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Singing the laws, from Hesiod to Critias
Antoine Chabod

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Seminar
Religious norms and questions of authority in the Greek world (2)
Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The forces of loss
William Marx

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Lecture
In search of lost works
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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In search of Cardenio
Roger Chartier

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Seminar
In search of lost works
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Parsimony for audio compression and JPEG for images
Stéphane Mallat

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Lecture
Information and complexity
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Digital image storage : is DNA the future of megadata archiving ?
Marco Antonini

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Seminar
Information and complexity
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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From cell to system
Daniel Lincot

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Lecture
Photovoltaic solar energy and energy transition
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Disappearances
Jean-Jacques Hublin

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Lecture
Hominin speciation and extinction
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Legal sources as documents of economic facts
Dario Mantovani

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Lecture
On the proper use of wealth. Law as moral economy in Rome
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Architecture, reliability and evolution of photovoltaic systems
Anne Migan-Dubois

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Seminar
Photovoltaic solar energy and energy transition
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Ulpian : biography of a Roman jurist
Michel Christol

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Seminar
Read the works of the jurists : Ulpian's De officio proconsulis (On the duties of the governor)
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Cervantes - Don Quixote
Alberto Manguel

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Lecture
Myth as a metaphor for identity
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Hail and thunder. A micro-history of medieval weather perception
Jean-Pierre Devroey

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Guest lecturer
Hail and thunder. Understanding bad weather in the peasant hinterland in the Middle Ages
Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Don Quixote's time and Europe
Roger Chartier

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Seminar
Myth as a metaphor for identity
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Software security : introduction and case studies
Xavier Leroy

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Lecture
Software security : what role can programming languages play?
Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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In search of an international law of the public or publics : the challenges of privatizing the public and publicizing the private
Samantha Besson

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Lecture
International law and the public/private distinction
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The nomos-king : from Pindar to Sophocles
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

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Lecture
Religious norms and questions of authority in the Greek world (2)
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Jacob and Esau I : births and conflicts (Gn 25:19-34 and 27:1-45)
Thomas Römer

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Lecture
The Bible's oldest epic : The Story of Jacob
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Prestigious silverware in Central Asia : a mode of political and ideological expression (6)
Frantz Grenet

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Lecture
Prestigious silverware in Central Asia : a mode of political and ideological expression
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Jacob - An ambivalent figure
Martina Weingärtner

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Seminar
Translation of texts from the story of Jacob
Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Weakly degenerate quantum gases : the virial development approach 
Jean Dalibard

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Lecture
Particle interactions in quantum gases (II) : from 2 to N bodies
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Origins and history of the notion of meritocracy
Pierre-Michel Menger

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Lecture
Merit and " meritocracy ". Motivating equality or inequality ?
Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Paleogenetics and infectious diseases
Lluis Quintana-Murci

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Lecture
Evolution of humans and microbes : dangerous liaisons
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Hybrid quantum circuits: from atomic physics on a chip to detecting the dark matter of the universe
Takis Kontos

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Seminar
Particle interactions in quantum gases (II) : from 2 to N bodies
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Reaction statistics and Hill relation for Langevin dynamics
Julien Reygner

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Seminar
Applied mathematics
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Fiction and non-fiction
François Recanati

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Lecture
Fiction, simulation, pretending
Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Postglacial warming, data-model comparisons
Edouard Bard

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Lecture
Extreme climates and present-day analogues : the Holocene and Tardiglacial periods
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Are mental files transparent ?
Michael Murez

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Seminar
Philosophy of Language and Mind
Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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What is Life?
Paul Nurse

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Guest lecturer
What is life?
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Night of Ideas 2022 : (re)building together
Collège de France - Institut français - ARTE

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Special events
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Domestication as a model for studying biodiversity and evolution, and current threats
Tatiana Giraud

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Lecture
Biodiversity dynamics and evolution
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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