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To set the scene for this year's lectures, I'll start with a very comprehensive review by Lopez-Otin and colleagues (Cell 153: 1194-1217, 2013) which attempts to define the marks of aging, the less smiling face of longevity, not just cerebral, but …
17:00 to 18:30
Albert James Hudspeth
Senses and Sensivity: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Perception
Albert James Hudspeth
Senses and Sensivity: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Perception
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In addition to possessing the classical senses of vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, humans respond to a variety of other stimuli. For example, the vestibular apparatus of the internal ear provides continuous feedback about linear and angular …
11:00 to 12:00
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The lecture, a continuation of last year's, continues the presentation of a new theory called " mean-field games theory ", developed in collaboration with Mr. Jean-Michel Lasry. The aim of this theory is to introduce, justify, analyze and apply in …
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The notion of global public goods, which originated in economic theory, has been on the verge of being accepted by legal systems over the last ten years. In this context, a dialogue is needed between economists and jurists on the meaning and role of this …
Glen W. Bowersock
Pagan angels of late antiquity
Glen W. Bowersock
Pagan angels of late antiquity
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The Byzantine world before Islam knew a host of paganisms, both polytheistic and from time to time, because of the hierarchy of their gods, quasi-monotheistic. In the Koran, the Prophet Muhammad referred to those who shared their gods as mushrikūn and …
17:00 to 18:00
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The lecture continued the research begun the previous year on a play performed in 1613 at the English Court, entitled Cardenio . In 1653, the London bookseller Humphrey Moseley had the titles of forty-one plays registered by the Stationers' Company , a …
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The 2008-2009 lecture was a continuation of previous ones, aimed at providing a synthetic overview of the main chapters of economic theory at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The lecture was devoted to " l'équilibre spatial : économie urbaine et …
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The aim of this year's lecture (and its planned extension for next year) was, as the name suggests, to make the links between rather heterogeneous mathematical disciplines involving Combinatorics properties of some kind. These links often appear in …
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I is the other ? On the trail of the double in ancient culture
Carlo Ossola, chair Modern literature of Neolatin Europe
I is the other ? On the trail of the double in ancient culture
Carlo Ossola, chair Modern literature of Neolatin Europe
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From its very beginnings, Western culture has expressed a kind of fascination with a mythical nucleus, the story of which it reproduces, sometimes even just the outline, the fear or the dream : the story of a man who finds himself face to face with …
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Luigi Rizzi
The hierarchical nature of linguistic representations and the mapping of syntactic structures
Luigi Rizzi
The hierarchical nature of linguistic representations and the mapping of syntactic structures
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The unbounded nature of our linguistic capacities has inspired the computational approach to language: knowledge of the mother tongue implies implicit mastery of a system of recursive procedures, capable of generating a potentially unlimited set of …
17:00 to 18:00
Constituent Authority
Pierre Rosanvallon, chair Modern and contemporary history of politics
Constituent Authority
Pierre Rosanvallon, chair Modern and contemporary history of politics
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The poetry of the Gathas: Mysteries of composition, and the composition of mysteries: Compositional techniques of the individual poems, and of the serial generation of the corpus The esoteric dimensions of gathic style. Like other early Indo-European …
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Narrow-mindedness, dogmatism, intolerance and fanaticism are, to varying degrees, forms of confinement in a mental schema. To escape this, we need to gain access to "interpretative plurality": to become capable of "manipulating" our own representations …
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Wittgenstein : Images of the mind
Jacques Bouveresse, chair Philosophy of language and knowledge
Wittgenstein : Images of the mind
Jacques Bouveresse, chair Philosophy of language and knowledge
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The symposium was organized by Denis Perrin and Jean-Jacques Rosat. Wittgenstein: experience and subjectivity From the manuscripts of the 1930s to the Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology How can language, which is necessarily public and common (and …
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Collective wisdom : principles and mechanisms
Jon Elster, chair Rationality and social sciences
Collective wisdom : principles and mechanisms
Jon Elster, chair Rationality and social sciences
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Symposium organized by the Institut du Monde Contemporain . The symposium La sagesse collective : principes et mécanismes (Collective wisdom: principles and mechanisms) will explore the nature, causes and mechanisms of the emerging phenomenon whereby a …
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