Programme

20:00 Opening conference - Chair Marc Crommelinck

Christian de Duve
Emeritus professor UCL and Rockefeller University, New York
Nobel Prize in Medicine - 1974

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Wednesday, April 29th

Morning : Darwinism : descent and avatars

Chair : Pierre-Joseph Laurent

09:00 Welcome speech  Armand Spineux
09:05 Introduction Benoît Bourgine
09:20 Darwinism and ideology Dominique Lecourt
10:00 Darwinism and religion : theological considerations François Euvé
10:40 Coffee
11:00 Nature, culture in building social relationships of kinship Maurice Godelier
11:40 Roundtable
12:15 Lunchtime

Afternoon – Determinism vs. chance

Chair: Thierry Hance

14:30 Evolution, auto-organization and selection Stuart Kauffman
15:10 Science and religion John Haught
15:50 Coffee
16:10 Roundtable with the participation of Christian De Duve

17:30 Academic session chaired by professor Bernard Coulie Rector of UCL Conferment of Honoris Causa Ph.D.

By the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Philosophical Sciences
To professor Gerald Edelman
Nobel prize in Medicine 1972

By the Faculty of Theology
To professor John Haught

By the Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education
to professor Marc Jeannerod

by the Faculty of Sciences and Faculty of Bioengineering
to professor Stuart Kauffman

19:00 Reception

Thursday, April 30th

Morning- Humanization

Chair : Dominique Lambert

09:00 How did the brain become human ? Philippe van den Bosch Sanchez de Aguilar
09:40 Cognitive psychology and Darwinism Xavier Seron and Marc Crommelinck
10:20 Coffee
10:40 The end of human exception Jean-Marie Schaeffer
11:20 Roundtable
12:00 Lunchtime

Afternoon - Conscience

Chair : Xavier Seron

14:00 Neuronal darwinism Gerald Edelman
14:50 Sensorial and motor foundations of consciousness Marc Jeannerod
15:30 Coffee
15:50 Neurosciences and philosophical anthropology Bernard Feltz
16:30 Roundtable

17:30 Concluding speech André Wénin