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Claude Grison

The exploration of life by the various scientific disciplines : a history of scale
Lecture
Abstract Carbon dioxide is essential to life, and lies at the heart of nature's riches. Plants, algae and cyanobacteria convert CO2 like chemical factories powered by solar energy. They implement the unique and inspiring mechanisms of photosynthesis, …
10:00 to 11:00
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Markus Saur

"There is no end to the multiplication of books." (Ecclesiastes 12:12). The Book of Ecclesiastes in the history of literature
Guest lecturer
Documents et médias Télécharger le support Résumé Au début du livre de Qohélet se trouve David : le titre en Eccl 1,1 désigne Qohélet comme fils de David, roi à Jérusalem. Il s’agit d’une référence implicite à Salomon, fils de David sur le trône de …
11:00 to 12:00
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Yvon Maday

Preserving structures
Lecture
09:30 to 11:00
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Philippe Sansonetti

The hospital of the future (1)
Special events
09:00 to 09:15
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Information Flow and Computation in Living Systems

Thomas Lecuit, chair Dynamics of Living Systems
Symposium
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Daniel Mendelsohn

The Odyssey and its migrations: displacement, wandering, identity
Guest lecturer
Abstract Homer's Odyssey has long been recognized as the West's quintessential founding text on voyages of discovery, serving as a model for works as varied as Dante's Inferno and television's Star Trek . For, in the course of his decade-long return from …
18:00 to 19:00
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Michael Doyle

More than Just Peace
Guest lecturer
Image generated with A.I. Michael Doyle is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Samantha Besson. The conference is in English. Abstract John Rawls's publication of The Law of Peoples was a profound attempt to design a …
11:00 to 12:00
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Dominique Charpin

Aššur and Ekallatum
Lecture
11:00 to 12:00
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Petra Sijpesteijn

Getting your message across: practical aspects of letter writing
Guest lecturer
Abstract For a petition letter to be effective, it must present the action needed to solve the problem to the right person, in the most convincing way possible. This is precisely what the second and third conferences will cover. This lecture examines …
15:00 to 16:00
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What is consciousness, and what are its brain mechanisms?

Stanislas Dehaene, chair Experimental Cognitive Psychology
Lecture
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In the cities: Greece as a sacrificial culture

Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, chair Religion, History and Society in the Ancient Greek World
Lecture
Attic columned black-figure krater . London, British Museum 1837.0609.38. Side A: Sacrifice scene in front of a hermaic pillar . Date: circa 520-510 B.C. Presentation For at least a millennium, the Greek world has been bloodying altars to pay homage to …
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Claude Grison

Symbioses : from plant/microbe mutualism to the symbiotic economy
Symposium
Abstract Life is animated by a secret life of encounters, interactions and associations that are sometimes unsuspected. These biotic interactions can be beneficial, ineffective or harmful. On the whole, interactions are most often mutually beneficial …
10:00 to 11:00
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Edouard Bard

Collapse of Viking settlements in Greenland
Lecture
15:00 to 16:30
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Didier Fassin

Moral
Lecture
14:00 to 15:00
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Sandra Lavorel

Towards a functional ecology of landscapes
Lecture
Abstract This lecture will address the research front on the effects of landscape structure on its multiple functions. After summarizing the effects of landscape composition, it will focus on the most recent findings on the effects of spatial …
14:00 to 15:30
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Mathieu Potte-Bonneville

Is a policy without a horizon possible ?
Seminar
16:30 to 18:00
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Stanislas Dehaene

The relationship between consciousness and working memory, and clinical applications
Lecture
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11:00 to 12:30
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Readings from Sanskrit philosophical texts: On pseudo-perceptions and perceptual error in the Dharmakīrtian tradition

Isabelle Ratié, chair History of Indian Systems of Thought
Seminar
The Buddha tempted by the armies of Māra, Kashmir, 8th c. (detail), Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain. Presentation This year's seminar will be held in English, and participation requires a good knowledge of Sanskrit. It will be devoted to a reading …
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Denis Duboule

The disappearance of the tail in great apes
Lecture
Documents and media Download support Abstract Review of key points from previous lesson. History of the T locus and cloning of the Tbxt gene. Potential importance of this gene in tail loss in hominids, following an exon skipping phenomenon specific to …
10:00 to 11:30
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Petra Sijpesteijn

Shared values
Guest lecturer
Abstract This lecture focuses on the language of petition letters in order to reconstruct the underlying value system. By comparing the arguments presented, the values invoked, the expectations raised and the presuppositions formulated in the letters—in …
15:00 to 16:00
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Anne Cheng

Introduction
Symposium
09:30 to 09:45
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Anne Alombert

From alphabetical to digital writing : the origins and future of democracy
Symposium
1/Public space captured by digital technology …
10:15 to 10:45
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Benoît Sagot

Democracy and information reliability in the age of generative AI
Symposium
1/Public space captured by digital technology …
11:00 to 11:30
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Mark Hunyadi

Cybernetics and the democratic spirit
Symposium
1/Public space captured by digital technology …
11:30 to 12:00