Redefining the Self: 
Biological and Philosophical Perspectives

This interdisciplinary conference aims at exploring the meanings of the notion of self and to determine whether it is appropriate to redefine the self or go beyond this notion. By confronting different theoretical and philosophical approaches to the immune system, this conference will contribute to stimulate debates about the conceptual basis of immunology.

Invited speakers:

·       Polly Matzinger (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA)
·       Anne Marie Moulin (UMR Sphere, CNRS Paris, France)
·       John Perry (Stanford University, USA)
·       Irun Cohen (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israël)
·       Philippe Kourilsky (Collège de France, France)
·       Margaret McFall-Ngai (University of Wisconsin, USA)
·       Antonio Coutinho (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal)
·       Alfred Tauber (Boston University, USA)
·       Eric Vivier (Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille Luminy, France)

The organizing committee: Hugues Bersini, Marc Daeron, Leïla Perié, Thomas Pradeu and Veronique Thomas-Vaslin.

More information about the program and the conference can be found here: