Past events
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]
Public lecture - Melatonin: perspectives and hopes for humans
By Professor Josephine Arendt, University of Surrey (United Kingdom) Venue: Amphithéatre A3, Institut Le Bel Melatonin is a special hormone with a time-telling function in all animal species. By...[more]
Lecture - Acoustic and Cultural Explanations for Musical Harmony and its Associated Emotions
By Andrew Milne, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University (Australia) A fundamental uncertainty about musical pitch/harmony and its cognition is the extent to...[more]
Fellows seminar - Weird architectures: dynamic and structural complexity as a resource for brain function
By Demian Battaglia, 2020 Fellow We like to think that systems implementing a function must have an architecture specially designed to perform the considered function. Somewhat as a corollary to...[more]
Open Fellows seminar - When chemistry goes chiral
Chirality is a geometric property of asymmetry. In chemistry, a molecule is called chiral if it cannot be superposed on its mirror image by any combination of rotations or translations. The word...[more]
Fellows seminar - Playing evolution, or learning to live without (really) important proteins
By Alexandre Smirnov, 2020 Fellow Everyone has now heard of RNA (ribonucleic acid). It is an essential part of gene expression in all living beings, from bacteria to humans. The existence and...[more]
Meeting - Minoritised? Stigmatised populations, issues and forms of re-recognition in France
In France, the issue of minority groups seems to be more instrumentalized than truly addressed. It struggles to find a place in both public and academic spaces. In both cases, the spectre of...[more]
Annual Symposium 2022 - Racism and antisemitism today: the old… and the new
The keynote speaker for the 2022 symposium is the sociologist Michel Wieviorka (EHESS, Paris), well known for his research on social and cultural movements, democracy and conflict, as well as on...[more]
