Patrick Boucheron

Histoire des pouvoirs en Europe occidentale, XIIIe-XVIe siècle

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Madness at Home in Tokyo: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in Tokyo, 1920-1945

Akihito Suzuki

Université de Tokyo

Résumé

The family of a mentally ill patient was one of the most important agents in the general picture of insanity in society. Family members such as husband, wife, father, mother, and children played crucial roles in bringing the insane member to medical or religious practitioners. In Europe during the early modern period, family members in countries such as France, England, Germany and the Netherlands collaborated with medical or religious professionals or practitioners to care for, control, or even fabricate mentally ill patients. In such situations of domestic process, whether the problem was a real mental illness did not always matter: the domestic circumstances or social trouble were often major issues.

Grand événement - Musique ! La Philharmonie au Collège de France

Cycle de rencontres en partenariat avec la Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Quels concerts symphoniques pour demain ?

Entretien avec Esa-Pekka Salonen, chef d'orchestre et compositeur, suivi d'un court concert proposé par des musiciens de l'Orchestre de Paris. Modérateur : Christian Thompson, directeur de l'Orchestre de Paris.

Résumé

Esa-Pekka Salonen est aujourd'hui l'un des chefs d'orchestre les plus estimés au monde. Il sera, à compter de septembre 2027, chef principal de l'Orchestre de Paris et titulaire de la chaire Création et innovation de la Philharmonie de Paris, s'inscrivant ainsi dans la vision de Pierre Boulez, fondateur de l'institution avec lequel il entretenait un lien privilégié : celle de l'artiste dans la cité interrogeant notre monde, dialoguant avec des créateurs venus d'autres disciplines et horizons, favorisant la rencontre et l'ouverture.

C'est dans cette perspective qu'il partagera avec Christian Thompson ses réflexions sur les formes et formats de concert et leurs évolutions à venir.

L'échange sera suivi d'un concert proposé par les musiciens de l'Orchestre de Paris Joseph André (violon), Flore-Anne Brosseau (alto), Paul-Marie Kuzma (violoncelle) et Ulysse Vigreux (contrebasse), membres du Page Blanche Quartet.

François Recanati

Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Conférence - Gergely Csibra : Non-Verbal Generics

Gergely Csibra

Central European University, Vienne

Résumé :

Humans learn most of their knowledge from each other, and much of this learning relies on communication. While language is the primary medium of human communication, it is not the only one, and, importantly, it is of limited use for infants and young children. We have been investigating how human communication is adapted to the need of transmitting knowledge to others, especially across generations, from adults to young children. In linguistic communication, special types of assertions, namely generic expressions, can directly convey knowledge about classes of entities. We propose that non-verbal communication, especially communication via and about objects, can also express generic knowledge. In a series of studies, we have found that young children quickly learn properties of objects demonstrated to them in an ostensive-communicative manner. We have also observed that knowledge acquired this way is more rigid than knowledge accumulated from individual experience. Non-verbal expressions can transfer knowledge and elicit the same kind of confirmation bias that is characteristic of knowledge acquired through linguistic communication.