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. O. Walusinski
Paris, La Salpêtrière in Charcot's time, from the Second Empire to the Third Republic. Denis Guthleben
10h30 - 11h Coffee break
Institutions for the scientific and medical research in France and Europe at the time of Charcot. Hélène Harter
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12h30 - 14h Lunch Break
14h Session 2
“Si je ne me trompe pas”: Charcot’s neurological legacy in the 21st century. Christopher Goetz
Charcot’s erroneous double-semi decussation scheme for the retinocortical visual pathways. Douglas Lanska
Charcot’s contributions to the understanding of ischemic stroke. Jan van Gijn, Marie-Germaine Bousser
15h30 - 16h Coffee Break
The peripheral nerve: a neglected topic in Charcot’s neurological work. Lauren Tatu, Julien Bogousslavsky
Charcot identifies and illustrates amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Danielle Seilhean
17h 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
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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
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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
17h END
Thursday July 3, 2025
9h - 10h Free visit of the Charcot exhibition in the Saint-Louis Chapel at La Salpêtrière10h - 11h 30 Historical visit of La Salpêtrière and Charcot’s library13h30- 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 XIII9h 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 BreakAndré 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
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. Nadeem Toodayan
15h30 - 16h Coffee Break
16h ISHN Presidential Lecture:
Jean-Martin Charcot, member of thesis juries at the Paris medical school (1862–1893). Olivier Walusinski
17h END
Saturday July 5, 2025
Institut du Cerveau, Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, Paris XIII
9h Session 7
Charcot’s travels and the Tuesday soirées
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11h ISHN Annual General Meeting
12h30 End of this great Event