On December 14 2023, Didier Fassin was awarded a doctorate by the Free University of Brussels in the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences for his " unprecedented blend of life sciences and humanities, concrete commitments to civic life and scientific production " and for his " work, as diverse as it is coherent, in which questions of inequality and the inequality of life are central ". The ceremony was dedicated to freedom of expression, with the title : " On n'enferme pas la pensée ". Also honored were Rahile Dawut, a Chinese ethnologist sentenced to life imprisonment for her work on Uyghur culture, and Nasrine Soutoudeh, an Iranian jurist also imprisoned for her defense of women's rights. To mark the occasion, Didier Fassin gave a lecture at : " La question exilée, miroir des désordres du monde. From ethnography to geopolitics ".
