THE PARIS PLENARY SESSIONS MARCH 5, 2025
University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Centre Panthéon, 12 Place du Panthéon, Room 6
Besides the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, 2025 corresponds also to the centenaries of Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X and Patrice Lumumba. The Paris programme includes the tributes to those figures of world history.
09:00-09:15 : Welcoming words
09:15-09:30 : Introduction : Bandung 70 years on
09:30-10:15 : Mini-roundtable dedicated to the centenary tributes to Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X and Patrice Lumumba
10:30-12:30 : ROUNDTABLE 1 : The Changing International Relations since Bandung
14:30-16:30 : ROUNDTABLE 2 : The UN in Changing Geopolitical Contexts since Sukarno’s Speech at the UN General Assembly 1960
THE LE HAVRE PLENARY AND PARALLEL SESSIONS MARCH 6-7, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
09:00-10:00 : Opening Session
10:00-12:00 : Plenary Session “The Rise of Asia : from Bandung to BRICS”
14:00-19:30 : Parallel Sessions
Friday, March 7, 2025
09:00-12:15 : Parallel Sessions
14:00-18:00 : Plenary Sessions
(The detailed programme is under construction).
BOOK PRESENTATION AND SALE IN LE HAVRE
There will be a stand for book presentation and sale during the conference in Le Havre on March 6-7, 2025. If you wish to show and/or to sell your recent books in English or in French or in other languages, please, bring some copies with you. The student team of exhibition will take care of your books. If you plan to do it, please, send a message to the conference secretariat.
LUNCH AND PARIS WALK
There are some restaurants around the University Paris-Sorbonne, including Asian ones. After the Paris sessions and before taking the train for Le Havre in the evening, it is possible to have a walk between Paris-Sorbonne and Saint Lazare Railway Station where the train will leave for Le Havre.
ETRETAT TOUR : Saturday March 8, 2025
Following the conference, the Le Havre organising committee offers to conference participants a half-day organised tour to Etretat on Saturday March 8, 2025, morning (participation for free of charge). Etretat is a touristic coastal town 32 km from Le Havre. Click here to know about Etretat.
TRANSPORT & ACCOMMODATION PARIS & LE HAVRE
For your stay in Paris, it is recommended to take a hotel around Opera House and Saint Lazare Railway Station for the following reasons :
1) The airport Roissybus station is situated behind the Opera House.
2) The trains linking Paris and Le Havre leave from Saint Lazare Railway Station.
3) Opera House and Saint Lazare Railway Station are close each other (around 10 minutes walking).
In this way, taxi will not be needed.
Click here for recommended transport and hotels in Paris and Le Havre.
Suggested Itinerary :
Paris-Le Havre by train from Saint Lazare Railway Station on March 5 at 18:40 PM
Le Havre-Paris by train from Le Havre Railway Station on March 8 at 14:57 PM
You may book or buy your train ticket online at French Railway Company here.
PARTICIPATION REGISTRATION
All the sessions of the conference are open to the public with registration.
All participants (including chairs, speakers, presenters) need to register themselves before February 15, 2025, to get access to the conference : a badge for physical participants ; a Zoom link for virtual participants. Click here to register yourself.
For all inquiries, please write to SECRETARIAT.
We remind our readers that publication of articles on our site does not mean that we agree with what is written. Our policy is to publish anything which we consider of interest, so as to assist our readers in forming their opinions. Sometimes we even publish articles with which we totally disagree, since we believe it is important for our readers to be informed on as wide a spectrum of views as possible.
