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Abstract What to do with lost works ? A typology of lost works helps answer this question. There are nine types of lost works. 1. Works of which all trace and memory are lost : these are potential works, which are nothing more than " promises ", as …

In the introduction to the first day of the Decameron , two pigs are reported to have been contaminated by the rags of a plague victim . Based on a micro-reading of this scene, the lecture proposes a political anthropology of the metamorphoses and …

Shaul Bassi Shaul Bassi is Professor of English Literature at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where he directs the Master's Degree in Environmental Humanities. His publications include a critical edition of Othello (Marsilio 2009), Visions of Venice in …

This civilization, which seems so far removed from our own, is nonetheless at its origin... We will try to identify the elements inherited from Mesopotamia that still structure our own civilization, starting with certain elements of our timekeeping …

Abstract Victims have dethroned heroes in the pantheon of people celebrated by Western societies. The morality of honor that animated these heroes and shaped collective memories has been disaffected. The archives of the Belgian and French Communist …

Abstract The climatic influence of the global overturning circulation can be studied using numerical models representing the atmosphere and ocean, as well as sea and continental ice. A variety of models, from the simplest (conceptual) to the most …

Abstract According to Merel Semeijn, in addition to our stable representation of the real world, we have a workspace that houses, among other things, the temporary representations we construct during our fictional immersion. The objection to this idea is …

Abstract Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) is one of the most powerful framework to observe and leverage quantum phenomena. While it has been thoroughly studied for simple quantum systems such as two-level systems or harmonic oscillators, it has only …

This lecture will look at how the genetic and genomic study of non-human primates, such as chimpanzees or macaques, can provide us with essential information on the genes and immune pathways involved in host defense against pathogens, providing knowledge …

Meritocracy, education and employment. From Max Weber and Durkheim to the present day. …

Abstract In these two lectures (March 18 and 25, 2022), we describe a powerful method for treating the case of an interacting Bose gas, the Bogoliubov approach. This approach makes it possible to describe the gas's ground state as well as its low-energy …