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Peccot Lecture Series Since 1885, thanks to an endowment from the family of mathematician Claude-Antoine Peccot, the Collège de France has awarded annual prizes to young mathematicians under the age of 30 who have distinguished themselves in theoretical …
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Ukraine, monotype. Perry Anderson has been invited by the Collège de France assembly, at the suggestion of Prs Samantha Besson, Edith Heard, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge and Thomas Römer. Perry Anderson This series of four lectures by Perry Anderson in …
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Symposium organized in partnership with the Collège de France, the German Historical Institute (DHIP) and the Center for Historical Ontology (CHO). All day June 27 and morning June 28 at the German Historical Institute 8, rue du Parc-Royal, 75003 Paris …
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17:30 to 18:00
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Colloquium organized in partnership with the SND laboratory of the Université Paris-Sorbonne on June 8 at the Maison de la recherche and on June 9 at the Collège de France. With the support of : Sciences, Norms, Democracy (UMR 8011/ Sorbonne …
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10:00 to 10:15
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Introduced by Cillian Nolan (Director of Policy, J-PAL Europe) Moderated by Ilf Bencheikh , Director of Training, Finance and Operations, J-PAL …
10:45 to 11:15
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18:10 to 18:30
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Abstract The aim of this paper is to examine the relevance of the notion of polis-religion for Late Antiquity, and more specifically for the post-Constantinian era. Two aspects will be analyzed : firstly, the possible reorganization of civic religion in …
12:45 to 13:45
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Abstract The entrance ceremony ( apantèsis ), a specimen of the cult of rulers in Hellenistic times, has been the subject of readings vacillating between politics and religion : a simple tool of domination according to historiography of the early 20th …
11:45 to 12:45
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Abstract Historiography has generally classified the historiettes engraved on Anatolian confession stelae, like the mystical experience (that of initiation at Eleusis, which I'll take as an example), as individual and personal religious experiences, or …
10:30 to 11:30
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Abstract The example of divination enriches the debate on religious polis . The classicists had long since freed the Greek political sphere, and all decision-making power, from the influence of religion. Relying on the " rationalism " of the elites, …
17:30 to 18:30
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Abstract The notions of polis-religion and civic religion were first used to characterize the specificity of Greek and Roman polytheistic experience in relation to Christianity. Recent criticisms have highlighted the importance of individual and …
16:30 to 17:30
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Abstract The notion polis religion has been the focus of debate in recent decades and its applicability to Greek religion questioned, in particular concerning its relevance for covering the religious activity of individuals. Most discussions have taken …
15:00 to 16:00
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Abstract From Cretan mnemonics to Athenian exegetes, the Greek cities of the 6th and 5th  centuries frequently entrusted the preservation of their laws to one or more persons charged with verbalizing them on various occasions. The status of these speech …
14:00 to 15:00
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Abstract Modern scholars discuss the foundation of cults in human terms, often through the opposition of public and private, city and individual. The Greeks themselves could also speak in this way, but on other levels - and not only that of myth - they …
11:30 to 12:30
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Abstract The polis-religion model was born to explain the dynamics of authority in a tradition without church and dogma. A good way to test the efficacy of the model is therefore to assess it in the light of the Greek vision of authority understood as …
10:30 to 11:30
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© Flick - Kokorowashinjin Prof. Jörg  Jörg Stolz is invited by the Collège de France assembly, at the suggestion of Prof. Thomas Römer. Jörg Stolz Leading sociologists of religion have argued that European secularization is a global exception (Berger et …
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Moderated by Iqbal Dhaliwal, J-PAL Global Executive Director. …
18:00 to 18:30
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Moderated by Iqbal Dhaliwal (J-PAL Global Executive Director). …
16:15 to 17:30
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Moderated by Iqbal Dhaliwal (J-PAL Global Executive Director). …
15:15 to 15:45