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Abstract The main theme of the second lecture concerns the way in which fundamental biological research (as an example, my own work to identify and characterize the genes that produce cancers in animals) can produce important benefits for society (e.g., …

Abstract During the course of their schooling, students are required to make a number of choices that affect both their education and their career prospects. This choice takes place at the end of secondary school, when a course of study must be entered, …

Abstract From western Thebes during the 7th   century survives the largest body of material connected with Coptic education from any region in Egypt. This seminar will present the material and its distribution, addressing where education took place and …

Abstract Light-matter interactions are playing an increasingly crucial role in the understanding and engineering of new states of matter with relevance to the fields of quantum optics, solid state physics, chemistry and materials science. Experiments have …

Abstract The inaugural speech develops the idea that, until further notice, there can be no common political identity for the inhabitants of Europe and the European Union, because they are still mostly socialized in their traditional national identities. …

Masanori Tsukamoto is invited by the Collège de France assembly, at the suggestion of Prof. William Marx. Documents and media Download the conference poster Abstract Both Proust and Paul Valéry establish a link between writing and sleep. In neither case …

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Abstract How does the flood come to an end, and what does it lead to  ? Here again, the text, Gn   8 ,1-9,17, offers more than one answer to these questions. Documents and media Download …

Lecture plan 2.3. and the papyri  Exercises delivered by monasteries (continued) 2.3.2. The case of the Epiphanius monastery (continued) 2.3.2.1. A teacher in Cellule B (continued) 2.3.2.2. A teacher in Cellule A (continued) …

Abstract There are many ways to define an object, in this case a ship. This lecture explores the approaches of a Latin declamator (Cicero, De l'invention , 2.153), a jurist (Alfenus, Digest, 21.2.44), a scholar (Aulu-Gelle, Nuits attiques, 10.25.5), the …

Abstract Can the political love of the late Middle Ages only be understood in opposition to the disenchantment of modernity  ? This final   session focuses on the figure of Marguerite de Navarre, based on Lucien Febvre's Amour sacré, amour profane (1944). …

Summary This lesson looks at the life of French from its various neo-Latin ancestors in Gaul to its status as the national language of France and parts of Belgium and Switzerland  ; then we look at its contact with English, and the Amerindian and African …

Abstract The third and fourth lectures will focus on the role of activity in the construction of cortical circuits, from the maturation and migration of different populations of neurons, the roles of transient neurons and circuits, to the integration and …

Exceptionally, the last seminar will take place on a Friday. Abstract In sub-Saharan Africa, authors' rights were granted to " invented subject ", in colonial times, according to the European Romantic standard of the 19th  century. We have progressively …

Abstract The second lecture will provide an introduction to the Bruhat-Tits theory and Moy-Prasad filtration, which play an essential role in the construction and study of representations of p-adic groups. (The second lecture is mostly independent of the …

Abstract I will begin by talking about the nature of scientific thought, contrasted with the experience of working in a complex "enterprise." Then I will note some of the reasons (personal, cultural, economic, political or other) that explain why people …