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Abstract The second conference will focus on the evolution of the human diet. What have we evolved to eat and not eat, and why have humans become the most omnivorous species on the planet ? What role did food processing play in the evolution of the human …

Chairman : Patrick Boucheron Abstract French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911) is famous for having invented the metric intelligence scale, ancestor of the IQ, between 1904 and 1911. This paper will review the prior conceptual transformations that …

Chair: Xavier Leroy Abstract  It is often assumed that as AI makes regular progress in solving more and more problems in various areas, it approaches, asymptotically, the ultimate goal of artificial general intelligence (AGI). If AGI is understood as …

Chair : Patrick Boucheron Abstract Over the course of the XIX th century, the concept of intelligence took on an increasingly important role in European anthropological and philosophical thought, establishing itself against competitors such as the mind …

Chair: Patrick Boucheron Abstract This article traces an artificial history of natural intelligence, arguing that, since the emergence of modern thought during the scientific revolution in Europe, the mind and its capacities have been apprehended as …

Chair: Patrick Boucheron Abstract Averroës was cursed in European history for his conception of a human intellect radically separate from bodies, eternal and unique for the entire species. It was seen as the ruin of personal thought, the end of the …

Chair: Patrick Boucheron Abstract Most works dealing with intelligence, whatever their author's profile, make a detour via the Greeks, albeit a brief one. The place of Greek philosophers—those "professionals of intelligence"—in European cultural baggage …

Chair: Stéphane Mallat Abstract The excellence of a surgeon, or more generally of an interventional physician, is not simply a matter of intellectual ability to make the right diagnosis or choose the right therapeutic strategy; it also rests on the …

Chair: Nalini Anantharaman Abstract Artificial intelligence neural networks are trained to estimate answers to questions using statistical computation. The accuracy of these answers, despite the explosion of the set of possibilities, shows that they …

Abstract The first conference will review the conditions of emergence of the notion of food sovereignty. Championed by the transnational peasant movement La Via Campesina in the early 1990s, the idea of food sovereignty was put forward as an alternative …

Chair: Stéphane Mallat Abstract AI has already had multiple impacts on mathematics, from working collaboratively with human mathematicians by suggesting conjectures or performing smarter searches, to producing entire proofs unaided. I'll discuss the …

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Abstract The second conference will look at how the Common Agricultural Policy, inaugurated in Europe in the late 1950s, embodied a productivist model from the outset, focusing on increasing yields in order to guarantee food security for the European …

Abstract The conference will explore the persistent debates around foreign aid, revealing how various tools such as structural adjustment programs, discussions of aid effectiveness, macroeconomic conditionality and rating agency perceptions of risk all …

Abstract The god Loki has become famous in recent years through media of which the Norse could never have dreamed, but in his late Iron Age form he is central to their understanding of the irrational. Shifting sex, gender, and even species, he pairs with …

Abstract Post-colonial mentalities and narratives, strongly influenced by ideas such as the need to decolonize minds, reveal a deep imprint of the colonial legacy in the collective imagination. An analysis of the historical reasons behind the persistent …

Abstract The third conference will address the mobilization for a " common food policy " between 2016 and 2019, up to the presentation of a report under this title by IPES-Food, the international panel of experts on sustainable food systems, a few months …

Abstract The fourth conference finally will address the responses that have been given to this campaign for a " common food policy " of the European Union. In July 2019, the President of the European Commission announced a " green pact for Europe " as a …

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Abstract The first lecture will examine the state of health today compared to the past, introduce the fundamental concepts of the field of evolutionary medicine, and provide some examples of how evolutionary medicine can help improve people's …