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But it is chimpanzees in particular that hunting behavior is the most frequently … 30 Oct 2018 17:00 - 18:30 Event Philippe Aghion Education, health and growth Lecture What is human capital ? Education and growth Health and growth Documents and media Download support … 30 Oct 2018 14:00 - 16:00 Event Amos Gitai " I don't politicize my films, they politicize me " Lecture Films: Journal de campagne (1982) ; À l'Ouest du Jourdain (2017). Documentaries " We had a kind of intuition, five years before the Intifada, that what the Israelis called at the time an "enlightened occupation ", a kind of occupation without occupation … 30 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:30 Series Iranian millenarianism in the mirror : origin and circulation of an idea Frantz Grenet, chair History and Cultures of Pre-Islamic Central Asia Guest lecturer 22 Jun 2016 Event Barbara Romanowicz Proposed physical processes and characteristics of intermediate and deep seismicity Lecture Abstract We have outlined the structure and mineralogy of the mantle and the phase transitions undergone by olivine, the majority constituent of the upper mantle, at depths of 400 km and 660 km, under the effect of increasing pressure and temperature. … 29 Oct 2018 16:00 - 17:30 Series Freud at the Collège de France, 1885-2016 Antoine Compagnon, chair Modern and contemporary French literature : history, criticism, theory Symposium Of course, Sigmund Freud didn't teach at the Collège de France, but he did come there in 1885, to visit Louis Ranvier, Professor of General Anatomy (1875-1911), and he was an avid reader of other Collège de France professors, such as Alfred Maury, … 16 Jun 2016 → 17 Jun 2016 Event Dominique Charpin The first years of the reign Lecture Abstract The first years of Samsu-iluna's reign are poorly known. From the point of view of sources, we are handicapped by the fact that we have no correspondence from Samsu-iluna equivalent to what we have for Hammu-rabi. Sent by Hammu-rabi, we have a … 29 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:00 Series A history of intellectuals in modern Japan by Maruyama Masao and Katô Shûichi Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History Guest lecturer 21 Jun 2016 Series Takeuchi Yoshimi, pan-Asianism and the puzzle of postcolonial modernity Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History Guest lecturer 21 Jun 2016 Event Rachid Guerraoui Atomicity in a distributed system Lecture Abstract The aim of this first lecture has been to define precisely what a correct distributed algorithm is. The safety property considered is what we call " atomicity ", or " linearizability ", defined by reference to the sequential specification of a … 26 Oct 2018 10:00 - 11:00 Event Rachid Guerraoui Distributed algorithms : in search of lost universality Opening lecture Abstract Algorithms have been around for as long as humans have been trying to calculate. In the Middle Ages, their execution was delegated to machines. In 1936, Alan Turing proposed a universal machine, capable of executing all conceivable algorithms, … 25 Oct 2018 18:00 - 19:00 Event Philippe Aghion Inequality and growth Lecture Measuring inequality : Kuznets and beyond Explaining the rise in skill-premium since 1980 Evolution of top income inequality Innovation and top income inequality Inclusive policies Documents and media Download … 23 Oct 2018 14:00 - 16:00 Event Amos Gitai Documentary as metaphor. House and Wadi, two documentary trilogies filmed over a quarter of a century; Pineapple Lecture Films : House (1980) ; News from Home/News from House (2005) ; Pineapple (1983). Documentaries " House and Wadi are two films for which I felt the need to return, several years later, to the same locations to film the same people. For me, Wadi is a kind … 23 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:30 Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture Abstract I have first shown that most intermediate and deep earthquakes occur in " subduction zones ", tectonic plate convergence zones where one of the plates (usually oceanic) plunges beneath the other. The hypocentres of these earthquakes are … 22 Oct 2018 16:00 - 17:30 Event Dominique Charpin The advent of Samsu-iluna Lecture Abstract The lecture began with an overview of the kingdom Samsu-iluna inherited from his father. The text used as a guide is the prologue to the Code of Hammu-rabi, written at the end of his reign. In it, the ruler defines himself in relation to the main … 22 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:00 Event General discussion Special events 19 Oct 2018 17:30 - 18:00 Event Karine Chemla How mathematical activity shapes its language and textual forms Special events In 1920, Marcel Granet (1884-1940), an influential sinologist of the first decades of the 20th century, thought it appropriate to make some recommendations to those who were reforming the Chinese language at the time. In an article entitled "Quelques … 19 Oct 2018 16:50 - 17:30 Event William F. Hanks Non-Western concepts in comparative pragmatics : from the Kyoto School to the context of enunciation Special events This lecture proposes a new approach to the concept of the "context of enunciation" in social pragmatics, based on a critical reading of the philosophy of the Kyoto school, Japan. The key concept is " basho ", which translates as "place, location, field", … 19 Oct 2018 16:10 - 16:50 Event Irène Rosier Catach Reflections on the power of words in Western medieval thought Special events Biography Irène Rosier-Catach is Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS (UMR "Histoire des Théories Linguistiques") and Director of Studies Emeritus at the École Pratique des Hautes Études ( 5th section). A specialist in the history of linguistic and … 19 Oct 2018 15:10 - 15:50 Event Laurent Dubreuil The thought, the poem Special events Proposing to introduce a distinction between thinking and thinking , or between the cognitive and the intellective , I suggest that certain uses of language are out of the ordinary and capable of transporting us beyond the limits of our ordinary thinking. … 19 Oct 2018 14:30 - 15:10 Event Joël Fagot Thinking without language: an experimental approach in baboons Special events Animal research is a privileged way of approaching the question of the relationship between thought and language. The non-human primate, which does not have our language, displays a multitude of behaviors whose complexity suggests the existence of … 19 Oct 2018 11:10 - 11:50 Event Guy Theraulaz The collective intelligence of animal societies Special events Numerous animal species display collective behaviors that are often spectacular. Starlings, for example, gather in their tens of thousands at dusk to perform astonishing aerial choreographies. On another scale, social insects (ants, termites, certain … 19 Oct 2018 11:50 - 12:30 Event Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Giving the same name to two different things Special events Biography Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician with a particular interest in differential geometry, especially as it relates to partial differential equations and mathematical physics. He is particularly interested in Ricci curvature, both in … 19 Oct 2018 10:10 - 10:50 Pagination First page Previous page … Page 371 Page 372 Page 373 Page 374 Current page 375 Page 376 Page 377 Page 378 Page 379 … Next page Last page
Event Marc Fontecave Heterogeneous catalysis: molecular activation of surfaces Lecture Abstract This lecture presents recent examples of the modification of the activity and selectivity of solid (metallic) catalysts for the reduction of carbon dioxide by the addition of an organic compound. This may be a small molecule or polymer that … 31 Oct 2018 10:00 - 11:30
Event Jean-Jacques Hublin Meat consumption in the great apes Lecture Abstract In almost all primate families, small vertebrates are occasionally consumed. Catarhinids such as baboons capture and consume mammals the size of young antelopes. But it is chimpanzees in particular that hunting behavior is the most frequently … 30 Oct 2018 17:00 - 18:30
Event Philippe Aghion Education, health and growth Lecture What is human capital ? Education and growth Health and growth Documents and media Download support … 30 Oct 2018 14:00 - 16:00
Event Amos Gitai " I don't politicize my films, they politicize me " Lecture Films: Journal de campagne (1982) ; À l'Ouest du Jourdain (2017). Documentaries " We had a kind of intuition, five years before the Intifada, that what the Israelis called at the time an "enlightened occupation ", a kind of occupation without occupation … 30 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:30
Series Iranian millenarianism in the mirror : origin and circulation of an idea Frantz Grenet, chair History and Cultures of Pre-Islamic Central Asia Guest lecturer 22 Jun 2016
Event Barbara Romanowicz Proposed physical processes and characteristics of intermediate and deep seismicity Lecture Abstract We have outlined the structure and mineralogy of the mantle and the phase transitions undergone by olivine, the majority constituent of the upper mantle, at depths of 400 km and 660 km, under the effect of increasing pressure and temperature. … 29 Oct 2018 16:00 - 17:30
Series Freud at the Collège de France, 1885-2016 Antoine Compagnon, chair Modern and contemporary French literature : history, criticism, theory Symposium Of course, Sigmund Freud didn't teach at the Collège de France, but he did come there in 1885, to visit Louis Ranvier, Professor of General Anatomy (1875-1911), and he was an avid reader of other Collège de France professors, such as Alfred Maury, … 16 Jun 2016 → 17 Jun 2016
Event Dominique Charpin The first years of the reign Lecture Abstract The first years of Samsu-iluna's reign are poorly known. From the point of view of sources, we are handicapped by the fact that we have no correspondence from Samsu-iluna equivalent to what we have for Hammu-rabi. Sent by Hammu-rabi, we have a … 29 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:00
Series A history of intellectuals in modern Japan by Maruyama Masao and Katô Shûichi Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History Guest lecturer 21 Jun 2016
Series Takeuchi Yoshimi, pan-Asianism and the puzzle of postcolonial modernity Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History Guest lecturer 21 Jun 2016
Event Rachid Guerraoui Atomicity in a distributed system Lecture Abstract The aim of this first lecture has been to define precisely what a correct distributed algorithm is. The safety property considered is what we call " atomicity ", or " linearizability ", defined by reference to the sequential specification of a … 26 Oct 2018 10:00 - 11:00
Event Rachid Guerraoui Distributed algorithms : in search of lost universality Opening lecture Abstract Algorithms have been around for as long as humans have been trying to calculate. In the Middle Ages, their execution was delegated to machines. In 1936, Alan Turing proposed a universal machine, capable of executing all conceivable algorithms, … 25 Oct 2018 18:00 - 19:00
Event Philippe Aghion Inequality and growth Lecture Measuring inequality : Kuznets and beyond Explaining the rise in skill-premium since 1980 Evolution of top income inequality Innovation and top income inequality Inclusive policies Documents and media Download … 23 Oct 2018 14:00 - 16:00
Event Amos Gitai Documentary as metaphor. House and Wadi, two documentary trilogies filmed over a quarter of a century; Pineapple Lecture Films : House (1980) ; News from Home/News from House (2005) ; Pineapple (1983). Documentaries " House and Wadi are two films for which I felt the need to return, several years later, to the same locations to film the same people. For me, Wadi is a kind … 23 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:30
Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture Abstract I have first shown that most intermediate and deep earthquakes occur in " subduction zones ", tectonic plate convergence zones where one of the plates (usually oceanic) plunges beneath the other. The hypocentres of these earthquakes are … 22 Oct 2018 16:00 - 17:30
Event Dominique Charpin The advent of Samsu-iluna Lecture Abstract The lecture began with an overview of the kingdom Samsu-iluna inherited from his father. The text used as a guide is the prologue to the Code of Hammu-rabi, written at the end of his reign. In it, the ruler defines himself in relation to the main … 22 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:00
Event Karine Chemla How mathematical activity shapes its language and textual forms Special events In 1920, Marcel Granet (1884-1940), an influential sinologist of the first decades of the 20th century, thought it appropriate to make some recommendations to those who were reforming the Chinese language at the time. In an article entitled "Quelques … 19 Oct 2018 16:50 - 17:30
Event William F. Hanks Non-Western concepts in comparative pragmatics : from the Kyoto School to the context of enunciation Special events This lecture proposes a new approach to the concept of the "context of enunciation" in social pragmatics, based on a critical reading of the philosophy of the Kyoto school, Japan. The key concept is " basho ", which translates as "place, location, field", … 19 Oct 2018 16:10 - 16:50
Event Irène Rosier Catach Reflections on the power of words in Western medieval thought Special events Biography Irène Rosier-Catach is Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS (UMR "Histoire des Théories Linguistiques") and Director of Studies Emeritus at the École Pratique des Hautes Études ( 5th section). A specialist in the history of linguistic and … 19 Oct 2018 15:10 - 15:50
Event Laurent Dubreuil The thought, the poem Special events Proposing to introduce a distinction between thinking and thinking , or between the cognitive and the intellective , I suggest that certain uses of language are out of the ordinary and capable of transporting us beyond the limits of our ordinary thinking. … 19 Oct 2018 14:30 - 15:10
Event Joël Fagot Thinking without language: an experimental approach in baboons Special events Animal research is a privileged way of approaching the question of the relationship between thought and language. The non-human primate, which does not have our language, displays a multitude of behaviors whose complexity suggests the existence of … 19 Oct 2018 11:10 - 11:50
Event Guy Theraulaz The collective intelligence of animal societies Special events Numerous animal species display collective behaviors that are often spectacular. Starlings, for example, gather in their tens of thousands at dusk to perform astonishing aerial choreographies. On another scale, social insects (ants, termites, certain … 19 Oct 2018 11:50 - 12:30
Event Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Giving the same name to two different things Special events Biography Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician with a particular interest in differential geometry, especially as it relates to partial differential equations and mathematical physics. He is particularly interested in Ricci curvature, both in … 19 Oct 2018 10:10 - 10:50