The ICESCO Chair "Arts, Sciences and Civilizations" organizes a conference: "The world today facing uncertainty: what role for culture in the construction of a new humanist thought?"

Since signing the agreement to create the ICESCO Chair for Arts, Sciences and Civilizations within Euromed University of Fes, the University is once again welcoming its partner ICESCO: the Islamic World Organization for Education, Science and Culture for another meeting, this time focusing on a conference on the theme: "the world facing uncertainty: what role for culture in rethinking the path toward the human?"

This conference is organized by UEMF and ICESCO in partnership with the German Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, active in more than 100 countries worldwide including Morocco where it supports youth and women as well as state and non-state institutions, political actors and civil society to better define their actions and contribute to sustainable change. Through this event, the partners aim to highlight the upheavals the world is currently facing following the multiple repercussions of the health crisis on economic and social levels but also the divisions and tensions of geopolitical, economic and ideological nature. In this context, the goal is also to show that through the promotion of culture and its various levers, it is possible to rethink the future of our humanity beyond the troubled images the world currently knows. As André Malraux rightly says, culture is "what has made man something other than an accident of the universe." Given this approach, it is clear that culture is not merely a superfluous component in the current situation dominated by the digital industry and the augmented human.

PROGRAM - Wednesday, November 24, 2021 – 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM (GMT+1)
"The world today facing uncertainty: what role for culture in the construction of a new humanist thought?"

Opening address

- Mr. Mostapha Bousmina, President, Euromed University of Fes (UEMF)

- Mr. Abdelilah Ibn Arfa, Deputy Director, ICESCO
"Role of culture and literature in approaching the uncertain"

- Mr. Mohamed Zinelabidine, Director of Culture and Communication, ICESCO
"A new hermeneutics of culture for a new world"

- Mr. Omar Halli, Adviser to the Director General of ICESCO
"Culture and the university, what are today’s possible stakes?"

- Mr. Abderrahman Tenkoul, Dean of the Euromed Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, UEMF
"Presentation of the chair: Arts, sciences and civilizations"

Closing