[Cancelled] Special Scientific Talk - "Thinking, feeling and interacting in an accelerating world" by Dr. Claudine Haroche

ABSTRACT

Social sciences are crucial for understanding the way we live and relate to each other in contemporary societies. Continuous and accelerated flow of information and communication through new technologies have induced psychological and social effects on the way we think, feel and interact. The use of the internet with all the readily available information it contains has produced a tremendous access to knowledge. It has at the same time revealed dark sides: creation of closed communities reinforcing their prejudices, propagation of fake news, harassment including the development of public shaming. The talk will discuss some of these issues and introduce a discussion with the audience.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Claudine Haroche got her doctorate in sociology at Paris VII University in 1979.  She was a senior scientist in the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) until 2010. Since then, she is Director of Research emeritus in CNRS. She has been visiting professor in Brazilian Universities (Campinas, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba). She has authored several books in the fields of sociology and anthropology.