ProPhilia Festival: Highlighting the Diversity of Philosophical Thought
Culture
Education
Research
Published on March 17, 2026–Updated on March 17, 2026
Dates
on the March 16, 2026
March 24–April 1, 2026
Location
Six locations in Nice: Le 109, the Carlone Campus, Villa Arson, the Marc Chagall National Museum, and the bookshop-cafés Les Parleuses and BD Fugue.
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The ProPhilia Festival returns for its second edition from March 24 to April 1, 2026, in Nice. Concerts, exhibitions, dance performances, lectures, and academic events will highlight this new edition, which is dedicated to the relevance, importance, and diversity of philosophical thought.
The second edition of the ProPhilia Festival will take place from March 24 to April 1, 2026, at various venues throughout the city of Nice. The festival features a program combining artistic events, lectures, workshops, and discussions, with the aim of highlighting the vitality and diversity of contemporary philosophical thought.
More than thirty speakers from diverse backgrounds—philosophers, musicians, visual artists, dancers, choreographers, and video artists—are participating in this edition. The eleven scheduled events will take place at various venues in Nice: Le 109, the Carlone Campus, Villa Arson, the Marc Chagall National Museum, as well as the bookshop-cafés Les Parleuses and BD Fugue.
Some highlights of the festival:
Tuesday, March 24, to Friday, March 27, 2026: 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM on March 24; 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM from March 25 to 27
Installation Voices of Fragments: Making memories out of a difficult heritage by Rosa Cinelli and Maxence Mercier - Le Hublot – 109
Friday, March 27 at 4:30 PM: Guided tour of the installation Voices of Fragments
Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 5 p.m.
Opening of the installation by Rosa Cinelli and Maxence Mercier, Voices of Fragments: Making memories out of a difficult heritage - Le Hublot – 109, 5 p.m.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 7:00 PM
Public lecture by Maud Pouradier, The World of Opera and Our Own, Chagall Museum, 7:00 PM
Wednesday, March 25, 2026, 6:00 PM
Philosophy Café led by Gatsu Sensei, Philosophy in Naruto: Rethinking the Question of Suffering - Fugue Comic Book Store, 6:00 PM
Friday, March 27, 2026, 5:30 PM
Public lecture by Anna Maria Sienicka, “Oneself as a ‘Monster’: Why Can We Not Escape the Imaginary of the Monstrous?” – Le Hublot – 109, 5:30 PM
Friday, March 27, 2026, 7:00 PM
DEVORA, Contemporary dance performance by Angela Babuin and Francesco Callegaro. End-of-residency performance presented by Cadmium Compagnie. - Le Hublot – 109, 7:00 PM
Monday, March 30, 2026, 7:00 PM
Noise Night: Performance by the Nice Inharmonic Orchestra (LOIN) and sound lecture The Sound of Time by Céleste Gatier and Catherine Guesde - Villa Arson, 7:00 PM
Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Research Day: The Philosophical Incarnation. Voices, Bodies, and Images in Philosophy. - Carlone Campus, Amphitheater A021, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 7:00 PM
Discussion with Vanina Mozziconacci based on her book Learning to Philosophize as a Feminist - Les Parleuses Bookstore - 7:00 PM
Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 9 a.m.–1 p.m.
Research Day: The Philosophical Incarnation. Voices, Bodies, and Images of Philosophy. - Carlone Campus, Humanities Library, Conference Room, 9 a.m.–1 p.m.
