From March 28 to April 2, The 8th edition of the History & Cité festival takes up the theme "Nourish the world"; conferences, workshops, round tables, projections and other will discuss various aspects of food and its problems. If drinking and eating, it’s living, Food is also at the origin of the first forms of social organization and plays a major symbolic and identity role. Hunters-horses to the industrialization of the food sector-Production, transformation, storage, trade, consumption are all aspects that will be discussed through various events organized in Geneva, in Lausanne and, for the first time, in Neuchâtellaises.

What do we eat every time, in different places, Depending on whether you are a woman or a man, Without resources or wealthy, with whom and in what way? Where foodstuffs circulate, To what extent does their (in) availability weigh on the safety and development of peoples?


So many questions to which this 8th edition of the History and Cité festival tries to answer by inviting his table the historian · nes Marie-Pierre Rey, Georges Vigarello, Nicolas Werth, Alessandro Stanziani, Sylvain Venayre, The writers Elisa Shua Dusapin and Ananda Devi, Journalist Nora Bouazzouni, Chef and historian Philippe Ligron, or the author of BD Aurélia Aurita, among others.