10:10 to 10:50
Symposium

A historical overview of the sciences, beginning with Descartes’ mechanistic metaphor of the animal, tracing the emergence of the concept of the animal organism in the 18th century and its evolution since then, up to the concept of animal form as we understand it today

Session 1: Thinking About Animals

Thomas Lecuit
The Animal
10:10 to 10:50
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Session 1: Thinking About Animals 
    Moderator: William Marx (Collège de France)

    Speaker(s)

    Thomas Lecuit

    Professor at the Collège de France

    Events

    The Animal: A Philosophical Dialogue Between Florence Burgat and Claudine Tiercelin
    Florence Burgat & Claudine Tiercelin

    Symposium
    18:00 to 19:00

    Reading Literary Texts About Animals
    Éric Ruf

    Symposium
    19:00 to 20:00

    Animals in the Bible
    Thomas Römer

    Symposium
    09:30 to 10:10

    A historical overview of the sciences, beginning with Descartes’ mechanistic metaphor of the a…
    Thomas Lecuit

    Symposium
    10:10 to 10:50

    Primates in the 18th Century
    Silvia Sebastiani

    Symposium
    11:10 to 11:50

    Zoopoetics
    Anne Simon

    Symposium
    11:50 to 12:30

    Horse Domestication and Animal Archaeogenetics
    Ludovic Orlando

    Symposium
    14:00 to 14:40

    Zoonoses
    Frédéric Keck

    Symposium
    14:40 to 15:20

    Animals in Medical Research
    Erwan Bézard

    Symposium
    15:20 to 16:00

    Law and Animals
    Dario Mantovani

    Symposium
    16:20 to 17:00

    Biodiversity, Extinctions
    Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo

    Symposium
    17:00 to 17:40

    Sapiens in the History of Life: To Be or …
    Alain Prochiantz

    Symposium
    09:30 to 10:10

    Communication Among Primates
    Adrien Meguerditchian

    Symposium
    10:10 to 10:50

    Cognition in Bees
    Martin Giurfa

    Symposium
    11:10 to 11:50

    Collective Movements in Animal Groups: When a School of Fish Encounters AI, Virtual Reality, Robots,…
    Clément Sire

    Symposium
    11:50 to 12:30

    Animals in India
    Isabelle Ratié

    Symposium
    14:00 to 14:40

    Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greece
    Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

    Symposium
    14:40 to 15:20

    Hunting Practices and Empathy
    Charles Stépanoff

    Symposium
    15:30 to 16:10

    Animality and Humanity
    Dominique Lestel

    Symposium
    16:10 to 17:00

    See also

    Opening symposia
    The Animal