Café géopolitique : Le Japon. Rencontre avec Philippe Pelletier et Laurent Hassid

Philippe Pelletier, professor emeritus at Université Lumière Lyon 2 and member of UMR 5600 Environnement, Ville, Société

Doctor in geography, holds degrees in Japanese language and civilization. His work and publications focus on the geography of Japan, geopolitics, metageography, ideological history of nature-society interface, and relations between geography and ecology.

Laurent Hassid holds a doctorate in geography, specialization geopolitics. He runs the blog https://beyondborderlines.wordpress.com/ and has been the organizer of geopolitical cafés since their creation in 2016.

Since 2016, the Bibliothèque Germaine Tillion has very regularly offered geopolitical cafés on current topics. They are moderated by Laurent Hassid. The guest presents in a few minutes the topic of the café, then participants speak up, ask questions, share their experience, react, and engage in a dialogue with the speaker.