Events

Ariel Salleh, Australian researcher and world figure in ecofeminism, will be in France from May 19 to 28. Here are two moments when we might bump into each other: On the 20th, she takes part in a study day at La Sorbonne on ecomarxisms, with Sara Marano, Daniel Tanuro and Michael Löwy, among others. Open…

Work on the future “Françoise d’Eaubonne” alley in Paris’s 14th arrondissement is almost complete, and the alley is now open to the public (as you’ll see in the photos below). In the near future, benches will be installed under each lamppost. A sign announces “the first garden street in the 14th arrondissement”. The inauguration should…

  In Caen last November, at the Redécouvrir Françoise d’Eaubonne conference, we had the immense pleasure of discovering the work that Coline and Flora Pilet were building around Françoise d’Eaubonne. When the two sisters, directors and dancers, had immersed themselves in the writer’s intimate notebooks, archived at the IMEC (Institut mémoire de l’édition contemporaine) in…

One of the highlights of the Redécouvrir Françoise d’Eaubonne symposium, held on November 16, 17 and 18, 2022 at the Université de Caen and the Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine, was the conference Imaginer le monde demain avec Françoise d’Eaubonne, presented by Vincent, matrimoine dégoupilleur. “Imagining tomorrow’s world and building ecofeminist coalitions was Françoise’s dream:…

The site goes international. An English-language version was quickly added. 35 years after her trip to the USA, Françoise returns. At the helm are two fellow leading American academics: Danielle Roth-Johnson, head of the Gender and Sexuality Studies department in Las Vegas, who met Françoise in the late ’80s and integrated her work into her…

On April 5, 1972, Françoise and a score of activists from the French, Belgian, Dutch, Norwegian and British homosexual movements, including her companion Marc Payen, went to San Remo to join their FUORI comrades in sabotaging the first International Congress of Sexology. The psychiatrists intended to focus on “deviant behaviors in human sexuality”, i.e., on…

Singer Thalie, who knows and appreciates Françoise, lends us a song that she performs, with the kind permission of the copyright holders of its author, Michel Tonnerre, whom we also thank. But what does a “sailor” song have to do with this site? Françoise was very attached to her Breton and maritime roots. A direct…