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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 …

Abstract The term Bouphonia refers to a sacrifice performed by Athenians during the Dipolia or Dipoleia, the feast of Zeus Polieus celebrated on the Acropolis of Athens at the beginning of July. Lexically speaking, the name of the ritual associates a …

Abstract Photocatalysis has progressed enormously over the last decade, with numerous applications in organic synthesis, where the energy of excited states is used to induce reactions involving intermediates that would be inaccessible by thermal means. …

Elected to the Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge chair, Prof. Claudine Tiercelin gave her opening lecture on Thursday May 5, 2011. Over the next fourteen years, her lectures explored a renewed approach to metaphysics, articulating classical …

Project supervised by  : Pierre-Louis Lions, Chair of Partial Differential Equations and Applications . Abstract Changes in agricultural practices are inevitable and necessary. Inevitable, because climate change is having a growing impact on agriculture …

Abstract There is no end to the gesture of creating, and yet we have to finish. To declare that here, at this moment, is to end. What's finished  ? How do you recognize the final point  ? How do you stop in time  ? What bursts forth at the moment of …

Abstract Knowing that ending is only an illusion, how can we think of the final point  ? Nothing ends, but is abandoned. So how do we accept abandonment, how do we allow the end to emerge, and the mourning that goes with it  ? How do you submit to the …

Abstract In the performance of the nations most renowned for the quality of their primary and secondary mathematics training and for the excellence of their research, we observe the frequent practice of extracurricular investment in clubs and in training …

Drawing © Monika Jasnauskaite Virginijus Šikšnys is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Pr Edith Heard. Abstract Bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) pose a lethal threat to bacteria. In response, bacteria evolved …

Lecture outline : aczel's translation of set theory into type theory   ; miquel's variation for not necessarily well-founded sets   ; application to the problem of the logical strength of certain type systems, in particular the Lean system (Mario …

Abstract In the second lecture of the year, we attempted to sketch a portrait of Zimri-Lim. Along the way, we added a number of new features. We will complete this picture, for the most part with elements we have not yet encountered. We'll see how the …

Abstract Stage and auditorium, interior and exterior, stage curtain and iron curtain - these are all relationships that can be found both in the theater building and in the object of the performance given there. What, then, is this cramped, rough, black …

Abstract The sequencing of the human genome has taught us that the majority of our genetic differences are made up of extra pages, missing pages and/or pages whose order is altered in our "   encyclopedia of life   ". These variations in the architecture …

Abstract This lecture will address a major question in human genomics and public health  : how do genetics and the environment interact in the development of disease  ? We'll start by examining how the environment -   the exposome   - can affect our …

Abstract This first   conference will focus on the historiography of the Enlightenment. It will review research on the subject over the last few decades, and highlight the enormous expansion of public participation in literary and intellectual life …