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The last two years of Champollion's all-too-brief life were crucial. On his return to Paris on March 5 1830, he had taken a decisive step towards the deciphering of hieroglyphics. The sixteen months he had just spent in Egypt, in contact with its …
6:00 - 7:00pm
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Chairman : Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Abstract Meroitic was the language spoken in ancient times in the land of Kush, north of present-day Sudan. During the last phase of this civilization, strongly influenced by Pharaonic Egypt, known as the kingdom of …
11:20am - 12:00pm
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Chairman : Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Abstract In September 1822, the publication of Lettre à M. Dacier marked a fundamental step in the long road that led Jean-François Champollion to the deciphering of the hieroglyphs : in it, he emphasized the …
10:40 - 11:20am
Jean-Luc Fournet
Why only in 1822 ? Epistemological obstacles to the deciphering of hieroglyphics
Jean-Luc Fournet
Why only in 1822 ? Epistemological obstacles to the deciphering of hieroglyphics
Symposium
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Chairman : Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Abstract Jean-François Champollion's deciphering of the hieroglyphs was a thunderclap in the skies of historical studies, and its impact may not be fully appreciated - to the extent that it has become the paradigm par …
10:00 - 10:40am
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Abstract In his Little Nemo in Slumberland series, published in the New York Herald from 1905 onwards, Winsor McCay (1869-1934) used the world of dreams to give free rein to the most dazzling visual transformations. Each Sunday page had to be spectacular …
11:00am - 12:00pm
Benoît Peeters
Uses of the page
Benoît Peeters
Uses of the page
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The page - or the plate - is the other fundamental unit of the comic strip. However, it's not taken for granted : Töpffer produced his stories in horizontal format, on a single strip. Monsieur Crépin , Monsieur Pencil or Doctor Festus could be presented …
10:00 - 11:00am
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Discussion in English. Kamini Vellodi Dr Kamini Vellodi is Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Tintoretto's Difference. Deleuze, Diagrammatics and Art History, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 and Series …
3:00 - 4:00pm
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In these two nouns, the preposition functions differently still. Intermediality draws attention to the fundamental impurity of the media. No media product - whether considered text, image, sound or movement - can do without the often almost imperceptible …
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2:30 - 4:00pm
Revolution as hope
Yadh Ben Achour, chair Francophone Worlds
Revolution as hope
Yadh Ben Achour, chair Francophone Worlds
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Having foreseen the fatal advent of the French Revolution as early as 1785, Joachim Cerruti published his Mémoire pour le peuple français in 1788 . In it, he warned: "The subject of our hopes has become the subject of our disputes". The hope of justice is …
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Documents and media Download support …
10:00 - 11:30am
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Documents and media Download support …
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Abstract The traditional historiography of studies on the ancient countryside has always emphasized the role played by large rural estates, dotted with luxurious villae , in the economy and expansion of the Roman period. The production of oil and wine, …
10:00 - 11:30am