November 2024
Seminars
Seminar from November 4 to 9
The body and care, renewing approaches
Jean-Christophe Mino, Martin Dumont
The objective of this seminar is to better understand what care does to the body and how the subject of the body perceives this care, which can do him good but also sometimes harm. We will endeavor to examine recent changes in the relationship with the body, again through the prism of the relationship of care. If there are bodies, it is also good because they have been taken care of; if we are alive, it is because people took care of us, particularly as a newborn (D. Winnicott), but also throughout life and until our end of life.
Thus the hypothesis that will guide us will be that the relationship or rather the relationships between bodies are absolutely constitutive of care but as such just as obscured – and this not in a contingent way, which it would be easy to remedy, but also to set the body aside so as to allow for treatment as well. We will therefore endeavor to put the body at the center again, this constituent element of care, as knowledge and as practice, to better understand care in an interdisciplinary approach.
Seminar from November 18 to 23
Casual Inference in Genetics: latest developments and new directions
Iuliana Laza, Hugues Aschard
Identifying causal and biologically meaningful relationships between genes and outcomes of interest is a fundamental problem in genetics. In order to establish causality, the central step is to eliminate potential confounding effects. Although there are existing methods to mitigate the effects of confounding factors, major challenges remain in identifying truly causal genetic associations.
There is also a clear need to infer more interpretable causal mediation models that may lead to a better understanding of the biological processes that mediate the association between genes and outcomes of interest. The proposed seminar aims to discuss current challenges in the field and possible solutions [learn more].
Residency Prize for Photography
Paul Lemaire
The mist of fairies, a Provence of the Far East
In Provence, he went in search of elements to reconstruct a family story at the time of migrations from the Far East during the colonial period between 1870-1950. [Learn more]
Author’s Residency Prize
Gaëlle Obiegly
is working on a novel project in which the narrator invites you to browse an exhibition whose works are only made visible by the description he gives of them. [Learn more]