Seminar of the Académie vivante directed by Emmanuelle Fabre

The Académie Vivante (Living Academy), new exper­i­mental space of research co-directed by the Epigenetics and Cell Fate Unit and Bétonsalon – Center of Art and Research, pre­sents a sem­inar focusing on redesigning the con­cept of metabolism through exam­ining the emer­gence of ideas and behaviours.

Driven by the mirage of a breath of fresh air, the spon­ta­neous gen­er­a­tion, soft­ware reboots, new trends, etc., the sem­inar seeks to nav­i­gate the pen­dulum between absorp­tion and prop­a­ga­tion; phases of desire and impos­si­bility. Is free-will or cre­ativity a mere reduc­tion to how we metabolise that which sur­rounds us?

Directed by Emmanuelle Fabre (Laboratory Manager of Biology and Dynamics of Chromosomes, INSERM / CNRS), this sem­inar invites par­tic­i­pants to explore—through var­ious approaches and sci­en­tific dis­ci­plines—the phe­nomenon of the emer­gence of new thoughts, of inno­va­tive forms and behaviours and changing paradigms.

Past

Wednesday June 8, 5:50-8pm
Session 5 : " Rupture and change in the paradigm of his­tory of sciences "
Seminar closing meeting with Emmanuelle Fabre (CNRS ), Jonathan Weitzman ( Labex Who Am I? ) and Melanie Mermod
Location: Centre Georges Pompidou
Meeting place: in main Hall, after the secu­rity gates

The con­cept of cycles of civ­i­liza­tion (periods of glory, break, decay, etc.) par­tially exist still today in many dis­ci­plines, from geog­raphy to art his­tory, through eco­nomics, biology, etc.
Thinking of the his­tory of sciences as a suc­ces­sion of thought paradigms inter­spersed by moments of rup­ture, shaped by a trep­i­da­tion for con­sid­ering knowl­edge as an evo­lu­tion that tends towards pro­cess.

Session 5 : " Rupture and change in the paradigm of history of sciences "

Wednesday May 25, 6-8pm
Session 4 : " The emer­gence of behavior at the chro­mo­some level ", meeting around the research work of Emmanuelle Fabre (CNRS)
Location: INSERM IUH Saint-Louis
Bâtiment Jean Bernard, second level
Hôpital Saint-Louis
1 avenue Claude Vellefaux
75010 Paris

What new tools or heuristic approaches can be used to demon­strate the cur­rent hypotheses of the Biology and Dynamics of Chromosomes Unit? Ten years ago, Emmanuelle Fabre founded a research pro­ject with physi­cist Christopher Zimmer that was inter­ested in astro­nom­ical research. This exper­i­mental col­lab­o­ra­tion has applied var­ious methods for ana­lyzing the posi­tions of the stars with the arms of chro­mo­somes.

Emmanuelle Fabre offers par­tic­i­pants to expe­ri­ence a col­lec­tive reflec­tion that goes beyond her own research on the polar­iza­tion of chro­mo­somes. The researcher seeks, alongside the ideas and con­tri­bu­tions of the par­tic­i­pants (con­crete and abstract), to explore the pos­si­bility for new research pro­jects. While con­cep­tual block­ages and mate­rials are often feared, they offer inves­ti­ga­tions spaces that gen­erate new per­spec­tives and approaches.

Emmanuelle Fabre is a researcher at the CNRS. Director of research, Fabre leads the Biology and Dynamics of Chromosomes Unit at l’Université Paris Diderot. Her research focuses on fun­da­mental ques­tions of cel­lular orga­ni­za­tion, espe­cially that of the nuclei. Fabre’s cur­rent research inter­ests include the dynamics of chro­mo­somes when they suffer damage, such as double-strand breaks in DNA.

Wednesday May 11, 6pm-8pm
Session 3: "Relationship between science, art, inno­va­tion and cooking"
Speaker: Christophe Lavelle (CNRS / Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle / ISCC, Paris)
Location : Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research, Paris

At the begin­ning of the 1970s, Gault and Millau tried to breath a breath of fresh air into French cuisine by encour­aging chefs to opt for a new way of cooking, with new prin­ci­ples (light sauces, shorter cooking, and high­lighting inven­tive­ness). Twenty years later, the wave of Molecular Gastronomy is sweeping the kitchen, with the use of new ingre­di­ents (mostly hydro­col­loids from the food industry) and new tech­niques (whip­ping siphons, liquid nitrogen, sous-vide). Today, the evo­lu­tion con­tinues with food-pairing and « note-à-note » cuisine, alongside a series with new con­straints (envi­ron­mental, eth­ical) that are becoming sig­nif­i­cantly pressing issues.

Working at the National Museum of Natural History and the Institute of Communication Sciences in Paris, Christophe Lavelle is inter­ested in all facets of food (phys­ical, chem­ical, bio­log­ical, anthro­po­log­ical, tech­nical, artistic). He teaches in sev­eral higher edu­ca­tion insti­tu­tions (Universities Paris VI, Paris VII, Cergy-Pontoise, Aix-Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Toulouse, SupBioTech Paris, Le Cordon Bleu) and reg­u­larly lec­tures to the public and food pro­fes­sionals in France and abroad.

Session 3 of the Académie vivante : "Relationship between science, art, innovation and cooking" with Christophe Lavelle, May 11, 2016. Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris

Wednesday May 4, 6pm-8pm
Session 2: "Psychoanalysis and the Emergence of Autonomous Thought"
Speaker: Jérémie Sinzelle, psy­chi­a­trist and psy­cho­an­a­lyst based in Paris
Location: Bibliothèque Inter-Universitaire de Médecine (BIUM)

For the second ses­sion, Emmanuelle Fabre dis­cussed with Jérémie Sinzelle (psy­chi­a­trist and psy­cho­an­a­lyst) ques­tions con­cerning the emer­gence of ideas through the prism of psy­cho­anal­ysis. How do new ideas emerge? What are the con­di­tions that facil­i­tate this emer­gence of ideas in the con­text of psy­cho­anal­ysis? How does psy­chi­atry and psy­cho­anal­ysis work on these ques­tions regarding artistic and sci­en­tific cre­ation?

Doctor by trade, Jérémie Sinzelle is a psy­chi­a­trist-psy­cho­an­a­lyst prac­ticing pri­vately in Paris and working at a con­sul­ta­tion centre for chil­dren. In the aca­demic field, Sinzelle has pre­vi­ously focused on the his­tory of schizophrenia. His cur­rent research explores the issues con­cerning the appear­ance of con­cepts in psy­chi­atric seman­tics and dis­courses that estab­lish new med­ical patholo­gies.

Session 2 of the Académie vivante : "Psychoanalysis and the Emergence of Autonomous Thought", May 4, 2016, with Jérémie Sinzelle, May 4, 2016. Bibliothèque Inter-Universitaire de Médecine (BIUM), Paris

Wednesday April 6, 6-8pm, Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research, Paris
Session 1: « The pol­li­na­tion of ideas: Contained Measures of Shifting States by Otobong Nkanga » directed by Emmanuelle Fabre (Inserm, CNRS)

In the frame­work of the Académie vivante work­shop, the first course of the sem­inar begun with an encounter with the art­work of Otobong Nkanga, Contained Measures of Shifting States, pre­sented at the Centre Pompidou from 11 April to 13 June 2016, to inves­ti­gate the mech­a­nisms of the emer­gence of dis­courses and their capacity for spec­u­la­tion.

Session 1 of the Académie vivante: « The pollination of ideas: Contained Measures of Shifting States by Otobong Nkanga » directed by Emmanuelle Fabre, with Otobong Nkanga, 6 April, 2016, Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research, Paris