La journée Bram is an annual day of history of science and epistemology for science students. Below is the list of themes since 2009. As suggested by the titles, the conferences are in French (with the exception of the conference by Patricia Fara, in English. Since 2019, the “journée Bram” is co-organized with the department of philosophy of ENS (Dimitri El Murr). Most of the lectures have been captured since 2012, and can be found on the site Savoir ENS: type “Bram” in the search engine.
If you wish to receive information about the organization of the next Journée Bram, write to enseignement.chimie@ens.psl.eu and ask to be added to the diffusion list “journée Bram”.
2024: Chercher et s’engager
2023: L’urgence climatique : un défi pour toutes les sciences ?
2022: Pasteur à la croisée des disciplines, day that receive the label of the Pasteur Institute and the Academy of Sciences for the bicentenary of Pasteur’s birth
2021: La Nature : classification, collection, conservation
2020: Utopie
2019: Science et démocratie
2018: Raconter l’histoire des sciences
2017: Sciences et arts
2016: La vérité : peut-on s’en passer ?
2015: L’injonction d’innover
2014: Chercher aux frontières
2013: Femmes et sciences (NB: P. Fara’s conference « Ghosts of Women Past : Women and the History of Science » in English)
2012: Vulgarisation : histoire et perspectives
2011: CNRS, présent, passé, futur
2010: Biologie : hier et aujourd’hui
2009: Histoire des sciences et épistémologie : un atout pour l’enseignement des sciences
