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.
Alexandre Bikbov
SOCIOLOGIST / PUBLISHER
Russia
Alexandre Bikbov is a sociologist, a publisher and a translater. He is the deputy director of the Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences Centre of the philosophy department of Moscow University and associate professor at the Maurice Halbwachs Research Centre in Paris. In 2014, he published The Grammar of social order (only available in Russian), in which he proposes an ambitious overview of the evolution of key concepts of the political and sociological thought.
