Latin, Greek, Chinese… 5th edition of the Festival of Classical Languages in Versailles
Fifth edition The Festival of Classical Languages will be held on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th February 2023 at the Town Hall and the Open University of Versailles
Festival of Classical Languages in Versailles: program
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3
MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
14-15:00 Open University Auditorium
My first steps in Eureka, Greece
Caroline Fourgeaud-Laville, Ph.D., founded the Eureka Association in 2018 to bring Greek into elementary schools.
Laure de Chantal, author and director of Les Belles Lettres collections.
15:15-15:45 Open University Auditorium
Reading animal fables from Aesop to La Fontaine | Part 1
Laura Chetrit and Ronan Rivière, actors of La voix des Plumes, in residence at Versailles.
16-17:00 Open University Auditorium
Fantastic Monsters in Greek Literature (Family Program)
Yann Migoubert, Doctor of Classics, Greek Studies at Agrégé and Anne-Marie Ozanam, former teacher of hagne (Greco-Latin) at the Lycée Henri IV. He has been a member of Comedie-Française since 2000, with readings by actor, screenwriter, director and writer Denis Podalydès.
A meeting organized by Nicolas Filicic, head of development at Les Belles Lettres and co-organizer of the Festival of Classical Languages
17:15-17:45 Open University Auditorium
Reading animal fables from Aesop to La Fontaine | Part 2
Laura Chetrit and Ronan Rivière, actors of La voix des Plumes, in residence at Versailles.
Shows and seminars
10.00-10.45. Wedding hall, town hall
“Mythology” performance
By the 25 Watt Company
Director: Emmanuelle Levy
Many different objects embody the characters of an unusual and absurd mythological tale. There, adults find the memory of their references, and the child finds the surprise of an inappropriate object to support the story. From 6 years – Duration: 45 minutes
14:00-15:00 and 15:00-16:00 Montgolfier room, town hall
Places in the writing workshop are reserved only for two grades in the elementary school in a morning demonstration by the Story Lab, where students will prepare a writing project.
CINEMA
8:00 PM UGC Roxanne
Orpheus by Jean Cocteau
Duration: 1h35 – Price: 6.50 euros
FEBRUARY 4 Saturday
SEMINARS
10.30-11.30 Salle Saint Exupery, town hall
An introductory seminar on the alphabet and Phoenician history
Stevens Bernardin, PhD in History of the Phoenician and Punic Worlds (Sorbonne University / Oriental and Mediterranean).
From the age of 14.
13.30-14.30 Salle Saint-Exupery, town hall
Syriac initiative seminar
Jimmy Daccache is Senior Lecturer in West Semitic Languages at Yale University
14:00-17:00 Community Hall, Town Hall
Origami workshops on the 12 animals of Chinese mythology
(family program)
Afternoon workshop with free entry
Namy Levy, Certificate of Professional Skills student in Bookbinding at Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Versailles
From the age of 6
10:30 – 18:00 Community Hall, Town Hall
Workshops with free admission all day (family program)
Ancient Selfie Step back in time and take a picture of yourself in ancient Rome or Greece (in costume).
Giant “Market” game Test your antiquity and advertising culture with the family
Workshop: “Latin exists in the Middle Ages” Presentation of manuscripts and introduction to medieval calligraphy.
Workshop-game: “code-name” A game of association of ideas through pictures or words to help others guess and discover an ancient culture
MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
After the conferences, the authors will be signed in the village building
10:30-11:30 Council Chamber, Town Hall
Ex Nihilo: An Introduction to Latin (Family Program)
Laure de Chantal, author and director of Les Belles Lettres collections, Guillaume Diana, certified professor of Classics (@le_prof_de_latin_grec), Marine Renauld, associate professor of Classics (@omniavincitliber). Caroline Fourgeaud-Laville, Ph.D., founded the Eureka Association in 2018 to bring Greek into elementary schools.
11:30-12:30 Wedding Hall, City Hall
The history of Rome as told by the ancients
Sylvie Laigneau-Fontaine, Professor of Latin at the University of Burgundy, specialist in classical and Renaissance Latin poetry.
The meeting is hosted by Anais Kien, producer of French Culture.
11:30-12:30 Council Chamber, Town Hall
Antiquity in Comics (Family Program)
Romain Brethes, professor and journalist at Le Point, who is particularly involved with the Wolinski Prize for comics, academic, novelist, comic translator and screenwriter Blandine Cuny Le Callet and comic screenwriter Serge Le Tendre.
14-15:30 Open University Auditorium
Animals in Antiquity (family program)
Dominique Sharpin, Professor and Chair of Mesopotamian Civilization at the Collège de France, Anne Cheng Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Chinese Intellectual History, and John Sheed Professor Emeritus at the Institut de France, High School of France.
The moderator of the meeting is Olivier Pascal-Moussellard, chief correspondent of Télérama.
14:00-15:30:00 Council Chamber, Town Hall
Why does classical Chinese poetry continue to fascinate us in the 21st century?
Nicolas Chapuis, complete Chinese poet Du Fu (712-770) and Pierre Vinclair, writer.
The meeting was moderated by Télérama’s chief reporter Gilles Heuré
15:30-17:00 Council Chamber, Town Hall
Bestiaries from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (family program)
Arnaud Zucker, Professor of Ancient Greek at the University (Nice). Anthropologist, philologist, translator. Michel Pastoureau, historian and Latin scholar (EPHE and EHESS), specialist in colors, animals and symbols.
A meeting led by Anais Kie, producer of French Culture.
5-6 pm Council Chamber, City Hall
Epicurus and Battle: small pleasures and true happiness
Charles Senard, Doctor of Latin Studies, author of Carpe diem. A small introduction to Epicurean wisdom and teacher Sophie Malik in the preparatory classes at Henry IV High School.
The moderator of the meeting is Olivier Pascal-Moussellard, chief correspondent of Télérama.
Shows
16-16:45 Wedding hall, Municipal hall
“Mythology” program (family program)
By the 25 Watt Company
Director: Emmanuelle Levy
Many different objects embody the characters of an unusual and absurd mythological tale. The adult finds there the memory of his references, and the child finds the surprise of the incongruous object as support for the story.
From 6 years old – Duration: 45 min
18:00 Wedding hall
“Circe” show (family program)
By Democos
Director: Philippe Brunet
Ulysses, barely surviving his adventures with the Cyclops in Canto 9, crosses the Aeolus in Canto 10, loses all his ships to the Lestrigons, and reaches the island of the sorcerer Circe. A bard comes to recite the entire 10th canto, which he enacts before our eyes with his puppets.
From 8 years old – Duration: 55 minutes
CINEMA
8:00 PM UGC Roxanne
Fantastic Beasts, (2016) (family program)
David Yates, after JK Rowling from the age of 10
Duration: 2h13 – Price: 6.50 euros
FESTIVAL HALL:
AUTHORS, MEETINGS AND EXHIBITIONS
10.30-18.00 Community Hall, Municipal Hall
Sale of books from Guillaume Budé bookstore and meeting with authors
Presentation stands and activities offered by partners
– The ancient future
– Stop the car
– Association of Greek and Latin Teachers of the Academy of Versailles of the National Coordination of Regional Associations of Teachers of Ancient Languages (APGLAV-CNARELA)
– Institute of Rare Languages (ILARA)
– The life of the classics
Exhibition of parchment scrolls
A collaboration between Versailles School of Art and Clagny College
Photo credit: DR
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