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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 …

Michael Doyle is invited to the Collège de France by Professor Samantha Besson. Conference in English. Abstract John Rawls's publication of The Law of Peoples was a profound attempt to design a just peace. Beyond the simple cessation of armed hostilities, …

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 …

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 …

The symposium is co-organized with Sylvain Nascimbene. Speakers:  Leonardo Fallani (U. Florence, Italy), Jean-Noël Fuchs (LPTMC, Paris), Sylvain Nascimbene (LKB, Paris), Julian Sscmitt (U. Heidelberg, Germany), Leticia Tarruell (ICFO, Barcelona, …

Exceptionally, this last session of the seminar will take place on a Friday at 2.30pm. Abstract International lawyers have long downplayed the challenge posed by regional international law, considering it to be little different from the general problem of …

Abstract Documentation from excavations at the Antinoopolis site testifies to the central role played by this city in education, at all levels : from learning Greek and Latin, through shorthand, to research work in mathematics and medicine. This …

Abstract The book of Joshua curiously concludes with two   farewell speeches by Joshua, who have different functions and come from different production backgrounds. Joshua 23 insists that the conquest will ultimately succeed only if the recipients remain …

Abstract Although born of international treaties, the European Union (EU) is fundamentally a legal innovation: not only does it aim to replace national law with European law within each member state, it also aims to replace international law with Union …

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 …

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 …