OPENING CEREMONY FOLLOWED BY THE PRIX LUMIÈRES SUR LES INÉGALITÉS

OPENING CEREMONY : TALKS WITH SOME OF OUR INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS FOLLOWED BY THE PRIX LUMIÈRES SUR LES INÉGALITÉS AWARDED TO THE FRENCH ECONOMIST ESTHER DUFLO

Literature is constantly changing, including through heritage. More than ever, this anniversary edition intends to draw on important writers and thinkers whose work and research make the often confused or tormented past readable and allow us to glimpse the future. A choice of writers attempt to answer the question: What colour will the future be? Following this, the French economist Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Reduction and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Economics and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019, receives the 2023 Prix Lumières sur les inégalités, awarded in partnership with the Observatoire québécois des inégalités. Wine will be served starting at 4PM.

Participants: Philippe Sands, Sylvain Tesson, Duncan Mercredi, Esther Duflo, Andrea Marcolongo, Rivka Galchen, Suzanne Nossel, Nathalie Guay, Roberson Edouard

Host: Marie-Andrée Lamontagne

Languages: French and English

By The Cole Foundation, Italian Institute of Culture in Montreal, Gouvernement du Québec, Université de Montréal, Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM), Observatoire Québécois des inégalités, Consulat général de France à Québec, Indigenous Voices Awards, Blue Metropolis