Meetings and events

December 7th 2016, à l’Auditorium de l’ICM, La Salpêtrière,
83 Boulevard de L’Hôpital, ou 52 Boulevard Vincent Auriol,
75013 Paris.

In collaboration with the FENS history Committee (Lorenzo Lorusso, Jean-Gaël Barbara), l’ICM (Yves Agid), Société Française de Neurologie, Club des Mouvements Anormaux (CMA) and the Club d’histoire des neurosciences of the French Société des Neurosciences. Organization : Yves Agid, Jean-Gaël Barbara, Laura Bossi, Jacques Poirier, Olivier Walusinski. With Michel Gonce (Liège) : La maladie de Parkinson avant James Parkinson ; Andrew Lees (Londres) : Bicentenaire de l'essai de James Parkinson sur la paralysie agitante ; Laura Bossi (Paris): Les « Lettres à une amie » de Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835): la première description détaillée de la maladie de Parkinson par un patient ; Olivier Walusinski (Brou) : Jean-Martin Charcot et la pédagogie de la maladie de Parkinson ; Julien Bogousslavsky (Montreux) & Laurent Tatu (Besançon) : Histoire de l’anatomie des noyaux centraux ; Charles Duyckaerts, Danielle Seilhean & Susana Boluda (Paris) : Brissaud, Lewy, Tretiakoff, et l'organe électrique du poisson torpille ; Jean-Gaël Barbara (Paris) : La maladie de Parkinson comme « maladie du neurone » ; Emmanuel Broussolle (Lyon) : Histoire de la nosographie de la maladie de Parkinson ; Jacques Glowinski (Paris) : Les premiers pas de l'histoire de la dopamine ; Marwan Hariz (Londres) : Histoire de la neurochirurgie de la maladie de Parkinson ; François Boller (Washington) & Nicoletta Caputi (L'Aquila) : Histoire de la neuropsychologie de la maladie de Parkinson.

Besançon, France, June 19-23, 2017

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Local Committee: Laurent Tatu (Besançon), Julien Bogousslavsky (Montreux), François Boller (Montreux), Jean-Gaël Barbara (Paris), Claudio Bassetti (Berne), Emmanuel Broussolle (Lyon), Thierry Moulin (Besançon), François Ochsner (La Chaux-de-Fonds), Odile Roynette (Besançon)

Bordeaux May 17-19 2017

Palais des Congrès de Bordeaux, avenue Jean Gabriel Domergue.

Special Symposium SP03, May 19th 2017, 1 :15 pm - 2h45 pm, Room 2: History of the Neurosciences, organised by CHN. F. Clarac, History of knowledges concerning the brain and its diseases before brain imaging from the 17th C. to the 20th C.; Laura Bossi, Jules Soury, historian of the neurosciences; J.-C. Dupont, History of integration and neurotransmission ; J.G. Barbara, History of French neurosciences from the end of the 19th C. to the 1960s.

Toulouse, March 28-31 2017

History session, Histoire de la neurologie, Wednesday March 19th, organised in collaboration with the Association des assistants et internes en neurologie de France and the Club d’histoire des neurosciences. Emmanuel Broussolle (Lyon), L'approche des fonctions du cervelet de 1820 à 1920 : de l'expérimentation (Flourens-Luciani) à la clinique (Babinski-Holmes) ; Alain Créange (Créteil), L'évolution de la conception de la polyradiculonévrite de Guillain-Barré ; Jacques Poirier (Paris), Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke (1859-1927), une neurologue et une femme d'exception

Friday February 10th 2017, 9 am - 6 pm
Amphitheatre Charcot, Pitié Salpêtrière
50, boulevard Vincent Auriol, Paris 13e

M. Fardeau, Biographies croisées de Jules et d’Augusta Dejerine ; J. Mikol, L’éviction d’Augusta de la Salpêtrière et la création de la Fondation Dejerine ; B. Brais, La dynastie Vulpian face à l’école Charcot ; C. Goetz, J.M. Charcot et l’ouverture de la Faculté de Médecine aux femmes médecins ; B. Lechevalier, La « querelle » de l’aphasie ; L. Cohen, De l’anatomie des Dejerine aux données actuelles de l’imagerie cérébrale (le cas Courrière) ; M. Iwata, Des données de Dejerine sur l’alexie à leur application à la langue japonaise ; J.-M. Vallat, Jules Dejerine et la pathologie nerveuse périphérique ; E. Broussolle, Jules Dejerine, André Thomas : la sémiologie et la pathologie du cervelet ; J. Poirier, Jules Dejerine, historien de la Médecine ; Ph. Mazet, Dejerine et les psychonévroses ; O. Walusinski, Les Dejerine pendant la Guerre de 14-18 ; L. Bossi, L’œuvre des Dejerine dans leur contexte historique ; Y. Agid, Conclusion.

December 8th 2016, ICM amphitheatre, Paris.

Collaboration between the History Committee of FENS (Lorenzo Lorusso, Jean-Gaël Barbara) and ICM (Yves Agid), organised by ICM, FENS, Club d’histoire des neurosciences, Laboratoire Sphere (Yves Agid, Laura Bossi, Jacques Poirier, Jean-Gaël Barbara). Mnémosyne, la mère des muses, Laura Bossi, Paris ; La mémoire à la Salpêtrière, Bruno Dubois, Paris ; La mosaïque des mémoires animales, Georges Chapouthier, Paris ; Mémoire et inconscient, François Ansermet, Genève ; Mémoire et subconscience, Yves Agid , Paris ; Sémiologie neuropsychologique de la mémoire - histoire et actualité, Francis Eustache, Caen ; Films sur les hypermnésiques, présentés par Lorenzo Lorusso, Brescia ; La mémoire affective de Ribot à Proust, Jacqueline Carroy, Paris ; La mémoire, une clé de voûte dans l'œuvre de Jean Delay, Marc Masson, Paris ; La mémoire chez Bergson, Frédéric Worms, Paris ; Mémoire et expérience de soi, Robert Kopp, Paris, Bâle ; Jean Clair, Mémoire et musées and Pierre Nora, Les lieux de mémoire.

December 12th 2015, Hall des Grands Moulins

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ICM, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, Pitié Salpêtrière, ICM Amphitheatre, December 3-4 2015.

Organisation : ICM, FENS, Laboratoire SPHERE (Université Paris-Diderot), Club d’histoire des neurosciences : Yves Agid, Jean-Gaël Barbara, Laura Bossi, Céline Chérici, Jean-Claude Dupont.

Programme : Claude Debru, On the utility of the history of science? Jean Gaël Barbara, History of the neurosciences or historical epistemology? Yves Agid, History for the future? Christopher Goetz, Jean Martin Charcot past and present. Michel Fardeau, Jules and Augusta Dejerine exploring the brain. Jacques Poirier, “Torpilleurs” neurologists during the First World War. Michel Imbert, The neurone. Yves Agid, The glial cell. Jean-Gaël Barbara, The school of Alfred Fessard. François Clarac, The history of cognitive neurosciences. Laurent Cohen, The Biology of Reading: A 150 years history. Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Alan Turing, visionnary in Artificial Intelligence. Jean-Pierre Olié, Historical Notes on Psychiatry. Raphael Gaillard, Schizophrenia. Philippe Fossati, Depression. Roland Jouvent, Research in Psychiatry. Laura Bossi, The history of neurodegeneration. Bruno Dubois, Alzheimer’s disease. Jean Claude Dupont, Parkinson’s disease. Anne Fagot-Largeault, Autistic disorders between Neurology and Psychiatry. Céline Chérici, Gilles de la Tourette’s disease. Olivier Walusinski, Unpublished Archives from Gilles de la Tourette. Conclusion and perspectives with Yves Agid, Claude Debru, Anne Fagot-Largeault, Christopher Goetz, Jean Claude Dupont and Jean Pierre Olié.

Registration is free but compulsory :
Nicole FOURN - nicole.fourn@icm-institute.org 

Thursday July 4th, 12:30, Room B501, laboratoire de neurobiologie des processus adaptatifs, building B, UPMC.

Université Paris Descartes, Monday 12 January.

Programme: Ph. Damier (Pr. Neurologist, CHU Nantes), Deep brain stimulation: major advances in less than 30 years, J.-G. Barbara, C. Cherici and J.-C. Dupont (SPHERE), From past explorations of the nervous system to neurodegenerative diseases, B. Moutaud (CERMES3), On the production of health care and neuroscientific knowledge. The case of deep brain stimulation, P.-A. Adèle and S. Canselier (UMR droit comparé), Medical device as a perplexing and legal category.

Athens, November 1-3 2012, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Marasleios Academy, Byzantine and Christian Museum.

Session 25, The next science of humankind. Myths and histories of the Neurosciences, coordinated & chaired by Jean-Gaël Barbara and Fabio de Sio

ISHN 17th Annual Meeting, 19 - 23 June 2012, President Lorenzo Lorusso.
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy.

Russian-French-German Links in Embryology, Physiology and Medicine, 14 juin 2012.

Meeting organised by Prof. Eduard Kolchinsky – Chair of the St. Petersburg branch Institute for the history of science and technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences – and member of the Groupe de Recherche Internationale Franco-Russe du CNRS (GDRI) directed by Jean-Gaël Barbara (CNRS, CHN) and Alexander Frolov (Institute of the Higher Nervous Activity, Moscow).

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April 3rd 2012, 9h30, at the Logis du Roy – 9 passage du Logis du Roy, organised by Jean-Claude Dupont and Céline Cherici, during the Congrès annuel de la Société d’Histoire et d’Épistémologie des Sciences de la Vie (April 3-4 2012)

February 3 – March10 2012, Round Table, March 29, 7:00 pm, with Jean-Gaël Barbara, Baptiste Brun, Alexis Péron.

Exhibition catalogue including articles by Christian Berst (Preface), Manuel Anceau, Jean-Gaël Barbara, Marc Decimo, José Argémi.

Press articles and events in the galerie Christian Berst

Calgary / Banff (Canada), June 16-19 2011 and retreat at Banff Centre for the Arts, June 19-23 2011

The First Joint Conference of Cheiron (The international Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences) and The International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) will be held in Calgary / Banff (Canada). The main conference will take on June 16-19 at the University of Calgary, while a post-conference retreat (with workshops) will be held at the Banff Centre for the Arts on June 19-23, in the Rocky Mountains. The program consists of ca. 130 presentations, posters and discussion contributions and also includes public outreach lectures, social, music and film events.

The five keynote speakers are: Dr. Bryan Kolb, University of Lethbridge; Dr. David Wright, McMaster University; Dr. Elizabeth Lunbeck, Vanderbilt University; Dr. Andrew T. Scull, University of California, and Dr. Frank Stahnisch, University of Calgary (~ISHN Presidential Address).

Furthermore, five special lectures are featured on the program: Dr. Emily Martin (New York University) "Anthropology and the History of Experimental Psychology"; Dr. Harry Whitacker (Northern Michigan University) "Reading between the lines: An exegesis of an 18th century text"; Dr. Anne Stiles (Washington State University) "Vampire Fiction and the Emergence of the Rest Cure"; Dr. Robert Wilson (University of Alberta) "Witnessing and complicity: Sexual crimes and wrongful accusation"; and the International CURA-Lecture (Banff Workshop); Dr. Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes) "Sterilization Solutions: Varieties of Sterilization Policies in Twentieth-Century Europe".

Interested participants may still register until/during the conference days (June 16-23, 2011). Reduced rates for daily registration and for students are available:

www.ucalgary.ca/ISHN_Cheiron/registration

Meeting organised by Prof. Eduard Kolchinsky – Chair of the St. Petersburg branch Institute for the history of science and technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences – and member of the Groupe de Recherche Internationale Franco-Russe du CNRS (GDRI) directed by Jean-Gaël Barbara (CNRS, CHN) and Alexander Frolov (Institute of the Higher Nervous Activity, Moscow).

Symposium S48, Circulations in the Neurosciences, coordinated & chaired by Jean-Gaël Barbara

Colloquium of the Groupe de Recherche Internationale Franco-Russe du CNRS (GDRI)– with the Russian Academy of Science – directed by Jean-Gaël Barbara (CNRS, CHN) and Alexander Frolov (Institute of the Higher Nervous Activity, Moscow). The meeting will be held on September 15-16 at the Collège de France, with the collaboration of Prof. Alain Berthoz and NPA, CNRS UMR 7102. The program will be devoted to the examination of different aspects of the French-Russian relations in biological sciences: Evolution theory, Embryology, Psychology, Neurology, Neurophysiology, Biomechanics and Neuroscience.

Historical session: Paths of Discovery in Motoneuron Neurobiology, Chair: Jean-Gaël Barbara ; 1, François Clarac and Jean-Gaël Barbara: Human motor pathologies and the emergence of motoneuronal concepts ; 2, Jacques Duchateau and Roger Enoka: Extracellular recording of human motor unit discharge: origin and insights into the integrated motor system ; Douglas Stuart and Robert Brownstone: The beginning of intracellular recording in mammalian motoneurons: facts and speculations.

Jean-Gaël Barbara	François Clarac

Douglas Stuart

A satellite of the 15th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, Italy, Villa di Corliano, (Pisa) 22-26 June 2010

Sponsoring institutions : Club d'histoire des neurosciences de la Société des Neurosciences, Paris, Galileo Museum, Firenze, International Society for the History of Neurosciences, Università di Ferrara, Università di Pavia, Sistema Museale d’Ateneo, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris), Université Diderot (Paris).

Organisation committee: Marco Piccolino, Jean-Gaël Barbara, Cesira Batini, Michel Meulders, Nicholas J. Wade.

This colloquium was organised by the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences and a local committee chaired by Jean-Gaël Barbara (François Clarac, Jacques Poirier, Françoise Tchang, Monique Rogard, Claude Debru, Pierre Buser). It took place at the École normale supérieure with the help of the Collectif Histoire Philosophie Sciences (Claude Debru), the neurobiology laboratory CNRS UMR 7102 (Jean Mariani) and the SPHERE CNRS UMR 7219 (David Rabouin). Special events included the visit of Dupuytren museum, the museum of the old medicine school, Charcot’s library, and a somptuous dinner at the former home of Charcot, now the Maison de l’Amérique Latine.

Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 23 et 24 juin 2011, Laboratoire NPA, CNRS UMR7102, salle 501 (23 juin) et salle des thèses (niveau 1, 24 juin) organisation : Club d’histoire des neurosciences et Centre de neuroéthique et d’éthique appliquée.

• Opening by André Kaspi, President of the committee.
• Jean-Gaël Barbara, neuroscientist and historian of science, CNRS.
• Interview of Pierre Buser by Claude Debru on his adventure in neurosciences.
• André Holley, CNRS, the history of sense organ research at the CNRS.

2009 Centennial anniversary of Brodmann’s monograph.

Session 16 Program :
ASPECTS OF 20th CENTURY NEUROSCIENCES

Organisation : Claude Debru (École normale supérieure)

• Jean-Gael Barbara (Institute of Neuroscience at the Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris 7 - Paris, France). British research styles in physiology and their convergence in the birth of neurophysiology
• Cornelius Borck (Institute for the History of Science and Medicine University of Lübeck - Lübeck, Germany). Materialities of Cognition: On the Relation of Technology and Brain Theory in Twentieth-Century Neuroscience
• Claude Debru. Styles in neurophysiological research. The case of sleep and dreaming physiology in the nineteen-sixties in France and the US
• Jean-Claude Dupont (Université de Picardie Faculté de Philosophie, Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Amiens). A short history of sensory plasticity
• Oleh Hornykiewicz (Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna). The dawn of the neurotransmitter replacement era in degenerative brain disease

• Michel Meulders. Consonances, from Mathematics to Physiology.
• Jean-Gaël Barbara. Torpedo Fish Research in Fessard’s School: Globalization in neurophysiology (1938-1955)
• Francois Clarac. Albert Gombault (1844-1904), an Histologist of Charcot.
• Claude Debru. From Time Psychophysiology to Neurophysiology.
• Suzanne Tyč-Dumont. A Tribute to Hsiang-Tung Chang: The dendritic arborisation revisited.
• Armelle Debru. On Galen and Ancient Greek researches on Torpedo Fish

Organised by REHSEIS (CNRS UMR7596)

Program :

• Karine Chemla : Introduction
• Stéphane Schmitt. Du concept de préadaptation de L. Cuénot à celui d'exaptation chez S.J. Gould
• Laurent Loison. La démorphologisation du concept d'adaptation chez les néolamarckiens français, d'Alfred Giard à Etienne Rabaud
• Annick Opinel. L'emboîtement tropiques/acclimatation au XIXe siècle : un enjeu colonial ou scientifique ?
• Victor Petit. L'adaptationnisme en sciences humaines : naissance d'un problème
• Céline Lefève. La question de l'adaptation dans l'œuvre de Georges Canguilhem
• Jean-Gaël Barbara. L'adaptation biologique et les neurosciences

Symposium S10 on Santiago Ramón y Cajal, between Spain and France, organised by the club for the history of the neurosciences.

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Second congress of the European Society of History of Science
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Oxford, 24th-25th 2006

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