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ASMi, MMD arrotolate, 0035, Corso del Po con alluvioni presso Sannazzaro, 1623. Abstract Environmental humanities are a new research horizon for the social sciences as a whole, since the beginning of the 21st century and with increasing intensity over the …

Abstract Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge's book " consciously leaves out the uses of the term in the works of Greek philosophers, be they poets or presocratics ". Taking up her invitation to bring philosophy into the dance, this paper would like to discuss this …

Abstract Do daimones , as conceived in ancient Greek polytheism, provide solutions to philosophical problems, for gods and men alike ? In her latest book, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge shows that Greek thinkers (from Homer to the end of the classical period) …

Abstract I propose to examine the figure of the daimōn as it appears in the myth of Er (Plato, Republic X, 617e, 620d-e), by relating it to the literary tradition prior to Plato, in particular lyric poetry (in Theognis and Pindar) and tragedy, notably in …

Abstract There are three occurrences of the word daimôn in the corpus of Empedocles' verses at our disposal. Fr. 59.1 DK offers two occurrences in the singular. Fr. 115.5 has one occurrence in the plural. Moreover, the context in which some of Empedocles' …

Abstract Based on the dossier of texts that Marcel Detienne proposed as an appendix to his classic study of Pythagorean demonology (1959/1963), we will attempt to identify the relationship between the various accounts of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans of …

Abstract What are we to make of tradition's attribution to Thales of the doctrine that everything is animate and " full of gods " ( δαιμόνων πλῆρες, Aetius I 7, 11) ? To follow the proposals presented by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge in her work on the notion …

Xinjiang ziyiju, the "provincial assembly" of Xinjiang at Ürümchi Abstract In this presentation, I will examine the representation of Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang in the parliaments of early twentieth-century China, particularly in the Political …

Abstract Diagrammatic Monte Carlo (DiagMC) is a versatile numerical technique capable of solving strongly correlated fermion systems in a controlled and accurate way. The core idea behind the technique is to sum all connected Feynman diagrams in a …

Abstract The real-time dynamics of interacting quantum systems remains a major challenge in computational quantum physics. Surprisingly, high-order perturbative expansions have recently emerged as a promising approach to address this question, even in …

Abstract In this seminar, I will introduce the diagrammatic Monte Carlo method and discuss its application to the two-dimensional Hubbard model at finite temperature. The results obtained through this approach are controlled and, importantly, address the …