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Dario Mantovani
Animals in the Law: The Roman Perspective
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Session 2: Living with Animals Moderator: Thomas Lecuit (Collège de France) Abstract Roman law is at the origin of the dichotomy between personae and res and classifies animals as things, thereby reflecting, within the legal order, a social organization …
16:20 to 17:00

Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo
The Place of Humans in Biology Compared to Animals: Just Another Animal, or the Cause of the Worst Biodiversity Crisis?

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Session 2: Living with Animals Moderator: Thomas Lecuit (Collège de France) Abstract Every new discovery in biology invites us to rethink our view of the living world and the place humans occupy within it. Following in the footsteps of Charles Darwin and …
17:00 to 17:40

Alain Prochiantz
Sapiens in the History of Life: To Be or Not to Be an Animal
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Session 3: Animal Intelligence  Moderator: Nalini Anantharaman (Collège de France) …
09:30 to 10:10

Adrien Meguerditchian
The Origins of Language: What Can Our Primate Cousins Teach Us?
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Session 3: Animal Intelligence Moderator: Nalini Anantharaman (Collège de France) Abstract Since nonhuman primates are our closest relatives in evolutionary history, studying their communication systems can help us identify traits shared with speech in …
10:10 to 10:50

Martin Giurfa
The Cognitive Complexity of a Miniaturized Brain: Cognition and the Brain in Bees
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Session 3: Animal Intelligence Moderator: Nalini Anantharaman (Collège de France) Abstract Honeybees have a brain measuring barely one cubic millimeter, yet they exhibit a remarkably sophisticated behavioral repertoire. In addition to their historical …
11:10 to 11:50

Clément Sire
Collective Movements in Animal Groups: When a School of Fish Encounters AI, Virtual Reality, Robots, and Drones
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Session 3: Animal Intelligence Moderator: Nalini Anantharaman (Collège de France) Abstract This talk will first demonstrate how collaborative research between behavioral biologists and physicists makes it possible to quantify social interactions …
11:50 to 12:30

Isabelle Ratié
Conceiving of Animal Thought? Some Attempts in Ancient and Medieval India
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Session 4: To Kill or Not to Kill? Moderator: Antoine Lilti (Collège de France) Abstract Philosophers of ancient and medieval India agree that animals perceive and are capable of experiencing pleasure and pain: in the Indian debate over the legitimacy of …
14:00 to 14:40

Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
From Tragedy to Farce: Variations on the Greek Sacrifice as Murder
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Session 4: To Kill or Not to Kill? Moderator: Antoine Lilti (Collège de France) Abstract Greek culture is a millennia-old culture of sacrifice: the killing of a domestic animal in honor of the gods is the central ritual of communal life in all its forms. …
14:40 to 15:20

Charles Stépanoff
The Torments of an Empathetic Predator
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Session 4: To Kill or Not to Kill? Moderator: Antoine Lilti (Collège de France) Abstract Hunting prey from among 15,000 species of vertebrates, humans are today the planet’s primary predator, far ahead of lions, wolves, or sharks. Today, 94% of the …
15:30 to 16:10

Dominique Lestel
Animality and Humanity
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Session 4: To Kill or Not to Kill? Moderator: Antoine Lilti (Collège de France) …
16:10 to 17:00

Return to the Dao: Between Empire and Domination
Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History
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Introduction Following a series of lectures in which Anne Cheng explored the relationships between despotism and monism, autocracy and freedom in the Chinese tradition, she now feels it is necessary to revisit the famous Dao 道: is it essentially cosmic, …
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Lucile Barberon
Priestesses and Consecrated Women in Second-Millennium Babylonia
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14:30 to 16:00

Grammaire et pensée allemandes
Jean-Marie Zemb, chair German grammar and thought
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Antiquités sémitiques
Javier Teixidor, chair Semitic antiquities
Opening lecture
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Jean-Marie Zemb
Grammaire et pensée allemandes
Closing lecture
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18:00 to 19:00

Javier Teixidor
Semitic Antiquities (1)
Opening lecture
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18:00 to 19:00

Laurent Coulon
The “Wives of the God” in Thebes
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11:00 to 12:30

Food Sovereignty and the Agroecological Transition in Europe
Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions
Guest lecturer
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Olivier De Schutter has been invited by the Assembly of the Collège de France, upon the recommendation of Professor Samantha Besson, holder of the Chair in International Law of Institutions . Olivier De Schutter This series of four lectures by Olivier De …
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Philipp Dann
Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions
Guest lecturer
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Philipp Dann has been invited by the College of France’s assembly at the recommendation of Professor Samantha Besson. Philipp Dann …

Philippe Aghion
Are new ideas harder to come by? (2)
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14:00 to 16:00

Bioenergetics and Metabolism
Thomas Lecuit, chair Dynamics of Living Systems
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Introduction This year’s course by Thomas Lecuit will focus on bioenergetics. A cell in equilibrium is dead. A living system is open, traversed by energy flows that maintain its organization, growth, dynamics, and information processing. The course …
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Alessandro Morbidelli
Terrestrial Planets: Orbital, Physical, and Compositional Characteristics
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16:45 to 18:45

A Certain Philological Perplexity Regarding Modernist Sentences: Beckett and Musil
William Marx, chair Comparative Literatures
Guest lecturer
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Carlos Spoerhase has been invited by the Assembly of the Collège de France, upon the recommendation of Professor William Marx. Carlos …
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Laurent Coulon
The “Wives of the God” in Thebes.
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11:00 to 12:30