As a follow-up to the lecture Merit and Meritocracy, the symposium will offer perspectives for analysis and exchange on some of the most central and controversial issues in the contemporary evolution of our societies: the place of meritocracy in theories of social justice; the production and measurement of social mobility, a necessary condition for adherence to the meritocratic ideal; the driving forces behind the most selective academic success and the place occupied by mathematics and science in it; the political stakes of controversies surrounding a merit-based society; the evaluation of the model of merit-based success proposed by sport. A look at non-European societies will serve as an instructive lever for comparison.
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