Doctoral seminars
Polytechnic doctoral seminars offered by LARSH.
List of doctoral seminars
This doctoral seminar, which will take place over 4 sessions, proposes to collectively question the place and role of the hospital (and other places of care) in our societies, both current and older.
An experience that is at once social, physical, psychological and ontological, hospitalization gives rise to an individual vertigo that places the patient in a situation of more or less intense vulnerability. This vertigo, as we shall see, has inspired poets, novelists, playwrights and directors, who have drawn on the uncertain diagnosis and vague prognosis, announced or only suggested between walls that are too white, to provide a creative force that we shall analyze.
Hospital architecture (and yet not very hospital-like at times) literally contains a disciplinary system (notoriously theorized by Michel Foucault) in which the patient can feel reduced to the status of a clinical case (a case that occupies a bed that doesn't belong to him), reduced to his illness noted and annotated in the permanent register of files that circulate from department to department.
Finally, this institutional functioning will be considered in its political and biopolitical, social and historical dimensions.
Program:
Session 1: Singing and poetizing the hospital - February 05, 2026
Session 2: Hospitals and places of care on screen - March 12, 2026
Session 3: Places of the sick body: the convent, the room, the bed - april 30, 2026
Session 4: Sociologies and politics of places of care - June 09, 2026
The aim of this seminar is to provide an introduction to legal epistemology and to discuss together controversies about the role attributed to legal concepts, in three countries (Japan, UK, France). PhD students will thus gain an insight into these debates, past and present, which we will be able to confront with their own interrogations.
Session 4: Law and economics
This third edition of the Inquiétudes seminar proposes to address two closely related but distinct themes: speaking for others and the risk inherent in creation.
On the one hand, we'll question the ethical issues involved in speaking for others. How is it that speaking for others, an act often motivated by intentions of solidarity, can lead to unintentional betrayals or distortions? This crucial question concerns political and literary figures as much as researchers in the human sciences. Can we really avoid imposing our own interpretations or prejudices in the act of representing the other? By examining case studies drawn from social, political, and artistic discourses, this seminar will aim to clarify the tensions between responsibility and authority in delegated speech.
On the other hand, the seminar will explore the relationship between risk and creation. While creation, whether artistic or intellectual, opens the way to unprecedented forms of expression, it also entails multiple risks: that of failure, misunderstanding, even exclusion. By focusing on what it means to create under risk, we'll try to understand how danger or uncertainty can become creative drivers. Can we consider risk to be a necessary condition for any artistic or conceptual innovation? How, in the history of ideas and the arts, have creators negotiated this risk-taking?
Inquiétudes III is intended as a place for cross-reflection, where the question of the representation of voices and that of creative risk meet and dialogue, while retaining their singularity.
This seminar will be led by speakers who will transmit documents in advance around which a discussion will be organized, which they will introduce and lead thanks to their expertise but which also aims to resonate with each other's knowledge on the issues raised.
How is meaning constructed, how is it driven, how far can it lead? Today's world, and the speed that characterizes it, never ceases to produce signs, discourses and images that both enrich and saturate consciousness and memory. On the other hand, if we keep to a narrow definition (a field of knowledge based on aesthetic and rhetorical knowledge, and on an ethical experience of the epistemologies that run through and constitute a culture), aren't the Humanities the locus of a hermeneutic and critical art that simultaneously deploys its thought and the key to its mode of entry into interpretation from the long path that has been its own - to such an extent that, for these same Humanities, meaning emerges through the history of its interpretation? But this history was not always linear, nor absolutely logical. Memory is altered: it is always constituted in the synthesis of recollection and its re-elaboration, or even in its oblivion. Interpreting, creating and judging are always a matter of selecting signs to give them the prevailing value. It's making objects emerge from an accidental heap that come events for the subject.
This year, from literature to psychoanalysis, we'll be reflecting on the inseparable and plural links that unite creation and interpretation with memory, seeking to question how the arts, literature and the study of the psyche seek to "describe men, this even if it makes them look like monstrous beings. as occupying a considerable place, next to the one so restricted to them in space, a place on the contrary extended without measure since they touch simultaneously, like giants plunged in years to epochs, lived by them so distant, between which so many days have come to be placed - in Time. "
Program
Carine Barbafieri & Vincent Vivès, UPHF: "Enjeux, pistes et perspectives"
Wednesday November 13, 2-6pm
Anne Régent Susini, Professor of French Literature, Sorbonne nouvelle
Mickael Bouffard, Docteur, Historien de l'art et metteur en scène
"Faire mémoire dans l'éloquence religieuse du 17ème siècle"
Wednesday November 27, 2024 from 2 to 6 pm
Valerio Cordiner, Associate Professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
"Short life, long duration. The determinisms of memory in the work of P. Bergounioux. "Wednesday December 11, 2024 from 2 to 6 pm
Catherine Chabert, Professor Emeritus (Université Paris Cité) and psychoanalyst
"The future of memories"
This cycle of seminars (5 sessions) focuses on the creative process and issues of representation in artistic and literary works and experiences in so-called performative practices, and on the issues and perspectives of the digital in the human sciences. The interventions aim to reflect on the reading and reception of works by the public-reader, spectator or listener (performance venues, art centers, urban spaces, places of memory), to virtual spaces.
The seminars at the crossroads of aesthetics and poietics, an "anthropology of creating" and the creative conducts of contemporary literary, artistic and scenic works will focus on the issues of the Body, the figure and representation. The aim is to examine, in literary and artistic works, the modalities of mediation, figuration and the embodiment of the living - or its avatars - while paying close attention to issues of memory, the body and the voice (rhythm, orality, sound, breath, spaces, materials and sound forms). These approaches will focus on the scaffolding of the living and question protocols of writing, crossbreeding/hybridization, simulacra or transgression of the living in contemporary scenic and artistic experiences.
.Seminar cycle 2024
Seminar cycle 2023
The Territoire(s) et genre project aims to federate the skills and networks of some twenty Larsh researchers, around the gendered approach and the questions about territories it raises, mobilizing a variety of perspectives (history, geography, literature, law, art, sociology, architecture, etc.
).It includes the organization of several seminars, study days and a colloquium, on themes that will systematically bring together Larsh teacher-researchers and doctoral students, but also specialists in these issues from other French and foreign institutions, so as to give it a national and international reach. In particular, the focus will be on multidisciplinary, multiscalar and diachronic approaches to questions of identity, mobility, power and territorial resources, so as to better identify the role of the gendered dimension of societies in the relationship to territory, whether in terms of thinking about it, planning it, living in it, using it or circulating in it.
.The seminars organized as part of the project will aim to bring together LARSH researchers of all status, as well as specialists from other French and foreign institutions, around a predefined theme and discuss the presentation by three of them of their work.
Program
https://www.uphf.fr/larsh/actualites/cycle-seminaires-territoires-genre-2023/2024
The LARSH joins forces with the LAMIH and the IEMN to offer a doctoral seminar on contemporary ethical issues.
A seminar aimed at a broad spectrum of students
Stemming from the preparatory work for the Ateliers Poly&thique inaugurated in 2021 ("Ethics, a new value in the post-modern world?") at UPHF, the present seminar, open to PhD students from the applied sciences, social sciences and humanities, proposes a multidisciplinary reflection that takes as its common thread the question of the place of ethics in today's society, with as its counterpoint the questioning of the practice of ethics in academic research.
Ethics in all its forms
Why is there such a surge in demand for ethics? Why do we need ethics so badly? What is it a symptom of? What does it conceal? How has it shaped and reconfigured our societies over the last fifty years, and particularly since the beginning of the 21st century? In what sense is it becoming one of the new values of today's world, if not one of its new narratives? How can it be taught? How can we live up to it? These are the questions that will circumscribe the reflections presented by specialists in the various spheres to which ethics attaches itself and in which it engages an overhanging, critical gaze.
Modalities
Doctoral students will be able to register, depending on their interests, for the entire cycle or for certain conferences, each of which will lead to the awarding of credits as part of the doctoral training.