The health crisis has turned our modern societies upside down: stretching distances, limiting gatherings, confinement for some countries... In these circumstances, the Night of Ideas 2021 will revolve around the theme "Close", with the aim of getting together and highlighting the new solidarities that this crisis calls for.

The current situation has indeed led to a profound questioning of the values of our societies, to the point where the notion of "care" has emerged at the heart of the debates. According to Joan Tronto, "[care] is a kind of activity that includes everything we do to maintain, preserve and repair our world so that we can live in it as well as possible. This world includes our bodies, who we are as individuals, our environment, everything we seek to weave together into a tight and complex web whose purpose is to sustain life.

The crisis has brought invisible, devalued, often female jobs back to the forefront of the scene, suddenly appearing to be fundamental. The care of children, the sick, the elderly and people in difficulty is unevenly distributed around the world, both in France and South Korea. This task traditionally falls to women, and even more specifically to mothers who provide the link between generations. In these ultra-competitive modern societies, where the future is entirely "capitalized" on the child, the role of women, once they are mothers, quickly becomes that of caregivers focused on the well-being of the family unit.

Based on Sandra Laugier's postulates, our three speakers will debate together on these questions of "care" and "caring", to give voice to those responsible for care.

19h : Introduction by Sandra Laugier by video capsule

Sandra LAUGIER, Professor of Philosophy at the Université Panthéon Sorbonne, Deputy Director of the ISJPS and member of the IUF. She has developed research in the fields of the philosophy of ordinary language, morality, politics and popular culture. In particular, she has published Le soucis des autres. Ethics and Politics of Care (with P. Paperman, 2005 and 2011). Her latest book, co-written with Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, is entitled La société des vulnérables. Leçons féministes d'une crise (Gallimard, 2020).

7:10-7:50pm: Débat  "Finding the words, giving voice "

Stakeholders

• Ms. CHO HAN Haejeong, cultural anthropologist, professor of Yonsei University and feminist. She is the founder of the Haja center (Seoul Youth Creativity Center), a social center for children and youth.
• Mrs. GONG Ji-young, romancière of the Korean " nouvelle vague " between 1980 and 1990. Considered a feminist author, she places women's rights at the centre of her stories. She is the author of Pars seul comme une corne de rhinocéros, Maison du bonheur, and Le Creuset.
• Mr. CHOI Taeyoon, artist, educator and activist based in New York and Seoul. His artistic practice involves performance, drawing, new technologies, and installations in public space. He has published several books including 'Urban Programming 101' and 'Anti-Manifesto'. His recent work focuses on improving accessibility and inclusion in art and technology.

The moderator:
Christophe GAUDIN, professor of political science at Kookmin University.

19h50 -20h10: Q&A

8:10pm -20h30 : performance  du Studio Choi Taeyoon, " Distributed Web of Care 2021 "

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