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Claude Grison
Strategic metals shortages and pharmaceutical chemistry : from problems to solutions
Claude Grison
Strategic metals shortages and pharmaceutical chemistry : from problems to solutions
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Documents and media Download support Abstract Smartphones, computers, electric and hybrid cars, solar panels, wind turbines, military and space technologies, electronics, pharmaceuticals, medical imaging... Life today is totally dependent on rare and …
10:00 to 11:00
Markus Saur
" Nothing new under the sun. " (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Qohelet and his perception of the world
Markus Saur
" Nothing new under the sun. " (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Qohelet and his perception of the world
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Documents and media Download support Abstract The book of Qohelet is a collection of reflections on human beings and their abilities. But the book of Qohelet also deals with the world and its stability and persistence. Thus, Qohelet does not begin his …
11:00 to 12:00
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Daniel Mendelsohn
Cavafy and the eroticism of loss
Daniel Mendelsohn
Cavafy and the eroticism of loss
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Abstract The great Alexandrian Greek poet Constantin Cavafy (1863-1933) continues to fascinate us with the deft, evocative way in which he interweaves ancient Hellenic history with some very modern concerns: sexuality, identity, time, writing. In this …
18:00 to 19:00
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Attic columned black-figure krater . London, British Museum 1837.0609.38. Side A: Sacrifice scene in front of a hermaic pillar . Date: circa 520-510 B.C. Presentation For at least a millennium, the Greek world has been bloodying altars to pay homage to …
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The Buddha tempted by the armies of Māra, Kashmir, 8th c. (detail), Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain. Presentation This year's seminar will be held in English, and participation requires a good knowledge of Sanskrit. It will be devoted to a reading …
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Documents and media Download support Abstract Hox genes and tail formation. Approached through global analysis of intraspecific evolutionary variants and targeted gain-of-function studies. This fourth lesson begins with a brief reminder of some key points …
10:00 to 11:30
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The Buddha tempted by the armies of Māra, Kashmir, 8th century (detail), Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain. Presentation This year's lecture explores one of the major controversies of ancient and medieval India, namely the dispute over the existence …
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Kenichi Abe
Kenzaburô Ôé's world of manuscripts
Kenichi Abe
Kenzaburô Ôé's world of manuscripts
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Abstract Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburô Ôé (1935-2023) wrote his books in his own handwriting throughout his life. The 19,000 pages of manuscripts deposited at the University of Tokyo were written according to the principle "erase and write", where traces …
15:00 to 16:00
Sandra Lavorel
Functional ecology : understanding ecosystem structure to anticipate the effects of global change
Sandra Lavorel
Functional ecology : understanding ecosystem structure to anticipate the effects of global change
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Documents et médias Télécharger le support Abstract This lecture will introduce the field of functional ecology. After a definition and a brief history, it will present the functional traits that enable a general understanding of the responses of …
18:00 to 19:00
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Abstract Five seminar sessions will be devoted entirely to an exceptional unpublished Greek text spanning 255 verses and preserved in the first six columns of the recto of a large roll of Greek magic papyrus (III rd -IV th century AD), unearthed in …
15:30 to 17:00
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Documents and media Download support Abstract This strange tale tells of a tormented king who, in the absence of communication with his tutelary deity, makes a disguised visit to a necromancer to bring Samuel up from Sheol. She succeeds, but Samuel's …
14:00 to 15:00
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Robert F. Campany (Vanderbilt University) , invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Anne Cheng, will take part in the seminar with a lecture entitled " Authenticity, Authentification and Transmutation in Late Classical …
14:00 to 17:00
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Documents and media Download support Abstract The introduction to the lecture briefly returns to the question of the so-called 'divinized abstractions' that populate the genealogical lists of the Theogony , to underline the anachronism of such a label. …
11:00 to 12:00
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Gunnel Ekroth (Uppsala University): "Sacrifice, Dinner or Destruction? Animal Bones as a Source for Greek Ritual Practice" [Intervention will not be recorded] Jake Morton (Carlton College): "Everything but the Bones: Slaughter, Butchery, and Cooking in …
14:30 to 17:30
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A Plaetoria denarius depicting Sors. CC BY-SA 3.0. Abstract As Ambrose remarked, the lexicon of consumer lending is rich in words that multiply almost as much as the interest charged to the debtor : faenus , usurae - - but the most mysterious is sors , …
14:30 to 15:30
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Abstract In the first session of this lecture series, we took as our starting point Condorcet's accusations against charlatans. The latter, impostors and demagogues, used false knowledge to mislead the people, while philosophers strove to enlighten them. …
14:30 to 15:30