2021 | Jacques Lévy

2021 Annual Lecture: The World-society and the Ethical Turn

The Finisterra 2021 Annual Lecture took place on 22 November in a hybrid format and was attended by around 200 participants from various parts of the world. The guest speaker was Jacques Lévy (geographer, urban planner, and social scientist), who delivered a lecture entitled The World-society and the Ethical Turn.

Jacques Lévy is a geographer, urban planner, and social scientist. He is Director of the Spatial Intelligence programme at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and a member of the Chôros research rhizome. His research focuses on the theory of space, political geography, spatial justice, urbanity, globalisation, cartography, and social theory. Lévy has published hundreds of articles and several books, among which the most cited are: A Cartographic Turn (2016); Dictionnaire de la géographie et de l’espace des sociétés (2003/2013); Le tournant géographique. Penser l’espace pour lire le monde (1999); and Le monde: espaces et systèmes (1991). His recent works include Théorie de la justice spatiale (2018), Le pays des Européens (2019), and L’humanité: un commencement (2021). He also works with non-verbal research languages and has directed the scientific manifesto Urbanity/ies (2013) and the nine-film series Thinking Places (2015). In 2018, he was awarded the Vautrin Lud Prize, the highest international award in Geography.

The Annual Lecture was held in a hybrid format, with in-person attendance at IGOT and simultaneous online streaming, reaching an audience of approximately 200 people from across the globe.

Of the 85 online attendees, 16 completed the evaluation form: 73.8% rated the event’s organisation as VERY GOOD or EXCELLENT, while 69% considered the topic to be VERY RELEVANT and 31% RELEVANT.

You can watch or rewatch the Annual Lecture here.