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Abstract The fourth   lecture will focus on the relationship between Greek and local cultures. After an overview of the problem, we will focus on the particularly significant case of Greek literature in Egypt. While current opinion tends to regard the …

Abstract Relations between indigenous peoples and European colonizers have been imbued with a multi-faceted violence that has developed over the centuries through the imposition of a single worldview, a single language and a single notion of territory. …

Abstract One of the most elementary foundations of living together, the relationship with the Earth, is expressed through language. For Amerindian peoples, a relationship with the land is an indication of their identity, and implies recognition of the …

Andrea-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca Andrea-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca is a linguistic anthropologist, director of the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale (LAS), and holder of the Religions des Indiens Sud-Américains  : sociétés des Basses Terres chair at the …

Abstract I will report on recent joint work with M.   Mauri and R.   Pagaria which, building on my previous work with de Cataldo and Heinloth, gives a complete determination of the supports in the sense of Ngô of the Hitchin fibration (for GL_n), and the …

Abstract Why do anaphoric expressions such as herself/lui-même have the interpretive and distributive properties observed for them (viz. Marie est fière d'elle-même) and why do they also function as intensifiers (viz. Marie elle-même est fière de lui) ? …

Abstract The configurations revealed by cartographic studies are complex in both syntactic organization and interface properties. How do children master this complexity  ? In recent years, a simple model for the acquisition of syntactic structures has …

Abstract In this lecture, I will discuss the exciting (and for a long time unexpected) finding that distinct areas of the adult brain continue to generate new neurons throughout life. He will show how newborn neurons affect brain structure and function …

Abstract The third   lecture will focus on the question of aesthetic values, attempting to disregard a qualitative, classicist perspective in favor of the "   variable-geometry paradigm   " of the "   democratization of culture   ". The traditional …

Abstract I shall appeal to teleological considerations to argue that there are no elements in thought that are simultaneously indexical and file-like. So-called perceptual demonstratives are particularly interesting in this …

Summary The latest conference systematically examines how the European Union could better defend and promote democracy. It explains why the destruction of democracy within member states is a greater threat to the Union than rather technocratic failures …

Abstract I propose a couple of revisions to the standard criterion of difference for modes of presentation attributed to Frege. First, we need to broaden the scope of the criterion so that not merely the thoughts of a given subject at a given time may or …

Abstract The purpose of this talk will be to determine certain special representations (i.e. in the discrete series, but not cuspidal) whose space is generated by spherical automorphic functions. Volker Heiermann 1994  : Doctoral thesis, University of …

Abstract It is generally accepted that restrictive relative propositions, such as "   [which are red]  " in "   les fruits [qui sont rouges]  " , denote properties of individuals, which can be applied to an object and return true or false -   in this …