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Abstract In times of armed conflict, the protection of water and access to this resource require special attention. Certain rules of international humanitarian law, human rights law, environmental law and the law of international watercourses help to …

Abstract Ostraca are not the preferred medium for inscribing literary texts ; literary texts are not common in the mountains of Egypt's eastern desert. However, a handful of literary ostraca in Greek were recently found in a small gold-mining village not …

While the word mētēr nestles at the very heart of her name, Demeter also receives a whole series of epithets that make up her onomastic landscape, whether in poetry or prose, in texts from the manuscript tradition or in inscriptions. Yet this type of …

Abstract To delve into primary school teaching, we draw on Papyrus Bouriant  1, the book of a 6th   century teacher, supplemented by other papyrological evidence. This apprenticeship was based on four successive missions : (1) Learning to write. Pupils …

Abstract One of the challenges of astrophysics and cosmology is to study complex non-linear processes using an often limited number of multi-component observations. This task is made all the more difficult by the fact that the physical modeling of these …

Abstract Jaynes maximum entropy models link statistical physics to data modeling. A probability distribution is specified by moments (expectations of generating functions) maximizing its entropy, which amounts to making explicit the fact that we have no …

Abstract Electrochemical energy storage (batteries, supercapacitors), driven mainly by the development of electric mobility, has now become a major societal and economic challenge (reducing dependence on fossil fuels and combating CO2 emissions). …

The movement of ions across nanopores, or nanoporous membranes, is the elementary process at the heart of most transport issues in biological membranes, or in separation, desalination or osmotic energy technologies. The problem is a priori simple in terms …

The session opens with a tribute to Daniel Roche, who passed away on February 19 2023 . From 1999 to 2005, he held the chair at the Collège de France, Histoire de la France des Lumières, and profoundly renewed the social and cultural history of the modern …

The lecture will juxtapose religious approaches, with an analysis of funeral rites and what is inaccurately referred to as the " ancestor cult ", with a legal study of the ways in which inheritances are …

Abstract Everyone is familiar with the term " biodiversity ". But what does this apparently simple term  actually mean? We hear it over and over again: " biodiversity is in crisis ". Are we on the verge of a sixth extinction, with ourselves as the cause ? …

Humans occupy a place like any other in the tree of life. Every species alive today is endowed with remarkable properties. Nevertheless, humans today occupy a special place on Earth : they have a strong impact on ecosystems, and it is the first time in …

Abstract The presentation of an episode from Osamu Tezuka's immense Phoenix saga, produced over the course of his career, will provide an opportunity to read and see a certain conception of metamorphosis, of the forms taken by life, and of comics as the …

Abstract The conduct of a state's external relations includes the management of transboundary natural resources, including international rivers and groundwater. Promoting respect for the law enables riparian states to seek stability and cooperation in the …

Abstract Disputes may arise over the distribution of water resources or over the increasing scarcity of access to these resources. It is important to prevent tensions and conflicts from arising in these areas. Various diplomatic and judicial mechanisms …