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Abstract Alternatives to electricity offer new opportunities for neuromodulation and neuroscience research, enabling more targeted and sometimes less invasive approaches. Magnetic stimulation uses magnetic fields to induce electrical currents in the …
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Abstract The famous story of the Tower of Babel in Gn 11,1-9 describes mankind's attempt to reach the heavens, followed by divine intervention to limit their folly of grandeur. This is the origin of languages, leading to the scattering of mankind across …
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Racial Borders
Didier Fassin, chair Moral Questions and Political Issues in Contemporary Societies
Racial Borders
Didier Fassin, chair Moral Questions and Political Issues in Contemporary Societies
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Presentation In many countries, border control has become a major political issue, raising moral questions about the treatment of refugees and migrants. A rarely studied dimension of this phenomenon concerns the discrimination that takes place on these …
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Abstract I will use linguistic, historical, geographical and anthropological arguments to show that French cannot be considered an African language. On the other hand, French is unquestionably a major language of Africa today, thanks to its geopolitical …
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Summary Like biological species, languages adapt to changes in their ecologies and to the new environments into which they have been transplanted. How has French been influenced by the new communicative functions it performs in (ex-)colonial ecologies, …
10:00 to 11:00
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Exceptionally, the lecture takes place on a Tuesday. Abstract The Twelve Tables, in the 5th century BC, regulated a procedure known as manus iniectio (seizure) : the creditor was authorized to take the insolvent debtor to his home and keep him in chains. …
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Johann Chapoutot Johann Chapoutot is Professor of Contemporary History at Sorbonne University. A specialist in the history of Nazism, Germany and Western modernity, he is the author of ten books, translated into fifteen languages and awarded ten national …
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Abstract Alongside the proclamation of Europe in the setting in motion of political dramaturgy, the particularity of this continent can be defined by a continuum of learning that encompasses the entire period from the late Middle Ages to the present day. …
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In June 1882, the biblical scholar and Ethiopianist August Dillmann, professor at Berlin's Humboldt University, completed the foreword to the first part of the Proceedings of the Fifth Congress of Orientalists held in Berlin in September 1881 , which was …
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Nanofluidics at a crossroads
Lydéric Bocquet, chair Technological innovation Liliane Bettencourt
Nanofluidics at a crossroads
Lydéric Bocquet, chair Technological innovation Liliane Bettencourt
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Presentation This symposium is a continuation of the lecture on nanofluidics offered as part of the Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt chair. This world of infinitely small fluidics is the frontier where the continuum of fluid mechanics meets …
Harold E. Varmus
How Can Science and Its Benefits Be Shared Globally? How Medical Science Can Be Used in Developing Countries
Harold E. Varmus
How Can Science and Its Benefits Be Shared Globally? How Medical Science Can Be Used in Developing Countries
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Abstract In the final lecture, I will talk about the ways in which parts of the scientific enterprise are trying to create a world in which the opportunities to be a scientist and to share the benefits of science are available everywhere. I will talk …
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Abstract We describe a Galois analog of Bernstein's decomposition of the category of smooth representations of p-adic reductive groups, in which the enriched Langlands parameters play the role of irreducible objects. The latter will be divided into series …
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Abstract Implantable neurotechnologies are systems made up of several components that enable them to interface with the nervous system in a programmable and autonomous way. They comprise electrodes, a processor, a battery, connectors and cables, …
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A.I.-generated artist's impression of a cancer cell. …
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