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Abstract Type theory was introduced by Bertrand Russell to avoid the paradoxes that arise in mathematics when the notion of a collection of objects is used too naively. This notion of types was refined by the notion of dependent types, with the aim of …

Elizabeth Spelke Elizabeth Spelke is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and has been a member of the Conseil Scientifique de l'Éducation Nationale since January   2018 . Her research focuses on the development of the …

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Abstract It is now well established that rhetoric occupied an important place in the educational system of Greco-Roman antiquity. In recent years, scholarly interest in this discipline has intensified, paving the way for significant advances, particularly …

Abstract Continuation of previous lecture. Crossing the Jordan means entering the land. Before the conquest took place, Joshua circumcised the desert generation and celebrated the first Passover in the land (Jos 5). This raises the question of how these …

Abstract In Hesiod's Theogony , the expression "hiera erdein", "to make sacred portions", appears only once, in the introduction to the long passage that moderns have taken to calling the "hymn to Hecate". The forty or so verses (411-452) devoted to this …

Abstract At a time when the framers of the United Nations Charter were somewhat wary of regional bodies and the threats they could pose to the advent of a new, fully universal international law, the statute of the United Nations International Law …

References to works cited in the lecture Norman Ajari, Le Manifeste Afro-décolonial. The Forgotten Dream of Black Radical Politics , Paris, Seuil, 2024. Chris Bongie, " The Cry of History: Juste Chanlatte and the Unsettling (Presence) of Race in Early …

Sandrine Lyonnard : "From atom to cell: looking inside batteries with the Grands Instruments" Hervé Beuffe : "Valley of hope for the French Na_ion …

Abstract This final lecture will discuss the proof of a recent result in joint work with Zakharov, bounding the size of subsets of F_p^n not containing p distinct vectors summing to zero. As discussed in the previous lecture, this leads to bounds for the …

Abstract The film The Battle of Algiers (1966) was the result of a meeting between Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo and Yacef Saâdi, one of the military leaders of the Front de Libération Nationale. Played mainly by non-professionals, and sometimes by …

Résumé Le modèle de lecture humble et bienveillante proposé par Les Bergers d’Arcadie de Poussin semble avoir fait long feu. Beaucoup de lectures contemporaines se veulent revendicatives, sinon accusatrices. La raison en est une prise de conscience …

Documents and media Watch the video dubbed in French Watch the video dubbed in English Abstract What is a draft  ? What is a failure  ? What is a comeback  ? What is rewriting a thousand times  ? What is the stubbornness and will to surpass to which …

Abstract How is the tragic link between intimacy and history articulated  ? When everything is in pieces and the image is lost, how can we rebuild  ? How can we rebuild from the notion of failure, writing, crossing out, rewriting, crossing out again? How …

Résumé Comment, en 1314, le scandale des brus du roi devient-il l’affaire de la Tour de Nesle   ? En s’intéressant aux réécritures légendaires d’un épisode qu’on pourrait juger mineur, on cherche à interroger les rapports entre ce genre décrié qu’est la « …

Abstract This study of the emergence of a reading culture in ancient Greece starts from the beginnings of the written text and analyzes its evolution in the Greek world of the 5 th century BC and during the Hellenistic and Imperial periods. The first …

Abstract We have no Templar archives in the kingdom of Mari : so it's in the texts from the palace that we find the elements that enable us to reconstruct the lives of the priests in charge of the sanctuaries. Two other categories of religious personnel …