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The paroxysmal moment of the second plague pandemic, which spread across Europe from 1347 onwards, is traditionally referred to as the "Black Death". It remains the greatest demographic catastrophe in human history. Today, its study is an …
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So why did you choose to work on the history of Assyriology this year? No doubt out of a desire for a change, after two years spent studying Babylonia under Hammu-rabi's successors. More than that, out of a desire not to focus too exclusively on the …
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More attention has been paid to "ultimate works" in painting and music than in literature, to Schubert 's Schwanengesang , to Poussin's L'Hiver . In part, but not exclusively, this will be a reflection on the end of literary careers, with models as …
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English version European Night of Ideas at the Collège de France More information on the news page dedicated to this event …
20:00 to 23:00
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16:10 to 16:45
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Abstract From the 1950s onwards, and even more so in the 60s and 70s, the architectural works of such pre-war tenors as Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra were considered to be under Japanese influence and associated with Japonism. Taking advantage of …
15:00 to 16:00
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Abstract Japanese in the U.S., American in Japan, a modernist in search of the timeless essence of sculpture, Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) entered the field of the garden with the 1956 commission from Marcel Breuer for the permanent headquarters of Unesco in …
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Abstract Tanizaki Jun.ichirō's Éloge de l'ombre and Roland Barthes' L'Empire des signes seem to postulate the existence of two stable, antagonistic cultural systems: Japan and the East on one side, and the West on the other. Each would have its own …
14:30 to 15:00
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14:00 to 14:35
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11:40 to 12:15
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Abstract The posterity of Pierre Loti's Madame Chrysanthème (1888) extends well beyond the 19th century . Foujita's 1926 illustrations gave it a new lease of life. A year later, the famous Japanese artist from Montparnasse illustrated L'Honorable Partie …
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