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As part of the lecture series on Independence of the Mind, organized by the French Cultural Centre and PRIO, Luc Ferry has visited Norway, hosting  a seminar on secularism. The seminar had an attendance of almost 250 people.

Luc Ferry is a model public intellectual, able to draw on multiple roles as a political scientist, philosopher, commentator, essayist and former minister of education and research in France.

PRIO and the French Cultural Centre today organized a seminar with the French philosopher, essayist and novelist Pascal Bruckner. During the seminar, Bruckner presented his thoughts on the 'masochistic' tendencies of a Europe consumed by and constantly feeding its own sense of guilt. The seminar attracted 160 people.

André Glucksmann gave a talk for an audience of more than 200 at a seminar in Oslo on 28 April. His topic was West Versus West on the relationship between Europe and the USA and between countries in Western Europe. The seminar was the third in a series of seminars organized by PRIO, the French embassy and the French Cultural Centre in Norway.