2000* . Imagination

2000 . Imagination

SATURDAY 21st AND SUNDAY 22nd OCTOBER 2000

To celebrate the year 2000 in its own way, the Cité de la réussite organizes 60 debates that take place in the whole Latin quarter of Paris : the Panthéon Sorbonne University, the Odéon Theater, The Lycée Louis le Grand and the Sorbonne premises .

For the symbolic value of the year 2000, the Cité de la réussite wished to put imagination at the heart of this global debate.

Imagination is probably the most striking and fundamental characteristic setting the human race apart from other living species. It is this magical blend of human consciousness and the unconscious which has made the world progress since the very origins of humankind. This particular characteristic has led humankind to develop the world as we know it today.

No one can say what it will be like tomorrow. The only certainty is that it will be the product of the imagination we use today.

Saturday, 21st October

  • 1. What will become of man in the 21th century ?

    • Jean-Paul HUCHON - President, Conseil régional d'Ile de France
    • Axel KAHN - "Research Director, INSERM"
    • Michel KAPLAN - President, University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne
    • Michel-Edouard LECLERC - Co-chairman, Centres Leclerc
    • Joël de ROSNAY - Writer, scientist, Director, Cité des Sciences

    Moderated by: Thierry GUERRIER

    Saturday, 21st October from 11h00 to 13h00 - La Sorbonne - Grand Amphithéâtre

  • 2. Should we rethink the economy ?

    • Alain COTTA - Economist, professor at Paris Dauphine University
    • Charles de CROISSET - Chairman CCF
    • Jean-Claude TRICHET - Governor, Banque de France

    Moderated by: Jean-Louis CRIMON

    Saturday, 21st October from 11h00 to 13h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Richelieu

  • 3. Is art always subversive ?

    • CHRISTO - Artist
    • JEANNE-CLAUDE - Artist

    Saturday, 21st October from 11h00 to 13h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Descartes

  • 4. Life sciences: new hopes, new fears ?

    • Etienne-Emile BAULIEU - Member of the Institut de France, Unit Director at INSERM (National Institute for Health and Medical Research), Professor at the Collège de France
    • Philippe G. DESAULLES - Chairman of the Board, DuPont de Nemours
    • Claude JASMIN - Doctor of medicine

    Moderated by: Gérard BONOS

    Saturday, 21st October from 11h00 to 13h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Liard

  • 5. The powerful moments of the imagination in the history of man.

    • Hélène AHRWEILER - University Professor
    • Jacques ANDREANI - French Ambassador
    • Hans KUNG - Theologist

    Moderated by: Christine GOEME

    Saturday, 21st October from 11h00 to 13h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Turgot

  • 6. Internet : buying and selling with a difference

    • Yves BLANCHARD - Chairman CAA
    • Claude BRUNET - CEO, Groupe Ford France
    • Vincenzo DAMIANI - Président d'EDS Italie et Vice-Président d'EDS Région Méditerranée
    • Fabien OUAKI - Chairman, Tati SA
    • Xavier SCHALLEBAUM - Associate director, Apollo Invest

    Moderated by: Alain WEILLER

    Saturday, 21st October from 11h00 to 13h00 - Université Panthéon Sorbonne - Salle IV

  • 7. Reading, writing, acting: from written word to performance

    • Mathieu KASSOVITZ - Actor, film director
    • Georges LAVAUDANT - Director, Theater Odeon
    • Christophe ROSSIGNON - Producer
    • Eric-Emmanuel SCHMITT - Writer, playwright

    Moderated by: Christian VALSAMIDIS

    Saturday, 21st October from 11h00 to 13h00 - Lycée Louis-le-Grand - Salle de Conférence

  • 8. Giving meaning to life, is there an art to happiness ?

    • Christian BOIRON - President Boiron Laboratory
    • Albert JACQUARD - Geneticist, writer
    • Gilbert TRIGANO - President, University of tourism and culture for peace

    Moderated by: Emmanuel DAVIDENKOFF

    Saturday, 21st October from 11h00 to 13h00 - Théâtre de l'Odéon - Grande Salle

  • 9. The new economy : somewhere between fantasy and reality.

    • Jacques COMBET - Chairman, Mobile Phone Activities, Alcatel
    • Marc LADREIT DE LACHARRIERE - Chairman Fimalac
    • Marc LASSUS - Chairman, Gemplus
    • Philippe LEMOINE - Co-chairman of the Board, Galeries Lafayette Group
    • Christophe PARCOT - Directeur de la Stratégie et du développement de Liberty Surf

    Moderated by: Virginie ROBERT

    Saturday, 21st October from 14h30 to 16h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Richelieu

  • 10. Le Kamasutra of invention

    • Théodore ZELDIN - Writer, professor

    Saturday, 21st October from 14h30 to 16h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Descartes

  • 11. Do we need to imagine the worlds of the future to run an international company ?

    • Chad HOLLIDAY - Chairman and CEO, DuPont

    Saturday, 21st October from 14h30 to 16h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Liard

  • 12. Creating new products, better products: businesses lay stakes on imagination

    • Brigitte de GASTINES - CEO, SVP
    • Jacques MARSEILLE - Writer, Professor of history, Université de Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne
    • Gilles MOUTEL - Chairman of Chronopost
    • Aymeric ZUBLENA - Architect

    Moderated by: Alexandre LICHAN

    Saturday, 21st October from 14h30 to 16h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Turgot

  • 13. Europ, verring between dreams and reality

    • Noureddine BOUKROUH - Ministre des PME à PMI de la République Démocratique et Populaire Algérienne
    • Renaud MUSELIER - Chairman, Etablissement Public d'Aménagement Euroméditerranée, Deputy-mayor, Marseilles, MP, Bouches-du-Rhône
    • Dominique VIGNON - CEO, Framatome

    Moderated by: Pierre ZAPALSKI

    Saturday, 21st October from 14h30 to 16h00 - Université Panthéon Sorbonne - Salle III

  • 14. Does communication manipulate our imagination ?

    • Bernard EMSELLEM - Chairman TBWA Corporate
    • Marie-Pierre de la GONTRIE - Vice-President, in charge of culture, communication and new technology, Conseil Régional d'Ile-de-France
    • Philippe SANTINI - Managing director, France Télévision Publicité
    • Gérard UNGER - Chairman, Métrobus, CEO, Médiavision

    Moderated by: Alain WEILLER

    Saturday, 21st October from 14h30 to 16h00 - Université Panthéon Sorbonne - Salle IV

  • 15. Imagining the impossible : when man takes flight

    • Laurence de la FERRIERE - Mountaineer, Pole explorer
    • Jean-Pierre HAIGNERE - Cosmonaut
    • Etienne KLEIN - Physicist
    • Bertrand PICCARD - Adventurer, psychiatrist

    Moderated by: Patrick HESTERS

    Saturday, 21st October from 14h30 to 16h00 - Lycée Louis-le-Grand - Salle de Conférence

  • 16. Is culture nothing but an impression of creation ?

    • Isidore ISOU - Creator, Writer

    Moderated by: André-Yves PORTNOFF

    Saturday, 21st October from 14h30 to 16h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Guizot

  • 17. Between risk and reason : what place is there for imagination within companies ?

    • Jean-Marie MESSIER - Chairman Vivendi

    Moderated by: Nicolas BEYTOUT

    Saturday, 21st October from 16h30 to 18h00 - La Sorbonne - Grand Amphithéâtre

  • 18. The end of myths ?

    • Hélène CARRERE D'ENCAUSSE - Historian, Member of the Académie Française
    • Jean DELUMEAU - Historian
    • Jacqueline de ROMILLY - Writer, Member of the Académie Française

    Moderated by: Pascale LISMONDE

    Saturday, 21st October from 16h30 to 18h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Richelieu

  • 19. Democracy : an utopia to be reinvented ?

    • François FEJTO - Journalist, historian
    • Olivier MONGIN - Director of the magazine Esprit
    • Pierre ROSANVALLON - Writer, Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris

    Moderated by: Jean-Michel BLANQUER

    Saturday, 21st October from 16h30 to 18h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Descartes

  • 20. What kind of culture for a cosmopolitan company ?

    • Eric ALBRAND - Financial director Altadis
    • Pierre BELLON - Chairman, Sodexho Alliance
    • Jean-Louis SCARINGELLA - Managing director, ESCP-EAP
    • Ezra SULEIMAN - Professor of political sciences in Princeton University

    Saturday, 21st October from 16h30 to 18h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Liard

  • 21. Does economic debate still make sense ?

    • Christian de BOISSIEU - Economist
    • François JACLOT - Deputy Chairman of the Board, Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux
    • Antoine ROSTAND - Chairman, EDS France

    Moderated by: Thierry GUERRIER

    Saturday, 21st October from 16h30 to 18h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Turgot

  • 22. Imagination faced with the written world, with the big screen

    • Alain BENTOLILA - Scientific adviser, Observatoire national de la lecture
    • Michèle COTTA - Managing director France 2
    • David GUIRAUD - Managing director, Les Echos Group
    • Rémy PFLIMLIN - Managing director Channel France 3
    • André SANTINI - MP and Mayor, Issy les Moulineaux

    Moderated by: Laurence PIQUET

    Saturday, 21st October from 16h30 to 18h00 - Université Panthéon Sorbonne - Salle III

  • 23. Can we be innovative without taking risks ?

    • Louise GUERRE - President, Centre des Jeunes Dirigeants (Young Managers' Centre)
    • Gilles PELISSON - Chairman, Consortium International, Chairman, Lyonnaise Communication
    • Christian SAINT-ETIENNE - Economist, Professor of Applied Economics, Université de Tours et de Paris-Dauphine
    • Jacques TASSEL - Chairman, A.T. Kearney

    Moderated by: Pierre ZAPALSKI

    Saturday, 21st October from 16h30 to 18h00 - Université Panthéon Sorbonne - Salle IV

  • 24. The city and its challenges : does the perfect city exist ?

    • Jean-Michel GUENOD - Managing Director, Etablissement Public d'Aménagement Euroméditerranée
    • Claude HEURTEUX - Co-president of Vendome Rome Group
    • Michel K. MOUBAYED - Co-president of Vendome Rome Group
    • Roger SUE - Sociologist

    Moderated by: Patrice de MONCAN

    Saturday, 21st October from 16h30 to 18h00 - Lycée Louis-le-Grand - Salle de Conférence

  • 25. Does society deprive us of an individual imagination ?

    • Jean-Marie CAVADA - Chairman Radio France
    • Jean-Claude SEYS - Chairman, MAAF Assurances and MMA
    • Ousmane SOW - Artist, sculptor

    Moderated by: Hervé BRUSINI

    Saturday, 21st October from 18h30 to 20h00 - La Sorbonne - Grand Amphithéâtre

  • 26. Could we, should we imagine God ?

    • Guy COQ - Philosopher
    • Jean-Marie LUSTIGER - Archbishop of Paris, member of the Académie Française

    Moderated by: Thierry GUERRIER

    Saturday, 21st October from 18h30 to 20h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Richelieu

  • 27. Ethics on new territory.

    • Pierre JOLY - Chairman, Foundation for medical research
    • Bernard REYNIS - Président de la Chambre des Notaires de Paris
    • Didier SICARD - Chairman, French National Consultative Committee on Ethics

    Moderated by: Stéphane DELIGEORGES

    Saturday, 21st October from 18h30 to 20h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Descartes

  • 28. How do we imagine the media of the future?

    • Philippe BELIN - Vice-Président Marketing Communication de Netgem
    • Didier BRUN - Vice-président, directeur du développement et des médias de l'International Herald Tribune
    • Eric GIUILY - Chairman, AFP
    • Roger MOSEY - Head of TV News, BBC World
    • Bernard WOUTS - CEO Le Point

    Moderated by: Laurence PIQUET

    Saturday, 21st October from 18h30 to 20h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Liard

  • 29. Do politicians still have imagination ?

    • Roselyne BACHELOT - MP, Maine et Loire
    • Julien DRAY - Deputy, Essonne
    • Renaud MUSELIER - Chairman, Etablissement Public d'Aménagement Euroméditerranée, Deputy-mayor, Marseilles, MP, Bouches-du-Rhône

    Moderated by: Catherine PEGARD

    Saturday, 21st October from 18h30 to 20h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Turgot

  • 30. The virtual world, accelarating the imagination or putting the brakes on it ?

    • Amaury ELOY - Chairman NewWorks
    • Nicolas GAUME - Chairman, Kalisto Entertainment

    Saturday, 21st October from 18h30 to 20h00 - Université Panthéon Sorbonne - Salle III

  • 31. The humain adventure : a challenge for the imagination.

    • Jean-Louis ETIENNE - Doctor, explorer
    • Jean-Marc PHILIPPE - Artist

    Moderated by: Jean-Marie PERBOST

    Saturday, 21st October from 18h30 to 20h00 - Université Panthéon Sorbonne - Salle IV

  • 32. Can we imagine ecological growth ?

    • Corinne LEPAGE - Business lawyer
    • Alain RIST - Vice-President for the environment, living conditions, traffic and regional contracts, Conseil Régional d'Ile-de-France
    • Robert ROCHEFORT - Managing director, Credoc

    Moderated by: Bruno COSTERNALLE

    Saturday, 21st October from 18h30 to 20h00 - Lycée Louis-le-Grand - Salle de Conférence

  • 33. Snippets from the imagination : music and stories.

    • Jacques RIGAUD - President of Admical
    • Manuel ROSENTHAL - Composer, conductor
    • Yves SIMON - Author, composer

    Moderated by: Thierry BEAUVERT

    Saturday, 21st October from 20h30 to 23h00 - La Sorbonne - Grand Amphithéâtre

Sunday, 22nd October

  • 34. Inspiration or what fires the l'imagination

    • Ousmane SOW - Artist, sculptor
    • Lionel STOLERU - Former Minister, Creator of the Orchestre Romantique Européen
    • Jean TIBERI - Mayor of Paris

    Moderated by: Pascale LISMONDE

    Sunday, 22nd October from 11h00 to 13h00 - La Sorbonne - Grand Amphithéâtre

  • 35. The driven force behind the imagination, th seat of rational thinking, can we understand the workings of the brain ?

    • Jean BERNARD - Doctor of medicine
    • Jean-Didier VINCENT - Professor of neurobiology, French Centre for Scientific Research

    Moderated by: Jean-Didier VINCENT

    Sunday, 22nd October from 11h00 to 13h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Richelieu

  • 36. Man/ women, does the imagination share these differences ?

    • Blandine KRIEGEL - Professor, University Paris X
    • Aldo NAOURI - Pediatrician, psychoanalyst
    • Tobie NATHAN - Ethnopsychiatrist

    Moderated by: Anne JEANBLANC

    Sunday, 22nd October from 11h00 to 13h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Descartes

  • 37. Is cultural creation the key factor in economic development ?

    • Louis BERREUR - CEO Nodal Consultants
    • Mounir BOUCHENAKI - Sous-directeur général de l'UNESCO pour la culture, directeur de la division héritage culturel de l'UNESCO
    • Bruno LUSSATO - Organisation Consultant, Professor
    • Sonia RYKIEL - Fashion designer
    • Imre TOTH - Writer, Scientific historian

    Moderated by: André-Yves PORTNOFF

    Sunday, 22nd October from 11h00 to 13h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Liard

  • 38. Are we entitledto imagine everything ?

    • Henri ATLAN - Biologist, director of Studies, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
    • Marek HALTER - Writer
    • Samuel PISAR - Lawyer, writer

    Moderated by: Emmanuel DAVIDENKOFF

    Sunday, 22nd October from 11h00 to 13h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Turgot

  • 39. Childhood and the world of make-believe

    • Howard BUTEN - Writer
    • Boris CYRULNIK - Neuropsychiatrist
    • Thierry MARTIN - Vice-manager, Etablissement Public d'Aménagement Euroméditerranée, writer
    • Michel OCELOT - Film director

    Moderated by: Laurence PIQUET

    Sunday, 22nd October from 11h00 to 13h00 - Théâtre de l'Odéon - Grande Salle

  • 40. Globalisation, deregulation, new technologies : can firms imagine their own future ?

    • Michel BON - Chairman France Telecom
    • John BOND - Chairman HSBC Group
    • Alain MINC - Writer, CEO AM Conseil

    Moderated by: Nicolas BEYTOUT

    Sunday, 22nd October from 14h30 to 16h00 - La Sorbonne - Grand Amphithéâtre

  • 41. Imagining your life and living what you have imagined

    • Eduardo MANET - Writer
    • Taslima NASREEN - Novelist, journalist, poet

    Moderated by: Laurence PIQUET

    Sunday, 22nd October from 14h30 to 16h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Richelieu

  • 42. How are movie makerscreating new worlds ?

    • Cédric KLAPISCH - Film director
    • Thierry LHERMITTE - Actor
    • Alain TERZIAN - Film producer
    • Daniel TOSCAN DU PLANTIER - Chairman, TSH

    Moderated by: Christian VALSAMIDIS

    Sunday, 22nd October from 14h30 to 16h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Descartes

  • 43. Living longer : a challenge to science, changes for a new society.

    • Alain CARPENTIER - Professeur à l'Université de Paris VI, membre du Conseil national de la science
    • Françoise FORETTE - Professor of medicine, Director, Fondation nationale de gérontologie (National Foundation of Gerontology)
    • Edgar MORIN - Sociologist, philosopher

    Moderated by: Anne JEANBLANC

    Sunday, 22nd October from 14h30 to 16h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Liard

  • 44. Memoiry and imagination : is the notion of the future at crisis point ?

    • Jean-Pierre ANGREMY - President, French National Library, Member of the Académie Française
    • Pierre ROSENBERG - CEO, Musée du Louvre, Member of the Académie Française

    Moderated by: François BUSNEL

    Sunday, 22nd October from 14h30 to 16h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Turgot

  • 45. Imagination in equation

    • Denis GUEDJ - Mathematician
    • Georges HADDAD - Professor, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne

    Moderated by: Etienne COLLOMB

    Sunday, 22nd October from 14h30 to 16h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Guizot

  • 46. Culinary art or imagination of the plate

    • Pierre GAGNAIRE - Chef of restaurant "Pierre Gagnaire"
    • Alain PASSARD - Chef of restaurant "L'Arpège"
    • Alain SENDERENS - Chef of restaurant "Lucas Carton"
    • Pierre TROISGROS - Chef restaurant "Troisgros"
    • Marc VEYRAT - Chef restaurant "L'Auberge de l'Eridan"

    Moderated by: Anne HUDSON

    Sunday, 22nd October from 16h30 to 18h00 - La Sorbonne - Grand Amphithéâtre

  • 47. Thinking and acting : imagination empowered

    • Luc FERRY - Philosopher, Writer, President, Conseil National des Programmes
    • Julia KRISTEVA - Director, École doctorale à Université Paris VII
    • Alberto MANGUEL - Writer
    • Mario SOARES - Former President of Portugal Republic

    Moderated by: Nathalie de BAUDRY D'ASSON

    Sunday, 22nd October from 16h30 to 18h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Richelieu

  • 48. Local culture, global culture: an identity waiting to be reinvented

    • Bernard BRAGARD - Mayor of Courcouronnes
    • Christian DAURIAC - Directeur en charge du projet numérique de France 3
    • Nicolas FASQUELLE - Co-author of "Planète Etudiants"
    • Daniel HERRERO - Rugby trainer, writer
    • Diagna N'DIAYE - Chairman, Compagnie Bancaire de l'Afrique de l'Ouest
    • René REMOND - Historian, Member of the Académie Française

    Moderated by: François BUSNEL

    Sunday, 22nd October from 16h30 to 18h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Descartes

  • 49. Human rights : the dream of the humanity to come

    • Jacques LEBAS - Director, Institut de l'Humanitaire
    • Jacky MAMOU - Honorary president, Médecins du Monde
    • Véronique NAHOUM-GRAPPE - Sociologist, writer
    • Michel WIEVIORKA - Director of Research, EHESS

    Sunday, 22nd October from 16h30 to 18h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Liard

  • 50. Is there a place for imagination in education and training ?

    • Yves BLANCHARD - Chairman CAA
    • Richard DESCOINGS - Director Sciences Po
    • Christian KOENIG - Director ESSEC MBA
    • Bernard RAMANANTSOA - CEO, HEC Group
    • Frédéric TIBERGHIEN - Chairman, VediorBis

    Moderated by: Jean-Marie PERBOST

    Sunday, 22nd October from 16h30 to 18h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Turgot

  • 51. Cyberspace : the risks of uncontrollable imagination

    • Dominique WOLTON - Sociologist

    Sunday, 22nd October from 16h30 to 18h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Guizot

  • 52. Prospects and challenges for Africa with the dawning of the 21th century: dialogue with the President od the republic of Senegal

    • Abdoulaye WADE - President of the Republic of Senegal

    Moderated by: Jean-Pierre ELKABBACH

    Sunday, 22nd October from 18h30 to 20h30 - La Sorbonne - Grand Amphithéâtre

  • 53. Discoveries and inventions : has the 20th century kept its promises ?

    • Françoise BARRE-SINOUSSI - Director, Retrovirus Biology Unit, Institut Pasteur
    • Alain FISCHER - Professor of medicine, President, Conseil Scientifique de la Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (Scientific Board, Foundation for Medical Research)
    • Jean-Marc LEVY-LEBLOND - Professor, Université de Nice
    • Pierre TAMBOURIN - Managing director, Genopole
    • Maurice TUBIANA - Professor of medicine

    Moderated by: Eric JOUAN

    Sunday, 22nd October from 18h30 to 20h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Richelieu

  • 54. New free time, new technologies, new leisure pursuits

    • Christian CARASSOU-MAILLAN - Managing director Vacances Bleues
    • Joseph HADDAD - CEO, Netgem
    • Stéphane TREPPOZ - CEO AOL Compuserve France
    • Serge TRIGANO - Chairman, Triganew

    Moderated by: Arnaud FLEURY

    Sunday, 22nd October from 18h30 to 20h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Descartes

  • 55. Can utopia cast its spell on politics again ?

    • Claude IMBERT - Chief Editor, Le Point
    • Elisabeth ROUDINESCO - Doctor, psychoanalyst

    Moderated by: Thierry GRILLET

    Sunday, 22nd October from 18h30 to 20h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Liard

  • 56. Is there still room for dreams in advertising ?

    • Francis BALLE - Professor, Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II)
    • Jean BERTHEZENE - Associate manager, BDDP Corporate

    Moderated by: Jacques GAUTRAND

    Sunday, 22nd October from 18h30 to 20h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Turgot

  • 57. Being a visionary : mastering or surpassing the times ?

    • Franz-Olivier GIESBERT - Director Le Point
    • Michel MARTIN-ROLAND - Director of the AFP office in Marseilles
    • Pierre MIQUEL - Historian

    Moderated by: Jean-Marie PERBOST

    Sunday, 22nd October from 18h30 to 20h00 - La Sorbonne - Amphithéâtre Guizot

  • 58. Imaginaning : a principle of hope

    • Boutros BOUTROS-GHALI - Secretary General, International Organisation of French-speaking Countries
    • Prince EL HASSAN DE JORDANIE
    • Bronislaw GEREMEK - Former Polish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Former consultant for the "Solidarity" trade union, professor and writer
    • Elie WIESEL - Writer, Nobel Peace Prize

    Moderated by: Elise LUCET

    Sunday, 22nd October from 20h30 to 22h00 - La Sorbonne - Grand Amphithéâtre

Hélène AHRWEILER
University Professor

Eric ALBRAND
Financial director Altadis

Jacques ANDREANI
French Ambassador

Jean-Pierre ANGREMY
President, French National Library, Member of the Académie Française

Henri ATLAN
Biologist, director of Studies, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris

Roselyne BACHELOT
MP, Maine et Loire

Francis BALLE
Professor, Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II)

Françoise BARRE-SINOUSSI
Director, Retrovirus Biology Unit, Institut Pasteur

Nathalie de BAUDRY D'ASSON
Chief Editor, Revue des Deux Mondes

Etienne-Emile BAULIEU
Member of the Institut de France, Unit Director at INSERM (National Institute for Health and Medical Research), Professor at the Collège de France

Philippe BELIN
Vice-Président Marketing Communication de Netgem

Pierre BELLON
Chairman, Sodexho Alliance

Alain BENTOLILA
Scientific adviser, Observatoire national de la lecture

Jean BERNARD
Doctor of medicine

Louis BERREUR
CEO Nodal Consultants

Jean BERTHEZENE
Associate manager, BDDP Corporate

Yves BLANCHARD
Chairman CAA

Christian BOIRON
President Boiron Laboratory

Christian de BOISSIEU
Economist

Michel BON
Chairman France Telecom

John BOND
Chairman HSBC Group

Mounir BOUCHENAKI
Sous-directeur général de l'UNESCO pour la culture, directeur de la division héritage culturel de l'UNESCO

Noureddine BOUKROUH
Ministre des PME à PMI de la République Démocratique et Populaire Algérienne

Boutros BOUTROS-GHALI
Secretary General, International Organisation of French-speaking Countries

Bernard BRAGARD
Mayor of Courcouronnes

Didier BRUN
Vice-président, directeur du développement et des médias de l'International Herald Tribune

Claude BRUNET
CEO, Groupe Ford France

Howard BUTEN
Writer

Christian CARASSOU-MAILLAN
Managing director Vacances Bleues

Alain CARPENTIER
Professeur à l'Université de Paris VI, membre du Conseil national de la science

Hélène CARRERE D'ENCAUSSE
Historian, Member of the Académie Française

Jean-Marie CAVADA
Chairman Radio France

CHRISTO
Artist

Jacques COMBET
Chairman, Mobile Phone Activities, Alcatel

Guy COQ
Philosopher

Alain COTTA
Economist, professor at Paris Dauphine University

Michèle COTTA
Managing director France 2

Charles de CROISSET
Chairman CCF

Boris CYRULNIK
Neuropsychiatrist

Vincenzo DAMIANI
Président d'EDS Italie et Vice-Président d'EDS Région Méditerranée

Christian DAURIAC
Directeur en charge du projet numérique de France 3

Jean DELUMEAU
Historian

Philippe G. DESAULLES
Chairman of the Board, DuPont de Nemours

Richard DESCOINGS
Director Sciences Po

Julien DRAY
Deputy, Essonne

Prince EL HASSAN DE JORDANIE

Jean-Pierre ELKABBACH
Journalist Europe 1, director parliamentary channel Public Senat

Amaury ELOY
Chairman NewWorks

Bernard EMSELLEM
Chairman TBWA Corporate

Jean-Louis ETIENNE
Doctor, explorer

Nicolas FASQUELLE
Co-author of "Planète Etudiants"

François FEJTO
Journalist, historian

Laurence de la FERRIERE
Mountaineer, Pole explorer

Luc FERRY
Philosopher, Writer, President, Conseil National des Programmes

Alain FISCHER
Professor of medicine, President, Conseil Scientifique de la Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (Scientific Board, Foundation for Medical Research)

Françoise FORETTE
Professor of medicine, Director, Fondation nationale de gérontologie (National Foundation of Gerontology)

Pierre GAGNAIRE
Chef of restaurant "Pierre Gagnaire"

Brigitte de GASTINES
CEO, SVP

Nicolas GAUME
Chairman, Kalisto Entertainment

Bronislaw GEREMEK
Former Polish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Former consultant for the "Solidarity" trade union, professor and writer

Franz-Olivier GIESBERT
Director Le Point

Eric GIUILY
Chairman, AFP

Marie-Pierre de la GONTRIE
Vice-President, in charge of culture, communication and new technology, Conseil Régional d'Ile-de-France

Denis GUEDJ
Mathematician

Jean-Michel GUENOD
Managing Director, Etablissement Public d'Aménagement Euroméditerranée

Louise GUERRE
President, Centre des Jeunes Dirigeants (Young Managers' Centre)

David GUIRAUD
Managing director, Les Echos Group

Georges HADDAD
Professor, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne

Joseph HADDAD
CEO, Netgem

Jean-Pierre HAIGNERE
Cosmonaut

Marek HALTER
Writer

Daniel HERRERO
Rugby trainer, writer

Claude HEURTEUX
Co-president of Vendome Rome Group

Chad HOLLIDAY
Chairman and CEO, DuPont

Jean-Paul HUCHON
President, Conseil régional d'Ile de France

Claude IMBERT
Chief Editor, Le Point

Isidore ISOU
Creator, Writer

François JACLOT
Deputy Chairman of the Board, Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux

Albert JACQUARD
Geneticist, writer

Claude JASMIN
Doctor of medicine

JEANNE-CLAUDE
Artist

Pierre JOLY
Chairman, Foundation for medical research

Axel KAHN
"Research Director, INSERM"

Michel KAPLAN
President, University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne

Mathieu KASSOVITZ
Actor, film director

Cédric KLAPISCH
Film director

Etienne KLEIN
Physicist

Christian KOENIG
Director ESSEC MBA

Blandine KRIEGEL
Professor, University Paris X

Julia KRISTEVA
Director, École doctorale à Université Paris VII

Hans KUNG
Theologist

Marc LADREIT DE LACHARRIERE
Chairman Fimalac

Marc LASSUS
Chairman, Gemplus

Georges LAVAUDANT
Director, Theater Odeon

Jacques LEBAS
Director, Institut de l'Humanitaire

Michel-Edouard LECLERC
Co-chairman, Centres Leclerc

Philippe LEMOINE
Co-chairman of the Board, Galeries Lafayette Group

Corinne LEPAGE
Business lawyer

Jean-Marc LEVY-LEBLOND
Professor, Université de Nice

Thierry LHERMITTE
Actor

Bruno LUSSATO
Organisation Consultant, Professor

Jean-Marie LUSTIGER
Archbishop of Paris, member of the Académie Française

Jacky MAMOU
Honorary president, Médecins du Monde

Eduardo MANET
Writer

Alberto MANGUEL
Writer

Jacques MARSEILLE
Writer, Professor of history, Université de Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne

Thierry MARTIN
Vice-manager, Etablissement Public d'Aménagement Euroméditerranée, writer

Michel MARTIN-ROLAND
Director of the AFP office in Marseilles

Jean-Marie MESSIER
Chairman Vivendi

Alain MINC
Writer, CEO AM Conseil

Pierre MIQUEL
Historian

Olivier MONGIN
Director of the magazine Esprit

Edgar MORIN
Sociologist, philosopher

Roger MOSEY
Head of TV News, BBC World

Michel K. MOUBAYED
Co-president of Vendome Rome Group

Gilles MOUTEL
Chairman of Chronopost

Renaud MUSELIER
Chairman, Etablissement Public d'Aménagement Euroméditerranée, Deputy-mayor, Marseilles, MP, Bouches-du-Rhône

Diagna N'DIAYE
Chairman, Compagnie Bancaire de l'Afrique de l'Ouest

Véronique NAHOUM-GRAPPE
Sociologist, writer

Aldo NAOURI
Pediatrician, psychoanalyst

Taslima NASREEN
Novelist, journalist, poet

Tobie NATHAN
Ethnopsychiatrist

Michel OCELOT
Film director

Fabien OUAKI
Chairman, Tati SA

Christophe PARCOT
Directeur de la Stratégie et du développement de Liberty Surf

Alain PASSARD
Chef of restaurant "L'Arpège"

Gilles PELISSON
Chairman, Consortium International, Chairman, Lyonnaise Communication

Rémy PFLIMLIN
Managing director Channel France 3

Jean-Marc PHILIPPE
Artist

Bertrand PICCARD
Adventurer, psychiatrist

Samuel PISAR
Lawyer, writer

Bernard RAMANANTSOA
CEO, HEC Group

René REMOND
Historian, Member of the Académie Française

Bernard REYNIS
Président de la Chambre des Notaires de Paris

Jacques RIGAUD
President of Admical

Alain RIST
Vice-President for the environment, living conditions, traffic and regional contracts, Conseil Régional d'Ile-de-France

Robert ROCHEFORT
Managing director, Credoc

Jacqueline de ROMILLY
Writer, Member of the Académie Française

Pierre ROSANVALLON
Writer, Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris

Pierre ROSENBERG
CEO, Musée du Louvre, Member of the Académie Française

Manuel ROSENTHAL
Composer, conductor

Joël de ROSNAY
Writer, scientist, Director, Cité des Sciences

Christophe ROSSIGNON
Producer

Antoine ROSTAND
Chairman, EDS France

Elisabeth ROUDINESCO
Doctor, psychoanalyst

Sonia RYKIEL
Fashion designer

Christian SAINT-ETIENNE
Economist, Professor of Applied Economics, Université de Tours et de Paris-Dauphine

André SANTINI
MP and Mayor, Issy les Moulineaux

Philippe SANTINI
Managing director, France Télévision Publicité

Jean-Louis SCARINGELLA
Managing director, ESCP-EAP

Xavier SCHALLEBAUM
Associate director, Apollo Invest

Eric-Emmanuel SCHMITT
Writer, playwright

Alain SENDERENS
Chef of restaurant "Lucas Carton"

Jean-Claude SEYS
Chairman, MAAF Assurances and MMA

Didier SICARD
Chairman, French National Consultative Committee on Ethics

Yves SIMON
Author, composer

Mario SOARES
Former President of Portugal Republic

Ousmane SOW
Artist, sculptor

Lionel STOLERU
Former Minister, Creator of the Orchestre Romantique Européen

Roger SUE
Sociologist

Ezra SULEIMAN
Professor of political sciences in Princeton University

Pierre TAMBOURIN
Managing director, Genopole

Jacques TASSEL
Chairman, A.T. Kearney

Alain TERZIAN
Film producer

Frédéric TIBERGHIEN
Chairman, VediorBis

Jean TIBERI
Mayor of Paris

Daniel TOSCAN DU PLANTIER
Chairman, TSH

Imre TOTH
Writer, Scientific historian

Stéphane TREPPOZ
CEO AOL Compuserve France

Jean-Claude TRICHET
Governor, Banque de France

Gilbert TRIGANO
President, University of tourism and culture for peace

Serge TRIGANO
Chairman, Triganew

Pierre TROISGROS
Chef restaurant "Troisgros"

Maurice TUBIANA
Professor of medicine

Gérard UNGER
Chairman, Métrobus, CEO, Médiavision

Marc VEYRAT
Chef restaurant "L'Auberge de l'Eridan"

Dominique VIGNON
CEO, Framatome

Jean-Didier VINCENT
Professor of neurobiology, French Centre for Scientific Research

Abdoulaye WADE
President of the Republic of Senegal

Elie WIESEL
Writer, Nobel Peace Prize

Michel WIEVIORKA
Director of Research, EHESS

Dominique WOLTON
Sociologist

Bernard WOUTS
CEO Le Point

Théodore ZELDIN
Writer, professor

Aymeric ZUBLENA
Architect