Wtorek geopolityczny 24/11/2020

Ośrodek Kultury Francuskiej i Studiów Frankofońskich UW i Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych UW we współpracy z Groupe d’études géopolitiques zapraszają na spotkanie z cyklu WTORKI GEOPOLITYCZNE.

 

Why Health is Geopolitics. A European Perspective

Florent Parmentier (Cevipof Sciences Po Paris)

Wprowadzenie: Christophe Paoli (Attaché ds. nauki i współpracy uniwersyteckiej Ambasady Francji w Polsce)

 

24.11.2020 wtorek

godz. 15.00 – 16.30

 

Spotkanie odbędzie się on-line: https://meet.google.com/tex-ypkh-hha

Spotkanie w języku angielskim.

 

Introduction

We would like to introduce you prof. Florent Parmentier from Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po Paris.

Prof. Florent Parmentier will present the European geopolitics of health and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Health is about culture, environment and public policy. But the Covid-19 crisis has enlightened the fact that health is also about geopolitics. The propagation of the virus, the race for the vaccine, the role of international organization (US retreat from WHO) or international aides and strategic narratives illustrate this fact. Yet, the crisis was also about controlling the population, increasing the speed of research or ensuring its health sovereignty. In this perspective, analyzing the role of AI in health is fundamental to understand the role and specificities of Europe in the international arena, at a time when the European Commission claims to be “a geopolitical Commission”.

 

Biographical note

Florent Parmentier, PhD, is Secretary general of the CEVIPOF, Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po Paris, and research associate at the Center of geopolitics of HEC Paris. He graduated at Sciences Po in political science and Eastern European studies. He is a lecturer in foresight studies. He is also a reserve officer for the French naval forces. He often intervenes in the media, and has published several books and articles on European geopolitics.