On Tuesday, 9 December, Stéphane Jacob-Langevin will give a lecture entitled:
‘Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sculpture’
for the Association Détour des Mondes

Tuesday, 9 December 2025 at 6:30 p.m.
Lecture by Stéphane Jacob-Langevin
Association Adèle Picot
Salle des Fondateurs (on the left in the entrance hall)
39 rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, 75006 PARIS

Price: €10 
(Free for members of the Association)

*Founded in 2009 by Martine Pinard, a graduate of the École du Louvre, the association Détours des Mondes (DDM) aims to promote greater awareness, understanding and appreciation of primitive arts (PA), as well as the cultures and societies that created them. It focuses primarily on Africa and Oceania [1]. It also covers the Americas, including Greenland and the West Indies, and Indonesia [2]. It also takes a global interest in animist societies in Europe and beyond (particularly Asia). The association does not shy away from exploring prehistory, archaeology, modern and contemporary art, at least in order to provide perspective. As the number of cultures concerned is very large, the cultural areas covered by DDM are chosen according to the interests of its members.

[1] Australia, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Polynesia, the Marshall Islands, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu.
[2] Sunda Islands (Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi), Moluccas, New Guinea, Bali, Flores.

Image : Pukumani pole at an Aboriginal burial site, Melville Island ©Getty