The “Paris IAS Ideas” online talk series features short and stimulating presentations by fellows of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study. The talks mark the beginning of 1-month writing residencies in which fellows will write a paper with the “definitive” version of an idea of concept they have been working on for years.

September 3, 2025
Elinor Ochs, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A
"How Listening to What Others Are Saying Fell out of Grace in Human Development"

September 3, 2025
David Cella, Northwestern University, U.S.A
"Can Healthcare be Humanized?"

September 3, 2025
Jorge Gómez Rendón, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Quito
"What is language revitalization for? Indigenous languages as commons for environmental governance"

September 3, 2025
Tine Destrooper, Ghent University, Ghent and Jef de Slegte, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels
"A Cross-Case Analysis of the Representation of Victims-Protagonists in Truth Commission Narratives Using LLMs with Human-in-the-Loop Evaluation"

September 3, 2025
Steve Mann, University of Warwic, Royaume-Uni
"Dialogic Reflection"

November 7, 2025
Lorraine Daston, Director Emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany
" Why is diversity a value? A history"

November 7, 2025
Gerd Gigerenzer, Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the University of Potsdam, Germany
"What is bias? And why are we biased?"

November 7, 2025
Will Mandy, University College de Londres (UCL)
"What is autism?"

November 7, 2025
Uli Sauerland, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics " (ZAS)
"Rethinking Compositionality"

December 5, 2025
Jeremy Adelman, University of Cambridge and Emeritus Professor at Princeton University
"Civil Wars and the New World Order, 1979-1994"

December 5, 2025
Javier Pérez Burgos, policy specialist and development economist
"Technology Adoption and Smallholder Farmers in Latin America: Impacts on Food Supply Chains and Just Rural Transitions"

January 9, 2026
Nitsan Chorev, Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University in Providence.
“Wars Make Markets, Markets Make Wars: For A New Macro-Sociology of Violence"

January 9, 2026
Victoria Lee, science historian with a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and an associate professor of history at Ohio University.
"Our Microbial Lives: A Manifesto Against Eradication"

January 9, 2026
Emmanuel Alloa, Full Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the University of Fribourg.
"TransparentoCene. A Critical Pharmacology of the Present"

February 6, 2026
Mathieu Jacomy, Assistant Professor at the Aalborg University in Denmark and Anders Kristian Munk, Professor of Computational Anthropology and Head of the Observatory for Human-Centred Engineering (ECHOlab) at the Technical University of Denmark. 
" Visualization for AI Augmented Sociology "

6 March 2026
Helga Nowotny, Professor emerita of Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich, Founding Member and Former President of the European Research Council
" The Socioscope: on the relationship between micro- and meso-entities "

6 March 2026
Diego Gambetta, Carlo Alberto Chair Professor at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, emeritus fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford
" Puzzles – a method of discovery "

6 March 2026
Johanna Mannergren, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Södertörn University
"Reconciliation Acts. Towards a new theory of reconciliation in the wake of violence "