The Villa Gillet
Founded in 1987, the Villa Gillet welcomes in Lyon fiction and non-fiction writers, artists and scholars from over the world to ponder issues relevant to our ever shiflting world. The Villa Gillet makes the work of exciting contemporary thinkers accessible to the largest audience possible, by organizing events during the year, and during its festivals : the International Forum on the Novel — happening every year in May since 2007— co-organized with "Le Monde", Walls and Bridges, a ten-day series of events that happened from 2011 to 2013 and Mode d'emploi : un festival des idées — a festival of public debates — initiated in 2012.
Ali Benmakhlouf
[Translate to EN:] Ali Benmakhlouf. Droits Réservés
PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR
France
Ali Benmakhlouf teaches philosophy at the Université Paris Est Créteil. His research centers on logic, history and philosophy of logic, and Medieval Arabic philosophy. As President of the consulting committee for ethics at the Research Institute for Development, he is currently involved in discussions on bioethics. He is also the program director at the Collège international de philosophie (Paris/Casablanca), a member of the French Society of Philosophy, and a member of the International Institute of Philosophy. He was notably involved in the co-authored book Histoire des relations entre juifs et musulmans, and directed La Bioéthique, pour quoi faire ? (PUF, 2013).
