2021 | Jacques Lévy

Hybrid session | Orlando Ribeiro Auditorium, IGOT | Online

 

Jacques Lévy is a geographer, an urbanist and a social scientist. He is the director of the Spatial Intelligence Chair (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France) and member of the Chôros research rhizome. His major topics are theory of space, political geography, spatial justice, urbanity, globalisation, cartography, and social theory. Lévy published hundreds of articles and various books, being the most often-cited: A Cartographic Turn (2016); Dictionnaire de la geography et de l’espace des sociétés (2003/2013); Le tournant géographique. Penser l’espace pour lire le monde (1999); Le monde: espaces et systèmes (1991). Recently, Lévy published Théorie de la justice spatiale (2018), Le pays des Européens (2019) and L’humanité: un commencement (2021). Working with non-verbal languages in academic research, he was director of a manifesto scientific film, Urbanity/ies (2013), and of a nine-film series, Thinking Places (2015).
In 2018, he has been awarded the Vautrin-Lud Prize, the major international award in Geography.

The Annual Lesson can be viewed here.

The Annual Lesson took place in a hibrid format, in person at IGOT and simultaneously online, and was attended by around 200 people from around the world.

Of the 85 online presences, we obtained 16 reviews: the organization of the event was rated VERY GOOD or EXCELLENT by 73.8%, while the theme was considered by 69% as VERY PERNINENT and 31% as PERTINENT.