7 November 2024 - 17.15-19.00  / Palais de l'Europe / Room 7

Interpretation FR/EN

In co-operation with the Cartooning for Peace 

The brutalisation of political life, the impoverishment of public debate, the instrumentalisation and radicalisation of opinions, the increase in disinformation, the rise of populism, the danger of authoritarianism... These are just some of the ills that threaten our ‘democratic fatigue’. And yet there are remedies before the disease is complete: aren't art and humour formidable weapons against the autocrats of all stripes who impose censorship? How can press cartoons help to defend the fundamental rights and freedoms that make up democracy? How can we caricature our society when reality itself becomes a caricature?

 

Moderator:

Jean-Paul MARTHOZ, co-ordinator for the publication of the annual report of the Committee to Protect Journalists

 

Panel:

 

Zehra Omeroglu, Press cartoonist, Türkiye

Tjeerd Royaards, Press cartoonist, The Netherlands

Emmanuele del Rosso, Press Cartoonist, Italy 

Alberto Godioli, associate professor of European culture and literature at the University of Groningen, director of the ‘Humour in Court’ project