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Hans Kamp
Types of entity representations in MSDRT
Symposium
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Chair: Joulia Smortchkova Abstract MSDRT (Mental State Discourse Representation Theory) has developed a number of different Types of Entity Representations (its term for what is referred to by others as Mental Files). The different ER Types are for …
11:40 to 12:55

The hospital of the future
Avenir Commun Durable
Special events
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Ce colloque, comme tous les enseignements du Collège de France, est ouvert au public, sans réservations. L’objectif est d’informer nos concitoyens des grands défis qui attendent l’hôpital. L’ensemble des interventions sera capté et disponible sur notre …
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Ellen Lau
Discourse files and human memory systems
Symposium
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Chair: Joulia Smortchkova Abstract Two ideas characterize many discussions of discourse files or discourse referents. One is that they are only temporary, serving as mental proxies for individuals only across some segment of discourse. Dissociations …
10:05 to 11:20

Scientific ecology and life chemistry : a symbiosis at the heart of sustainable development
Claude Grison, chair Avenir Commun Durable
Seminar
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Scientific ecology and life chemistry : a symbiosis at the heart of sustainable development
Claude Grison, chair Avenir Commun Durable
Lecture
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Akihito Suzuki
Madness at Home in Tokyo: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in Tokyo, 1920-1945
Guest lecturer
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Documents and media Download poster Abstract The family of a mentally ill patient was one of the most important agents in the general picture of insanity in society. Family members such as husband, wife, father, mother, and children played crucial roles …
17:00 to 18:00

Jens Beckert
How We Sold Our Future. The Failure to Fight Climate Change
Guest lecturer
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Jens Beckert is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Pr Pierre-Michel Menger. Abstract For decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. Nevertheless, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain …
14:00 to 15:00

Ecological transition: the hope of sustainability science
Claude Grison, chair Avenir Commun Durable
Opening lecture
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Around authenticity: readings, reflections, discussions
Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History
Seminar
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Athens and Jerusalem : Literature, History, Writing
William Marx, chair Comparative Literatures
Guest lecturer
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Daniel Mendelsohn is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Prof. William Marx. Daniel Mendelsohn Head of Ulysses from a group of sculptures depicting the hero killing the Cyclops Polyphemus. Marble, Greek work from the I st …
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Put Another Way: What Is Metaphor?
Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome
Seminar
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Caryatids of Eleusis, detail. …
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The body of law, "Corpus Iuris". Imagining law through bodily metaphors in Roman legal literature (2)
Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome
Lecture
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Caryatids of Eleusis, detail. Presentation No scientific language escapes metaphors, not even the one that claims the greatest precision and the least ambiguity: the language of law. Body, head, hands, feet, birth, growth, death: these are just some of …
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Sophie Ramond
David in the book of Chronicles
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Documents and media Download support …
15:15 to 16:45

Filippo Ronconi
Being a copyist in the Middle Ages: between passion, profession and devotion
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Abstract This lecture examines the figure of the medieval copyist, taking the Byzantine world as its main field of observation, without neglecting comparisons with the Latin West. It will highlight the profound diversity of copyist profiles—professionals, …
15:30 to 17:00

Frantz Grenet
The origins of medieval Khurâsân: interactions between Sassanid Iran and Central Asia (3rd-7th c. AD) (8)
Lecture
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15:30 to 16:30

Thomas Römer
The end of David's reign and Solomon's rise to power
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Documents and media Download support Abstract God's promise of an eternal dynasty contrasted with David's adultery, when he sent his best general to his death to seize his wife, a behavior condemned by the same prophet Nathan who had promised David an …
14:00 to 15:00

Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
Sacrifice and oath : elements of a ritual language
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Documents and media Download support Abstract Leaving Athens behind, this lesson explores the dossier of epigraphically attested oaths all around the Aegean Sea. This investigation attests to the omnipresence of commitment rituals involving animals in all …
11:00 to 12:00

Pascale Senellart
Introduction
Symposium
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09:00 to 09:15

Lea Ypi
Nationalism, socialism, cosmopolitanism
Lecture
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Abstract This session looks at the tensions and articulations between nationalism, socialism and cosmopolitanism. It examines how socialist movements have attempted to articulate the struggle for social justice with the national question, oscillating …
17:00 to 18:00

Dario Mantovani
When forgeries make sense to jurists : paretymologies between puns and metaphors
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Abstract The ancients, too, were keen to research the origins of words in order to shed light on their meaning. Roman jurists, in particular, were passionate about their research. Their hypotheses sometimes took the form of veritable language games, akin …
14:30 to 15:30

Jean-Luc Fournet
School and professional training
Lecture
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11:00 to 12:00

Jean-Philippe Goddard
Reactive and intermediate species (5)
Seminar
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11:00 to 12:00

Louis Fensterbank
Reactive and intermediate species (5)
Lecture
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09:30 to 11:00

Pierre-Michel Menger
General discussion and conclusion
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17:10 to 17:30