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Carlo Ossola Carlo Ossola (Turin 1946) is Honorary Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Modern Literature of Neolatin Europe . He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; and a fellow of the …
11:50am - 12:30pm
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Benoît Peeters Benoît Peeters was born in 1956. His first novel, Omnibus , was published by Editions de Minuit in 1976. Since then, he has published some sixty books, translated into many languages. An essayist and renowned comic-book specialist, …
11:10 - 11:50am
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Abstract In my talk, I wish to explore the thesis of virtual realism and establish the limits of successful virtualization. The thesis of virtual realism states that virtual environments and objects are real (as opposed to fictional) and that some virtual …
3:15 - 4:15pm
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Benedetta Zaccarello Benedetta Zaccarello is a researcher at the CNRS, working at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (CNRS/ENS), where she is in charge of the Valéry team. She coordinates the CNRS International Research Network (IRN), which …
10:10 - 10:50am
Katalin Farkas
Mona Lisa in the Matrix
Katalin Farkas
Mona Lisa in the Matrix
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Abstract It is customary to think that certain entities have irreplaceable value. The group of these entities include for example art works like the Mona Lisa, family heirlooms of great emotional significance, and, of course, people. In this talk, I …
2:15 - 3:15pm
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Claudine Tiercelin Claudine Tiercelin has held the Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge chair at the Collège de France since 2010, and has been a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques since 2017. Among her latest publications : …
9:30 - 10:10am
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Abstract At the turn of the 19th century, French psychiatrists discovered a couple of intriguingly philosophical disorders. Patients suffering from these disorders were characterized as "metaphysician doubters" or "pathological metaphysicians". They …
11:30am - 12:30pm
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Abstract My aim in this talk is to examine Chalmers' veridicalism, and more precisely i) to indicate a reason to doubt the cogency of one of his' arguments for veridicalism, ii) to argue that if BIVs' ordinary beliefs are true for the reasons indicated by …
10:15 - 11:15am
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Abstract In this presentation, I will do an ontological analysis of virtual reality, which will form the basis for an ethical analysis. I will present an analysis of what I call virtual ontology: the ontology of virtual environments and the actions and …
9:15 - 10:15am
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Conference in English, co-organized by Prof. Thomas Lecuit , Chair of Dynamics of Living Systems, and Prof. Jean-François Joanny , Chair of Soft Matter and Biophysics. Single and Collective Cell Motility Most cells, from their distant origins nearly 3.5 …
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Efficient Climate Policies in an Uncertain World
Christian Gollier, chair Avenir Commun Durable
Efficient Climate Policies in an Uncertain World
Christian Gollier, chair Avenir Commun Durable
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There is a strong scientific consensus among economists in favor of applying the polluter-pays principle to CO2 emissions, with no exemptions. However, there is no consensus on the level of the carbon price that should be imposed to align the interests of …
Evolution of Sex Chromosomes and Supergenes
Tatiana Giraud, chair Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Evolution of Sex Chromosomes and Supergenes
Tatiana Giraud, chair Biodiversity and Ecosystems
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Chromosomes Recombination is advantageous for populations because it enables more efficient selection, and therefore faster adaptation and purging of deleterious mutations. Yet genomic regions without recombination have repeatedly evolved in many …
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Variations in global ocean overturning circulation
Edouard Bard, chair Climate and Ocean Evolution
Variations in global ocean overturning circulation
Edouard Bard, chair Climate and Ocean Evolution
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Variations of the Global Overturning Circulation of the Ocean The aim of the colloquium is to provide an inventory of knowledge on the Global Overturning Circulation (GOC) of the ocean for the past, present and future. Its Atlantic component (AMOC: …
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Abstract Since the 19th century, the grey and scientific literature on the dynamics of change in the environments and landscapes of the Sahara and its margins has been full of catastrophic descriptions. The changes affecting them are frequently described …
4:00 - 5:00pm
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Abstract During the second half of the 20th century, the development of oil economies in North Africa and repeated drought in the Sahel transformed Saharan and trans-Saharan patterns of exchange and mobility, introducing a steep north-south gradient. With …
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Abstract First, we'll look at the history of the introduction and spread of religious brotherhoods in the Western Sahara (Mauritania and Morocco essentially), in particular the two great tarîqa : Qâdiriya and Tijâniya. The role of these brotherhoods in …
2:00 - 3:00pm
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4:45 - 5:30pm
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Abstract The spread of Islam gradually led to a new kind of globalization that connected different economic poles through trade routes from China to West Africa. The Sahara became the geographical center of one of these poles. Travelling across the desert …
4:00 - 4:45pm
Ismael Warscheid
Saharan Jurists, Islamic Legal Corpus and Scholarly Debates, 15th to 19th century
Ismael Warscheid
Saharan Jurists, Islamic Legal Corpus and Scholarly Debates, 15th to 19th century
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Abstract From the 15 th century onwards, the Saharan West became a major center of Islamic legal thought. The activities of Muslim jurists led to the formation of variegated intellectual and textual traditions spreading Islamic literacy and law among …
3:00 - 4:00pm
Bruce Hall
Manuscript Cultures and Library Collections of the Sahara, 15th century to the Present
Bruce Hall
Manuscript Cultures and Library Collections of the Sahara, 15th century to the Present
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Abstract The paper seeks to address the historical logics of circum/grand-Saharan textual practices and the values attributed to amassing collections of manuscripts. If, as Judith Scheele (2012) has argued, Saharan commercial capital was invested in nodal …
2:00 - 3:00pm
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Abstract Starting from the ḫaldunian paradigm of the opposition 'umrān badawī / 'umrān ḥaḍarī , nomadic culture / sedentary culture, this presentation will focus on highlighting the central role of agnatic solidarity (' aṣabiyya ) within the dominant …
11:00am - 12:00pm
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Abstract This presentation examines the history of Saharan and trans-Saharan trade from roughly the 1000s to the 1800s, a period extending from before the Almoravid movement, to eve of European conquest. It begins with a historiographical overview, which …
4:00 - 5:00pm