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Conversations with Alexandra Badea

🗓️ November 4 and 5, 2026


These two special events featuring author, theater director, and filmmaker Alexandra Badea will offer an opportunity to delve into her multifaceted body of work.

The event will take the form of discussions led by AMU moderators. These conversations will shed light on the major contemporary issues that run through her writing, from memory to the transmission of knowledge. Each session will be followed by an open Q&A with the audience.

Free admission; open to the general public.

 Alexandra Badea is an author, theater director, and filmmaker born in Romania who has lived and worked in France since 2003. Her work, which straddles the realms of theater, the novel, radio, and film, explores the connections between personal journeys and major contemporary issues: globalization, work, memory, history, identity, and transmission. She is notably the author of *Pulvérisés*, which won the Grand Prix de littérature dramatique in 2013; the trilogy *Points de non-retour*; the novel *Tu marches au bord du monde*; and the play *Exil*, which premiered at the National Theater of Bucharest. In 2023, Alexandra Badea received the Académie Française Theater Prize for her entire body of dramatic work.

  • Wednesday, November 4, at 6:30 p.m.: FID • 14 Allée Léon Gambetta • 13001 Marseille
  • Thursday, November 5, at 4:00 p.m.: Conference Room 1 • Aix-Marseille University • 29 Av. Robert Schuman • 13621 Aix-en-Provence