Comparative views: environments, changing the air
From November 24 to 27, 2025 (program below)
Auditorium de l'Inalco - 65, rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris
Free admission registration subject to availability.
If the environment fascinates, worries or questions you, why not put it in the plural? In other words, change of air, as we do at Inalco, to look at what lies "beyond nature and culture". Discover ecological crises and criticisms, their impasses and their overcomes, in faraway (or not so faraway) countries, and thus bring what surrounds us, here and there, closer to us.
Programming committee
There is no Planet B, but there are many ways of showing the disasters underway, the damage caused by progress and development, and the attempted solutions and alternatives. Our choice was not an easy one, given the rich ecosystem of documentary films on these subjects. The images shown here are both captured and free, taken on the spot and reflected upon, the fruit of chance and the work of the filmmakers.
The voices of those who made or produced them, and of specialists from Inalco and elsewhere who have come to comment on them, will put them into context and perspective. With you, we'd like to ask questions, while avoiding simplistic or over-hasty answers.
Mongolia, Polynesia, Hawai'i, Latvia, Ukraine, Russia, Senegal and Japan: we invite you on a journey that's low-emission, but strong for the planet.
Programming committee and discussion moderator:
- Alice Chaudemanche, lecturer in Wolof language and literature at Inalco, researcher at the Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique (LLACAN) laboratory;
- Laurent Coumel, lecturer in contemporary history at Inalco, specialist in Russia/USSR and Latvia, researcher at the Centre de recherche Europes-Eurasie (CREE) ;
- Noémi Godefroy, senior lecturer at Inalco, historian of modern Japan (XVIIIe-XXe century) and specialist in the indigenous Ainu minority, researcher at the Institut Français de Recherche sur l'Asie de l'Est (IFRAE) and associate researcher at the Centre de Recherche sur le Japon (CRJ), within UMR 8173 - China-Korea-Japan (CCJ/ CNRS, EHESS, Université Paris-Cité)
- Elisabeth Juranics, master's student in sociology at EHESS and intern programming assistant;
- Charlotte Marchina, anthropologist, lecturer in Mongolian language and civilization at Inalco, researcher at the Institut Français de Recherche sur l'Asie de l'Est (IFRAE), member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF);
- Sarah Mohamed-Gaillard, lecturer in contemporary history at Inalco, specialist in the history of Oceania, researcher at CESSMA UMR 245;
- Laurent Pellé, general delegate of the Jean Rouch International Festival, Ethnographic Film Committee.
