International festival of geography

The International festival of geography is an annual demonstration organized with the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges since 1990. The vocation of this city for the Géographie is the consequence of the baptism of America in 1507 by the members of the Vosgean Gymnase, of which Martin Waldseemuller, authors of the first chart of the New world.

The festival is placed under the high patronage of the international geographical Union.

Great talks, table-rounds and conference-debates are supplemented by the Living room of the Book Amerigo-Vespucci, the scientific window of the Living room of the Géomatique, the geographical coffees, the exposures, the films as well as a Living room of the Gastronomy.

Topics per year

1990: Cuttings of the world

Dates: 8, June 9th, 10th and th 1990
President: Haroun Tazieff, volcanologist.
Price Amerigo Vespucci: Claude Leborgne for the wandering Prison
Price Youth - Saint-Dié of the Vosges: John Howe and Gerard Jaeger for Amerigo Vespucci

1991: Giant Mégapoles and cities: For an urban ecology

Dates: 18, October 19th, 20th and th 1991
President: Joel de Rosnay, director of the development and the international relations of the Quoted of sciences and industry of the Villette.
Price Vautrin Lud: Peter Haggett (the United Kingdom)
Price Amerigo Vespucci: Pierre-Jean Rémy for China
Price Saint-Dié-of-Vosges Youth: Sylvie Girardet, Claire Merleau-Ponty and Anne Tardy for the Silk routes

1992: New new worlds

Dates: 2, October 3rd, 4th and th 1992
President: Jacques Attali, president of the European Bank for the rebuilding and the development.
Price Vautrin Lud: Torsten Hagerstrand (Sweden) and Gilbert F. White (the United States)

1993: Rural world, spaces, stakes

Dates: 1, October 2nd, 3rd and th 1993
President: Michele Cotta, producing of the emission Polemics (France 2)
Price Vautrin Lud: Peter Gould (the United States)

1994: Areas and universalization

Dates: September 30th, October 1st, 2nd and th 1994
President of Leon Schwartzenberg, professor at the Institute of Villejuif, former minister.
Price Vautrin Lud: Milton Santos (Brazil)

1995: Natural risks, risks of company

Dates: 6, October 7th, 8th and th 1995
President: Jacques Attali, novelist and essay writer, teacher, researcher.
Price Vautrin Lud: David Harvey (the United Kingdom)

1996: Grounds of exclusions, grounds of hopes

Dates: 3,4, October 5th, 6th and th 1996
President: Jean Malaurie, anthropogéographe.
Price Vautrin Lud: Brownish Roger (France) and Paul Claval (France)

1997: The “wandering” planet, geographical mobilities of today

Dates: 2,3, October 4th, 5th and th 1997
President: Alain Touraine, sociologist, writer.
Price Vautrin Lud: Jean-Bernard Racine (Swiss)

1998: Europe, a continent with variable geography

Dates: 1,2, October 3rd, 4th and th 1998
President: Theodore Zeldin, professor with Oxford, writer.
Price Vautrin Lud: Doreen Massey (the United Kingdom)
Youth-Saint-Dié-of-Vosges Price: Eric Boisset for Nicostratos.

1999: You said natural? geography of nature, nature of the geography

Dates: September 30th, October 1,2,3 1999
President: Jean-Marie Cavada, chairman and managing director of Radio France.
Country invited of honor: the South Korea
Price Vautrin Lud: Ron Johnston (the United Kingdom)

2000: Geography and health

Dates: 5,6, October 7th, 8th and th 2000
President: David Khayat, professor of cancerology to the Pierre University and Marie Curie, doctor of the hospitals
Large witness: Yves Coppens, Holder of the Pulpit of Paléoanthropologie and prehistory of the Collège de France
Country invited of honor: the Senegal
Price Vautrin Lud: Yves Lacoste (France)
Ptolémée Price of the audio-visual one: Frederic Laffont for Lebanon: meeting again of in love with Beirut with a country still marked by the war
Price Amerigo Vespucci: Ahmadou Kourouma for Allah is not obliged (Éditions of the Threshold)
Prix the Youth-Saint-Dié-of-Vosges: Catherine Porte and Rose-Claire Labalestra for the king Vagabond

2001: Geography of the innovation, economic with technological, social with the cultural one

Dates: 4,5, October 6th, 7th and th 2001
President: Francoise Heir, ethnologist, professor emeritus with the Collège de France and the School of the high studies in social sciences.
Country invited of honor: The Poland
Price Vautrin Lud: Peter Hall (the United Kingdom)
Youth-Saint-Dié-of-Vosges Price: Erik the Man for Qadehar the wizard .

2002: Geography and religions, these beliefs, representations and values which model the world

Dates: 3,4, October 5th, 6th and th 2002
President: Alexandre Adler, directing leading article of the magazine international Mail
Country invited of honor: The Morocco
Invited honor: Hassan Abouyoub, Ambassador of Morocco in France
Large witness: Henri Madelin, editor association of the review Studies
Price Vautrin Lud: Bruno Messerli (Swiss)
Ptolémée Price of the Audio-visual one: Bernard Francou for Retreat of the Gods
Price Amerigo Vespucci: Abdelkader Djemaï, for Camp-site (Editions of the Threshold)
Youth-Saint-Dié-of-Vosges Price: Frederic All Saints' day and Anne Romby for the night of the Ylang-ylang (Editions southern Acts Junior)

2003: Water and geography, source of life, source of conflicts, hyphen enter the men

Dates: 2,3, October 4th, 5th and th 2003
President: Michel Camdessus, former Managing director of the Funds international currency.
Large witness: Gerard Mégie, President of CNRS, Climatologist.
Invited honor: Laurent Fabius, Former Prime Minister.
Price Vautrin Lud: Allen Scott (the United States).
Ptolémée Price: Uwe Ommer, Sophie Furlaud and Pierre Verboud for Families of the whole world .
Price Amerigo Vespucci: Marc Durin Valois for Chamelle .
Youth-Saint-Dié-of-Vosges Price: Jean Baptist of Panafieu for Planet fresh water and Pierre Marie Beaude for the house of Lointoins .
Country invited of honor: The Germany

2004: To nourish the world, to nourish the men. The geographers sit down at table

Dates: September 30th, 1, October 2nd, 3rd and th 2004
President: Henri Atlan, professor emeritus in biophysics, writer, philosophizes.
Large witness: Paul Dubrule, Copresident founder of the Group Accor, Senator of the Seine and Marne.
Invited honor: Its Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan.
Country invited of honor: The Jordan
Ptolémée Price of the audio-visual one: Hubert Dubois for the film dustbins of universalization
Price Vautrin Lud: Philippe Pinchemel (France)

2005: The world in networks: visible places, invisible bonds

Dates: September 29th, 30th and th, October 1st, 2nd and th 2005
President: Boris Cyrulnik, ethnologist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, neuropsychiatrist and writer French.
Large witness: Dominique Wolton, founder and director of the laboratory “Communication and policy”.
Invited honor: Adalberto Vallega, professor, geographer, President of the international geographical Union
invited Country: The Italy
Price Vautrin Lud: Brian J.L. Berry, Professor, University of Dallas, Texas
Price Amerigo Vespucci: Jean-Paul Delfino, Corcovado , (Métailié Editions)
Price Amerigo Vespucci Youth: Small Xavier-Laurent, the collar of the Thousand Tears , (Editions Beaver Flammarion Pocket, collection ventures)
Prix Ptolémée of the Geography: Collection Atlas/World with the Editions Differently , to include/understand the state of the world today

2006: The geographers redécouvrent Americas

Dates: 28, September 29th, 30th and th and October 1st 2006
President: Julia Kristeva, philosopher
Large witness: Emmanuel Todd, economist and geographer
Invited honor: Governed Debray, academic, philosopher and essay writer, and Erik Orsenna, writer, member of the French Academy
Spokesperson of the year of the Francophonie and chairs Living room of the Book Amerigo Vespucci: Daniel Maximin, writer
invited Countries: French grounds of Americas: Clipperton, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon
Price Vautrin Lud: Heinz Wanner (Swiss)
Price Amerigo Vespucci: Pierre Pelot for Shade of voyageuses the (ED. Héloïse d' Ormesson)
Price Amerigo Vespucci Youth: Carole Saturno
Ptolémée Price of the Geography: Jean Rolin

2007: The planet in evil of energies

Dates: 4,5, October 6th, 7th and th 2007
President: Azouz Begag, writer, researcher and former minister
Large witness: Elisabeth Roudinesco, psychoanalyst
Invited honor: Richard Bohringer, actor; Edith Cresson, former Prime Minister; Hubert Védrine, old Foreign Minister
Price Vautrin Lud: Michael Frank Goodchild (the United Kingdom/the United States)
invited Country: The Romania
Price Amerigo Vespucci: Bernard Giraudeau for Ladies of stroke
Price Amerigo Vespucci Youth: François Places
Prix Ptolémée of the Geography: Christian Grataloup

2008: Wars and armed conflicts (exact title under reserves)

invited Country: Japan

External bonds

Official site of the International festival of Geography
Official site of the Town of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges
Official site of the Acts of the FIG

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