Published on September 19, 2025–Updated on October 6, 2025
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Engagement in the City through Culture in Europe: The Great Gathering
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Conf_02/09/25
To conclude the ANR SAPS E.C.C.E. project: "Engagement dans la Cité par la Culture en Europe", two days of meetings, exchanges, and workshops with researchers, artists, volunteers, cultural professionals, and activists.
Dear all,
We would like to inform you of a change in the program for the two days marking the conclusion of the ANR SAPS E.C.C.E. project: Civic Engagement through Culture in Europe, on October 2 and 3, 2025.
In light of the inter-union call to mobilize on October 2, we have restructured the program as follows:
October 2 : a single online morning session from 9:15 am to 12:30 pm. Please contact us to receive the access link.
October 3 : a full day in person at CY Cergy Paris University, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
You will find the updated program below.
We hope these changes will not affect your plans to participate. Thank you for your interest, and we look forward to seeing you at these two days of exchange and sharing.
With best regards,
Françoise Billot
Banlieues capitales
&
Anne Hertzog
Laboratoire Places de CY, Cergy Paris Université
Come and discover the three exhibitions produced as part of these days at the Annie Ernaux MIR and in other university spaces :
- Troubs, an engaged comic book artist! Featuring two participatory projects: "Bagnolet, ma résidence hier et demain" & "Au loup!"
- ECCE, participatory research on display! Une co-réalisation par Esopa, laboratoire PLACES, Banlieues Capitales)
- Civic engagement through art and culture: a shifted perspective. ECCE through the eyes of Adjim Danngar (comic book author, press illustrator, and caricaturist).
9:30AM - 10:30 AM : Presentation of the ECCE participatory research project
Françoise Billot (Banlieues Capitales) Anne Hertzog (Laboratoire PLACES, CY Cergy Paris Université)
10:30 AM - 11:30 PM : From the Suburbs: Shaping a Shared Narrative from Family Memories Michel Djiwonou (Les Passeurs), Lidia Radi (University of Richmond), Anne Hertzog (Laboratoire PLACES, CY Cergy Paris Université)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM : Decolonizing Public Space: Activist Practices and Institutional Commitments Claske Dijkema (Université de Bern), Carole Lemée (Université de Bordeaux), a representative from the city of Noisy-le-Sec (pending confirmation), Jean-Barthélémi Debost (Banlieues Capitales)
October 3, 2025 CY Cergy Paris Université, Maison de la Recherche SHS - Annie Ernaux, 33 boulevard du Port, 95 000 CERGY loc
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM : Welcome coffe, tour of the ECCE exhibition
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM : Plenary · Experiencing Responsive Democracy through Culture?
Nicolas Rio (Partie Prenante), Réjane Sourisseau (Université de Lille), Géraldine Bénichou (Théâtre du Grabuge), Ludivine Mascali (Laboratoire PLACES, CY Cergy Paris Université et collectif La Lanterne), Elizabeth Auclair (Laboratoire PLACES, CY Cergy Paris Université), , Valérie Suner (La Poudrerie Theater)
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM : Break
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM : Engagement through Culture for a More Livable Earth Nathalie Blanc (CNRS, Directrice du Centre des Politiques de la Terre)
12:00 PM - 12:40 PM : Agro-Artistic Struggles and Heritage Activism: Restoring the Living Jaume Puchalt Lacal (architecte et artiste, Fondation Novessendes), Clara Elena Mejia Vallejo (Universitat Politècnica de València)
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM : Buffet
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM : Engaging in the city through culture: a catalyst for creating common ground? Elizabeth Auclair (CYU) et Christophe Blandin Estournet (BC)
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM : Workshop · And Now, What Next?
if we used this pre-election period to outline a new way of doing culture in our territories? Workshops to unpack and propose recommendations for these emerging "paths of cultural practice". Judith Frydman (Des Ricochets sur les Pavés), Antoine Cochain (Banlieues Capitales), Christine Milleron (Esopa productions)
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Workshop Feedback and Discussion
Starting at 4:30 PM : Exhibition Opening with Troubs, illustrator and Comic Book Author
Registration available here.
Practical information (access, travel times, meals, etc.) will follow.
