Autumn Symposium 2011

9:00
 
 

Autumn symposium 2011 - The life of forms

Welcome by Pierre Corvol

Administrator of the Collège de France

 
 
9:15
 
 
  • Introduction by Jean-Pierre Changeux
    Collège de France
 
 
9:30
 
 
  • Form in Plato and Aristotle
    Anne Fagot-Largeault, Collège de France
 
 
10:15
 
 
  • Duality between form and specters
    Alain Connes, Collège de France
 
 
11:15
 
 
  • Geometrical forms and the universality of mathematical intuitions
    Stanislas Dehaene, Collège de France
 
 
12:00
 
 
  • Matter in all its forms
    Pierre Fayet, École normale supérieure
 
 
1:45
 
 
  • Forms in the Universe and the form of the Universe
    Jean-Claude Pecker, Collège de France
 
 
2:30
 
 
  • The first forms of life
    Jacques Reisse, Free University of Brussels
 
 
3:15
 
 
  • A paleontological history of living forms the first vertebrates as we imagine them
    Philippe Janvier, Musée national d'histoire naturelle
 
 
4:15
 
 
  • Genetics and the architecture of living things
    Denis Duboule, University of Geneva
 
 
5:00
 
 
  • Living things and the mathematization of the world
    Alain Prochiantz, Collège de France
 
 
5:45
 
 
  • Anatomical forms and physiological functions, from Claude Bernard to the present
    Claude Debru, École Normale Supérieure
 
9:00
 
 
  • The form of the brain
    Jean-François Mangin, CEA, DSV-I2BM, Centre NeuroSpin, Saclay
 
 
9h45
 
 
  • Brain Mechanisms that Integrate Features for the Perception of Visual Shape
    Pieter Roelfsema, University of Amsterdam
 
 
10:45
 
 
  • The forms of the Latin alphabet, between writing and reading
    Marc Smith, École nationale des chartes
 
 
11:30
 
 
  • Neanderthal man and the first symbolic behaviors
    Jean-Jacques Hublin, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig
 
 
12h15
 
 
  • Natural forms and symbolic classifications
    Philippe Descola, Collège de France
 
 
2:00
 
 
  • The form of constructed space, the form of thought: from the Bororo village to the village-network
    Marcel Hénaff, University of California at San Diego
 
 
2:45
 
 
  • Metamorphosis in Ancient Greece and Rome, around Ovid's Metamorphoses
    John Scheid, Collège de France
 
 
5:30
 
 
  • Forms, norms, and dogmas
    Mireille Delmas-Marty, Collège de France
 
 
4:30
 
 
  • Literary form
    Antoine Compagnon, Collège de France
 
 
5:15
 
 
  • The life of musical Forms
    François-Bernard Mâche, Académie des beaux-arts
 
 
6:00
 
 
  • Fables, Forms, Figures - a tribute to André Chastel
    Michel Hochmann, École pratique des hautes études
 
 
 
 

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The conference will be devoted to the concept of Form in a multidisciplinary context, from its definition in philosophy by Plato and Aristotle to mathematical applications, its application to the structure of the atom and the origins of life, other applications in molecular and supramolecular chemistry, and the morphogenesis of living organisms and its consequences for the development of psychology and linguistics, anthropology and the arts. The discussions represent an opportunity to re-examine the question of "intelligent design", Turing's laws, the structuralism of Lévi-Strauss, and Henri Focillon's comments, from which the title of the conference, "The Life of Forms", is derived, as well as those of our late lamented colleague André Chastel in "Fables, Forms, and Figures".
Conference financed by the Hugot Foundation of the Collège de France

 
 
 
 
Collège de France
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre
11, place Marcelin Berthelot
75005 Paris

Colloque de rentrée 2011