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This year's lecture concerns quantum systems in which low-energy excitations cannot be described in terms of quasiparticles. The transport properties of these systems are unusual and different from a usual Fermi liquid ("strange metal"), with, for …
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After two years of evolution, the Covid-19 pandemic continues its global progression. Waves, now supported by the appearance of SARS-CoV-2 genotypic variants, follow one another. An increase in the transmissibility of the virus, without an exacerbation of …
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Abstract Translated into Armenian as early as the 5th century, shortly after the creation of the alphabet and at the same time as the first versions of the Bible and the Church Fathers, the Roman d'Alexandre is the only Armenian translation of a secular …
14:00 to 15:00
Nils P. Heeßel
The exclusivity of knowledge
Nils P. Heeßel
The exclusivity of knowledge
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Abstract A very important factor in the emergence of scholarship was to prohibit access to knowledge acquired by unauthorized persons, and to prevent the number of scholars from growing too large. This lecture will outline how the transmission of …
11:30 to 12:30
Orhan Pamuk
Creativity and Control
Orhan Pamuk
Creativity and Control
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Orhan Pamuk, world-renowned writer and essayist, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, has been invited by the Collège de France Assembly at the suggestion of Prof. William Marx . In this series of four lectures, Orhan Pamuk will seek to combine …
17:30 to 18:30
Edda Vardanyan
The Armenian version of the Roman d'Alexandre : Christianizing an ancient ruler
Edda Vardanyan
The Armenian version of the Roman d'Alexandre : Christianizing an ancient ruler
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Abstract From the 14th century onwards, the Roman d'Alexandre underwent considerable metamorphosis, with the aim of changing the image of the conqueror into a veritable " mirror of princes ". Appendices were added, transforming the novel of a pagan …
14:00 to 15:00
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Abstract Very early on, interesting explanations in epics and myths showed how scholars in the Ancient East imagined the emergence of " knowledge of the world " and cultural techniques. In the first millennium BC, numerous texts show how scholars placed …
11:30 to 12:30
Orhan Pamuk
Inventing and Following a Character
Orhan Pamuk
Inventing and Following a Character
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Orhan Pamuk, world-renowned writer and essayist, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, has been invited by the Collège de France Assembly at the suggestion of Prof. William Marx . In this series of four lectures, Orhan Pamuk will seek to combine …
17:30 to 18:30
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10:30 to 11:30
Solar energy and society
Daniel Lincot, chair Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt
Solar energy and society
Daniel Lincot, chair Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt
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istock With the advent of an industrial society based on abundant energy from fossil fuels, the relationship between society and solar energy has changed profoundly. It has gone from being an indispensable resource, via wind and water power or the biomass …
Ronald Hendel
The Bible and collective memory
Ronald Hendel
The Bible and collective memory
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The Queen of Sheba meets King Solomon, Ethiopia Abstract Memory, as Proust would say, builds a continuity between the present and the past in which the self discovers itself. Collective memory constructs a similar temporal continuity for a community. We …
11:00 to 12:00
Hervé Douville
Principles, methods, key findings and suggestions for improving IPCC assessment reports
Hervé Douville
Principles, methods, key findings and suggestions for improving IPCC assessment reports
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Abstract Since 1990, the date of its first report , the IPCC has regularly provided assessments that are as comprehensive and objective as possible of scientific information concerning the physical basis of climate change (WG1), its impacts, vulnerability …
17:00 to 19:00
Jérôme Deauvieau et Paul Gioia
Teaching practices and school inequalities at the beginning of the written word
Jérôme Deauvieau et Paul Gioia
Teaching practices and school inequalities at the beginning of the written word
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Documents and media Download the PowerPoint presentation Download support in PDF format Abstract Social inequalities in learning to read and write appear very early on in school careers. How can this be explained ? To answer this question, we need to take …
17:30 to 18:30
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Abstract For a long time, it was assumed that Paleo-Babylonian knowledge was formulated in series in the second half of the second millennium BC, which spread throughout the Near East. In recent years, it has become clearer that this image is too simple …
11:30 to 12:30
Orhan Pamuk
The Paradox of the Novelist
Orhan Pamuk
The Paradox of the Novelist
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Orhan Pamuk, world-renowned writer and essayist, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, has been invited by the Collège de France Assembly at the suggestion of Prof. William Marx . In this series of four lectures, Orhan Pamuk will seek to combine …
17:30 to 18:30
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10:30 to 11:30
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International colloquium organized by the Institut des civilisations, in collaboration with the Bibliothèque Cujas, the Institut de recherche Montesquieu of the University of Bordeaux and the Institut universitaire de …
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The possibility of simultaneously cooling different atomic species – or different spin components for the same species – opens the way to many novel phenomena in many-body quantum physics. The interaction between these components can be finely controlled …
Jessica Wilson
The Strong Emergence of Free Will
Jessica Wilson
The Strong Emergence of Free Will
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Conference in English co-organized by Prof. Claudine Tiercelin, Chair of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (IHPST and HiPhiMo). A cloud of starlings in the sky. Photo Progrès /Philippe TRIAS Abstract …
16:00 to 18:00
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A reminder of the Central Asian silver with Homeric subjects, co-studied with Anca Dan and seen last year. Sketch of new avenues of interpretation : moral lessons adapted to the local context ? A new example added to the debate : the Freer Gallery …
15:30 to 16:30
Nils P. Heeßel
Scribes and scholars
Nils P. Heeßel
Scribes and scholars
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Abstract While traditional Sumerian scholarship continued to flourish in Babylonia at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, an Akkadian-speaking elite developed in the main Amorite city-states, who could read and write and also produced Akkadian …
11:30 to 12:30