Talks in the Bookshop: A Social Science Cultural Programme on the Margins of the University

This article looks at events featuring authors of social science publications held a bookshop in large French city. Study the organization and system author events, combined with series interviews attendees, sheds light on local cultural offering reveals ongoing transformation bookshops’ role as intermediaries. The carries out form hybrid consecration, between university general public, uses these tool to maintain its symbolic capital close relationship academic world.