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Jean-Noël Robert
The esotericism of language : Kûkai's (774-835) ideas on language (3)
Lecture
Event
10:30 - 11:30am

Nicolas Grimal
The Temple of Amon-Ra at Karnak (continued) (3)
Lecture
Event
2:00 - 3:00pm

Nicolas Grimal
The annals of Thutmosis III (continued) (3)
Seminar
Event
3:00 - 4:00pm

Isabelle Gallagher
Diffusion limit for a system of hard spheres
Seminar
Event
11:15am - 12:30pm

Edward A. Lee
Cyber-Physical Systems: A Fundamental Intellectual Challenge
Guest lecturer
Event
5:00 - 6:00pm

Claude Thélot
Evaluation and policy
Seminar
Event
11:00am - 12:00pm

Pierre-Michel Menger
Work, its value and evaluation (1)
Lecture
Event
10:00 - 11:00am

Roger Chartier
Literary geographies (16th-18th centuries) (8)
Lecture
Event
11:00am - 12:00pm

Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento, Johanna Lhuillier et Olivier Lecomte
The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (8)
Seminar
Event
3:30 - 4:30pm

Jean Kellens
The problem of the Yašts
Lecture
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Two classic articles Antonio Panaino, "Gli Yašt dell'Avesta: metodi e prospettive", ATTI del Glottologico Milanese 30 [1989], Milan, 1992, 159-184. Prods Oktor Skjaervø, "Hymnic composition in the Avesta", Die Sprache 36, 1994, 199-243. Panaino summarizes …
9:30 - 10:30am

Frantz Grenet
The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (8)
Lecture
Event
The period following the Greek colonial period, at least as far as Tokharestan is concerned - a country now encompassing Bactria and the south of ancient Sogdiana - is conventionally divided into several phases: the "invasion period" or "pre-Kushan" (from …
2:30 - 3:30pm

Brad Weslake
Why Think Causally?
Symposium
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Abstract Theories of actual causation formulated in the framework of causal models have made salient an interesting puzzle concerning the relationship between counterfactual dependence and causation. Even when theorists agree on the causal model …
2:30 - 3:30pm

Charles Grenier
Thermoelectric transport of ultra-cold fermions : theory
Seminar
Event
In this talk, I will present the comparison between recent experimental results obtained by the quantum optics group at the ETH Zurich and theory predictions concerning thermoelectric effects in a two-terminal geometry realizing a cold atom equivalent of …
11:30am - 12:30pm

John Scheid
Gods of Rome, gods of the Romans. Reflections on Roman theologies (9)
Lecture
Event
2:30 - 3:30pm

Anne Cheng
Readings from Su Shi's Commentary on the Zhouyi (continued) (5)
Seminar
Event
4:30 - 6:00pm

Anne Cheng
Readings from the Treatise on Rites (Liji) (5)
Seminar
Event
3:00 - 4:30pm

John Scheid
Gaetano Marini and the Acts of the Arvales brothers (3)
Seminar
Event
4:00 - 5:00pm

Alain Connes
The epicyclic site (2)
Lecture
Event
2:30 - 5:00pm

Anne Cheng
Is Confucianism a humanism ? (4)
Lecture
Event
11:00am - 12:00pm

Carlo Ossola
Spanish and European Baroque (1)
Lecture
Event
5:00 - 6:00pm

Claudine Tiercelin
Causal Powers, Causal Relations and Causal Explanation
Symposium
Event
Abstract Dispositional realism, as I have defended it in Le Ciment des choses , relies on four main assumptions: 1. A causal theory of properties, 2. A conditional dispositionalist account of laws; 3. Some kind of aliquidditism (or thin essentialism) . 4. …
4:50 - 5:40pm

Henry Laurens
The question of Palestine : the failure of the peace process (4)
Lecture
Event
4:00 - 5:00pm

L.A. Paul
Experience, Causal Productivity and the Temporal Arrow
Symposium
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Abstract I explore the debate over the metaphysics of the direction of causal dependence and the temporal arrow in conjunction with the idea that causation is a productive relation. I show how evidence drawn from experience that seems to support a …
10:30 - 11:30am

Marion Leclerc
Trophic chains in microbiota : symbiosis within symbiosis
Seminar
Event
5:30 - 6:30pm