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Against the backdrop of the Roman conception of "  natura  ", and in particular Cicero's De natura deorum , the lecture will offer an interpretation of a famous, powerful and enigmatic text by Ulpian (D. 1.1.3-4 and D. 1.1.6). Three categories of law are …

Abstract Horapollon, whom we met in the Dioscore anthology, is a famous figure in 5th-century Alexandria   , who will serve as our guide into the world of higher learning. At the crossroads of networks Alexandria 's position as an interface between its …

Abstract With climate change and population growth, securing water resources has become one of the greatest challenges of the coming decades. To meet growing demand, water must be recovered and purified. In this context, the development of membranes with …

Membrane separation is at the heart of technologies for the remediation and purification of water and fluids in general. Membranes are generally made of polymeric materials that achieve separation by steric or electrostatic effect. The underlying vision …

Abstract After the Second World War, Roger Caillois played a key role within UNESCO in the creation of a world heritage of literature. One of his initiatives was to have the classics translated, which involved drawing up a list of them, identifying the …

Abstract Literature is both the power and the enactment of the properties of language, but it realizes only some of them. The case of Rousseau shows that the proper name takes on three essential values for him, and constitutes one of the focal points of …

Abstract While Paul Valéry's criticism in the years 1920 focused on the commercial value of his work (the relationship between actual work and the price of publications), it also concerned his intellectual value. This offensive against the work itself, …

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This conference is not available in audio or video. European construction, built on the ruins of the great European powers in the aftermath of the Second World War, has maintained an uncomfortable relationship with military power, which is too closely …

Internal difficulties within couples could lead to divorce. A family's worsening economic situation sometimes resulted in the pledging of certain members, or even imprisonment for debt. In the event of military defeat, whole families were sometimes …

Abstract With the consolidation of the centralized state around the Three Readings of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism (tam giáo ) , and the predominance of Confucianism from the 15th century onwards, women lost their political prerogatives over time. …

Abstract " Hide the causes of the crisis from us . I propose to examine together another way of reading the ecological crisis. Not by exposing the symptoms that scientific ecology has been scrutinizing for decades, but rather by identifying what …

History of domestication. How domestication changed our perception of the living world. GMOs. Genetic forcing. Documents and media Download …

This conference is not available in audio or video. This conference will examine the enlargement of the European Union after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dismemberment of the Soviet Union. The horizon of peace is no longer limited to the West, but …

Abstract In Western countries today, the horse is no more than a leisure animal. Even yesterday, however, they occupied a central place in our societies. Fast as lightning, they carried our ancestors around the world, their cultures, languages and germs, …

Learning is essential. School, college, high school, university, vocational training, work... are all opportunities to develop the potential of each individual, from fundamental disciplinary knowledge (reading, spelling, mathematics...) to human values …

This lecture will look at the settlement of Asia, or the " Asians ", as well as Oceania. We will see how ancient DNA data have revealed an extremely complex history ; from the disappearance of certain human populations, through a large number of …

Abstract Kinetically Constrained Spin Models (KCSM) are interacting particle systems on integer latticeswhich have been introduced by physicists in the 80's to model the liquid/glass transition and more generally the "glassy behaviour" occurring in a wide …

The seminar is cancelled. Abstract Quantum networks are tailor-made large-scale quantum systems with applications ranging from quantum computation to communication. Elementary networks with limited capabilities have been demonstrated, but realizing a …