Past events
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]
Distinguished Lecture: Privacy in the Digital Age - an economist’s view
Programme 15:00 Opening words by Thomas Ebbesen, director of USIAS 15:10 Lecture by Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics (France)Privacy in the Digital Age - an economist’s view 16:25...[more]
Symposium - Bodily resistance. Embodying the border, facing the politics of alterity
This event brings together two of the most innovative anthropologists in the field, and marks the first collaboration between the new research unit LinCS (CNRS, University of Strasbourg) and the LAP...[more]
Public lecture - Morphogens in the ontogeny and phylogeny of cognitive functions
By Alain Prochiantz, Collège de France A mouse egg cell always develops into a mouse. This transition from a single cell to a billion-cell organism, whose shape can be predicted from the egg cell,...[more]
Fellows Seminar - Literature and mathematics in early modernity: Hamlet, Pascal, and the interrupted game
By Shankar Raman, 2022 Fellow This talk is divided into two main parts. It will begin by laying out my broader project: the often-surprising connections between mathematics and literature in 16th-...[more]
Public conference - Food challenges in all their states: insights from lawyers
One of the urgent issues that ecological transition requires us to address is to rethink our food systems. The challenges are immense, since food raises questions about our production and consumption...[more]
