17Mar2026
Les après-midi de Fonseca
Médiathèque Renaud-Barrault 6 rue Perrin Morel 84000 Avignon
The Association "Les après-midi de Fonséca" organizes conferences on various and varied themes, on Tuesdays at 15 p.m.
The conferences are free.
At 15h :
JANUARY :
– Tuesday 6: The figure of the pirate in Greek and Roman literature. Conference with screening by Catherine Wolff, professor of Roman history at the University of Avignon.
– Tuesday 20: The Nile, river-God or God-river? by Sylvie Giovannetti, president of the association Les amis de Thot.
– Tuesday 27: At the origins of the detective novel by Elisabeth Grimaldi, president of the Franco-Italian association.
FEBRUARY:
– Tuesday 3: Tristan and Isolde, their legend still charms us by Catherine Rouaud, psychoanalyst.
– Tuesday 10: Rameau's nephew, Diderot's mysterious masterpiece by Jean-Pierre Desenne, honorary associate professor of Literature.
MARCH :
– Tuesday 3: “Kirrha”, rural community in the shadow of Mycenae (Bronze Age) by Raphaël Orgelet, Lecturer in Archaeology (Aix-Marseille University).
– Tuesday 10: Gaza in Late Antiquity: a cultural melting pot by Bernadette Cabouret, Professor Emeritus of Roman History Lyon III.
– Tuesday 17: The Pazzi family, rivals of the Medici, from Florence to Avignon by Michel Salenson, honorary associate professor of German.
– Tuesday 24: The rebirth of the Château de Thézan in Saint Didier by Geneviève Dewulf, agrégée of the University and Doctor of Ancient Language and Literature.
– Tuesday 31: Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer from Avignon (18th century) by Marie-Virginie Delorme, professor at the Orange conservatory.
APRIL:
– Tuesday 7: Pope John XXII and the Carthusian Order by Daniel Le Blévec, Professor Emeritus, Paul Valéry University (Montpellier).
– Tuesday 28: “Princesses of the Air”, the great ladies of aeronautics by Michel Sancho, general, armament engineer.
MAY :
– Tuesday 5: “The Castrati” or the impossible quest for the extreme by André Gabriel, professor of Provençal music.
– Tuesday 12: Jesus 2000 years of history by Yves Grava, emeritus lecturer at the University of Avignon.
– Tuesday 19: In the footsteps of the Roman Third Legion Augusta by François Colinet, public works engineer.
– Tuesday 26: Eugène Delacroix “At the dawn of orientalism” by Juliette Motte, retired teacher.
Free.