Night of Ideas 2021 in Algiers

28/01/2021
Local: 1:00 pm
Paris: 1:00 pm
French Institute of Algiers and other locations in Algiers (in person and online)
Algeria
French / Arabic
https://www.if-algerie.com/alger/agenda-culturel/nuit-des-idees-2021-2013-programme-de-linstitut-francais-dalger
https://www.facebook.com/Institut-fran%C3%A7ais-Alger-466152993413134/

This year, for its fifth edition, the Night of Ideas returns in a particular context marked by a stronger presence of the digital and the virtual. The theme "Close" invites us to gather around feelings of belonging to the world and to rethink our relationship with our environment. An international event marked by simultaneity, it is an opportunity to engage in a collective and global reflection on the contours of the post-CIVID-19 era.

01 - French Institute of Algiers

- From 1pm for 15 days: collage exhibition "Nearby" (exhibition room)
From 15 January 2021 onwards, a boiling artistic site / creative laboratory will be launched. The contours of the creation will already be sketched out by the talented artist Yasmine Bourahli. The work "proches" will allow everyone to recognise themselves through a giant collage of images, life scenes and texts. A mixture that is both playful and intense in an attempt to paint a retrospective of the COVID year that we hope to close!

- From 1pm: MÉDIATH'ART exhibition: "La nuit porte...concept" (Media library)
For more than a year, the media library of the French Institute of Algiers has set up a plastic art parenthesis, a bubble of free expression for the benefit of professional or amateur artists wishing to share their creations with the members of the media library. The media library welcomes the artist H'Art Bell, a photographer and visual artist specialising in leather collage on paper. Through thematic works under the title "La nuit porte...concept" the artist will try to build a conceptual dialogue with the visitors.

- 13h30-15h00: screening of short films, followed by an exchange with the directors (auditorium):
"Cellule d'écoute" by Lilia Nath Waghlis
Algeria, at the time of the Coronavirus, Selma calls a listening centre for battered women. During a telephone conversation, Selma allows herself a little escape.
"Vertical End" by Amine Hattou
A filmmaker locked up alone in a foreign country during the pandemic tries to imagine the end of the world.
"Cosmos" by Dorothée-Myriam Kellou
During the Algerian war, more than two million Algerians were rounded up in camps. I have been documenting this memory with my father for the last few years and had to free myself from the feeling of being firmly confined. Cosmos is the result of this process
"When does the wave come? by Yanis Kheloufi
A departure, an arrival, a response. The Covid-19 pandemic plunges us into waiting, individuals as well as society.
"Since Forever and a Day" by Fethi Sahraoui
In a world where terms such as "confinement", "curfew" and "confinement" are now part of our daily vocabulary, what about those who have always been confined?

- 2.30 pm: PHILO Z'ENFANTS workshop on the book: "What is living together? - For 8-12 year olds (Médiathèque, youth area)
Would you like to live alone? Should your happiness depend on others? Do you need to be useful to others? Do you always have to agree with your friends?
There are no ready-made or unique answers to the big questions of life that you ask yourself. Through the "Philo z'enfants" workshop "What is living together? "Zahia invites you to discuss, reflect and search for answers within yourself. A session followed by the game "Mémo du monde", a colourful game for living together.
To book, please write to this address: philozenfants2021.alger@if-algerie.com

- 16:00-18:00: Live videoconferencing: what rhythm for tomorrow's world? (auditorium) With David Djaïz, essayist.
January 2021 already looks nothing like January 2020. This edition of the Nuit des Idées is unlike any that have gone before. From one mutation to another, the world in which we live and evolve today is changing at a frantic pace, almost impossible to follow. So how can we learn to take our time? What room is there for "ordinary life"? How can we slow down, settle down and reflect?

02 - French Institute of Algiers - Annex of Hydra - Rue des frères Kadri.

- 14.00-16.00: Lecture: Relational and affective problems in the Covid time -19. Psychological lighting.
With Ourida Belkacem, Professor of Psychology at the University of Algiers.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to shake the planet. It requires the implementation of restrictive protective measures which, over time, affect the psyche and make individuals react differently, revealing relational and emotional problems of various and contradictory orders: pathological physiological and behavioural reactions in some, individual and social actions of solidarity and creativity in others, a complex and endless composition of the human condition.

- 16h00-18h00: Podcast broadcast: African construction, what next?
The podcast of the exchange between the Senegalese economist Felwine Sarr and the Algerian anthropologist Fatma Ousseddik, moderated by the writer Benaouda Lebdai, will be screened.
and followed by a debate with Alumni.

03 - Alpha Tango (Chéraga)

16:00-18:00: Screening of the collaborative film "VITAL" and live composition of the soundtrack. With Safy Boutella, musician and composer.
Alpha Tango proposes you to celebrate culture, by participating in a creative experience, by attending the birth of a unique collective work initiated and directed by Thomas Castaing (director) with an original musical composition by Safy Boutella and co-produced by YOU.

04 - Polytechnic School of Architecture and Urban Planning (EPAU - El Harrach)

- 14.00-16.00: Conference: tomorrow's city: a city at man's height
With Lise Bourdeau-Lepage, geographer; Rachid Sidi Boumedine, urban sociologist; Akli Amrouche, architect.
What will the city of tomorrow look like? How big will it be? How accessible will it be? What relationships will it allow between its inhabitants? Will the city still exist or will new concepts of space occupation be imposed? The time has come to rethink space and how to inhabit it in the light of the social, economic, environmental and architectural changes that are coming. Debate among specialists to reflect on our individual and collective relationships to space: interdependencies, distances, scales, supports of social life and the changes they are undergoing.

05 - SOS Bab El Oued (at the headquarters of Caritas Algeria at rue d'Hydra - Poirson)

- From 15:00: Writing workshop on the question "How to remain close and supportive despite the health crisis? »
With the young members of the association.

06 - Centre diocésain des Glycines - 5 Chemin des Glycines, les Glycines Algiers

- 15:00-16:30: Lecture "Sociability and otherness: a paradoxical relationship
With Mr. Hichem Daoud, doctoral student in 2nd year political science (speciality: comparative political studies), graduate in philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure.
Man is a sociable being, this is a proven fact, but what is sociability from the point of view of the current situation marked by confinement and withdrawal?
Sociability begins when we can accept the existence of the other as different from ourselves, but the place of difference is society, so society must guarantee diversity while building a homogeneous whole, so how? This paper aims to question the concept of society in its current state and to provide an answer to the challenge of otherness.

- 17.00-17.45: Conference on "Be Digital", a challenge highlighted in the Covid era
By Mr. Lucien Descoffres, permanent trainer and speaker at DEMJ - Maison du Développement -fondation pour 'l'insertion professionnelle des jeunes - ex CIARA.
The digital wave has taken over text, still and moving images, communication, processes and the tools used in our jobs. It is transforming identities and relationships.
COVID has accelerated the penetration of digital in work and education, and has changed the feeling of proximity.
The generation of digital natives is now of university age. What are the challenges for the transmission of knowledge, the organisation of universities and the employability of young people?

- 17h45-19h00: Testimonies of teachers and trainers who practice online teaching followed by a debate
With Mrs. Nabila Chérif - Architect and Doctor in Art History, Director of the City, Architecture and Heritage Laboratory (LVAP), Mrs. Meriem Chabou, Architect and Doctor in Urban Planning - Professor at EPAU and Mrs. Rym Miloudi, Business Development Manager of the Beeform platform - online training. They will share around a round table their experience of e-learning, teleworking and online training, an innovative form of teaching with a new tool adapted to the current health situation.

07 - CCU Hamani - rue Charras Algiers centre

- 16h30-17h30: Opening of the photographic project "So far so close. Where the line is fine, between proximity and promiscuity" by Hamid Rahiche.
Algiers... Marseille, parallel territory. The Mediterranean remains to be invented " Quartier Nord and climat de France ", two emblematic cities that almost face each other without touching.

08 - Facebook page of the École Supérieure Algérienne des Affaires (ESAA - Pins Maritimes)

Online conference: "Cultural diplomacy at the service of bringing people together" With Frédéric Martel, former diplomat, producer of the programme "Soft Power" on France Culture.
Contemporary culture is marked by the hybridization of artistic forms, the blending of practices, and the interdisciplinarity of projects. Cultural diplomacy, thought of as a lever of foreign cultural policy, works to bring people together through the importance given to multilingualism and the diversity of media and means of expression (cinema, books, shows, etc.).

09 - Facebook page of the Tree of Sayings and Publishing [Barzakh]

Online round table: "Proches" with Bouchra Fridi, psychologist, project coordinator; Mounir Bencharif, president of AREA-ED, Association de Réflexion, d'Echanges et d'Action pour l'Environnement et le Développement Durable (Association for Reflection, Exchanges and Action for the Environment and Sustainable Development); Mohamed Larbi Merhoum, architect; Hajar Bali, writer and mathematics teacher.
The idea is to bring together people who, in their professional or militant practice, are led to think and experiment with the need to be close to the other/in proximity to the other and, in so doing - in this perfectionist tension - to test the outline of the collective. This effort will be questioned in the light of the current situation, which contains a radical paradox: how can we be close when the health imperative requires a social distancing that reduces, if not destroys, the social link?

10 - Journal of the Night of Ideas at the French Institute of Algiers

- Thursday 30 September 2021
Sentences with a protean aesthetic...
The Night of Ideas, instituted in the turbulence of a world on the move, has taken the light of interactions and debates of ideas to become a real space for exchange on all sides, civil society in all its diversity, intellectuals with all their enlightenment, artists in all their inspiration have brought a bit of humanity filled with knowledge...
This year's Night of Ideas also takes the form of a special newspaper that will be distributed on Thursday, September 30, 2021, a newspaper with a protean aesthetic that will take place on the walls, the floor, in the most exceptional spaces of the French Institute of Algiers and which will be read by the sentence writer Luisa.

11 - Writing competition

In the heart of winter, the Nuit des Idées, although changed this year by an extraordinary daytime programme, has always been the occasion for all kinds of reflection exercises, to think about the year that is beginning. This year will be no exception to the rule. On the strength of the formidable 2020 experience, the French Institute of Algiers is launching the second edition of its writing competition on this occasion. The NDI is the bearer of this year's competition theme. "What could be more inspiring for the new perspectives that are opening up to us?
The details of the competition will be published soon on the website of the French Institute of Algiers.
Young writers are invited to consult it to send in their entries.
Stay tuned!