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Figuring out music
Gaëlle Choisne & Patrick Boucheron

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Music! The Philharmonie at the Collège de France
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Numbers...: stewards
Jean-Luc Fournet

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The calamus and the cross: the Christianization of writing and the fate of classical culture in Late Antiquity (7). Schools (4): Vocational training in the written word
Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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"There is no end to the multiplication of books." (Ecclesiastes 12:12). The Book of Ecclesiastes in the history of literature
Markus Saur

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Guest lecturer
Nothing new ? Four lessons on the book of Qohelet
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Charlatans! Scholars and philosophers in the public arena (9)
Antoine Lilti

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Charlatans ! Knowledge, media and politics
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Reading Sanskrit philosophical texts (5)
Isabelle Ratié

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Readings from Sanskrit philosophical texts: On pseudo-perceptions and perceptual error in the Dharmakīrtian tradition
Institut des Civilisations - Salle Françoise Héritier
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Sovereignty, authority & jurisdiction
Samantha Besson

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Sovereignties
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Sacrifices for women
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

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In the cities: Greece as a sacrificial culture
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Orpheus on the Nile: a new Orphic poem on papyrus (3)
Jean-Luc Fournet, Korshi Dosoo & Valérie Schram

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Unpublished papyri or papyrological novelties
Salle 1, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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DNA, the proximal or ultimate cause of our evolution ?
Denis Duboule

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DNA, a witness to the evolution of animals
Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Time course of conscious processing
Stanislas Dehaene

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What is consciousness, and what are its brain mechanisms?
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Climates and human societies over the past two thousand years (continued) (2)
Edouard Bard

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Climates and human societies over the past two thousand years (continued)
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Karana and Qaṭṭara
Dominique Charpin

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Upper Mesopotamia in the XVIIIth century BC: portrait gallery (continued)
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The Odyssey and its migrations: displacement, wandering, identity
Daniel Mendelsohn

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Guest lecturer
Athens and Jerusalem : Literature, History, Writing
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Model-data fusion: PBDW approach
Yvon Maday

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Complexity reduction for numerical simulations: methods, algorithms and associated numerical analysis
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Mastering complexity through sobriety in numerical simulations of energy production
Mickaël Abbas & Jean-Philippe Argaud

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Seminar
Maths-4-Innov-Action
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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My body, mercilesstopie
Patrick Boucheron

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Lecture
Places of power
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Self-awareness and awareness of the self
Isabelle Ratié

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Lecture
Consciousness and identity: the Indian dispute over the self
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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... and letters: scribes and copyists (1)
Jean-Luc Fournet

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The calamus and the cross: the Christianization of writing and the fate of classical culture in Late Antiquity (7). Schools (4): Vocational training in the written word
Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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" Nothing new under the sun. " (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Qohelet and his perception of the world
Markus Saur

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Guest lecturer
Nothing new ? Four lessons on the book of Qohelet
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The world is full of charlatans
Antoine Lilti

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Lecture
Charlatans ! Knowledge, media and politics
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Imagining law as a living body : an introduction to Roman legal metaphors
Dario Mantovani

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The body of law, "Corpus Iuris". Imagining law through bodily metaphors in Roman legal literature (2)
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Life stages and sacrificial practices : a comparative approach between Islam and cuneiform sources
Hocine Benkheira

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Seminar
Comparative sacrifices (2)
Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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"The most frequent and by far the most beautiful trick". Greek and Roman theories of metaphor
Laurent Pernot

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Seminar
Put Another Way: What Is Metaphor?
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Life stages and sacrificial practices : a comparative approach between Islam and cuneiform sources
Anne-Caroline Rendu-Loisel

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Seminar
Comparative sacrifices (2)
Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Progress, history and class
Lea Ypi

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Critical reason and the legacy of the Enlightenment: rethinking socialism in the XXIst century
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Sovereignty, territoriality & property
Samantha Besson

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Lecture
Sovereignties
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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In the cities: Greece as a sacrificial culture (6)
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

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Lecture
In the cities: Greece as a sacrificial culture
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Around authenticity: readings, reflections, discussions (1)
Stéphane Feuillas et Claude Romano

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Around authenticity: readings, reflections, discussions
Salle 4, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Saul, a cursed king? David's arrival at Saul's court (continued)
Thomas Römer

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The origins of the Israelite monarchy: Saul, David and Solomon
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Can power in Assyria be illegitimate ?
Lionel Marti

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Seminar
Legitimations and contestations of political power in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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