Study day
Exploring the forms of the visible. Cross readings of Philippe Descola
Live broadcast on the College des Bernardins website (via zoom) with translation into english.
Live Zoom, français and english
This study day of the Laudato si' Chair. For a new exploration of the Earth at the Collège des Bernardins proposes to discuss with the eminent anthropologist, Philippe Descola, his latest book, Les formes du visible, published by the Seuil (2021), by bringing together philosophers, theologians, historians, art historians and anthropologists.
Figuration is not entirely left to the expressive imagination of those who make images. One only figures what one perceives or imagines, and one only imagines and perceives what habit has taught us to discern.
The publication of Philippe Descola's latest book is an opportunity to explore the ways in which we structure our way of inhabiting the world according to our belonging to one of the four regions of the ontological archipelago defined by the anthropologist: animism, naturalism, totemism or analogism.
This study day proposes to discuss the richness and diversity of a book which, while laying the foundations of an anthropology of figuration, invites us to "provincialise" Western art. The aim is to draw up an initial assessment of the reception of the book, Les formes du visible, to outline the plural perspectives opened up by Philippe Descola to rethink the plasticity of forms of figuration and the power of images to act, but also to reflect on the way in which the latter reveal multiple forms of "being-in-the-world".
The study day will be punctuated by cross-commentaries on a work, round tables, lectures and a collective work session on extracts from the book. Study day under the co-direction of Grégory Quenet, environmental historian, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Paris-Saclay; holder of the Laudato si' chair. For a new exploration of the Earth, Collège des Bernardins, P. Olric de Gélis, theologian, director of the Collège des Bernardins research centre and P. Frédéric Louzeau, theologian.
Program
9 - 9.15 a.m. WELCOME
9.15 - 9.30 INTRODUCTION
By Grégory Quenet, holder of the Laudato si' Chair. For a new exploration of the Earth at the Collège des Bernardins; environmental historian, university professor, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Paris-Saclay).
9.30 - 10.30 CONFERENCE
LES FORMES DU VISIBLE. A FIGURATION'S ANTHROPOLOGY : PRESENTATION OF A RESEARCH
Philippe Descola
10.30 - 12.30 PANEL 1
Presidence: Arnaud Pierre, Professor of Contemporary Art History, Centre André Chastel Sorbonne University, Paris
10.30 - 10.50 CONFERENCE
MAKING OTHER-THAN-HUMAN VIEWPOINTS SENSITIVE;
Estelle Zhong Mengual, art historian
10.50 - 11.20 BREAK
11.20 - 11.40 CONFERENCE &
FLUIDITY OF IMAGES;
Jérémie Koering, professor of modern art history, University of Fribourg
11.40 - 12.30 ROUND TABLE
With the speakers and Philippe Descola
12.30 - 14 p.m BREAK
14 - 15.30 PANEL 2
Presidence: P. Frédéric Louzeau, theologian, director of the Laudato si' Chair. For a new exploration of the Earth, College des Bernardins
14 - 14.20 CONFERENCE
THE 'SINGLE MACHINES': PAINTINGS OF HUMAN KINSHIP WITH MACHINES IN DUCHAMP, PICABIA AND DE CHIRICO
Arnauld Pierre, Professor of Contemporary Art History, Centre André Chastel Sorbonne University, Paris
14.20 - 14.40 CONFERENCE
THE CONDITIONS OF SIGHTING IN NATURALISM: AN ECOLOGY OF MUSEUMS
Grégory Quenet, holder of the Laudato si' Chair. For a new exploration of the Earth at the Collège des Bernardins; environmental historian, university professor, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Paris-Saclay).
14.45 - 15.30 ROUND TABLE
With the speakers and Philippe Descola
15.30 - 16 BREAK
16 - 17.45 PANEL 3
Presidence: P. Olric de Gélis, theologian, director of the Collège des Bernardins research centre has and director of the Laudato si' Chair. For a new exploration of the Earth
16 - 16.20 CONFERENCE
COMPLETE AND ARCHIVE THE WORLD. A 'FORMES DU VISIBLE' THEOLOGICAL RECEPTION
Maxime Deurbergue, art historian; PhD student in dogmatic theology
16.20 - 16.40 CONFERENCE
MONDIATION AND FIGURATION: THE CHALLENGE OF PUTTING IMAGES INTO PLAY
Carole Maigné, philosopher
16.40 - 17 CONFERENCE
WHICH ANALOGISM FOR MEDIEVAL ART ?
Pierre-Olivier Dittmann, historian, lecturer at the EHESS, member of the Groupe d'Anthropologie Historique de l'Occident Médiéval (GAHOM)
17 - 17.45 ROUND TABLE
With the speakers and Philippe Descola
