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Abstract The talk on March 6   2025 aims to tackle one of the major contemporary challenges  : the democratic challenge. Whereas just fifteen years ago, it was thought that the democratic "   model   " was, if not established everywhere, at least desired …

Abstract In addition to the sacrifices offered in Pylos by Nestor and the feasting of the suitors, the Odyssey also features more modest meals, such as the one offered by the pig keeper Eumaeus to his master, whom he has not yet recognized (Canto XIV). …

Abstract Diffusion models can be used to synthesize samples with complex distributions and have many applications in data generation. Recently, they have been used as priors for solving Bayesian inverse problems. This presentation provides an overview of …

Abstract The interaction of light with matter is extremely rich. In chemistry and biology, the photon is used as a reagent in a wide range of preparative and analytical scientific developments. As this seminar will illustrate, however, the use of photons …

Abstract In the inter-war period, the universalist legacy of the Enlightenment was not confined to the colonialist discourse advocating Europe' s civilizing mission . It was used in other ways, from a European perspective, to defend democracy, oppose …

Abstract Unlike the book, the letter implies a particular situation of writing and enunciation, as well as circumstances of reading: as soon as the envelope is opened, the recipient is transformed into a reader, the text into an event and its message into …

Abstract Poussin's painting Les Bergers d'Arcadie does not require us to choose between contradictory interpretations: they are all valid in the same way as optical illusions whose interpretation and referent change depending on whether we structure the …

Abstract The third lecture will discuss the Erdös-Ginzburg-Ziv Problem in discrete geometry, and show how (at least in high dimension) it can be reformulated as a problem in F_p^n. Specifically, this leads to the question of asking about the maximum …

Abstract The oracle was expressed in the form of an enigma. It fell to a wise man to decipher it and make the encrypted message apparent. If history is the art of looking at the enigmas of the past and grasping their nature as much as the reasons that …

Abstract Since Régine Pernoud and Georges Duby, a tradition, whose influence extends beyond the historiographical framework, locates in the second half of the 12th   century, at the time of Hildegarde de Bingen and Eleanor of Aquitaine, a lost paradise of …

Philippe Portier: "States and religions in Europe: the weight of history" Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez: "The scope and limits of secularism in effective …

Abstract Writing as an underground temple where we crawl to consult an oracle in the darkness of the cave, the place of pre-writing. Become the pythia who enunciates an enigma to be submitted to the soothsayer who will decipher it. Past, present and …