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Abstract Microbes have a bad reputation. Bacteria and viruses are still primarily associated with infectious diseases, and microbiology remains largely focused on understanding infections and their treatment. Yet this tradition of microbiology, inherited …
18:00 to 19:00
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As a one-time exception, the class will be held in the Guillaume Budé lecture hall. …
16:00 to 17:30
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11:00 to 12:30
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10:00 to 12:00
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09:30 to 11:00
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Introduction The course over the past two years has focused on sacrificial rituals, both in their poetic interpretation (2025) and their contemporary manifestations within city-states, with particular attention to oath-taking sacrifices (2026). Building …
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Abstract Global technology giants (Big Tech) are involved, in various ways, in the creation of legal rules or rules with similar characteristics. In addition to influencing the content of technical norms and standards, they themselves adopt rules of …
11:00 to 12:00
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Myrrhinè lekythos , 5th c. BC (Athens Archaeological Museum no. 4485). g. Dall'Orto Study day organized by Adrien Zirah (research engineer at Collège de France, associate member of ANHIMA and LIER-FYT) with the support of Professeure Pirenne-Delforge It …

Marc Fleurbaey

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Résumé La recherche d’un avenir durable ne repose pas seulement sur l’analyse des scénarios possibles, mais aussi sur une réflexion normative permettant d’évaluer l’état de la société et de la planète. Une telle « boussole » éthique est indispensable pour …
18:00 to 19:00
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Abstract Metagenomics has opened up an entirely new perspective on life. It reveals that microorganisms colonize every environment on the planet and that the diversity studied in the laboratory represents only a tiny fraction of the total. The number of …
14:00 to 15:30
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Introduction This year’s course by Jean-Luc Fournet is devoted to one of the figures of Late Antiquity in Egypt, the philosopher and grammarian Horapollo ( 5 th century), under whose name a treatise on hieroglyphs has come down to us. Why would a Greek …
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Introduction This course will discuss osmosis and osmotic phenomena in their various forms. Osmosis is the prototypical example of so-called entropic forces. It is a universal phenomenon, simple in form yet sometimes abstruse in its underlying principles. …
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