The 2014-2015 season

  • Conferences@934: The Future of Media in the Digital Age

    After thirteen years spent leading Le Monde into new directions, alongside Alain Minc and Edwy Plenel, Jean-Marie Colombani left the newspaper in 2007. He then decided to turn the page and focus on internet-based journalism. As someone who left the Old World for the new one, he talked about how he experienced this transition. With high confidence in the future, particularly the future of web-journalism, he will explain how this profession was transformed in the digital era, an age of interactivity and immediacy. With Eric Alterman, a specialist of American media, he will explore the new relationships that new technologies have established between the press and its readers, but will also discuss the more traditional issue of the ties between journalists and power.

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  • Conferences@934: D-Day’s Sunken Secrets

    Co-produced by Sylvain Pascaud, who led the D-Day underwater expedition, the film presented at the French Consulate documented last summer’s effort to map and explore the wreckage from the D-Day armada on the ocean floor off the coast of France.

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  • Conferences@934 : The Future of Media in the Digital Age

    Le 21 Octobre aura lieu la reprise des Conferences@934 avec cette premiere conference sur le theme annuel : The New Challenges of our Global World. Celle-ci sera constituée d’une rencontre avec Jean-Marie Colombani sur l’avenir de la presse dans l’âge digital. Il sera interviewé par le journaliste américain Éric Alterman, chroniqueur pour The Nation et auteur de plusieurs best-sellers.

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  • Conferences@934: Philanthropy versus Welfare State

    In the USA, 90% of households give to charity while charitable giving accounts for 2% of gross domestic product. If Philanthropy will not replace the Welfare State, it can bring complementary social and ethical benefits to our societies. At a time when the French Welfate State proves unable to create and finance new performing forms of solidarity, Guy Sorman and Aaron Dorfman will compare the two models of Philantropy and Welfare State.

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  • Conferences@934: French and American Competitiveness

    The new report by the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Relations Program was recently released in Paris and Washington. According to this report, France and the United States present exceptionally complementary competitiveness profiles. Moreover, the report lays out a series of initiatives designed to promote the two countries’ competitiveness as well as their common success and leadership in the twenty-first century.

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  • Conferences@934: French and American Competitiveness

    The new report by the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Relations Program was recently released in Paris and Washington.

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