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Abstract Pierre Boulez has written and spoken surprisingly little about composers active in the second half of the twentieth century. A prolific author and passionate commentator on composers such as Webern, Schoenberg and Debussy, whom he integrated into …
11:15am - 12:00pm
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Abstract The topic of musical material features prominently throughout Boulez's College de France lectures, and in this paper I set out to establish some of the principal elements of its elaboration. Boulez spoke of the dissatisfaction experienced by …
10:15 - 11:00am
Jean-Jacques Nattiez
Boulez the writer
Jean-Jacques Nattiez
Boulez the writer
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Abstract Pierre Boulez was not only the composer of thirty-three works (and their revisions), but also the author of books of various kinds: compositional techniques, interviews, correspondence and three volumes containing one hundred and fifty articles …
9:30 - 10:15am
Mark Bowick
Facets of Order
Mark Bowick
Facets of Order
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Abstract Sharp structures can occur as minimizers of very regular problems. This means symmetry can lead us badly astray and the resultant symmetry breaking may lead to highly counter-intuitive structures. I will illustrate in a discrete example and then …
2:00 - 3:00pm
Hervé Reculeau
Hydraulics and societies : water control in Mesopotamia and its social implications
Hervé Reculeau
Hydraulics and societies : water control in Mesopotamia and its social implications
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Abstract The control of irrigation by a bureaucratic apparatus linked to religious and/or state power is at the heart of social theories that have marked the history of ideas over the last one hundred and fifty years. Although largely discredited, they …
11:00am - 12:00pm
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This series of lectures will explore the current structure of the outer Solar System, including the giant planets, their satellites, the Trojans, the trans-Neptunian population, the Oort cloud and comets. We'll also look at models relating to its origin, …
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Mikael Larsson est invité par l'assemblée du Collège de France sur proposition du Pr Thomas Römer. Mikael Larsson …
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Abstract In geology, archaeology and epigraphy, reconstructing the past begins with the present. In this first conference, we will focus on data and methods for reconstructing ancient Mesopotamian environments, using geology, paleoclimatology, site and …
11:00am - 12:00pm
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The symposium will be held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 July 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris). Program Pre-Islamic Late Antiquity (200 - 750 CE) 9.00am - 9.30am: "Preliminary Results of the Study …
9:00am - 6:00pm
Patrick Boucheron, Louise Gentil & Salomé Tissolong
For an epistemology of inquiry into pre-industrial socio-agrosystems
Patrick Boucheron, Louise Gentil & Salomé Tissolong
For an epistemology of inquiry into pre-industrial socio-agrosystems
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Pastoral landscape, Giuseppe Zais, Italy Veneto Venice. Louvre Museum. Project under the direction of : Patrick Boucheron, History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th to 16th century chair and François-Xavier Fauvelle, History and Archaeology of African …
6:00 - 7:00pm
Cyril Letrouit
Generalizations, applications, and measurement transport in machine learning
Cyril Letrouit
Generalizations, applications, and measurement transport in machine learning
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10:00am - 12:00pm
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The symposium will be held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 July 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris). Program Final Bronze - Earliest Iron Age 9.00am - 9.30am: "Connecting the Dots: the site of …
9:00am - 6:00pm
Gender and Science
Opening symposia
Gender and Science
Opening symposia
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Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue #2 , 1916. Brooklin Museum. Opening symposium 2024-2025 Gender and Science The opening symposium 2024 of the Collège de France aims to explore the relationship between Gender and Science from two different and complementary …
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Example Boolean circuit. The nodes are AND gates, the nodes are OR gates, and the nodes are NOT gates (CC BY-SA 4.0). …
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The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up , J. M. W. Turner, 1838. The aim of this lecture is to analyze the foundations and effects of breakthrough innovation. How can R&D policy be designed to generate breakthrough innovations ? …
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Documents and media Download support Abstract The humanities and social sciences provide a means of examining the political, semiological, functional and representational implications of the perception and management of biological invasions. Whether in …
11:15am - 12:15pm