the late 1960s, Bertrand Lavier's work has continued to subvert the traditional categories that compartmentalize artistic creation, with the artist exploring the relationships between painting and sculpture, representation and abstraction, life and art. Passing with ease from one medium to another, he continually develops and experiments with strategies of translation, transposition and conversion, ultimately disrupting our familiar ways of perceiving and conceiving art.

Leïla Slimani is a journalist, novelist and was awarded the Prix Goncourt 2016 for her second novel Chanson douce. In her stories and articles, she develops a remarkable talent for observing and analyzing modern life, with a particular interest in the secret life of women. Her latest novel Le pays des autres relates a family saga at the crossroads of Franco-Moroccan history and her own family's history.

"For a culture of the living": How can we contribute to a cultural battle that would restore the importance of the living and give it another place in the fabric of our common world?

Conference within the framework of the Chair "Inhabiting the landscape: where art meets the living world", coordinated by Estelle Zhong Mengual.

Catherine Malabou is a specialist in contemporary French and German philosophy. She works on the importance of the concept of plasticity in neurosciences.