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Jan-Werner Müller
Challenges for democracy
Guest lecturer
Event
Abstract The first conference addresses the challenges facing democracy in Europe today. It focuses in particular on the consolidation of autocratic structures in some EU member states. The question arises as to whether the EU has the duty and ability to …
17:30 to 18:30

Salikoko S. Mufwene
Conclusion : the differential evolution of French around the world
Lecture
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Summary The evolution of French is multilinear and the result of contacts with other languages, which give rise to a variety of linguistic structures. In the different ecologies where French cohabits with "   partner languages   ", can we hope for …
10:00 to 11:00

Denis Duboule
SEM-type" integrated "pseudo-embryos. Manufacturing and future potential
Lecture
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Abstract Integrated pseudo-embryos  ; definition, characterization and mouse/human comparison. Experimental potential and some ethical and social issues. This fourth   lesson deals with the most advanced form of the various human pseudo-embryos covered in …
17:00 to 19:00

François Héran
Migration and health (1)
Symposium
Event
09:00 to 18:00

Gilles Kepel et Rémi Brague
" Go and set the world on fire   from the extension book
Seminar
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Gilles Kepel Senior Honorary Member of the Institut Universitaire de France since 2010 and University Professor, Gilles Kepel specializes in the political and religious sociology of the contemporary Middle East. His work also focuses on the political …
15:45 to 16:45

Peter Sloterdijk
" Go and set the world on fire   from the extension book
Lecture
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Abstract A strategic and spiritual parallel can be drawn between the maxim attributed to Ignatius of Loyola, " Go and set the world on fire ! " and the motto of Philip II of Spain, Orbis non sufficit (" The world is not enough "). Both expressions mark …
14:30 to 15:30

Frantz Grenet & Ching Chao-jung
A New Reading of Chinese Accounts on the Yuezhi and Early Kushans, in Relation with the Recently Discovered Inscriptions at Almosi (Tajikistan) (5)
Seminar
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Exceptionally, this seminar will be held on a Monday. …
10:30 to 12:00

Multiple lights
Antoine Lilti, chair History of the Enlightenment, 18th-21st century
Symposium
Series
" The Enlightenment usually refers to an intellectual movement that developed in Europe in the 18th  century. Its limits, unity and coherence are debated, as are its legacies, but its anchorage in this specific moment and place in world history is rarely …
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Solitude in a crowd
Mieke Bal, chair The invention of Europe through languages and cultures
Symposium
Series
Photograph Refugees , 1916 Clarence Sinclair Bull, American, 1896-1979. Gelatin silver print, 9 1/2 × 12 1/2" (24.2 × 31.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Thomas Walther. Digital image courtesy The Museum of …

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 …

Bảo Châu Ngô
Geometric representation theory (5)
Seminar
Event
15:30 to 16:30

Bảo Châu Ngô
Lafforgue transformation
Lecture
Event
14:00 to 15:00

Carlo Cecchetto
The challenge of simultaneity. Is it possible to produce two sentences at the same time ?
Seminar
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With simultaneous French-LSF interpretation. Abstract Research on bimodal bilinguals has shown that, if distinct articulators are involved, the same sentence can be produced simultaneously in a speech language and in a sign language. Based on this …
11:30 to 13:00

Frantz Grenet & Ching Chao-jung
A New Reading of Chinese Accounts on the Yuezhi and Early Kushans, in Relation with the Recently Discovered Inscriptions at Almosi (Tajikistan) (4)
Seminar
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10:30 to 12:00

Luigi Rizzi
Sentence mapping and interfaces
Lecture
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Abstract Structure mapping tackles the issue of syntactic complexity by attempting to draw maps as detailed as possible of the internal structure of phrases and sentences across languages and dialects (Rizzi   & Cinque 2016). But how can we map an …
10:00 to 11:30

Kyle Harper
From an unstable past to a sustainable future : learning from climate history
Symposium
Event
09:00 to 18:00

Workshop Ergaleion 2 : Words, contexts and occurrences
Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology
Symposium
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Dario Mantovani
The metaphors are endless
Lecture
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Abstract Metaphors are ubiquitous, not only in literary texts, but also in everyday language and even in technical languages such as law. In this sense, they are endless, and the angles from which they can be studied are manifold. In this, our final …
14:30 to 15:30

Marc Henneaux
Classical deformations of gauge theories
Lecture
Event
14:30 to 16:00

Damien Boquet et Zrinka Stahuljak
Homosexuality in love: an untold story?
Seminar
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17:00 to 19:00

Louis Fensterbank
Introduction
Symposium
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09:00 to 09:10

Didier Fassin
Introduction
Symposium
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09:00 to 09:30

Cécile B. Vigouroux
Migration and the Vitality of French in Sub-Saharan Africa : from colonial trading to contemporary African migration within the continent
Seminar
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Abstract In this presentation, we will reflect on the social and economic dynamics that contribute to the linguistic vitality of French in sub-Saharan Africa, from its introduction on the continent's west coast in the 16th   century to the present day. …
11:15 to 12:15

Salikoko S. Mufwene
Les " passeurs de francophonie " dans le monde : vrais ou faux francophones ?
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Summary In the discourse of the Francophonie, the term passeur describes people who, through their emigration, spread the French language to non-French-speaking territories. Is there necessarily a correlation between coming from a French-speaking country …
10:00 to 11:00