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Elected to the Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge chair, Prof. Claudine Tiercelin gave her opening lecture on Thursday May 5, 2011. Over the next fourteen years, her lectures explored a renewed approach to metaphysics, articulating classical …

Abstract Photocatalysis has progressed enormously over the last decade, with numerous applications in organic synthesis, where the energy of excited states is used to induce reactions involving intermediates that would be inaccessible by thermal means. …

Abstract Abortion is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in countries where it is prohibited or severely restricted. Although abortion no longer poses health problems in France, some women still have difficulty accessing the health care system, and …

Abstract In France, as long as the procedure is performed by a doctor or midwife, the law allows all women to have an abortion within the fourteen-week time limit   -   - that's voluntary interruption of pregnancy. Recourse to abortion is particularly …

Session 1: Explaining health inequalities in economics and sociology Discussion: Cyrille Delpierre (Inserm) Résumé Socioeconomic health inequality is substantial, ubiquitous and persistent. From an economics perspective, I review what is known about its …

Session 1: Explaining health inequalities in economics and sociology Discussion: Cyrille Delpierre (Inserm) Abstract This presentation will cover some commonly used theoretical concepts and frameworks used in the sociology of health and illness, to …

Project under the direction of  : Philippe Aghion, chair Economics of Institutions, Innovation and Growth and Pierre-Michel Menger, chair Sociology of Creative Work . Abstract Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing the world today. …

Session 2: Capturing the incorporation of the social: socialization (sociology) and embodiment (social epidemiology) Discussion: Anne McMunn (University College London) Abstract Socialization can be defined as the way in which society shapes and …

Session 2: Capturing the incorporation of the social: socialization (sociology) and embodiment (social epidemiology) Discussion: Anne McMunn (University College London) Abstract Understanding how structural, social and psychosocial factors come to affect …

Session 3: Questioning the social structuring of health inequalities in anthropology and epidemiology Discussion: Pierre-Yves Geoffard (CNRS) Abstract While health research has increasingly included a role for stigma and discrimination in impacting …

Session 3: Questioning the social structuring of health inequalities in anthropology and epidemiology Discussion: Pierre-Yves Geoffard (CNRS) Abstract Enviro-Anthropo-Genesis proposes a new way to understand the simultaneous co-production of environments …

Speakers: Michel Ferrero (École Polytechnique, CPHT and Collège de France), Kris van Houcke (ENS, Laboratoire de Physique ), Olivier Parcollet (Flatiron Institute), Thomas Schäfer (Max Planck Institute, …

Abstract There is no end to the gesture of creating, and yet we have to finish. To declare that here, at this moment, is to end. What's finished  ? How do you recognize the final point  ? How do you stop in time  ? What bursts forth at the moment of …

Abstract In this talk, I will employ an ADM deparametrization strategy to discuss the radial canonical formalism for asymptotically AdS gravity in three dimensions. It leads to the identification of a radial 'time' before quantization, namely the volume …

Abstract Knowing that ending is only an illusion, how can we think of the final point  ? Nothing ends, but is abandoned. So how do we accept abandonment, how do we allow the end to emerge, and the mourning that goes with it  ? How do you submit to the …