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Albert de Jong
Mazdean quietism
Albert de Jong
Mazdean quietism
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The Arab conquests of the Sassanid empire had, in one fell swoop, robbed the Mazdeans of Iran of all profane power. The success of these conquests is seen in Muslim tradition (and historiography) as proof of the superiority of Islam. For the Mazdeans, …
11:00 to 12:00
Martin Schwartz
Compositional Techniques of the Individual Poems, and of the Serial Generation of the Corpus
Martin Schwartz
Compositional Techniques of the Individual Poems, and of the Serial Generation of the Corpus
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16:00 to 17:00
José Émilio Burucúa
The pathosformeln of laughter and European engraving at the beginning of modernity
José Émilio Burucúa
The pathosformeln of laughter and European engraving at the beginning of modernity
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For Aby Warburg, a Pathosformel is a set of representative and meaningful forms, historically determined at the moment of their first synthesis, which reinforces the understanding of the meaning of what is represented by mobilizing the affective field …
11:00 to 12:00
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14:30 to 15:30
José Émilio Burucúa
The ancient massacre and the modern massacre : problems of historiography and representation
José Émilio Burucúa
The ancient massacre and the modern massacre : problems of historiography and representation
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The massacre is an event in human history whose narrative presented Greek and Roman historians with enormous difficulties, both in its narrative construction and in its rational explanation. This lecture will show, firstly, how historiography and art …
11:00 to 12:00
Albert de Jong
Mazdaism, the imperial religion
Albert de Jong
Mazdaism, the imperial religion
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Mazdeism begins in a society without kings and survives in a society without (Mazdean) kings. Between the two lies the long period of imperial Mazdeism, which begins with Darius and ends with the last Sassanid king, Yazdegerd III. Between the VIᵉ century …
11:00 to 12:00
Instrument-machine interface
Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music
Instrument-machine interface
Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music
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Detection methods active detector: reacts by making decisions according to a deterministic or indeterministic method (there are a multitude of paths to positive detection); passive detector: reacts blindly (there is only one path to positive detection). …
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What we commonly understand today by the notion of theme comes to us essentially from the 20th century, in the sense that themes are not only at the origin of musical discourse and its development, but are also bearers of meaning: symbolic, anecdotal, …
José Émilio Burucúa
The concept of otherness and pictorial representation the story of Ulysses since the Renaissance
José Émilio Burucúa
The concept of otherness and pictorial representation the story of Ulysses since the Renaissance
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This lecture will examine the reception and treatment of the myth of Ulysses and the story of the Odyssey in Italian and Flemish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries. It will show that a comic interpretation of this story went hand in hand with the …
11:00 to 12:00
Albert de Jong
The formation of the Mazdean identity
Albert de Jong
The formation of the Mazdean identity
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The first lesson serves as a methodological introduction to history proper, which only begins with the Achaemenids. With the rejection of Zarathustra's historicity by some modern scholars also comes the rejection of the notion of an Iranian "conversion" …
11:00 to 12:00
Ahmad Beydoun
From the 1943 Pact to the Taef Agreement : resistance to deconfessionalization
Ahmad Beydoun
From the 1943 Pact to the Taef Agreement : resistance to deconfessionalization
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17:00 to 18:00
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Abstract In just a few decades, numerical simulations have become a preferred tool in many scientific fields (physics, chemistry, mechanics, meteorology, engineering sciences, finance) and industrial sectors (aeronautics, space, automotive, nuclear, …
18:00 to 19:00
Jean Louise Cohen
A Global State of Emergency or the Further Constitutionalisation of International Law
Jean Louise Cohen
A Global State of Emergency or the Further Constitutionalisation of International Law
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15:00 to 16:00
Jean Louise Cohen
Toward a Jus Post Bellum for Transformative and/or Humanitarian Occupations
Jean Louise Cohen
Toward a Jus Post Bellum for Transformative and/or Humanitarian Occupations
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15:00 to 16:00
Jean Louise Cohen
Rethinking Human Rights and Sovereign Equality in the epoch of Humanitarian Intervention
Jean Louise Cohen
Rethinking Human Rights and Sovereign Equality in the epoch of Humanitarian Intervention
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15:00 to 16:00
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The Cuman-Qïpchaqs constituted an acephalous, loosely held tribal union that dominated an area extending from the Pontic Steppes to Western Siberia and Uzbekistan, a region termed the Qïpchaq Steppe (cf. Pers. Dasht-i Qipchâq). The Cuman-Qïpchaqs …
17:00 to 18:00
Jean Louise Cohen
Sovereignty and International Law Revisited: A Pluralist Perspective
Jean Louise Cohen
Sovereignty and International Law Revisited: A Pluralist Perspective
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15:00 to 16:00