Responsible: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speakers from various disciplines
Description:
What are we leaving to future generations? Will this legacy be accepted? Is a choice even possible? Innate or acquired, reactionary or dominant, burden or sorrow, fatality or freedom, so many dichotomies for so many situations that all the sciences have to remind us of the entanglement, the complication and even the dilemma. At the heart of this complexity is succession, the relationship that develops between the person who transmits and the person who inherits. This is where medicine, law and institutions come into play in practice, as well as where political and philosophical positions come into being.
Schedules:
Version 1.5 for biology:
3 credits version:
6 credits version:
Registration:
This workshop is offered to master students at the University and EPFL
Interested students can register via their faculty, for faculties in which teaching is created (Biology, SSP, FGSE, FTSR, HEC, Nursing Sciences, EPFL viale SHS programme)
For any further information, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop manager by email:delphine.preissmann@unil.ch
Objectives:
To know, compare and discuss different research methods and techniques used in the faculties of Unil and EPFL
Initiating the topic covered in the lecture series
Synthesising and comparing information from different disciplines on the theme of the lecture cycle through practical work, entering into an interdisciplinary process (which involves learning about a scientific method with which we are not very familiar)
Course:
This workshop includes different types of sequences:
Responsable: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speakers from various disciplines
Description:
Schedules:
PLEASE NOTE: The course and lecture on 15 November 2023 will take place in room CUB II
https://planete.unil.ch/?local=CUB-234
1.5 credits version for biology:
3 credits version :
6 credits version :
Registration:
This workshop is offered to étudiants·e·s de master de l39;Université et de l39;EPFL. Interested students can register via their faculty, for faculties in which the teaching is created (Biology, SSP, FGSE, FTSR, HEC, Sciences infirmières, EPFL via the SHS programme)
For any further information, please do not hesitate to email the workshop manager:delphine.preissmann@unil.ch
Objectives:
Course:
This workshop includes different types of sequences:
Responsable: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speakers from various disciplines
Description:
Relations between the world of research and the public are usually limited to scientific mediation or ‘dialogue’ approaches. In addition to these now classic approaches, there is an arsenal of methods and procedures for involving citizens directly in the production of knowledge: crowdsourcing, participatory, collaborative or partnership research, action research.... How can these methods be used to produce scientifically relevant results? What are their advantages and pitfalls?
Schedules:
1.5 credits version for biology:
3 credits version:
6 credits version:
Registration:
This workshop is offered to UNIL and EPFL master students. Interested students can register via their faculty, for faculties where the teaching is created (Biology, SSP, FGSE, FTSR, HEC, Nursing Sciences, EPFL via the SHS programme).
For any further information, please do not hesitate to send an email to the person in charge of the workshop:delphine.preissmann@unil.ch
Objectives:
Course:
This workshop includes different types of sequences:
The course is also available online at the following link:https://moodle.unil.ch/course/view.php?id=22510
Responsable: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speakers from various disciplines
Description:
How are hypotheses verified in different fields? This series of conferences will address this question by combining the views of specialists from different disciplines.
Timetable:
1.5 credits version for Biology:
3 credits version:
6 credits version:
Registration:
This workshop is offered to UNIL and EPFL students. Interested students can register via their faculty, for faculties where the teaching is created (Biology, SSP, FGSE, FTSR, HEC, Nursing Sciences, EPFL via the SHS programme).
For any further information, please do not hesitate to send an email to the person in charge of the workshop:delphine.preissmann@unil.ch
Objectives:
Course:
This workshop includes different types of sequences:
The 2020-2021 workshop does not take place and will resume in autumn 2021
Responsable: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speakers from various disciplines
Description:
We make decisions every day, but what factors influence our choices ? Are they really made in complete freedom?
During this series of conferences, we will look at how major (or minor) decisions are made, both individually and within organisations, by combining the views of specialists from different disciplines. How is the decision-making process formalised, represented and communicated? Is it possible to model it mathematically? Is artificial intelligence likely to replace or contribute to a human decision?
Schedules:
1.5 credits version for biology:
3 credits version:
Registration:
This workshop is offered to UNIL and EPFL students. Interested students can register via their faculty, for faculties in which the teaching is created (Biology, SSP, FGSE, FTSR, HEC, Sciences infirmières, EPFL via the SHS programme).
For any further information, please do not hesitate to email the workshop manager:delphine.preissmann@unil.ch
Objectives:
Course:
This workshop includes different types of sequences:
Responsable: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speakers from various disciplines
Description:
How can the observation scale of a phase influence research? &Under what conditions is it possible to move from one scale to another?What role do instrumentation, modelling and digital tools play in these different levels of analysis? The same questions then arise with regard to the results obtained. The change of scale acts within the operations of interpretation and extrapolation.
This series of conferences will bring together specialists from disciplines such as law, medicine, literature, physics and the social sciences to discuss this issue.
Beyond the particular subject, this workshop is an opportunity to take a look at the plurality of disciplines taught at the university and EPFL, and what distinguishes them and brings them together in terms of curiosity and investigation. Over the course of the sessions, speakers from various faculties will shed light on their own ways of practising scientific research.
Timetable:
1.5 credits version for biology:
3 credits version:
6 credits version:
Registration:
This workshop is offered to UNIL and EPFL students. Interested students can register via their faculty, for faculties where the teaching is created (Biology, SSP, FGSE, FTSR, HEC, Nursing Sciences, EPFL via the SHS programme).
This workshop is offered to Masters students at the University and EPFL.
For any further information, please do not hesitate to email the workshop manager:delphine.preissmann@unil.ch
Objectives:
Course:
This workshop includes different types of sequences:
Responsable: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speakers from various disciplines
Description:
Creativity is a term that, from its original artistic domain, has invaded many other fields : scientific, social, political, économic. Be creative" sometimes sounds like a contradictory injunction. What are the conditions that favour the emergence of new ideas? Can invention be collective? What happens to an idea when it enters the realisation phase? This series of conferences looks at a number of dimensions of creativity and how it is used today.
Beyond the particular subject, this workshop is an opportunity to take a look at the plurality of disciplines taught at the university and EPFL, and at what distinguishes and brings them together in terms of curiosity and investigation. Over the course of the sessions, speakers from various faculties will shed light on their own ways of practising scientific research.
Schedules:
1.5 credits version for biology:
3 credits version:
6 credits version:
Registration:
This workshop is offered to UNIL and EPFL students. Interested students can register via their faculty, for faculties where the teaching is created (Biology, SSP, FGSE, FTSR, HEC, Nursing Sciences, EPFL via the SHS programme).
This workshop is offered to Masters students at the University and EPFL.
For any further information, please do not hesitate to email the workshop manager:delphine.preissmann@unil.ch
Objectives:
Course:
This workshop includes different types of sequences:
Responsible: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speaker(s) from a variety of disciplines.
Description:
Motions are at the heart of our behaviour. Long judged to be naïve and opposed to reason, they are now the subject of a kind of empowerment but also of paradoxical injunctions. Inherent in cognitive processes, decision-making and social relations, they can also seriously disrupt them when they are not properly managed. How are motions considered by poets, judges, leaders and doctors?
Beyond the particular subject, this workshop is an opportunity to take a look at the plurality of disciplines taught at the university and EPFL, and at what sets them apart and brings them together in terms of curiosity and investigation. Over the course of the sessions, speakers from various faculties will shed light on their own ways of practising scientific research.
Timetable:
1.5 credits version for biology:
28 September, 5, 12,19 and 26 October, 2 and 9 November 2016
3 credits version:
6 credits version:
Registration:
This workshop is offered to UNIL and EPFL students. Interested students can register via their faculty, for faculties in which the teaching is created (Biology, SSP, FGSE, FTSR, HEC, Sciences infirmières, EPFL via the SHS programme).
For any further information, please do not hesitate to send an email to the workshop manager: delphine.preissmann@unil.ch
Objectives:
Course:
This workshop includes different types of sequences:
Responsible: Delphine Preissmann (delphine.preissmann@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Delphine Preissmann & speakers from various disciplines
Description:
Memory is the foundation of our identity. The traces left by experiences and the way in which we interpret them are central questions for various disciplines such as biology, psychology, history and criminology, but also for literature, pedagogy and law. These questions can be transposed from the anthropological field to the cosmic field: what, for example, is the memory of the Earth and the reading of the traces of its past for geology, or that of the universe or the Big Bang for astronomers?
Beyond the particular subject, this workshop is an opportunity to take a look at the plurality of disciplines taught at the university and EPFL, and what sets them apart and brings them together in terms of curiosity and investigation. Over the course of the sessions, speakers from various faculties will shed light on their own ways of conducting scientific research.
Schedules:
1.5 credits version for biology:
3 credits version:
6 credits version:
Responsible: Christine Clavien (christine.clavien@unil.ch)
Speaker(s): Christine Clavien & speakers from various disciplines
Description:
Parental ties strongly influence social interactions and configurations. The phenomenon is well known to biologists who study cooperation between genetically related organisms. On a human scale, the work of historians, anthropologists and political scientists attests to the importance of family networks in various forms of ecological, economic, social and political organisation or community projects.
How are the notions of family networks or kinship ties defined by researchers from these different backgrounds? What are the assumptions and consequences of these definitions? What role do researchers attribute to parenthood in the dynamics of aid and cooperation? What methods and scientific criteria do they use when tackling these issues?
Looking beyond the particular subject, this workshop is an opportunity to take a look at the plurality of disciplines taught at university and EPFL, and at what distinguishes and brings them together in terms of curiosity and investigation. Over the course of the sessions, speakers from various faculties will shed light on their own ways of practising scientific research.
More info on the 2014 lecture series
Schedules:
1.5 credits version:
3 credits version:
6 credits version:
The « tragedy of the commons » is an expression that denotes a serious and ordinary problem. It refers to the difficulty of exploiting in a sustainable way a resource that is both limited and available to everyone. It manifests itself in all kinds of situations and at a variety of levels (management of community landscapes, alpine landscapes, cultural assets, social services, global climate). Its importance has prompted researchers from all walks of life to explore it.
The master's dissertation workshop provides cross-disciplinary perspectives on this theme of conflict between the common good and individual self-interest. How is it understood by sociologists, psychologists, biologists, geographers, anthropologists, historians, art historians, literary historians, political scientists, lawyers, economists, mathematicians, engineers, etc.? What methods and scientific criteria do all these researchers use when analysing the tragedy of the commons?