Conference | Mohamed Amer Meziane

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This lecture explores the relationship between art and philosophy at a time of environmental change in the humanities. Philosopher Mohamed Amer Meziane will draw on his two books: Au bord des mondes (At the Edge of Worlds) and Des empires sous la terre (Empires Under the Earth). He will highlight some of their resonances with the current practices of several artists and curators in the world of contemporary art, between Europe and America, Africa and Asia.

Mohamed Amer Meziane

Mohamed Amer Meziane is a philosopher, performer, and historian of ideas. After teaching at Columbia University, he joined Brown University as Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Francophone Literature, affiliated with the Watson Institute's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. His first book, Des empires sous la terre. Histoire écologique et raciale de la sécularisation (Empires Under the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization), won the Albertine Prize for nonfiction in 2023 and was translated into English under the title The States of the Earth. His second book, Au bord des mondes. Vers une anthropologie métaphysique (At the Edge of Worlds: Towards a Metaphysical Anthropology), was published in French in 2023. Mohamed Amer Meziane regularly lectures at Harvard University, the Collège de France, and MoMA PS1, and his work has been reviewed or discussed in media outlets such as Le Monde, Arte, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He is also the winner of the Salomon Prize and the author of several texts for contemporary artists.

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This lecture series is a joint production of the Alpes-Maritimes National Museums of the 20th Century and the Culture Department of the Université Côte d’Azur, in partnership with the CRHI - Center for Research in the History of Ideas, and with the support of the Friends of the Marc Chagall National Museum Association.

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