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.
Frédéric Gros
PHILOSOPHER
France
Biography
Frédéric Gros, a specialist on Michel Foucault, is a professor of political philosophy at the University of Paris XII and the Institut d’études politiques of Paris. His unique works treat subjects such as madness, violence, war and security, and walking. He has just published Le Principe sécurité (Gallimard), in which he examines this principle, now omnipresent in our societies, and shows how it has become a widespread political issue by tracing its major historical meanings.
