The new season of the CUM opened with a conference by the Nice-based doctor and writer Laurent Seksik. This conference is dedicated to Albert Einstein, titled “Albert Einstein, a Life“.
The CUM, created in 1933, is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year. A true center for exchanges and expression, it will host remarkable personalities this new season, such as Jean-Louis Debré, Serge Klarsfeld…
It is a place where the great minds of this world meet. The Mediterranean University Center has only one aim, to mix knowledge, conference, or even museum.
Laurent Seksik, through this conference, discusses the life of the famous Albert Einstein. He considers him more as an artist rather than a physicist.
He confides: “two lights illuminated the 20th century, Einstein and Picasso“.
He recounts the tumultuous adventures of the physicist, from Nazi Germany to his escape to the United States. He left Nazi Germany in 1932 to escape the Hitlerian dictatorship.
Laurent Seksik explains: “Albert Einstein’s head has a price on it, Führer Hitler offers a reward of 100,000 marks for his capture“.
A Jew fiercely opposed to the Nazi regime, Einstein is destined for exile. In the United States, the American government keeps an eye on him; his stances against segregation do not work in his favor. Worse, he is even targeted as a communist.
For Laurent Seksik, “Einstein revolutionized the world, a bit like Charlie Chaplin“.
In short, “they were geniuses, prominent figures, he exclaims“.
