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• 28 avr 2015

  29 avr 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Psyche

  The Brains that pull the Triggers

  Paris Conference on Syndrome E

  The transformation of groups of previously nonviolent individuals into repetitive killers of defenseless members of society has been a recurring phenomenon throughout history. This apparent transition of large numbers of so called “psychologically intact”, “ordinary” individuals, to perpetrators of extreme atrocities is one of the most striking variants of human behavior, but often appear incomprehensible to victims and bystanders and in retrospect even to the perpetrators themselves and to society in general. This transition is characterized by a set of symptoms and signs for which a common syndrome has been proposed, Syndrome E (Fried, Lancet, 1997). The purpose of such designation is not to medicalize this form of human behavior, but to provide a framework for future discussion and multidisciplinary discourse and for potential insights that might lead to early detection and prevention. The Brains that Pull the Triggers, a special conference under the auspices of the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, will bring together scientists and scholars from the human, social and brain sciences along with guests from literature, politics, and law to bear upon this tragic invariant of the human condition.

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• 14 mar 2014

  Lille

  Study days - Political studies

  The methodological contribution of international relations to political science

  Ce projet a pour but d’apporter un éclairage sur certaines des méthodes de raisonnement et des techniques d’enquête peu employées en France, et qui sont susceptibles d’intéresser tout chercheur. Axe 1 : analyse contrefactuelle ; axe 2 : analyse du discours ; axe 3 : process-tracing.

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