Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893): Constructing Neurology
Bicentennial of his birth, International Meeting Paris July 1-5, 2025

Monday June 30,2025
18h - 20h Welcome cocktail and registration
Institut du Cerveau, Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, Paris XIII

Tuesday July 1, 2025
Institut du Cerveau, Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, Paris XIII
8h30 - 9h Registration

9h Welcome and Opening
Prof Alexis Brice (Executive director Paris Brain Institute)
Olivier Walusinski (Local Committee President)

9h30 Session 1
Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893): his life, his works. Olivier Walusinski
Paris, La Salpêtrière in Charcot's time, from the Second Empire to the Third Republic. Denis Guthleben

10h30 - 11h Coffee break
“Si je ne me trompe pas”: Charcot’s neurological legacy in the 21st century. Christopher Goetz
Charcot”s contribution to movement disorders. Carlos Henrique F. Camargo
Charcot’s contributions to the understanding of ischemic stroke. Jan van Gijn, Marie-Germaine Bousser

12h30 - 14h Lunch Break

14h Session 2
Charcot’s erroneous double-semi decussation scheme for the retinocortical visual pathways. Douglas Lanska

Charcot identifies and illustrates amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Danielle Seilhean
The peripheral nerve: a neglected topic in Charcot’s neurological work. Lauren Tatu, Julien Bogousslavsky

15h30 - 16h Coffee Break

Jules-Bernard Luys (1828-1893) and Charcot: the impossible match. Roger Dachez
Jean-Martin Charcot: from morbid anatomy of cerebral hemorrhage to detailed description of lymphatic system in the brain.
Eglė Sakalauskaitė-Juodeikienė

Charcot in advance of his time: histology use of newest lab technics and terms. Anne Boullerne
17h30 END

Wednesday July 2, 2025
Institut du Cerveau, Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, Paris XIII
9h Session 3
The private dislike of Charcot: Léon Daudet and Edmond de Goncourt. Julien Bogousslavsky
Edvard Munch’s Crisis in 1908 and French Medicine: His Doctors, Treatments, and Sources of Information. Stanley Finger, Elisabetta Sirgiovanni
Jean-Martin Charcot and Alfred Vulpian, a lifelong friendship. Hubert Déchy

10h30 - 11h Coffee break
The Stone of Madness. Charcot’s interest in a copy after Pieter Bruegel sr. as referred to by Henry Meige. Peter Koehler
Jean-Martin Charcot and Scandinavian Literature: On the 200th Anniversary of his Birth. Stanley Finger, Ragnar Stien, Espen Dietrichs

1852 a significant year in the life of Jean-Martin Charcot. Martin Catala

12h30 - 14h Lunch Break

14h Session 4

The Internal Image: Mind and Brain in the Age of Charcot. Katrin Schultheiss
Charcot and Hallucinations: A Study in Insight and Blindness. Gilles Fénelon

JM Charcot’s Theater of the Mind: Acting out and Working through Trauma. Suzanne LaLonde

15h30 - 16h Coffee Break

The chair of mental and brain diseases and Charcot's pupils: Benjamin Ball, Alix Joffroy and Gilbert Ballet. Denis Tiberghien
Charcot and his pupils (Janet - Freud) and the birth of Psychic Trauma. Jean-Pierre Luauté
Jean-Martin Charcot's clinic and modeling of the disease (hysteria) Céline Chérici
17h30 END

Thursday July 3, 2025
9h - 10h Free visit of the Charcot exhibition in the Saint-Louis Chapel at La Salpêtrière
10h - 11h 30 Historical visit of La Salpêtrière and Charcot’s library
13h30- 18h30 A cultural tour (Bus departure La Salpêtrière)
André Brouillet : Une leçon clinique à La Salpêtrière (Musée histoire de la médecine)
L’École pratique et le Couvent des Cordeliers: Statue Victor Cornil by Paul Richer
Statue Vulpian by Paul Richer, rue Paul Dubois
Neuilly sur Seine: visit of the Summer residence, birthplace of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (July 15, 1867)
53 Boulevard du Commandant Charcot; architect: René Simonet, house built in 1813
Bus back to La Salpêtrière

19h30 - 23h Gala Dinner, Hôtel de Varengeville, 217 boulevard Saint-Germain Paris VII
only 40 paying places, reservation required
ISHN awards and prizes

Friday July 4, 2025
Institut du Cerveau, Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, Paris XIII
9h Session 5
Charcot as a collector and critic of the arts: Relationship of the “Founder of Neurology” with Various Aspects of Art. François Boller, Julien Bogousslavsky
Identifying Illness: Sketching Patients at Charcot’s Salpêtrière. Natasha Ruiz-Gómez
Paul Richer, drawing and sculpting pathology in touch with his mentor Jean-Martin Charcot. Grégoire Hallé

10h30 - 11h Coffee Break
André Brouillet (1857-1914) and its painting Une Leçon clinique à La Salpêtrière. Jacques Saint-Just

Charcot the dramaturg: relations between Charcot’s practice & the worlds of performance, 1870s to the present. Jonathan Marshall

Henri Parinaud & Xavier Galezowski, ophthalmologists at La Salpêtrière and namegivers of a disease. Barend F. Hogewind

12h30 - 14h Lunch Break

14h Session 6
Charcot’s foreign visitors and pupils from Europe, USA and Russia. Emmanuel Broussolle
The Prominent Role of Charcot and the French Neurological Tradition in Latin American. Helio Teive, Carlos Camargo
Osler & Charcot: Apostles of International Medicine. Toodayan Nadeem
Proof through Images: Art and Medicine According to Charcot. Jean-Claude Dupont

16h - 16h30 Coffee Break

Male Hysteria in the writings by JM Charcot and Hysteric Soldiers in the Interwar Lithuania (1924-1929). Emilijus Žilinskas

From Charcot to modern epilepsy classification: a historical perspective on seizure diagnosis and evolution. Rūta Mameniškienė
17h30 ISHN Presidential Lecture:
Jean-Martin Charcot, member of thesis juries at the Paris medical school (1862–1893). Olivier Walusinski
18h END

Saturday July 5, 2025
Institut du Cerveau, Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, Paris XIII
9h Session 7
Special session: Charcot photography, chrono-cinematography and music
Charcot and the Birth of Neurological Photo-Chrono-Cinematography. Francesco Brigo, Lorenzo Lorusso
The forgotten cultural influence of Jean-Martin Charcot – Hysteria and hypnosis in early cinema. Dennis Henkel, Axel Karenberg

Charcot on Screen: Portrayals and Preconceptions of a Medical Icon. Francesco Brigo, Lorenzo Lorusso

From Clinic to Stage: Jean-Martin Charcot’s Influence on Theatre and Dance. Francesco Brigo, Lorenzo Lorusso

11h30 ISHN Annual General Meeting

12h30 End of this great Event