Past events
Fellows seminar - Representation of information in the brain
By Arvind Kumar, 2022 Fellow How internal and external information is represented in the brain is one of the fundamental questions in neuroscience. Experiments have shown that neurons are sensitive...[more]
Fellows seminar - Making LinCS: a project in cultural studies
Jérôme Beauchez, 2019 Fellow This seminar will focus on the personal and collective dimensions of a project that creates links: between one researcher's investigations, but also with disciplines and...[more]
Colloquium - Perception in Language and Discourse
The University of Strasbourg (France), through its Linguistics, Languages and Speech Research Unit 1339 LiLPa, as well as Georges Kleiber's USIAS Chair of Language Sciences (University of Strasbourg...[more]
Art-science event - Capacity, crackling and collaboration
How the tiniest cracks inspire a large-scale performance Dance can be a powerful tool for science communication and has been used as such over the years, at the level of primary school to...[more]
Inaugural lecture Marc Bloch Chair - From sandy Bahariya to the gilded court of Thebes: an interdisciplinary pathway in Egyptology
By Frédéric Colin, USIAS Marc Bloch Chair 2022-2024 With an introduction by David Le Breton, USIAS Chair of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds An Egyptologist is traditionally thought of as a...[more]
Inaugural lecture Paul Ehrlich Chair - The brain on opiates: for better and for worse
By Brigitte Kieffer, USIAS Paul Ehrlich Chair 2022-2024 With an introduction by Jean-Louis Mandel, IGBMC, USIAS Chair of Human Genetics Opium, originating from Papaver Somniferum, has been used for...[more]
Fellows Seminar: Operad-like structures - from the "tree of life" and stemmata to algebra and geometry
By Vladimir Dotsenko, 2021 Fellow An operad is a 50-year-old mathematical notion (the term is a portmanteau of the words "operation" and "monad") that formalises both the idea of self-similarity of...[more]
Public lecture - Black People in White Space: Challenges to Civil Society
By Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University, USA Since the end of the American civil rights movement, many Black people have made their way...[more]
