Description
Founded under the administration of Paul Valéry, the Mediterranean University Center offers conferences open to all throughout the year, led by speakers from diverse cultural and academic backgrounds.
Monday, September 28 – 2:30 p.m.
"Inspiring Figures of the Mediterranean"
Tuesday, September 29 – 4:00 p.m.
"A World in Crisis(es)"
By Eric Naulleau, author, literary critic, and columnist; and Richard Millet, writer.
Wednesday, September 30 – 4:00 p.m.
“Christians Facing the Challenges of the Century, 1954–1968”
By Jérôme Cordelier, editor-in-chief of Le Point, author.
Wednesday, October 7 – 4:00 p.m.
"Do Animals Believe in God?"
By Yves Christen, biologist, neuroscientist, and science writer.
Monday, October 12 - 3:00 p.m.
"The History of Nice, Its County, and the Alpes-Maritimes in 16 Dates"
By Gérard Geist, historian, author, and former professor at Sorbonne Paris 3.
Wednesday, November 4 – 4:00 p.m.
“André Malraux, The Condition of Hope: Politics Through Culture”
By Pierre Allorant, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Orléans, President of the Committee on Parliamentary and Political History.
Wednesday, November 4 – 6:00 p.m.
“The City of God, the City of Man, According to Saint Augustine”
By Hervé Pasqua, holder of the Jean François Mattéi Chair, Center for Research in the History of Ideas, Université Côte d’Azur.
Tuesday, November 10 – 4:00 p.m.
“Jacques-Louis David, the Emperor of Painters”
By David Chanteranne, historian, art historian, author, director of Heritage Sites for the City of Rueil-Malmaison, editor-in-chief of the *Revue du Souvenir Napoléonien*, and board member of the Institut Napoléon.
Tuesday, November 17 – 4:00 p.m.
“The Renaissance: A World in Motion”
By Cédric Michon, graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, honorary member of the Institut universitaire de France, and professor of modern history at the University of Rennes 2.
Wednesday, November 18 – 4:00 p.m.
“The Illusion of China’s Rise to Global Hegemony”
By Jean-François Colosimo, essayist and historian of religions.
Thursday, November 19 – 4:00 p.m.
“Giraud, the Forgotten Liberator”
By Henri-Christian Giraud, journalist, historian, and author.
Wednesday, November 25 – 4:00 p.m.
“The Adventure at the End of the Pier”
By Vincent Hervouët, journalist, co-founder of France Info and LCI, member of the Overseas Academy of Sciences, and editorial writer for Europe 1.
And Claude Blanchemaison, former ambassador to Vietnam, India, Russia, and Spain, member of the Overseas Academy of Sciences.
Wednesday, December 2 – 4:00 p.m.
“A Lebanese in Paris”
By Alexandre Najjar, writer, winner of the Académie Française’s Grand Prix de la Francophonie, and editor-in-chief of *L’Orient littéraire*.
Tuesday, December 8 – 4:00 p.m.
“Augustin Frison-Roche and the East: A Land of Dreams, a Land of Sorrow”
By Augustin Frison-Roche, contemporary painter and sculptor.
Wednesday, December 9 – 4:00 p.m.
“Deflecting an Asteroid: The European Hera Probe Finally Reveals the Results!”
By Patrick Michel, astrophysicist, Research Director (Classe Exceptionnelle) at the CNRS, Scientific Lead of the Hera space mission, and professor at the University of Tokyo.
And Ian Carnelli, mission manager for the Hera space mission and director of the Systems Department at the European Space Agency.
Thursday, December 10 – 3:00 p.m.
“The Gardener’s Cat”
By Thomas Schlesser, writer.
Opening times
From 28 September 2026 until 10 December 2026 - Open everyday
