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March 22, 2013, 11.30amDiscussion with Edward NersessianPsychoanalysis, Science and Medicine |  |
Edward Nersessian was born in Tehran in 1944. After studying in England, he studied medicine at the University of Louvain in Belgium and psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He is currently Professor of Psychiatry at Weil-Cornell Medical College, member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, member of the American Psychiatric Association and the Psychoanalytic Society of Paris. He founded with Mark Solms the Neuropsychoanalysis journal and in 2003 the Philoctetes Center for the Study of Imagination. In 2011, he founded The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of which he is the director. He published on fetishism, on the psychoanalysis technique in particular the role of curiosity. At present, he is interested in the revaluation of the basic assumptions of psychoanalysis in the light of contemporary neuroscience.
Watch videoFebruary 06, 2013, 3:00 PMDiscussion with Jean StarobinskiArt and Literature, Psychoanalysis |  |
Jean Starobinski was born in Geneva in 1920. He taught French literature at the universities of Johns Hopkins, Basel and Geneva, where he also gave lectures about the history of ideas and history of medicine. His books have enriched the views of several major works. He has also worked extensively on the contemporary poetic creation, as well as on the issues of interpretation. His essays on the art of the seventeenth century have become classics. His experience as a physician and psychiatrist led him to study the history of melancholy (including Trois Fureurs, 1974). In 2010, he entrusted his archives, consisting of over 40,000 books, at the Archives of the Swiss National Library. In 2012, he published L’Encre de la Mélancolie (Paris, Seuil), Accuser et séduire (Paris, Gallimard) and Diderot, un diable de ramage (Paris, Gallimard).
February 05, 2013, 6:30 PMDiscussion with Gérard Régnier (alias Jean Clair)Art and Literature |  |
Doctor in Humanities, Gérard Régnier studied philosophy and history of art, first at the Sorbonne, then at the Harvard University (USA). In 1966, he was appointed curator of the Museums of France at the National Museum of Modern Art, then he joined the Georges Pompidou Centre from 1980 to 1989. In 1989, he was appointed chief curator of the heritage and director of the National Picasso Museum. It is also, under the name of Jean Clair, the author of monographs on Bonnard, Balthus, Cartier-Bresson, Duchamp, Giacometti, Music, Picasso, Szafran, and numerous essays and literary works. He is a regular contributor to the following journals: "Nouvelle Revue Française", "Le Débat", "Commentaire", "La Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse", "FMR", etc.
January 31, 2013, 6:30 PMDiscussion with Pascal DusapinArt and Literature |  |
Born in 1955 in Nancy (France), Pascal Dusapin studied Plastic Arts and Sciences, Arts and Aesthetic at the Paris-Sorbonne University. He followed the seminars given by Iannis Xenakis between 1974 and 1978, and was scholar at the Villa Medici in Roma (1981-1983). He has been conferred many honors since the beginning of his career, among them: in 1994, the Symphonic Prize of the SACEM; in 1995, the French Ministry of Culture awarded him the National Great Prize of Music and then the “Victoire de la Musique” was awarded to him in 2002 as “Composer of the Year”. He was awarded the 2005 Cino del Duca prize from the French Academy des Beaux-Arts. Raised to the rank of “Commandeur des Arts & Lettres”, elected at the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste in July 2006 and nominated professor at the College de France to hold the artistic creation chair for 2006/2007. He has composed many pieces for ensemble, for orchestra and mainly for soloists and chamber music.
January 08, 2013, 11.00amDiscussion with Catherine MalabouArt and Literature, Society and Culture |  |
Catherine Malabou teaches philosophy at Kingston University in the UK. Among other works, she has published: L'Avenir de Hegel, Vrin, 1996, Le Change Heidegger, in Léo Scheer, 2004, Que faire de notre cerveau ?, 2005, Les nouveaux blessés, 2007, in Bayard. As a philosopher, her name is associated with the concept of "plasticity" to which she has devoted a number of works including L'Avenir de Hegel, Plasticité, temporalité et dialectique (Vrin) and La Plasticité au soir de l’écriture in 2005. She also organized a symposium entitled Plasticity, which was held at Le Fresnoy and which brought together Jacques Derrida, Peter Szondy, Georges Didi-Huberman, Dominique Païni and other personalities from the arts. This symposium was followed by the publication of its actions at Léo Scheer in 2000.
October 31, 2012, 2:30 PMDiscussion with Jean DaviotArt and Literature |  |
Alumni of the art school of the Villa Arson in Nice, Jean Daviot uses video, photography and painting. In 1984, he created a fictional character: the artist Walter Pinkrops. In 1994, he produced "Ombrographies" taking impressions of faces and hands in photocopy - traces that he transfers to the canvas. In the 90s and 2000, in the same spirit of seeking recordings of presences, he identifies the contours of visitors of his studio and paints them in simultaneous contrasts (series of Visitors). Since 1995, he creates digital paintings "Ecritures de lumières", where he uses a video camera as a brush.
October 30, 2012, 6:30 PMDiscussion with Carlo OssolaArt and Literature |  |
Carlo Ossola is Italian literary critic, professor of Italian literature at the University of Geneva (1976-1982), Padua (1982-1988) and Turin (1988-1999). Since 2000, he is professor of modern literature of neo-Latin Europe at the College de France in Paris. He also leads the Institute of Italian Studies (ISI) at the University of Lugano and co-directs the review Lettere Italiane, as well as the Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa published at the Olschki editions (Florence). Carlo Ossola is the author of numerous books in French and Italian. Among his recent ones: Il continente interiore, Venise, Marsilio, 2010, and the edition, introduction and commentary of Dag Hammarskjöld, Jalons, Paris, Editions du Félin, 2010.
October 29, 2012, 03:30 PMDiscussion with Carmen PerrinArt and Literature |  |
Carmen Perrin is born in La Paz, Bolivia. In 1981, she graduates from Geneva’s Superior School of Fine Arts and in 1986 starts teaching in the institution. In 1993, she is given the Bourse Landys et Gyr scholarship so she can live and occupy an art studio for one year in London. Now, she lives and works in Geneva and regularly occupies an art studio in France. Since the 1980’s, Carmen Perrin established herself as a visual artist creating sculptures. In the 1990’s she started creating works increasingly related with architectural and landscape contexts. In 2005, she decides to stop teaching to dedicate herself entirely to her artistic research. She is currently working on projects related with public spaces and pursues in her studio a research in the close articulation between sculpture and drawing practices.
October 19, 2012, 02:30 PMDiscussion with Bernard MoninotArt and Literature |  |
In the 1970s, the drawings and paintings of Bernard Moninot result from the combination of elements having different degrees of reality. His works are presented in the Biennale of Paris in 1971 and 1973, at the Museum of Modern Art in Saint-Etienne in 1974, at the Documenta of Kassel in 1977, at the Maeght Foundation in 1979 and at the ARC in 1980. From the 1980s, drawing stands out as the only medium, becoming the subject and the object of his research. His works can be seen in many public collections in France and abroad: Boymans Museum, Rotterdam; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Frac Picardie; MAC / VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine; Menil Foundation, Houston. He exhibited at the National Gallery of Jeu de Paume in Paris in 1997, at the Fruit Market Gallery in Edinburgh in 1998, at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Bombay, Delhi in 2001, at the Andata Gallery in 2003 and at the Baudoin Gallery in 2005. From 1983 to 2006, Bernard Moninot teaches at the School of Fine Arts in Bourges and Angers, then in Nantes. Since 2006, he is professor at the National Superior School of Fine Arts in Paris.
September 26, 2012, 6:30 PMDiscussion with Vittorio GalleseNeuroscience, Psychoanalysis, Science and Medicine |  |
Vittorio Gallese is Professor of Physiology at the Dept. of Neuroscience of the University of Parma, and a trained neurologist. Neuroscientist, his research interests focus on the cognitive role of the motor system and on an embodied account of social cognition. His major contribution is the discovery, together with his colleagues of Parma, of mirror neurons and the elaboration of a theoretical model of social cognition – embodied simulation theory. He worked at the University of Lausanne, at the Nihon University of Tokyo, and at the University of California at Berkeley. He received the Grawemeyer Award for Psychology in 2007, the Doctor Honoris Causa from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2010, and the Arnold Pfeffer Prize for Neuropsychoanalysis in 2010.
June 15, 2012, 9:00 AMDiscussion with Agnès ThurnauerArt and Literature |  |
Agnès Thurnauer was born in 1962. Self-educated in painting, she graduated in video film at ENSAD in Paris. She exhibited in France and abroad, at the Biennale de Lyon, Tokyo Palace, Pompidou Center, CCC in Tours or SMAK in Ghent. In 2012, she participates in several exhibitions, such as "The plasticity of language" and "The Hidden Mother" in Paris, "elles@centrepompidou" in Seattle. She prepares the publication of her "Notes d'atelier" and continues a practice of publishing books and multiples. Her work is in major public and private collections.
May 15, 2012, 07:00 PMDiscussion with Lucienne PeiryArt and Literature, Psychoanalysis |  |
Lucienne Peiry, PhD in art history, was appointed Director of Research and International Relations of the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, after heading the museum for ten years (2001-2011). She dedicated her doctoral thesis at the Art Brut and at the history of the collection made by the French painter Jean Dubuffet (the current Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne). Her study was published by Editions Flammarion (English, French, German, 1997, several editions). Author of numerous books and articles on this topic, she is at the origin of several documentary films about authors of Art Brut who took part in the exhibitions she designed and organized at the Collection de l'Art Brut and abroad (Europe, Japan, Australia). Lucienne Peiry also teaches at EPFL, at the College of Humanities.
March 28, 2012, 4:00 PMDiscussion with Jacques VinceySociety and Culture |  |
Jacques Vincey studied letters before entering the Conservatoire de Grenoble in 1979. In 1983, he played under the direction of Patrice Chéreau in Les Paravents by Jean Genet. He continued his acting career working with many stage directors such as Bernard Sobel, Robert Cantarella, Luc Bondy, André Engel and Laurent Pelly. In 1995, he founded the company Sirènes, which he is artistic director. Gloria, one of his first performances was a great success and was immediately shown in the Avignon In Festival in 2001. He then created many shows such as Le Belvédère by Ödon von Horvath (2004), Mademoiselle Julie by August Strindberg (2005), Madame de Sade by Yukio Mishima (2008), La Nuit des Rois by William Shakespeare (2009), Jours souterrains by Arne Lygre (2011), Les Bonnes by Jean Genet (2011-2012).
March 27, 2012, 6:30 PMDiscussion with Alain GrosrichardArt and Literature, Psychoanalysis, Society and Culture |  |
Alumni of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in philosophy, Alain Grosrichard taught in the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Vincennes, led by Jacques Lacan. He is now professor of French literature at the University of Geneva and president of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Society. He published numerous works on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, including Structure du sérail, la fiction du despotisme asiatique à l’âge classique (Seuil).
January 30, 2012, 12.30 PMDiscussion with René FrydmanScience and Medicine |  |
René Frydman was head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive medicine from 1990 to 2010 at the hospital Antoine Béclère, Clamart, and head of the Consortium Woman Couple Embryo Child (2006-2011). He was the initiator of medically assisted procreation treatments in France. During his career, he was responsible of the research team unit INSERM 782 (2006-2010), director of education at the Faculty of Medicine PARIS XI and head of the medical project of the Bicêtre maternity hospital. He was also a member of the National Human Rights Committee (1987-1988), a member of the National Consultative Ethics Committee for Life Sciences and Health (1986-1990), and in charge of bioethics to the Minister of Health (1992). He participated in the perinatal plan in collaboration with the Secretary of State for Health (1997-1998) and was technical advisor for the Minister of Research (2001-2002).
October 31, 2011, 7:00 PMDiscussion with Howard ShevrinPsychoanalysis |  |
Howard Shevrin is professor (emeritus-active) of psychology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Michigan. He is director of the Program of Research on Unconscious Processes and chief of the Ormond and Hazel Hunt Psychophysiology Laboratory. He is also a faculty member of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. His research has been devoted to the empirical investigation of unconscious processes in the course of which he discovered electrophysiological indicators of unconscious processes for which he received the Sigourney Prize. In addition to his clinical and research activities, he has published poetry and a novel in verse called The Dream Interpreters that seeks to portray psychoanalysis through portions of seven different psychoanalyses. Currently, he is investigating the electrophysiology of repressive inhibition.
October 31, 2011, 4:00 PMDiscussion with Henri AtlanScience and Medicine |  |
Henri Atlan is Medical Doctor and has a PhD degree in Science. He is professor emeritus of biophysics at the Universities of Paris VI and Jerusalem. He is also director of Studies at the “Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales” (EHESS) in Paris and director of the Center for Research in Human Biology and "scholar in residence" in Philosophy and Ethics of Biology, University Hospital Hadassah in Jerusalem.
October 19, 2011, 12.30 PMDiscussion with Company Tf2Neuroscience, Society and Culture |  |
François Ansermet and Pierre Magistretti welcome the creators of the show Ex Vivo / In Vitro, Jean-François Peyret and Alain Prochiantz, and actors of the Company Tf2. The theme of this show takes the question "to born or not to born" in the field of life technologies, a junction between the imagination of theater and science. Today, the positions seem irreconcilable between a religious discourse that poses the life as a gift, and the scientific and technical practice that sees the living as manipulable. This show is sponsored by the Agalma Foundation and will be shown in November at the Théâtre de la Colline in Paris.
September 10, 2011, 12:00 PMDiscussion with Eric LaurentPsychoanalysis |  |
Eric Laurent is psychoanalyst, psychologist and has a PhD degree in psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis with Jacques Lacan. He is member of the School of the Freudian Cause (ECF) and former president of the World Association of Psychoanalysis. He teaches in the clinical section of the department of psychoanalysis in Paris 8 and has published since 1974 (270 references in French) articles and book chapters translated into seven languages.
May 23, 2011, 8:00 PMDiscussion with Philippe LacadéeArt and Literature, Psychoanalysis |  |
Philippe Lacadée is psychiatrist, psychoanalyst in Bordeaux, attached to the Day Center for teenagers La Demi-Lune in Villenave d'Ornon (CHS Cadillac). He is member of the School for Freudian Cause and the World Association of Psychoanalysis, and former vice-president of CIEN (Interdisciplinary Center on the Child). He is the author of Malentendu de l'enfant (Payot Lausanne, 2003), L'Éveil et l'exil (ed. Cécile Defaut, 2007) and Robert Walser le promeneur ironique (ed. Cécile Defaut, 2010).
May 18, 2011, 7:00 PMDiscussion with Claudia Mejía QuijanoArt and Literature, Psychoanalysis |  |
Claudia Mejía Quijano has a PhD in general linguistics. She taught at the Faculty of Literature and at the School of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Geneva. She also worked as a researcher in child psychiatry at SUPEA (CHUV) in Lausanne. She is currently Associate Professor at the University of Antioquia (Colombia). Specialist of a new Saussurian theory of language - that we discovered through manuscripts the past twenty years only - she developed a Saussurian project of diachronic semiology based on two aspects. On the one hand, questioning diachronic principles by their application in various fields related to language. On the other hand, dealing with diachronic methods, especially by establishing a clinical research methodology, an analysis of discourse including the temporal aspects of speech, and a theory of practical knowledge transmission based on the notion of future in opposition to the notion of destiny. Combining these two aspects, she published in 2008 the first biography of Ferdinand de Saussure thanks to the joint consideration of Freudian and Saussurian principles.
March 01, 2011, 6:30 PMDiscussion with Jean-François PeyretArt and Literature, Society and Culture |  |
Jean-François Peyret is author and stage director. From 1982 to 1994, he created with Jean Jourdheuil a dozen of plays from nondramatic texts (from Montaigne to Lucretius), and introducing the general public to the work of Heiner Müller. He led the Théâtre Feuilleton at the National Odeon Theater (1993-1994), where he created several plays with Kafka as a material. From 1995 to 2000, in residence at MC93 Bobigny, he presented a series of plays: the trilogy of the Traité des Passions, then Un Faust-Histoire naturelle (written with Jean-Didier Vincent), and plays around Alan Turing (Turing-machine, Histoire naturelle de l'esprit - suite et fin). He then created Le Traité des formes (in collaboration with Alain Prochiantz), a reflection-dreaming about the living and the artificial, the body and the machine, a variation on the theme of the human technical destiny that served as pretext the works of Ovid and Darwin. This research continued with Le cas de Sophie K (created in Avignon in 2005 and played again at the National Theater of Chaillot in 2006), essay on the work of the Russian mathematician and writer Sophie Kovalevskaïa. His last play Tournant autour de Galilée, created in collaboration with Françoise Balibar and Alain Prochiantz, was shown at the National Theater of Strasbourg from February 28 to March 16 2008, then at the National Odeon Theater from March 27 to April 19, 2008.
February 03, 2011, 7:00 PMDiscussion with Pierre Magistretti and François AnsermetNeuroscience, Psychoanalysis |  |
Pierre Magistretti and François Ansermet present and comment on their last book Les énigmes du plaisir published in 2010, Ed. Odile Jacob. Their study starts from the choice between a pleasant and unpleasant situation. They first notice that people often choose the latter without knowing it. The neurobiologist and the psychoanalyst then explore the mechanisms of pleasure and displeasure to finally uncover the individual and collective malaise of the contemporary era. A talk-show around their book and moderated by Jean-Philippe Rapp.
January 17, 2011, 12:30 PMDiscussion with Alain ProchiantzNeuroscience |  |
Alain Prochiantz is alumni of the Ecole normale supérieure (1969) and obtains a PhD degree in Science in 1976. He is director of research at the CNRS, director of the Department of Biology at the Ecole normale supérieure until 2006, and chair of the "Morphogenetic processes" discipline of the Collège de France since 2007. Neurobiologist, he has particularly focused his work on communication and intercellular signaling and on the role of homeogenes and homeoprotein during development and in adults. He is the author of numerous scientific articles and books on the brain. He is also involved in theater productions of a scientific nature with Jean-François Peyret.
October 06, 2010, 5:30 PMThe shared enigmasNeuroscience, Psychoanalysis |  |
Pierre Magistretti and François Ansermet, in a face to face, reveal the purposes and methods of this series of interviews they will undertake at Agalma Foundation. These interviews will address common issues related to psychoanalysis and neuroscience, but more particularly it will also address social issues. Listen to them.
August 26, 2010, 03:30 PMDiscussion with Raphaëlle Aellig RégnierSociety and Culture |  |
Raphaëlle Aellig Regnier was journalist for the newspaper La Suisse, then on the TSR news for national and international reports, and presenter of the weekend editions from 1996 to 2002. From 2002 to 2005, she worked on several TV programs such as Temps Présent, Mise au Point, Autrement Dit, etc. From 2006 to 2008, she was editorial producer of the weekly cultural TV program Singulier, a 30-minute talk-show with a personality from the world of thought and culture (Ben, Pierre Assouline, Bernard Haller, Frédéric Mitterrand, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Jacques Chessex, Michel Schneider, etc.). Since 2008, she works on the reporting TV program Passe-moi les Jumelles. In addition to her journalistic activity, she directs and produces several documentaries broadcast on national and international channels: Juntos, un retour en Argentine (2001), Le Passeur (2004), Les Villageois, chronique d'un village presque comme les autres (2006), Entre les Mains (2009).
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