Four months ahead of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, the 29th edition of the French Language and Francophonie Week takes place from March 16 to March 24, 2024. The week celebrates French people and sport under the theme "On the podium".
The International Center for French Language and Culture at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, in collaboration with the Department of Languages and Cultures at École Polytechnique, is also organizing an International Day of the Francophonie on March 19, with the theme "Diversity, Climate and the Francophonie".
On this occasion, the IP Paris Center of French language will welcome Kamel Daoud, Franco-Algerian columnist and writer, author of "Meursault, contre-enquête", and winner of the Prix Goncourt for Best 1st Novel in 2015. Kamel will hold a conference entitled "L'insulaire et l'écriture".
Several lecturers from ENS Lyon, ENSTA-Paris and Sciences Po Paris will also be taking part in this event, as will IP Paris students invited to participate in workshops, read their texts and present their work.
The event is free and open to all.
Registration required ( limited seating available) here.
| 1 pm | Reception of participantsIn lecture hall Gay-Lussac at École Polytechnique |
| 1:30 pm | Keynote speechThierry Coulhon, acting President of Institut Polytechnique de Paris |
| Conferences | |
| 1:40 pm - 2:15 pm | The mystery of the letter HJérôme Perez, Astrophysicist, Professor at ENSTA Paris, Research Lecturer at the Applied Mathematics Unit |
| 2:15 pm - 3 pm | The islander and writingKamel Daoud, Writer and columnist, Prix Goncourt for first novel (2015) |
| 3 pm - 3:30 pm | Break |
| Workshops organized simultaniously | Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes |
| 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm | Improving French pronunciation (from level B1)Fabienne Dumontet, Lecturer in French as a Foreign Language, Department of Letters and Arts, ENS Lyon Writing the magic of a place: intercultural dialoguesDelphine Grouès, writer and Director of the Institut des Compétences et de l'Innovation, Director of the Maison des Arts et de la Création at Sciences Po, Paris Words on climateOral expression workshops with teachers from École Polytechnique |
| Work and lectures by IP Paris students | |
| 5 pm - 6 pm | Words of the FrancophonieClass project for the Polytechnic Cycle preparatory course (students choose a word or expression from a French-speaking area and explain what they mean). Great figures of the French-speaking worldCreation of posters on the Polytechnicien Cycle Preparatory Course Readings of French-language textsFocusing on the climate and from different French-speaking areas, selected and read by Bachelor students PostersCreated by ENSTA-Paris students PostersTexts on nature written by 2nd year Polytechnique students |
| 6 pm - 7:30 pm | Cocktail |
