The “Paris IAS Ideas” online talk series features short and stimulating presentations by fellows of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study. The talks mark the beginning of 1-month writing residencies in which fellows will write a paper with the “definitive” version of an idea of concept they have been working on for years.

Short, 20-minute presentations will be followed by interdisciplinary discussions with researchers across social sciences and humanities. Everyone is welcome to attend and contribute to the debates that will inform the fellows’ work at the Paris IAS.

Practical Information

All talks will take place in English and online on Zoom.
Please check the program below for speakers and times.
Registration needed in order to receive the connection link.

Program

Friday September 08, 2023

• Juan Pablo Caicedo (Universidad Javeriana, Colombia – Bogota City Administration) – Reimagining Urban Transportation: Green Corridors as Catalysts for Materializing a 15-mintute City in Bogotá
  
  

Friday October 06, 2023

• 2pm CET : Paul Rozin (University of Pennsylvania) – Food worlds of French and American
• 3pm CET : Virginia Valian (Hunter College - CUNY) – Are executive functions immutable?
• 4pm CET : Tamar Flash (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel) – Connections between our modeling work on space-time geometries and the brain
  
  

Friday November 10, 2023

• 2pm CET: Jim Hollan (UCSD) – Network-of-Networks Collaboratory to Address the Grand Challenge of the Future of Information Work at the Human-Technology Frontier
• 3pm CET: Angelo Torre (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy) – Commons as local institutions
• 4pm CET: Zhiyuan Cui (Tsinghua University) – Interrogating Modernity: Hans Blumenberg and Roberto Unger Compared
  
  

Friday December 08, 2023

• 2pm CET - Jonathan Glasser (William & Mary University) – Patrimony as Inalienability
• 2.40pm CET - Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle (Sao Paulo University) – Nature can only exist where it is destroyed: Politically constructing freedom as heteronomy without servitude

Friday January 05, 2024

• 2pm CET - Andrea Pinotti (Università Statale di Milano) – Cyber-Theo. Reflections on the Theological roots of Contemporary digital Technologies
• 2.30pm CET - Uichol Kim (Inha University) – Understanding the software of the mind, co-creativity, and cultural transformations: With a specific focus on the secrets to happiness, success, and sustainable communities
• 3pm CET - John Krumm (University of Southern California) – Personal data privacy
• 3.30pm CET - Margo Boenig-Lipstin (ETH Zürich) – Science, society and the human: Emergence of a constitutional model of the human in 1980s STS
  
  

Friday February 02, 2024

• 2pm CET - Jean Decety (University of Chicago) – Exploring the dark side of morality
• 2.40pm CET - Philippe Rochat (Emory University) – Out of Mind: the psychology of trance and transcendence
• 3.20pm CET - Robert Darnton (Harvard University) - Grub Street revisited
  

Friday March 08,  2024

• 2pm CET - Helga Nowotny (ETH Zurich – ERC) – The Illusion of Control
• 2.40pm CET - Sergejus Muravjovas (Transparency International Lithuania) – A novel anti-corruption approach to reduce bribery in healthcare
• 3.20pm CET - Alberto Fergusson (Universidad del Rosario) – Applications of Accompanied Autoanalysis (Selfrehabilitation) (AA) in novel scenarios

Friday April 05, 2024

• Barry Rogers (London School of Economics) – Shaping the energy transition: exploring the behavioral underbelly of transformational deal-making in a global energy firm
• Itzhak Fried (UCLA) – The Brain that Pull the Triggers: New Insights into Syndrome E
• Björn Wittrock (Academia Europeae, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study) – Nature of Key Transformative Processes in the Contemporary Era

Friday May 03, 2024

• Ed Hutchins (UCSD) – Generative AI meets distributed cognition and cognitive ethnography
• Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli (King’s College London) – Legislating on climate change: Insights from citizens’ assemblies
• Leor Zmigrod (University of Cambridge) – The Science of Ideological Consciousness: Building an Empirically-Informed Political Philosophy of Mind
  

Friday June 07, 2024

• Alena Ledeneva (University College London) – Informality: 50 years on
• Raluca Grosescu (National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) – Corporate Accountability for Gross Human Rights Violations: A Fragmented Cause
• Robert Desjarlais (Sarah Lawrence College, New York) – A critical phenomenology of “experience”
• Patrick Haggard (University College London) – An intellectual history of the “Libet experiment”
• Enrique Fatas (Universidad Europea, Spain) – The intersectional discrimination dual index
  
• Lina Restrepo-Plaza (Universidad Europea, Spain) – Decomposing discrimination towards ex-combatants and victims of conflicts