10Mar2026
Conférences de l'Université Populaire d'Avignon
L’Université Populaire d'Avignon 74 rue Louis Pasteur 84000 Avignon
The UPA is a voluntary, non-profit, and popular education project: free, open to all, and non-qualifying. Conferences are offered throughout the year on a specific theme.
This year, the theme is: “Curiosity, between creation and discovery”.
You’ll find here:
From 17:30 p.m. to 19:30 p.m .:
Tuesday, January 13: On Certainty by François Riether
Tuesday, January 20: Man, this capricious primate: curiosity, evolution, and settlement in the Paleolithic era by Frédéric André
Tuesday, January 27: Cave Art in the Paleolithic Period by Philippe Formet
Tuesday, February 3: Reflections on curiosity in history. The case of the naked woman on Rue des Anglais (1806) by Bruno Bertherat
Tuesday, February 10: At the Source of Philosophy: Socrates, a Curious Character by Michel Saligari
Tuesday, February 17: Science in the Time of the Museum of Alexandria by Marc Blanchard
Tuesday, March 3: When curiosity transforms a fantasized encounter into a universal work by Christian Deny
Tuesdays, March 10 and 17: The Enigma of the Grail: From a Denied Question to a Quest Perpetually Renewed by Anouk Bartolini
Tuesday, March 24: IAGs in action: understanding, seeing and learning from a scientific hackathon by Philippe Gabriel
Tuesday, March 31: Experiencing AI: guided demonstrations and discussion by Philippe Gabriel
Tuesday, April 7: William of Rubruck, a curious 13th-century Franciscan in the land of the Mongols, by Paul Payan
Tuesday, April 14: Discovering cultural content in the digital age: curiosity, serendipity, and more, by Simon Renoir
Tuesday, April 28: The Bible? A curious book! by Daniel Faivre
Tuesday, May 5: A Journey into Histology by Pascal Laurant
Tuesday, May 12: Third places: from curiosity to utopia? by Alain Douiller
Tuesday, May 19: Curiosity and evolution: the mark of the fittest? by Julie Augustin
Tuesdays, May 26 and June 2: Madmen and Madwomen, these curious beings, unrecognized artists or geniuses, but creators in spite of themselves, by Christian Deny
Tuesday, June 9: Curiosity as the driving force of science: between rupture, paradigms, and methodological anarchy by Yannis Martin
Tuesday, June 16: Kabbalah as a source of creation: Mallarmé, Borges, Anselm Kiefer, etc.… by Joëlle Molina
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