Pascale Seys

Holder of a PhD in philosophy, Pascale Seys is a professor of general philosophy, aesthetics and Media Theory at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, at the École des arts visuels Saint Luc (ESA) in Brussels, and at the Faculty of Architecture (LOCI) of UCL. She has taken part in various scientific and cultural projects and has worked as a journalist for the written press, including Courant d’art, Art et Culture and Revue philosophique de Louvain. She has been collaborating with Musiq’3 for more than twenty five years, where she has regularly presented international concerts, the cultural magazine Hamlet, devoted to the arts, music, literature and theatre, as well as Big Bang, a magazine focused on contemporary creation. Under the title J’aime la philo mais pas trop, she produced a series of philosophical columns on La Première, including a philosophical abecedary, special programmes devoted to Sartre, Fassbinder and Maurice Béjart, portraits of the prize winners of the Reine Elisabeth Competition, and a radio serial marking the bicentenary of Musset on Musiq’3. From 2010 to 2017, she produced on Musiq’3 Le Grand Charivari, a series of in depth interviews with artists, intellectuals and figures from cultural life, and she currently presents the weekly micro programme Les tics de l’actu. She has published Un intellectuel sous le Second Empire. H. Taine ou l’avènement du naturalisme with Éditions L’Harmattan, and Philosophie vagabonde sur la rumeur du monde with Éditions Racine.