Since their creation in Morocco, the Meeting of philosophy were designed as an invitation to question the challenges and issues that affect our societies and to discuss them collectively. An opportunity to explore major current questions through enriching meetings and fascinating debates with renowned thinkers from diverse backgrounds!
“A festive event entirely dedicated to the debate of ideas and the circulation of knowledge, the Rendez-vous de la philosophie will this year offer 4 nights of philosophy, in Fez, Marrakech, Casablanca and Rabat. They will bring together for a week more than around forty philosophers and personalities from culture”, notes the French embassy in a press release.
Entrusted to a dual Franco-Moroccan police station, Driss Xikes et Jean-Baptiste Brenetthe Rendez-vous de la Philosophie will be structured around the theme: “TheUniversal in voltage“.
This theme will invite us to question, in an increasingly fragmented world, the commonality of humanity. Faced with geopolitical, ethical, techno-scientific and ecological challenges, can humanity give itself a project and common values, without denying the plurality of peoples? How can we rethink and define what unites us and what we value?
By exploring the adventures of the universal in all its dimensions, political, ethical, scientific, these meetings of philosophy wish to contribute to the clarification of debates on the meaning and value of universalism: traditions, religions, humanism, values, human rights, citizenship, science, technological revolutions… so many entries that philosophers, writers and scientists will question.
To celebrate this anniversary, 4 nights of philosophy will take place during this week.
Philosophy night in Marrakech : philosophy in dialogue with traditions
Wednesday November 13 – 6 p.m. – 11 p.m.
Location: Language Center/Cadi Ayyad Presidency, Cadi Ayyad University
Philosophy night in Fez: philosophy in dialogue with science
Wednesday November 13 – 6 p.m. – 11 p.m.
Location: Palais de Congrès
Philosophy night in Casablanca: philosophy in dialogue ecological humanities and imagination
Friday November 15 – 6 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
Location: Faculty of Medicine, Hassan II University
Philosophy meeting in Rabat: Double voice dialogue between Souleymane Bachir Diagne & Frederic Worms
Saturday November 16 – 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Royal Institute for Research in the History of Morocco in Madinat al Irfane
Night of Philosophy, in partnership with the Faculty of Sciences of Mohammed V University
Commons as an alternative – Translation as a method of constructing the universal
Saturday November 16 – 6 p.m. – 11 p.m. at the Faculty of Sciences
