At 8.30 pm each monday in Talloires in May, June, July, August and September, the organization" Les Amis du Prieuré de Talloires" organizes conferences.
Welcomed by the European Centre of Tufts University,the association was created in 1980 to:
       - maintain and develop at the Priory its vocation of cultural center organising conferences .
      - create friendship links between American students, their teachers and the inhabitants of the Annecy region.
      - make easier the exchanges of students between Boston and the Priory of Talloires.

The annual cost is 23€ (35€ pour a couple).It gives a discount on the conference fees.
Entry for non members: 8€ (15€ for 2 pers)
Entry for members: 5€
Free for students.

Find the program for 2011 in the tourist offices at the first of the spring and on their website blog.


May

May 09th at Talloires Priory
La gestion du sommeil des navigateurs transocéaniques, quelles leçons en tirer pour vos nuits? By Bertrand DE LA GICLAIS. Conference about the functioning of the sleep.

May 16th at Talloires Priory
Les enjeux scientifiques et politiques du L.H.C au CERN de Genève by Phillipe LEBRUN. Conference about the Political and scientific stakes of the Large Hadron Collider.

May 23th at Talloires Priory
C'était Georges Pompidou ! by Alain FREREJEAN. Conference about Georges POMPIDOU.

May 30th at Talloires Priory
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, promeneur by Rémy HILDEBRAND. Conference about Jean Jacques Rousseau.

June

June 06th at Talloires Priory
Baroque des villes et baroque des montagnes by Martine VIALLET DETRAZ. Conference about baroque style.

June 20th at Talloires Priory
"Un Rastignac en jupons", Marie-Anne Detourbay, devenue Comtesse de Loynes(1837-1908) by Gérard DESANGES. Conference about Marie-Anne Detourbay.

June 27th at Talloires Priory
Le XXIème siècle sera-t-il chinois? by Jean-Michel PIVETEAU. Conference about upheavel that have changed China.

July

July 04th at Talloires Priory
Le Japon entre tradition et modernité by Annie SHIBATA. Conference about Japan.

August

August 08th at the cinema of Talloires
Monet à Martigny by Martha DEGIACOMI. Conference about Monnet paintings.

August 15th at Talloires Priory
Le prieuré de Talloires au temps des Comtes de Genève by Henri COMTE. Conference about Talloires Priory.

August 22nd at cinema of Talloires
Tamié, de Saint Pierre de Tarentaise aux martyrs de Tibhirine by Christian REGAT.
Conference about Tamié abbey.

August 29th at Talloires Priory
"Conseil supérieur de la Magistrature: un huron chez les magistrats" by Jean-Claude BECANE. Conference about High Judicial Council.

September

September 05th at Talloires Priory
Résistante, Juste des nations et grand témoin by Jeanne BROUSSE. Conference about the Resistance movement.

September 12th at Talloires Priory
Le Cardinal de Brogny by Gérard PRALLET. Conference about Le Cardinal de Brogny.