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Retrospectives and perspectives
Jean-Marie Lehn, chair Molecular interaction chemistry
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Neuronal Synchrony
Alain Berthoz, chair Physiology of perception and action
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Anne Neukamp
The effective image
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Abstract Anne Neukamp will show how her paintings emerge from a process of elaboration of a multitude of strata and references where perception constantly oscillates between abstraction and figuration, between material facture and spatial imagination: …
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Claudine Tiercelin
La Fabrique de la Peinture - Opening
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09:00 to 09:10

For a history of written culture in Italy (16th-18th centuries)
Gilles Veinstein, chair Turkish and Ottoman history
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Reverse Orientalism and the reception of Confucius in the West
Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History
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Rationality, truth and democracy : Bertrand Russell, George Orwell, Noam Chomsky
Jacques Bouveresse, chair Philosophy of language and knowledge
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Abstract Taking up Paul Boghossian's important distinction in Fear of Knowledge [1] , we can distinguish between two forms of social constructivism. According to the first, there are no facts that are independent of the kind of theory (or, as a …

Shakespeare's Desk
Roger Chartier, chair Writing and cultures in modern Europe
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Lawrence Ward
Stanislas Dehaene, chair Experimental Cognitive Psychology
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American democracy : translating Tocqueville
Pierre Rosanvallon, chair Modern and contemporary history of politics
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Materials Chemistry in the Energy and Raw Material Change
Marc Fontecave, chair Chemistry of Biological Processes
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Projects and utopias
Alain Berthoz, chair Physiology of perception and action
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Study day Physiology and psychology in the time of Auguste Comte
Anne Fagot-Largeault, chair Philosophy of biological and medical sciences
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Jean Dausset Days
Jean Dausset, chair Experimental medicine
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Jean Dausset passed away on June 6, 2009. Holder of the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the Collège de France from 1977 to 1987, he was responsible for one of the most important discoveries ever made in immunology, that of the HLA system. This discovery …
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Day on the history of Franco-Ottoman relations
Gilles Veinstein, chair Turkish and Ottoman history
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Beyond allusions The long-standing relations between France and Turkey, which began at the height of the Ottoman Empire and continued uninterrupted in the centuries that followed, are traditionally evoked as soon as current relations between the two …

Franz Cumont returns to the Collège de France
John Scheid, chair Religion, institutions and society in ancient Rome
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Rome and its religions : worship, morality, spirituality Study day organized on the occasion of the republication of Lux Perpetua (Bibliotheca Cumontiana, Opera maiora 2/Nino Aragno Editore, Turin, 2010) by Professors Carlo Ossola and John Scheid . Lux …

Home Alone in Judah: Hints of How the Babylonian Empire Administered an "Empty" Land
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
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Vaccines of the Future: Learning from Nature to Identify New Targets and Do Better than Nature
Philippe Sansonetti, chair Microbiology and infectious diseases
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The unexpected anthology
Jacques Nichet, chair Artistic creation
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Andrée Hayum
John Scheid, chair Religion, institutions and society in ancient Rome
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Taking into account the various ways in which our understanding of Renaissance art has been shaped by its modern reception, I focus in particular on the impact of the institution that embodies the modern age: the public museum and the special exhibitions …
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String theory : an introduction
Gabriele Veneziano, chair Elementary particles, gravitation and cosmology
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The idea of the Renaissance at the dawn of the European museum : primitive schools
Antoine Compagnon, chair Modern and contemporary French literature: history, criticism, theory
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Gestures and the perception of movement in art and literature
Michel Zink, chair Literatures of medieval France
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Healing with merit: Buddhist rituals of curing in medieval Chinese liturgical manuscripts
Pierre-Etienne Will, chair History of modern China
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When regular medicine failed or acted too slowly in medieval China, many people sought recourse to a form of healing based on making merit and confessing sins. In the Buddhist worldview all current conditions are the result of prior deeds, therefore a …
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