Conference-demonstration in person and live and on the museum's YouTube channel

Yves Cadot, lecturer in Lecturer in Japanese Language and Civilisation, University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès, will present the conference followed by a demonstration by the two judo champions:
Jane Bridge, 8th Dan, world champion and triple European champion and Frederic Dambach 6th Dan, former international champion 

At the end of the 19^th century, Japanese society and institutions began to modernise and become structured as a nation-state based on the Western model. It was in this period, when the perspective of needing to physically defend one's life individually began to fade away, that Judo was born. Just as its name, jūdō: ‘principle of adaptation’, suggests and asserts, its founder Kanō Jigorō (1860-1938) drew on the heritage of ancient combat arts to extract the principles of action proven on the battlefield and which would from then on be used to edify people and society. We will retrace and clarify this history and its ambitions in an attempt to understood how judo invented the conception of modern budo and how it has become established, particularly in France, as an excellent educational discipline.