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.
Benjamin Stora
Benjamin Stora ©Patricia Lecomte
INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR THE MINISTRY OF NATIONAL EDUCATION
Algeria/France
Born in Algeria, Benjamin Stora is a professor and Inspector General for the Ministry of National Education. He has taught courses on the history of contemporary Maghreb, decolonization wars, and the history of North African immigration in Europe, at the University Paris 13 and the INALCO (Eastern Languages, Paris). In 2009, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor, and an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters. He is currently the president of the orientation council of the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration since August 2014. He has authored a considerable body of work ; his latest publications are La Guerre d'Algérie expliquée en images (Seuil, 2014) and Mémoires d'Algérie (with Tramor Quemeneur, Librio, 2014). He directed Histoire des relations entre juifs et musulmans (Albin Michel, 2013) with Abdelwahab Meddeb.
