Covid-19.Museum’ doctoral seminar

Organised in 2021 and 2022, the ‘Covid-19.Museum’ doctoral and research seminar examined the challenges of the Covid-19.Museum as an interdisciplinary and international research project. It has been validated by five doctoral schools.

The seminar, whose sessions can be viewed on the Covid-19.Museum YouTube channel, featured the following speakers:

  • Wei Chen, a pneumologist, MD-PhD from Shanghai’s Ruijin Hospital, who worked for two months in first aid in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic
  • Philippe Barbet, Professor of Economics at Sorbonne Paris Nord University

  • Xavier Coumoul, Professor of Biology at the University of Paris, Vice-President of Culture at the University of Paris

  • Arnaud Passalacqua, Professor of Spatial Planning and Urban Development at the University of Paris-Est-Créteil

  • Fabrice Berna, psychiatrist, Head of Department, Strasbourg Hospitals

  • Marie-Christophe Boissier, rheumatologist, PU-PH at Sorbonne Paris Nord University and Head of Department at the Avicienne Hospital

  • Boris Cyrulnik, neurologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst

  • Denis Peschanski, historian, director of research at the CNRS, Panthéon-Sorbonne University

  • Denis Pernot, Professor of Contemporary Literature, Director of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at Sorbonne Paris Nord University

  • Hubert Chatrousse, psychologist, firefighter and ATER (temporary teaching and research fellow) at Sorbonne Paris Nord University

  • Elisabeth Roudinesko, historian of psychoanalysis

  • Sabine Pigalle, visual artist

  • Aude Giger from Radio France

  • Alain Prochiantz, neurobiologist, specialist in the development and evolution of the nervous system, former director of the Collège de France

  • Salma Mesmoudi, research engineer at the European Centre for Sociology and Political Science (CESSP)

  • Vyacheslav Tykhonov, of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chief Scientifc Officer of the Now.Museum
  • Juliette Vion-Dury, Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université Sorbonne Paris-Nord