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Frédéric Fruteau de Laclos is a senior lecturer in philosophy. He teaches at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and is a member of the Sorbonne's Centre d'histoire des philosophies modernes (Hiphimo, EA 1451). He is deputy director of this …

Historian Christophe Prochasson is Director of Studies at EHESS, an institution he chaired from 2017 to 2022. He has published numerous articles and books on the political and intellectual history of socialism, including several on the history of the …

Essayist and novelist Frédéric Gros is Professor of Political Humanities at Sciences Po Paris. He edited Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France between 1981 and 1984, and directed the publication of his works in the Bibliothèque de la …

Emmanuel Jousse , agrégé and doctor in history, is a lecturer in contemporary history at the Institut d'études politiques de Lyon and a researcher at LARHRA. He is the author of Reviser le marxisme ? D'Édouard Bernstein à Albert Thomas (L'Harmattan, 2007) …

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a member of the Académie des technologies. Her books include Paul Langevin. Science et vigilance (Belin, 1987) …

Professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Annie L. Cot specializes in the history of economic theory, economic philosophy and the epistemology of the social sciences. She has worked on Jeremy Bentham and classical utilitarianism, …

Nicolas Delalande is a professor at the Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po. His work focuses on the history of the state, social movements and political economy. His publications include Les Batailles de l'impôt. Consentement et résistances de 1789 à nos …

Michael Drolet is Senior Research Fellow in the History of Political Thought at Worcester College, Oxford University. He works mainly on nineteenth-century French liberalism and socialism . He is the author of numerous articles on the work of the …

Antoine Compagnon , Académie française, Professor Emeritus, Collège de France, Chair Modern and contemporary French literature : history, criticism, theory, Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York. …

Abstract This first paper will present the history of publications of Paleo-Babylonian archival texts from 1882 to the present : no fewer than 35 192 texts have now been published in full, with a pace that accelerated considerably after the Second World …

Abstract This lecture will give an overview of the groups of Old Babylonian tablets that have been looted from Iraq since the 1990s. As Assyriologists working on the OB period, we face this mountain of unprovenanced and looted material and have to think …

Abstract The cuneiform collection of the Hearst Museum in Berkeley still contains a significant number of unpublished tablets, particularly from the Paleo-Babylonian period. In collaboration with Mr. Viano of the University of Turin, a project to study …

Abstract The present talk deals with some peculiar cuneiform tablets and fragments in the British Museum's Kuyunjik Collection: these tablets are substantially earlier than what is commonly referred to as Ashurbanipal's library in Nineveh and were …

Abstract The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg houses a collection of ca. 2,500 cuneiform tablets, representing almost every period in the evolution of this ancient script. The majority of the Hermitage's tablets were originally acquired by Nikolai …

Abstract Numerous Paleobabylonian administrative texts, discovered since the late 80s in the Larsa region, record foodstuffs (grain and flour) and animals (sheep, cattle and pigs) intended for meals ( naptanum ). D. Charpin and A. Jacquet had reviewed …

Abstract A hundred tablets studied from 2014 at Cornell University (USA), before their return to Iraq, represent part of a larger set of administrative " archives " from the kingdom of Larsa. Most of these are letters from Sasiya, an important figure in …

Abstract This paper will focus on a group of individuals at Sippar who have in common that they define themselves, in their seal legends, as servants of the deity Ilabrat. This was shown by D. Charpin (Charpin, Dominique (1990), " Les divinités familiales …

Abstract The story of the " archives of Lagaba " is that of a long rediscovery of texts (nearly 500 in all) scattered among collections of tablets mostly built up in the 1930s. It began with the identification in the 1950s by W. F. Leemans and R. Frankena …