Share Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Copy url Search results Search 23189 results Filters Content type Content type (-) Lessons (23189) News (1640) People (1331) Chair (352) Editions (350) Page (229) Research (27) Library (14) Annual Chair (12) Award (6) Active filters Lessons Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Summoning the Nymphs (2) Lecture Abstract Hesiod's Theogony presents the birth of the Nymphs into the cosmos as Melian Nymphs (" of the ash trees "), following the castration of Ouranos by Kronos. This crime brings into the world a myriad of ambivalent entities and evils, including old … 27 Feb 2020 11:00 - 12:00 Event Carole Boidin The immaterial libraries of storytelling : the example of the Arabian Nights Seminar Abstract This paper examines a number of methodological issues specific to comparative literature, based on a work that has become a classic: the collection of tales from the Thousand and One Nights . The main aim is to analyze the worldwide circulation … 26 Feb 2020 15:00 - 16:00 Event William Marx Semiotics of new stars Lecture Abstract The previous week's exploration of the library of new stars focused on a vignette by Hergé from the comic strip, The Mysterious Star (1942) : Snowy's indifference to the new star contrasts with Tintin's wonder, a sign of a desire for adventure … 26 Feb 2020 14:00 - 15:00 Event Simon Thorpe Artificial intelligence and natural intelligence: towards bio-inspired AI Seminar Abstract For over thirty years, Simon Thorpe has been trying to understand how our brains manage to recognize images so quickly, despite the relative slowness of their neurons. He proposed that, given the speed of processing, much of it must be done with … 26 Feb 2020 11:00 - 12:30 Event Stéphane Mallat Convolutions and time-frequency representations Lecture Abstract An important source of a priori information is the geometric structure of the data indexing space, be it space for images, or time for audio signals. This parameterization defines groups of transformations such as translations. Linear and … 26 Feb 2020 09:30 - 11:00 Event Clément Sanchez Home Symposium 26 Feb 2020 08:45 - 09:00 Event Jean-Luc Fournet Texts about books (2) and hybrid books (1) Lecture Texts about books (2) We are struck by the rarity of non-Christian titles among the books cited in documents : between the 4th and 8th centuries , 58 letters and 22 lists (notes, inventories and catalogs) mention 402 Christian books, while only two … 26 Feb 2020 11:00 - 12:00 Series Asymptotic geometry of the group of exterior automorphisms of a free group Pierre-Louis Lions, chair Partial Differential Equations and Applications Guest lecturer 10 Jan 2018 → 31 Jan 2018 Event Clément Sanchez Soft Chemistry 2020 : Conclusions Lecture 25 Feb 2020 16:30 - 17:00 Event Bertrand Marchal Mallarmé and the end of literature Seminar 25 Feb 2020 17:45 - 18:45 Event Antoine Compagnon " It's a swan song " Lecture The swan song metaphor refers to the ultimate work. It reinforces the myth of the testamentary work and can be associated with the senile sublime. Poussin used this metaphor when addressing the collector Chantelou in 1657. At the age of 63 , he was … 25 Feb 2020 16:30 - 17:30 Event Jean-Noël Robert Readings related to the course topic (8) Seminar 25 Feb 2020 16:00 - 18:00 Event Jean-Noël Robert Norinaga and the Genji-monogatari Lecture 25 Feb 2020 10:30 - 11:30 Event Patrick Boucheron The recluse's gaze Lecture Abstract In the previous session, discussion of the very concept of the Renaissance led to the emergence of the figure, or rather prefiguration, of Petrarch. Following in the footsteps of the man who, in La Vie solitaire (The Solitary Life ) scornfully … 25 Feb 2020 11:00 - 12:00 Event Yohanns Bellaiche Mechanical Forces and Cell Proliferation Seminar Abstract During his seminar, Yohanns Bellaïche presented his team's work on cell mechanics and growth during Drosophila pupa development. The aim of the work is to show how cell division and its coupling with tissue mechanics control morphogenetic … 24 Feb 2020 17:15 - 18:15 Event Jean-François Joanny 3-dimensional vertex models Lecture Abstract The vertex model considers only the projection of the cell onto the plane of the epithelial tissue (the apical surface). It completely ignores the volume of the cell, which forms a polyhedron beneath the apical surface. This model can be extended … 24 Feb 2020 15:30 - 17:00 Event Nicolas Grimal The oldest book in the world (continued) (8) Seminar 24 Feb 2020 15:00 - 16:00 Event Nicolas Grimal Le calame et la pierre. Essai d'histoire critique de la littérature égyptienne antique (continuation and conclusion) (8) Lecture 24 Feb 2020 14:00 - 15:00 Event Dominique Charpin A fragile economy Lecture The names of years and royal inscriptions do not give the impression that the kingdom of Babylon was in economic decline during the long 17th century : we see the kings embarking on major works, such as the construction of secondary residences or forts, … 24 Feb 2020 11:00 - 12:00 Series The Ark of the Covenant : myths, stories and history Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Lecture The Ark of the Covenant or Ark of Yhwh has fascinated people from biblical times to the present day. In this lecture, we set out to trace the origin and early theological reinterpretations of the Ark. This investigation began with a survey of all the … 15 Feb 2018 → 12 Apr 2018 Series Transnational history of museums in Europe Bénédicte Savoy, chair Cultural history of art heritage in Europe, 18th-20th centuries Lecture 14 Feb 2018 → 11 Apr 2018 Series Babel on the Nile : multilingualism and multiculturalism in Late Antique Egypt (3) Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology Lecture After last year's focus on the emergence of a new written form of Egyptian, Coptic, in the 3rd century A.D., and an examination of the environments in which it developed and the ways in which it was disseminated, this year's lectures examine the way in … 14 Feb 2018 → 11 Apr 2018 Event Edouard Bard Extreme climates and analogues : the Holocene optimum (1) Lecture 21 Feb 2020 15:00 - 16:30 Event Bénédicte Savoy First objects Lecture The world map drawn by Frenchman Pierre Desceliers in 1550 is an excellent tool for understanding how Europeans viewed Africa in the 16th century. While they had a very vague vision of the continent's interior, thanks to maritime trade, they had precise … 21 Feb 2020 11:00 - 12:00 Pagination First page Previous page … Page 289 Page 290 Page 291 Page 292 Current page 293 Page 294 Page 295 Page 296 Page 297 … Next page Last page
Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Summoning the Nymphs (2) Lecture Abstract Hesiod's Theogony presents the birth of the Nymphs into the cosmos as Melian Nymphs (" of the ash trees "), following the castration of Ouranos by Kronos. This crime brings into the world a myriad of ambivalent entities and evils, including old … 27 Feb 2020 11:00 - 12:00
Event Carole Boidin The immaterial libraries of storytelling : the example of the Arabian Nights Seminar Abstract This paper examines a number of methodological issues specific to comparative literature, based on a work that has become a classic: the collection of tales from the Thousand and One Nights . The main aim is to analyze the worldwide circulation … 26 Feb 2020 15:00 - 16:00
Event William Marx Semiotics of new stars Lecture Abstract The previous week's exploration of the library of new stars focused on a vignette by Hergé from the comic strip, The Mysterious Star (1942) : Snowy's indifference to the new star contrasts with Tintin's wonder, a sign of a desire for adventure … 26 Feb 2020 14:00 - 15:00
Event Simon Thorpe Artificial intelligence and natural intelligence: towards bio-inspired AI Seminar Abstract For over thirty years, Simon Thorpe has been trying to understand how our brains manage to recognize images so quickly, despite the relative slowness of their neurons. He proposed that, given the speed of processing, much of it must be done with … 26 Feb 2020 11:00 - 12:30
Event Stéphane Mallat Convolutions and time-frequency representations Lecture Abstract An important source of a priori information is the geometric structure of the data indexing space, be it space for images, or time for audio signals. This parameterization defines groups of transformations such as translations. Linear and … 26 Feb 2020 09:30 - 11:00
Event Jean-Luc Fournet Texts about books (2) and hybrid books (1) Lecture Texts about books (2) We are struck by the rarity of non-Christian titles among the books cited in documents : between the 4th and 8th centuries , 58 letters and 22 lists (notes, inventories and catalogs) mention 402 Christian books, while only two … 26 Feb 2020 11:00 - 12:00
Series Asymptotic geometry of the group of exterior automorphisms of a free group Pierre-Louis Lions, chair Partial Differential Equations and Applications Guest lecturer 10 Jan 2018 → 31 Jan 2018
Event Antoine Compagnon " It's a swan song " Lecture The swan song metaphor refers to the ultimate work. It reinforces the myth of the testamentary work and can be associated with the senile sublime. Poussin used this metaphor when addressing the collector Chantelou in 1657. At the age of 63 , he was … 25 Feb 2020 16:30 - 17:30
Event Patrick Boucheron The recluse's gaze Lecture Abstract In the previous session, discussion of the very concept of the Renaissance led to the emergence of the figure, or rather prefiguration, of Petrarch. Following in the footsteps of the man who, in La Vie solitaire (The Solitary Life ) scornfully … 25 Feb 2020 11:00 - 12:00
Event Yohanns Bellaiche Mechanical Forces and Cell Proliferation Seminar Abstract During his seminar, Yohanns Bellaïche presented his team's work on cell mechanics and growth during Drosophila pupa development. The aim of the work is to show how cell division and its coupling with tissue mechanics control morphogenetic … 24 Feb 2020 17:15 - 18:15
Event Jean-François Joanny 3-dimensional vertex models Lecture Abstract The vertex model considers only the projection of the cell onto the plane of the epithelial tissue (the apical surface). It completely ignores the volume of the cell, which forms a polyhedron beneath the apical surface. This model can be extended … 24 Feb 2020 15:30 - 17:00
Event Nicolas Grimal Le calame et la pierre. Essai d'histoire critique de la littérature égyptienne antique (continuation and conclusion) (8) Lecture 24 Feb 2020 14:00 - 15:00
Event Dominique Charpin A fragile economy Lecture The names of years and royal inscriptions do not give the impression that the kingdom of Babylon was in economic decline during the long 17th century : we see the kings embarking on major works, such as the construction of secondary residences or forts, … 24 Feb 2020 11:00 - 12:00
Series The Ark of the Covenant : myths, stories and history Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Lecture The Ark of the Covenant or Ark of Yhwh has fascinated people from biblical times to the present day. In this lecture, we set out to trace the origin and early theological reinterpretations of the Ark. This investigation began with a survey of all the … 15 Feb 2018 → 12 Apr 2018
Series Transnational history of museums in Europe Bénédicte Savoy, chair Cultural history of art heritage in Europe, 18th-20th centuries Lecture 14 Feb 2018 → 11 Apr 2018
Series Babel on the Nile : multilingualism and multiculturalism in Late Antique Egypt (3) Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology Lecture After last year's focus on the emergence of a new written form of Egyptian, Coptic, in the 3rd century A.D., and an examination of the environments in which it developed and the ways in which it was disseminated, this year's lectures examine the way in … 14 Feb 2018 → 11 Apr 2018
Event Edouard Bard Extreme climates and analogues : the Holocene optimum (1) Lecture 21 Feb 2020 15:00 - 16:30
Event Bénédicte Savoy First objects Lecture The world map drawn by Frenchman Pierre Desceliers in 1550 is an excellent tool for understanding how Europeans viewed Africa in the 16th century. While they had a very vague vision of the continent's interior, thanks to maritime trade, they had precise … 21 Feb 2020 11:00 - 12:00