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Abstract The response of noble metals to light changes dramatically when the size of the metal particles is reduced to the nanometer scale. The interaction of light with conduction electrons then results in coherent oscillations that can achieve resonance …

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Catherine Meurisse Dargaud/Rita Scaglia Catherine Meurisse was born in 1980. After studying modern literature, she went on to study at the École Estienne, then at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. In 2005, she joined the team at Charlie …

Abstract An analytical proof of Roth's theorem, which states that every dense set of integers contains an arithmetic progression of length …

The concluding lecture examines the future of the East-West Divide. It tries to analyze the conditions under which Central European societies will adopt the values and norms that are more common to the Western societies and under what kind of conditions …

Abstract "Philosophical knowledge and knowledge of essences": the title of this symposium could just as well be the title of a book on the work of the philosopher Christian Wolff (1679-1754). This should come as no surprise, given the structuring role it …

This lecture defines liberalism and illiberalism as two distinct responses to the changing demographic structure of European societies. In a democracy, the most existential collective right is the right to exclude. Democracy is preconditioned on the right …

Abstract There is little doubt that, unless we confine ourselves to a conception of philosophia perennis , reflection on the nature, objects and claims of philosophy to knowledge , and on the relations it should or should not maintain with its past and …

Abstract In the beginning, there's the myth. Zeus fell in love with Europa, daughter of the African king Agenor, and, transformed into a bull, took her to Crete, where she bore him two sons. Agénor sent Europa's two brothers after her, forbidding them to …

The second lecture focuses on the centrality of the demographic factor in explaining the transformation of European liberal democracies and European welfare states. It argues that while until recently, the relationship between democracy and demography was …

Conference in English with simultaneous translation into French. Europe is a complicated maze with many fault lines and internal divisions. This introductory lecture focuses on several of the fault lines in today's Europe: the North-South Divide; the …

Fernande Hölscher is invited by the Assembly of the Collège de France, at the suggestion of Pr Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge. Fernande Hölscher Abstract When the Greeks presented the statues of the gods with their wishes, prayers and thanks, they were not …