Émilie Aubry, editor-in-chief of the program Le dessous des cartes on Arte, and William Marx, Professor of Comparative Literatures at the Collège de France, will be in conversation with Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, at a special evening event organized as part of the new partnership between the Collège de France and Arte. The event will take place on Wednesday 20 octbre 2021 at 19 hau Collège de France (site Marcelin Berthelot).
Orhan Pamuk will be videoconferencing from New York, with simultaneous translation into French.
The meeting will focus on the real and imaginary links between Turkey and Europe, and their mirror games, from geopolitics to literature.
The oscillation between East and West is at the heart of Orhan Pamuk's work. Tensions, misunderstandings, confrontations, but also mutual fascination, borrowings and fruitful exchanges, multiple dialogues, have shaped the relationship between Europe and its great Ottoman and then Turkish neighbor for centuries. What can the great writer from Istanbul, a pivotal city if ever there was one, tell us about this relationship today, almost 100 years after the Treaty of Sèvres and the rise to power of the Young Turks?
This evening will inaugurate the opening symposium of the Collège de France entitled "Inventing Europe", to be held on October 21 and 22, 2021.
