Présence des morts parmi les vivants

In November, it is time for the commemoration of the dead. Funeral rituals allow the living to continue their “job of living”, when the space of cemeteries testifies to the cults rendered to the dead throughout the centuries and also allows, sometimes, life to regain its rights. The Père Lachaise thus welcomes between its tombs at the time and with various decorations, an important flora and fauna. In this refuge – or elsewhere – it happens that the dead manifest their presence among the living: by crossing history and various cultural contexts, let us walk through these troubled spaces where the dead leave the place assigned to them.

With

Grégory Delaplace, anthropologist, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études, CNRS bronze medal (2015). Auteur de Lavoices of ghosts, when the dead overflow (The color of ideas, Threshold, 2024)

Benoît Gallot, curator of Père-Lachaise, auteur de La secret life of a cemetery (Les Arènes editions, 2022) and the Instagram account la_vie_au_cimetiere

Hosted by:

Fanny Bocquentin, archaeo-anthropologist, researcher at the CNRS (Nanterre – Laboratoire Temps). Autrice de La Mort (To the naked eye History, CNRS, 2023)