World Association of Young Scientists

Conference: MSH Paris nord, 4 rue de la Croix-Faron ou 3 rue de la Procession
Philippe Lacour (Marie Curie Fellow, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Pensée formelle et signification musicale
Réflexions intersémiotiques à partir de l’œuvre de Gilles-Gaston Granger

La question de la pertinence de la pensée formelle pour la compréhension de la signification musicale est un cas particulier de l’enjeu général d’intersémioticité, caractéristique, à bien des égards, de la métaphysique contemporaine : agencements, dispositifs, phénoménologie des mondes possibles, vie des formes symboliques... On trouve un problème analogue, sinon équivalent, dans la question rémanente de l’usage de la formalisation en sciences humaines : comment constituer les modèles et quelles sont les significations que leurs applications circonstanciées laissent en reste ?

Ce séminaire, ouvert aux chercheurs master et doctorat et aux musiciens, se tient à la MSH Paris nord (mercredi 12-15 h) à partir de la mi-novembre 09 : Pour accéder à la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 4 rue de la Croix Faron, Saint-Denis . EN RER : RER B "La Plaine-Stade de France", sortie avenue du Président Wilson (à l'opposé du Stade de France). Prendre l'avenue du Stade de France, tourner à gauche dans la rue de Landy. Rejoindre la rue de la Procession (1ère rue à droite). Avancer tout droit jusqu'à la rue des Blés, tourner à droite et prendre la rue de la Croix Faron (1ère rue à gauche). EN METRO : métro "Porte de la Chapelle", puis bus 153 ou 302, arrêt "La Montjoie". Prendre la rue de la Montjoie, puis la rue de la Croix Faron.
Accès à la MSH Paris Nord :
http://www.mshparisnord.org/acces.htm

TITRE DU SEMINAIRE (SUITE DE L’AN DERNIER) :

Cell biologist Harold Varmus recently suggested, as previously announced here by David Weinreich, that science should play a much more prominent role in the way countries communicate with each other.

Are you the sort of scientist who taps her toes while working in the laboratory? You look like you're crunching data over there on the computer, but you're actually browsing 1980s music videos on YouTube. In fact, doesn't your entire scientific career feel like one big dance, like Pina Bausch's Rite of Spring, the Village People doing YMCA, or maybe Michael Jackson dancing with zombies in Thriller, depending on your mood?

If so, then your name is written all over this:

Those who saw the results of the first-ever Dance Your Ph.D. contest know that the human body is an excellent medium for communicating science -- perhaps not as data-rich as a peer-reviewed article but far more exciting. Since then, e-mails have poured in from scientists around the world asking how they can take part in the next event.

For this year's contest, the stage is much larger and the prize is far grander. Rather than a single event in a single place, the dance is global.

For this year's contest, the stage is much larger and the prize is far grander. Rather than a single event in a single place, the dance is global.

1. Make a video of your own Ph.D. dance.
2. Post the video on YouTube.
3. Not later than 23:00 EST 16 November 2008, e-mail your name, the title of your Ph.D. thesis, and the video URL link to: gonzo@aaas.org .

Once this information is posted on the Dance Contest home page, you are officially entered in the contest. On 17 November 2008, a total of four winners will be chosen from the following categories:

• Graduate Student: Best among those currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program
• Postdoc: Best among those who have a Ph.D. but not tenure
• Professor: Best among those with Ph.D. and tenure
• Popular Choice: The video with the highest YouTube view count by the deadline

The Prize:  On 17 November 2008, you will provide a single peer-reviewed research article on which you are a co-author. (Graduate students who have not yet co-authored an article must choose one from their Ph.D. adviser.) You will be paired with a professional choreographer. Over the next couple of weeks (via e-mail and telephone), you must help your choreographer understand your article, its aims, the hypotheses it tests, and its big-picture context. Then the four choreographers will collaborate to create a single four-part dance based on the winning research articles. Finally, you will be an honored guest at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, where, on 13 February 2009, you will have front-row seats to the world debut of the output -- THIS IS SCIENCE -- a contemporary dance interpretation of contemporary scientific research. Accommodation in Chicago will be provided, and grants are available for travel expenses.

For full details of the contest, visit www.gonzolabs.org.

The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
would like to invite you to a Leipziger Neuromusik Gesprächskreis by

Dr. Petr Janata

Department of Psychology and Center for Mind and Brain,
University of California, Davis, USA.

The event entitled "Neuroimaging studies of music-evoked autobiographical memories and emotion" is scheduled for

02 July 2008, 17:00 (CET).

For more information, please visit www.cbs.mpg.de/news/calendar/17 .

People interested in this topic had some tradition of collaboration through workshops, and here is an extension of their activities to the web:
http://rppw.org/ .