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Wilt L. Idema
Judge Bao and the Nature of Crime
Wilt L. Idema
Judge Bao and the Nature of Crime
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While Robert van Gulik's creation Judge Dee may be the most famous Chinese judge outside China, in China itself Judge Bao 包公has always been the most eminent of many "pure officials" (each with their own story-cycles) at least since the fourteenth century. …
11:00 to 12:00
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Origin and thermal evolution of the deep mantle - magma ocean, relationship with current structures. This lecture was devoted to the geodynamic considerations that allow zones such as ULVZs to be maintained at the base of the mantle. In particular, the …
15:30 to 16:15
Karol Beffa
How do you talk about music?
Karol Beffa
How do you talk about music?
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Abstract Art is dying from commentary on art. Commentary invades everything - often, alas, to the detriment of the work. Supposed to be self-sufficient, the work can now only be appreciated when accompanied by a discourse. Worse : commentary has gone from …
18:00 to 19:00
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As part of the LIPID MAPS Consortium, our laboratory has developed a rigorous, comprehensive approach to the lipidomic analysis of hundreds of fatty acids, acylethanolamines and inflammatory eicosanoids, including their many metabolites resulting from the …
17:00 to 18:00
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The animal fable and the animal epic have played a major role in many literary traditions from Southeast Asia to Northwest Europe. In China, however, the true animal fable featuring talking animals never became a major genre in high literature despite the …
11:00 to 12:00
Stefan Maul
Expelling evil. Conceptions of illness and the medical art in the Ancient Near East
Stefan Maul
Expelling evil. Conceptions of illness and the medical art in the Ancient Near East
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14:30 to 15:30
Stefan Maul
Feeding the god together - Sacrifice as the foundation of identity in the Assyrian Empire
Stefan Maul
Feeding the god together - Sacrifice as the foundation of identity in the Assyrian Empire
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15:30 to 16:30
Bernard Chazelle
Algorithms and science
Bernard Chazelle
Algorithms and science
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Abstract Algorithmic language is expressively rich enough to cope with the high descriptive complexity of the living world. Cellular circuits, schools of fish, flocks of birds, the transmission of rumors, crowd movements and political polarization are all …
18:00 to 19:00
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Wilt L. Idema
The Judgment (pan 判) as a genre of literature
Wilt L. Idema
The Judgment (pan 判) as a genre of literature
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Following a brief discussion of my disqualifications as a scholar of Chinese law, I will discuss the "judgment (pan 判)" as a genre of literature. My starting point will be the negative assessment of the genre by Arthur Waley in his The Life and Times of …
11:00 to 12:00
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Chemical composition of the deep mantle - investigation methods and challenges. Spin transitions, phase changes. Following on from lecture 3, we have presented the various stages in the study of the Pv → pPv transformation in magnetic perovskite from its …
15:30 to 16:15
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Centenary of the death of Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906). …