Wednesday 8 April 2026 Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot Open to all, subject to availability 14:30 - 17:30 Skip youtube video player Listen to audio Download audio Audio recording Vincent Goossaert (EPHE) : Animal sacrifices in China, 16th-20th centuries: which ones, and for whom?Sylvie Peperstraete (ULB / EPHE) : "He who bathed two slaves killed two quails" : practices and actors of animal sacrifice in Mesoamerica Speaker(s) Vincent Goossaert EPHE Sylvie Peperstraete ULB / EPHE Events Previous Christian animal sacrifice: the history and anthropology of a little-known ritual Pierluigi Lanfranchi Seminar 11 Feb 2026 14:30 to 16:00 Mass sacrifice, royal power and social organization in Nepal Marie Lecomte-Tiloine Seminar 11 Feb 2026 16:00 to 17:30 Humanizing the Earth, socializing lineages: the dual motif of sacrificial webs woven in the sh… Danouta Liberski-Bagnoud Seminar 25 Feb 2026 14:30 to 16:00 Ceremonial sacrifices and deposits in the Andes and Mesoamerica.… Perig Pitrou Seminar 25 Feb 2026 16:00 to 17:30 Life stages and sacrificial practices : a comparative approach between Islam and cuneifor… Hocine Benkheira Seminar 11 Mar 2026 14:30 to 16:00 Life stages and sacrificial practices : a comparative approach between Islam and cuneifor… Anne-Caroline Rendu-Loisel Seminar 11 Mar 2026 16:00 to 17:30 Kill, Butcher, Feast: understanding and recreating Greek animal sacrifice… Gunnel Ekroth & Jake Morton Seminar 25 Mar 2026 14:30 to 17:30 Animal sacrifice, between Mesoamerica and China Vincent Goossaert & Sylvie Peperstraete Seminar 8 Apr 2026 14:30 to 17:30 Next See also Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, chair Religion, History and Society in the Ancient Greek World Comparative sacrifices (2)