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.
Steven Laureys
Steven Laureys ©ULg Michel Houe
NEUROSCIENTIST
France
Steven Laureys is a neuroscientist and a clinical professor at the department of neuroscience of the CHU in Liège. He directs the Coma Science Group within the Cyclotron Research Center at the University of Liège. Centre de Recherches du Cyclotron de l'Université de Liège. He is a laureate of many scientific awards and an international specialist of altered states of consciousness. He has just published Un si brillant cerveau (Odile Jacob).
