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While the end of the 1st Babylonian dynasty is often portrayed as a phase of decline, with the emphasis on the decline of its political power and the fragility of its economic life, it has to be said that this is not the case from the point of view of …

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Abstract Bảo Châu Ngô is a French and Vietnamese mathematician born in 1972 in Vietnam. He completed all his university studies in France. He was admitted to the École normale supérieure in 1992 through the international competitive examination, and …

The aim of this lecture is to show how the study of genetic variability in human populations makes it possible to reconstruct the demographic history of our species. The study of neutral genetic diversity has highlighted several genetic characteristics of …

Although Europeans had been importing objects from Africa since before 1884, the decade following the Berlin Conference saw a substantial increase in the number of pieces brought back, at the same time as numerous museums dedicated entirely to ethnology …

The putative counterexamples to the " Fido "-Fido theory considered so far are all cases where an utterance retains meaning even though one of its putative constituents fails to refer. More embarrassing for the "   Fido   "-Fido theory, Fregean cases are …

A Collège de France - CNRS coproduction Abstract The opening lecture focused on the laws of psychology and the research strategies that could establish them. "Psychology is the science of mental life" Thus, in 1890, William James defined the field of what …

Abstract Marc Henneaux is a Belgian physicist who spent part of his career in the USA, working with Claudio Bunster (Teitelboim Weitzman) at Princeton University (1978-1979), then in Austin (1981-1984), in John Wheeler's group. He then became a researcher …

Before going into more detail on the role of the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman eras in the formation of the Hebrew Bible, the lecture presented the various cultural, literary and political influences exerted by Israel's and Judah's neighbors on several …

Abstract According to Herodotus (II, 50), " the Egyptians have no use for heroes ", which means that they don't worship this type of entity and that we're dealing with a Greek peculiarity. The very name of these entities requires us to look first at the …

Abstract The famous formula " musée imaginaire " - first mentioned in a 1946 lecture, " L'homme et la culture artistique " - might lead one to believe that André Malraux had an equivalent in the field of books, an " bibliothèque imaginaire ", especially …

Abstract The library of " étoiles nouvelles ", built around Heredia's poem, is taking on surprising dimensions and leading into unexpected territory. Up to now, we've seen that the new stars take on different values depending on their context : texts from …

Abstract In this talk, Pierre Courtiol presents three recent examples of deep learning applications in histology for cancer : prognostic prediction, genomic prediction and expert knowledge integration. He shows how the analysis of large histology images …

Abstract The wavelet transform is a time-frequency representation obtained by decomposing the signal onto localized functions that are translated and dilated. It defines an invertible and stable representation. Wavelet decompositions are found in the …

Hybrid books (2) The examination of composite books continues, each time revealing very different universes: non-Christian texts sometimes belong to the Pharaonic tradition, sometimes to the Greek tradition, taken up as it is or updated, while Christian …

In collaboration with the Global department of the Institut Convergences Migrations. Space, cities and mobility : historical approaches …

In the 19th  century, Lamartine was identified with the swan and its song. After his political failure against Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, the poet suffered a long and sad old age, a kind of swan song that lasted 20 years. In L'Abdication du poète (The …