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This series of four lectures explored a decisive period in the history of the Near East - the century of the Akkadian, or even Sargonic, era, from around 2300 to 2200 …

Conference organized by Professor Jon Elster's Rationality and Social Sciences Chair, with the support of the Fondation Hugot of the Collège de France …

For the past three decades, debates on Martin Heidegger's work have been dominated - and seriously obscured - by an obsessive return to two questions that had long been answered in the affirmative: the question of the philosopher's active participation in …

The lectures have four overarching themes, pursued in counterpoint. First, I argue that the civil law was not simply authored by a Republic bent on empire; it was itself inflected at every stage of development by its use in the governance of empire. That …

In computer science, the notion of " bit ", an elementary unit of information, is often discussed in mathematical terms, for example when discussing Boolean operations or the capacity of a transmission channel. This is justified by the universality of …

The actual lectures took place in May and June 2010, on the theme: "From superconducting oxides to cold atoms: matter with strong quantum correlations". This first year of lectures was conceived as an introduction to the physics of quantum systems with …

Presentation The protein kinases represent one of the largest super families encoded for by the human genome. They serve as molecular switches that turn on and off most biological processes such as memory, differentiation, cell division, metabolism, and …

What is "religious deviation"? These are acts that are supposed to violate a norm generally valid for a part of a historical society. But can we reconstruct a uniform discourse on the limits of acceptable religious behavior? In fact, we have at our …

Jean Siméon Chardin, The monkey painter Opening symposium 2009-2010 2009 marks the bicentenary of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's Philosophie zoologique, the birth of Charles Darwin, and the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species. The Collège de France had a …