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Abstract I will outline how different tree-ring data and methods can be used to better understand the direct and indirect effects of large volcanic eruptions on the Earth's climate system and how past climate variations have impacted ecological and …

Abstract The Little Ice Age is one of the most pronounced episodes of climate change at the end of the Holocene. The global panorama of failures and successes has been carefully studied by climate and social historians, and provides a series of case …

Lecture plan 2.2. Funny lecture rooms ! Or the empire of the school tag (continued) 2.2.2. An open-air classroom ? (continued) 2.3. and the papyri ? Exercises delivered by monasteries 2.3.1. What functions ? The pitfall of interpretation Liturgical or …

Abstract "   It is to language, and to language alone, that fictional entities owe their existence, their impossible yet indispensable existence   ". We can add to this statement by Jeremy Bentham, father of utilitarianism, by pointing out that language, …

Abstract Can we escape censorship and authority by "   realizing sexually   ", or by speaking freely about it  ? In 1975, when Pier-Paolo Pasolini wrote his poignant "   j' abjure la Trilogie de la vie   ", Michel Foucault questioned this "  l' hypothèse …

Abstract How do we read  ? By "   postextual   ", as Franc Schuerewegen puts it, in other words, by questioning the authority of the text. Indeed, the text is very little. It is a series of instructions for making an object that begins to exist when the …

Documents and media Download support Abstract Any theory of interpretation must start from the naïve, empirical experience  : what American critic Michael Warner calls uncritical reading , the uncritical, unprofessional reading of the standard reader. The …

Abstract This second lecture will focus on the development of sensory representations in the cerebral cortex and the emerging roles of different phases of spontaneous and evoked activity in their construction and plasticity. It will focus on recent work …

Abstract The pantheonization of Abbé Grégoire in 1989, alongside Monge and Condorcet, sparked off unexpected debates that focused not only on his activities as a priest who rallied to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, but also on his role in the …

Abstract Largely neglected in the course of the 20th   century, affect was gradually rehabilitated towards the end of the century by certain works in psychology  : Zajonc (1980, 2000) in particular defends the idea that affect can intervene in the …

Abstract The thesis that the content of judgment is constituted by the mental act of attributing to something (the subject) a property (the predicate) runs up against two objections. The first is the putative existence of simple (one-term) judgment …

Abstract Examples of environmental impacts on the animal kingdom. Documents and media Download support …

Abstract The region known as theban (Upper Egypt), populated by monastic establishments of various types, has yielded thousands of texts written on pottery shards or limestone chips, mostly in Coptic ( 6th-8th   centuries). School texts are far from being …

Abstract This presentation focuses on the numerical simulation of granular materials and suspensions. Contacts between grains lead to singular interactions for which adapted numerical schemes must be developed. We take as our starting point models of the …