#Lectures

Thursday 16 January 2025, from 7 pm to 9 pm, Théâtre Princesse Grace
Passionate love, all heat and intensity, is a heady mix of desire and sexuality. But these three concepts are not always aligned. Love can exist without sexuality, desire can exist without love, and sexuality without desire. Each has its own ways, shapes, and aims. Desire, by nature insatiable, becomes tyranical, while sexuality remains solitary and auto-erotic. Fusing together love, desire, and pleasure is a utopian dream, but humanity persists, drawn along by the sheer power of these experiences, in spite of their contradictions. For although they can be a source of pain, love, desire, and pleasures bring light into our lives, giving us the power to love, dream, and overcome the impossible.

Until Londay 1 December 2025, from 9 am to 6 pm, Musée d’Anthropologie Préhistorique
The Monaco Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology is delighted to invite you to discover its new temporary exhibition: The Butterfly Effect: The Pre-History of Animals, organised under the High Patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco. Explore whole rooms themed to the animal kingdom and biodiversity, and take a fascinating journey through archaeology and our natural history!

Tuesday 7 January 2025, at 6 pm, Musée d’Anthropologie Préhistorique
This lecture looks at attempts by legal medicine experts to gain new insights into history by studying "silent witnesses", long-dead historic patients such as Lucy the australopithecine, or the remains of Richard the Lionheart, the false relics of Joan of Arc, the head of Henry IV of France, the blood of Marat and Robespierre, the latrines of Napoleon at Longwood, Flaubert's death mask, Hitler's jawbone, and Picasso's hair). The talk will be given by Philippe Charlier, a doctor of medicine, archaeo-anthropology, and bioethics.