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Abstract The "   République universelle   " was one of the slogans of February 1848 , calling for solidarity with the uprisings of European peoples. By following the iconographic program of citizen Goldsmid, Victor Hugo's rallying to the Republic, the …

Abstract At the turn of the 20th century, the notion of literature as a pastime seemed to fade in favor of a restorative and therapeutic one. After formalism, literature regained a form of transitivity through the desire to bond and heal. The therapeutic …

Abstract The Guerchin's Et in Arcadia ego can be transposed as a list of signs constituting the words of a sentence, in the tradition of Ripa's emblems: an element represents an abstract idea, and the elements are brought together in a composition by …

Abstract from Colin Bonduelle's talk From Natural Proteins to Polymer Synthesis Proteins are natural polymers that possess unique features that are not found in their synthetic counterparts. These include chemical diversity, hierarchical structure, …

Elyamine Settoul: "Jihadism and radicalization" Nadia Fadil: "A critical look at deradicalization programs" …

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Abstract An analysis of transvestism and transidentity in Le Roman de Silence and other literary texts from the 13th and 14th   centuries , as well as the few examples of gender reassignment in medieval hagiography, suggests that in Christian …

Abstract In "Intention and Convention in Speech Acts", Strawson influentially argued for a distinction between essentially conventional acts and communicative acts: conventional acts rely on extralinguistic conventions for their successful execution; …

Abstract According to the "véhicularist" perspective, two co-referential concepts are the same concept if and only if the vehicle (the thin mental file) is the same. The conception (the content of the concept) may vary, but this does not affect the …

Abstract Zimri-Lim's private secretary, Šunuhra-Halu, is well known to us: it was he who read to the sovereign the mail from the kingdom's officials, and wrote the letters the monarch sent in reply. The title of another close relative of the king, named …

Abstract The spirit of research is nourished as much by the sources of reality as by the labyrinths of the imaginary. Through rapid monologues, four archaeologists give us a glimpse of the forces that drive them to delve ever deeper into the deciphering …

Abstract Sleep is accompanied by an inert state which does not prevent the brain from continuing to process sensory information from the environment and internal representations in memory circuits. We will discuss the types of processing that can and …

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Abstract After a brief look back at the Egyptian Expedition and the notion of Orientalism, this session explores the emergence of French cultural imperialism under Napoleon, showing how the universalist, civilizing ideals of the Enlightenment were …

Abstract A translation surface is a Riemann surface with a holomorphic differential. This differential defines a flat metric (outside the singular locus) whose holonomy is trivial. I will explain how the counting of long geodesics on a generic translation …

Abstract When Barthes asserts that we must not emotionally adhere to fiction in order to maintain objectivity, he is reactivating a questioning that goes back to the Greek tragedies. But the reader's inner experience is ambivalent: awareness of the …