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PhD Defense - Jade Nijman, "Expériences de désorientations dans les espaces d’exposition contemporains"
Date/time : Wednesday, December the 17th at 2:00 PM
Place : Jaurès Room, at the École Normale Supérieure, 29 rue d’ULM (75005, Paris)
Title : "Experiences of disorientation in contemporary exhibition spaces"
Abstract :
This thesis proposes a transdisciplinary exploration of disorientation experiences in exhibition spaces, articulating museology, experience design, cognitive sciences and philosophy. In the museum context, disorientation, far from being a simple loss of reference points, is a (...) -
PhD Defense - Ying Zhong, "Évolution culturelle de la fiction ancienne et moderne en Chine: Une approche computationnelle et cognitive"
Date/time : Monday, December the 1rs at 10:00 am
Place : seminar room on the first floor of the Pavillon Jardon, at the Institute Jean Nicod
Title : "Cognitive and Computational Approaches to the Cultural Evolution of Ancient and Modern Chinese Fictions" -
PhD Defense - Eleni Palaiologou, "Morality and Experience in Architecture: an Inquiry into Applied Aesthetics and Ethics"
Date/time : Saturday, November the 29th at 2:30 PM
Place : ENS 45 rue d’Ulm salle F Archaeology
Title : "Morality and Experience in Architecture : an Inquiry into Applied Aesthetics and Ethics"
Abstract :
This thesis explores the articulation between experience and morality in architecture from an applied philosophical perspective. Against the idea, dominant in analytic philosophy, of architecture conceived as an autonomous, contemplative art, it proposes an integrated framework based on (...) -
PhD Defense - Evan Josselin, "Citizen science in practice and theory: Building on the case of Plankton Planet"
Date/time : Tuesday, December the 9th at 2:00 PM
Place : Meeting room, ground floor, Institut Jean Nicod
Title : "Citizen science in practice and theory : Building on the case of Plankton Planet"
Abstract : Citizen science is a rapidly expanding field that remains only partially integrated into the normative frameworks of traditional science. While sociology and philosophy of science have begun to examine citizen science—addressing its promises, typologies, and issues of data quality— (...) -
PhD Defense - Laudine Carbuccia, "Determinants of the socioeconomic gap in early childcare access in France: A multi-level, integrative approach"
Date/time : Tuesday, November the 4th at 2:00 PM
Place : Maison de Sciences Po, 1 place Saint Thomas d’Acquin.
Title : "Determinants of the socioeconomic gap in early childcare access in France : A multi-level, integrative approach"
Abstract : This dissertation analyzes the factors behind early childcare (e.g., crèches) access inequalities in France. It begins with a paradox : despite having a relatively available and affordable supply, France remains one of the OECD countries with the (...) -
PhD Defense - Amine Sijilmassi, "Imagined Communities in the Mind: The Cognitive Foundations of Nationalistic Culture"
Date/time : Monday, October 13th at 4:00 PM
Place : Room K.011, Sciences Po, 1 rue Saint-Thomas, Paris
Title : Imagined Communities in the Mind : The Cognitive Foundations of Nationalistic Culture
Abstract :
Why do humans so readily identify with large, abstract social groups—what Benedict Anderson famously described as “imagined communities”—such as nations ? Why does this affiliation give rise to strong feelings of identity, solidarity, and, at times, exclusion of outsiders ? And why do (...)
