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This is all the more true in the face of contemporary challenges, where scientific … 04 Feb 2025 → 12 Jun 2025 Event Antoine Lilti Haiti, 1825: from independence to debt - Introduction Symposium 12 Jun 2025 09:00 - 09:30 Series Regulation of embryonic development genes ; enhancer sequences Denis Duboule, chair Development and Genome Evolution Lecture Cyp26a1 gene expression in mouse gastruloides. Denis Duboule's scientific contributions concern the molecular genetics of vertebrate development, with interfaces in medical genetics, evolutionary biology and transcription regulation. His latest work … 21 Feb 2025 → 28 Mar 2025 Event Gusti-Klara Gaillard-Pourchet The debt of independence: the price of general freedom in 1793/1794 Symposium 13 Jun 2025 09:00 - 09:30 Event David Bell In search of the company Guest lecturer Abstract In this lecture, I will show that the changes in the European intellectual world, studied in the first lecture, drew the attention of XVIIIᵉ century authors to the specificity of society as a phenomenon. They then began to consider the latter … 24 Mar 2025 17:30 - 18:30 Event Emmanuel Sander What makes a good mathematical problem ? :(Re)reconciling intuition and mathematical sense Special events Go to Emmanuel Sander Emmanuel Sander is Professor in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Geneva. A member of the Conseil Scientifique de l'Education Nationale, his research focuses on the analysis of mental … 18 Jun 2025 17:30 - 19:00 Series Sacrifices in comparison Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, chair Religion, History and Society in the Ancient Greek World Seminar Fragmentary red-figured bell jar (Nola?). London, British Museum E 494 Side A: Sacrifice of Heracles to Chrysae B: Satyr between two maenads Date: circa 430 B.C. - London painter E 494 Beazley Archive Pottery Database 214501. Alongside the year's lecture … 19 Feb 2025 → 02 Apr 2025 Event Thomas Bourgeron The genetics of autism, from medicine to neurodiversity Seminar Abstract In 2003, the first genes associated with autism were identified. Today, more than a hundred genes are known, and others are in the process of being identified. In some cases, a single genetic variation is involved ; in others, thousands of … 28 Mar 2025 11:00 - 12:30 Event Denis Duboule Evolution of control sequences Lecture Abstract Different mechanisms leading to enhancers moving closer to their target genes. CTCF dependence and non-dependence. Pathologies induced by causes involving enhancers (enhanceropathies) and the function of transposable elements in the evolution of … 28 Mar 2025 10:00 - 11:30 Event Lluis Quintana-Murci Genetic architecture of polygenic traits and diseases Lecture Abstract The majority of quantitative traits, such as height or blood pressure, and common diseases, such as type 2 diabetes or COVID-19, result from the combined effects of many genes. This lecture will examine methods for identifying the genetic bases … 28 Mar 2025 09:30 - 11:00 Event Jérôme Dubail Emerging hydrodynamics of one-dimensional boson gases Seminar 28 Mar 2025 11:15 - 12:30 Event Jean Dalibard Solitons and matter waves (2) Lecture 28 Mar 2025 09:30 - 11:00 Series The drift and misunderstanding of reality Wajdi Mouawad, chair The Invention of Europe through languages and cultures Seminar Dessins ©Wajdi Mouawad. … 18 Feb 2025 → 08 Apr 2025 Event Myriam Cottias, Catherine Porter, Magali Bessone & Carlo A. Celius Round table: Remembrance and reparations Symposium Round-table discussion moderated by Myriam Cottias, CNRS, CIRESC, with the participation of Catherine Porter, New York Times, Magali Bessone, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, and Carlo A. Celius, … 14 Jun 2025 09:00 - 10:45 Series Writing verbs Wajdi Mouawad, chair The Invention of Europe through languages and cultures Lecture 18 Feb 2025 → 08 Apr 2025 Event Franck Courchamp Ecology : complexity, paradoxes and holism Opening lecture Abstract Ecology is the science of interactions between living beings and their environment ; this environment is itself made up of other living beings, themselves interacting with their environment, and other living beings. It's clear from the definition … 27 Mar 2025 18:00 - 19:00 Event Marco Bonechi The cuneiform limits of our knowledge, or : from Ebla, too much light ! Guest lecturer Abstract Focus on the current situation regarding the safeguarding of Ebla textual data. Discussion of the isolation of the texts in the Eblaite archives, so ancient in the Semitic context and so original in their writing compared with the Mesopotamian … 12 Jun 2025 11:00 - 12:00 Event Frantz Grenet Outlook Lecture 27 Mar 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Event Paul Schubert The grammateus project : towards a general typology of Greek documentary papyri Seminar Abstract The grammateus project, currently under development at the University of Geneva, aims to provide an overview of the various types of documents written on papyrus by Greek-speaking scribes in Egypt. It is based on a database containing not only … 27 Mar 2025 15:30 - 17:00 Event Hervé Gonzalez Jerusalem at war in the Book of Zechariah Seminar Documents and media Download support Download example … 27 Mar 2025 15:15 - 16:45 Event Apollin Koagne Zouapet Regionalism in the judicial practice of the International Court of Justice Seminar Abstract As the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, the International Court of Justice occupies a unique place in the landscape of international institutions and jurisdictions. It is the only universal international court with general … 27 Mar 2025 15:30 - 17:00 Event Thomas Römer The conquest of Jericho (Jos 6) Lecture Abstract The story of the walls of Jericho, which collapsed without military intervention but as the result of a ritual, emphasizes the importance of divine intervention. Archaeologically, the search for these walls was a failure. No doubt the place was … 27 Mar 2025 14:00 - 15:00 Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Demeter's wrath and the barley of sacrifice Lecture Abstract The Homeric Hymn to Demeter depicts the goddess' anger at the abduction of her daughter by Hades, with Zeus' consent. The poem is fully in keeping with the theme of sacrificial culture : the strike by Demeter, withdrawn to her temple at Eleusis, … 27 Mar 2025 11:00 - 12:00 Pagination First page Previous page … Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Current page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 … Next page Last page
Event Dionysios Anninos Cosmological 'Ising' Models Seminar Abstract We discuss the role simplified controllable models may play in sharpening and solving questions in quantum cosmology. Some focus will be placed on lower dimensional models. Relevant literature includes 2406.15271, 2106.01665, … 11 Jun 2025 16:00 - 17:30
Series In search of an Avenir Commun Durable Avenir Commun Durable Special events Like an ecosystem, knowledge is never an immutable, balanced sum of knowledge. It is constantly changing, nourished by research, its advances and its contradictions. This is all the more true in the face of contemporary challenges, where scientific … 04 Feb 2025 → 12 Jun 2025
Event Antoine Lilti Haiti, 1825: from independence to debt - Introduction Symposium 12 Jun 2025 09:00 - 09:30
Series Regulation of embryonic development genes ; enhancer sequences Denis Duboule, chair Development and Genome Evolution Lecture Cyp26a1 gene expression in mouse gastruloides. Denis Duboule's scientific contributions concern the molecular genetics of vertebrate development, with interfaces in medical genetics, evolutionary biology and transcription regulation. His latest work … 21 Feb 2025 → 28 Mar 2025
Event Gusti-Klara Gaillard-Pourchet The debt of independence: the price of general freedom in 1793/1794 Symposium 13 Jun 2025 09:00 - 09:30
Event David Bell In search of the company Guest lecturer Abstract In this lecture, I will show that the changes in the European intellectual world, studied in the first lecture, drew the attention of XVIIIᵉ century authors to the specificity of society as a phenomenon. They then began to consider the latter … 24 Mar 2025 17:30 - 18:30
Event Emmanuel Sander What makes a good mathematical problem ? :(Re)reconciling intuition and mathematical sense Special events Go to Emmanuel Sander Emmanuel Sander is Professor in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Geneva. A member of the Conseil Scientifique de l'Education Nationale, his research focuses on the analysis of mental … 18 Jun 2025 17:30 - 19:00
Series Sacrifices in comparison Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, chair Religion, History and Society in the Ancient Greek World Seminar Fragmentary red-figured bell jar (Nola?). London, British Museum E 494 Side A: Sacrifice of Heracles to Chrysae B: Satyr between two maenads Date: circa 430 B.C. - London painter E 494 Beazley Archive Pottery Database 214501. Alongside the year's lecture … 19 Feb 2025 → 02 Apr 2025
Event Thomas Bourgeron The genetics of autism, from medicine to neurodiversity Seminar Abstract In 2003, the first genes associated with autism were identified. Today, more than a hundred genes are known, and others are in the process of being identified. In some cases, a single genetic variation is involved ; in others, thousands of … 28 Mar 2025 11:00 - 12:30
Event Denis Duboule Evolution of control sequences Lecture Abstract Different mechanisms leading to enhancers moving closer to their target genes. CTCF dependence and non-dependence. Pathologies induced by causes involving enhancers (enhanceropathies) and the function of transposable elements in the evolution of … 28 Mar 2025 10:00 - 11:30
Event Lluis Quintana-Murci Genetic architecture of polygenic traits and diseases Lecture Abstract The majority of quantitative traits, such as height or blood pressure, and common diseases, such as type 2 diabetes or COVID-19, result from the combined effects of many genes. This lecture will examine methods for identifying the genetic bases … 28 Mar 2025 09:30 - 11:00
Event Jérôme Dubail Emerging hydrodynamics of one-dimensional boson gases Seminar 28 Mar 2025 11:15 - 12:30
Series The drift and misunderstanding of reality Wajdi Mouawad, chair The Invention of Europe through languages and cultures Seminar Dessins ©Wajdi Mouawad. … 18 Feb 2025 → 08 Apr 2025
Event Myriam Cottias, Catherine Porter, Magali Bessone & Carlo A. Celius Round table: Remembrance and reparations Symposium Round-table discussion moderated by Myriam Cottias, CNRS, CIRESC, with the participation of Catherine Porter, New York Times, Magali Bessone, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, and Carlo A. Celius, … 14 Jun 2025 09:00 - 10:45
Series Writing verbs Wajdi Mouawad, chair The Invention of Europe through languages and cultures Lecture 18 Feb 2025 → 08 Apr 2025
Event Franck Courchamp Ecology : complexity, paradoxes and holism Opening lecture Abstract Ecology is the science of interactions between living beings and their environment ; this environment is itself made up of other living beings, themselves interacting with their environment, and other living beings. It's clear from the definition … 27 Mar 2025 18:00 - 19:00
Event Marco Bonechi The cuneiform limits of our knowledge, or : from Ebla, too much light ! Guest lecturer Abstract Focus on the current situation regarding the safeguarding of Ebla textual data. Discussion of the isolation of the texts in the Eblaite archives, so ancient in the Semitic context and so original in their writing compared with the Mesopotamian … 12 Jun 2025 11:00 - 12:00
Event Paul Schubert The grammateus project : towards a general typology of Greek documentary papyri Seminar Abstract The grammateus project, currently under development at the University of Geneva, aims to provide an overview of the various types of documents written on papyrus by Greek-speaking scribes in Egypt. It is based on a database containing not only … 27 Mar 2025 15:30 - 17:00
Event Hervé Gonzalez Jerusalem at war in the Book of Zechariah Seminar Documents and media Download support Download example … 27 Mar 2025 15:15 - 16:45
Event Apollin Koagne Zouapet Regionalism in the judicial practice of the International Court of Justice Seminar Abstract As the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, the International Court of Justice occupies a unique place in the landscape of international institutions and jurisdictions. It is the only universal international court with general … 27 Mar 2025 15:30 - 17:00
Event Thomas Römer The conquest of Jericho (Jos 6) Lecture Abstract The story of the walls of Jericho, which collapsed without military intervention but as the result of a ritual, emphasizes the importance of divine intervention. Archaeologically, the search for these walls was a failure. No doubt the place was … 27 Mar 2025 14:00 - 15:00
Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Demeter's wrath and the barley of sacrifice Lecture Abstract The Homeric Hymn to Demeter depicts the goddess' anger at the abduction of her daughter by Hades, with Zeus' consent. The poem is fully in keeping with the theme of sacrificial culture : the strike by Demeter, withdrawn to her temple at Eleusis, … 27 Mar 2025 11:00 - 12:00
