Lancement de la saison scientifique 2013-2014

« La violence et l'homicide à travers le temps et l'espace / Violence and homicide across time and space »

Ce lancement aura lieu le 11 novembre 2013, de 14h30 à 17h00 (Carrefour des arts et des sciences, salle C-3061, puis 3200 Jean-Brillant, salle B-2285). Il sera suivi d'un cocktail.
14h30 à 16h00 (salle C-3061) : Courtes présentations successives de Maurice Cusson; Marc Ouimet; Anna Alvazzi Del Fratte (Director of research, Small Arms Survey, Geneva Switzerland); Christophe Soullez (Directeur de L'Observatoire National de la délinquance et des réponses pénales du INHESJ, France); William Alex Pridemore (Professor of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University and editor of the International Criminal Justice Review - American Society of Criminology)

16h15-17h15 (Salle B-2285, 3200 Jean-Brillant) :

GUEST OF HONOR :
STEVEN PINKER, Ph.D.

«The Better Angels of Our Nature.
Why Violence Has Declined ».

Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist and one of the world’s foremost writers on language, mind, and human nature. Currently Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, Pinker has also taught at Stanford and MIT. His research on visual cognition and the psychology of language has won prizes from the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and the American Psychological Association. He has also received seven honorary doctorates, several teaching awards at MIT and Harvard, and numerous prizes for his books The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, and The Blank Slate. He is Chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and often writes for The New York Times, Time, and The New Republic. He has been named Humanist of the Year, Prospect magazine’s “The World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals,” Foreign Policy’s “100 Global Thinkers,” and Time magazine’s “The 100 Most Influential People in the World Today.”

RÉSERVATION OBLIGATOIRE AU CICC : cicc@umontreal.ca
(514) 343 7065
N.B. : nombre de places limité pour le cocktail
(ce dernier est désormais COMPLET)

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