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8th International Forum of the Universal Academy of Cultures
Under the High Patronage of
Jacques Chirac
President of the French Republic
with the support of the
French Departments of
Education
and Culture and Communication
In partnership with UNESCO
and Centre National du Livre
Community
9 and 10 November 2004
Grand Auditorium
UNESCO Headquarters
125, avenue de Suffren - 75007 Paris
Métro : Ségur or Ecole militaire
Scientific Committee :
Elie Wiesel,
Roger-Pol Droit, Umberto Eco, Jean-Claude Fasquelle, Franz-Olivier Giesbert,
Altan Gokalp, Michelle Perrot, Jorge Semprun
Françoise Barret-Ducrocq, Jean-Paul Constantin
Programme on 19 October 2004
The notion of community can correspond to an almost endless number of groups of individuals who have in common some given features that can be as varied as their religions, their ethnic origin, their professional occupation, their sexual orientation or their leisure activities. Three characteristics prevail, however, in every case :
- Belonging to a community gathers people who share a common “ pertinent ” feature, i.e. a feature that they have chosen to single out (or whose acknowledgment has been imposed on them) among all the other components in their identity.
- Those who do not share this common feature are excluded from this community. Naturally, the nature, degree, and occasionally the violence of this exclusion, vary considerably.
- Except in cases when this exclusion factor amounts to a prohibition, most individuals can be classified (or even claim to be classified) as members of several communities. The structuring (or identity) characteristic of each of these communities is of unequal strength and can vary in time : a Frenchmen who is a trade-union activist, a Roman Catholic and an Olympique de Marseille supporter can choose to put foremost any of these memberships according to differing circumstances.
Finally, some communities possess an institutional legitimacy – or aspire to be granted such a legitimacy. Such is the case of nation-states, or Churches, or international organisations. One can remember, for instance, how a part of the Jewish community has aspired to the status of a recognized state or, on the contrary, how the French speaking community in Canada has voted against the creation of an independent Quebec…
Communities therefore form a mosaïc with a multitude of set intersections and an identifying power that varies in time and space. Conflicts are bound to occur between these flexible, polymporphic structures and the rigid limits of states and institutions.
Tuesday 9 November 2004 - Morning
9.00 AM : OPENING
Welcome address by Françoise Rivière, UNESCO
Opening Address by François Fillon, Secretary of State for Education
9.30 AM : INTRODUCTION
Elie Wiesel
SESSION N°1 9.45 AM 11.45 AM
THE COMMUNITY : DEFINITIONS AND PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACHES
Chair : Franz-Olivier Giesbert
Claude Hagège
" The Linguistic Link "
Marc Fumaroli
" The Cultural Link "
Questions from the floor
Pause
Guy Carcassonne
" The Political Link "
Rudolf von Thadden
" The Religious Link "
Henri Atlan
" The University of Ethics and Communautarism "
Dominique Schnapper
" The Community of Citizens "
Questions from the floor
Tuesday 9 November 2004 – Afternoon
SESSION N°2 2.00 PM 5.00 PM
HISTORY
Chair : Umberto Eco
Jacques Le Goff
" The Birth of European Christianity in the Middle Ages "
Mohamed Charfi
" The Islamic Community "
Freddy Raphaël
" The Jewish Community"
Furio Colombo
" The Melting-Pot "
Alain Touraine
" From Community to Communautarism"
Toni Morrison
" Art and communities "
Questions from the floor
Pause
ROUND TABLE : Communautarism and integration
Moderator : Elie Wiesel
With
Sudhir Kakar
Wole Soyinka
Questions from the floor
Wednesday 10 November 2004 - Morning
SESSION N°3 9.30 AM 12.00 AM
ROUND TABLE : Communautarism and integration in France
Moderator : Franz-Olivier Giesbert
With
Dounia Bouzar
Altan Gokalp
Jean-Philippe Moinet
Daniel Picouly
Stéphane Pocrain
Daniel Sibony
Bernard Stasi
Questions from the floor
Wednesday 10 November 2004 – Afternoon
SESSION N°4 2.00 PM 4.30 PM
ESTABLISHED COMMUNITIES
Chair : Julia Kristeva
Bernard Kouchner
" Can we rely on the U.N. ? "
Alain Minc
" Virtual Community "
Roger-Pol Droit
" Common Places"
Umberto Eco
" The Scientific Community"
Questions from the floor
Pause
CONCLUSIONS 4.00 PM
Jorge Semprun
END OF THE FORUM 4.30 PM
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