Seminar - Worry(s) III

This third edition of the Inquiétudes seminar proposes to address two closely related but distinct themes: speaking for others and the risk inherent in creation.

On the one hand, we'll question the ethical issues involved in speaking for others. How is it that speaking for others, an act often motivated by intentions of solidarity, can lead to unintentional betrayals or distortions? This crucial question concerns political and literary figures as much as researchers in the human sciences. Can we really avoid imposing our own interpretations or prejudices in the act of representing the other? By examining case studies drawn from social, political, and artistic discourses, this seminar will aim to clarify the tensions between responsibility and authority in delegated speech.

On the other hand, the seminar will explore the relationship between risk and creation. While creation, whether artistic or intellectual, opens the way to unprecedented forms of expression, it also entails multiple risks: that of failure, misunderstanding, even exclusion. By focusing on what it means to create under risk, we'll try to understand how danger or uncertainty can become creative drivers. Can we consider risk to be a necessary condition for any artistic or conceptual innovation? How, in the history of ideas and the arts, have creators negotiated this risk-taking?

Inquiétudes III is intended as a place for cross-reflection, where the question of the representation of voices and that of creative risk meet and dialogue, while retaining their singularity.

This seminar will be led by speakers who will transmit documents in advance around which a discussion will be organized, which they will introduce and lead thanks to their expertise but which also aims to resonate with each other's knowledge on the issues raised.

Florence Schnebelen: florence.schnebelen@uphf.fr
Charles Vincent: charles.vincent@uphf.fr