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These obtain by maximising the variational free energy of the system … 30 May 2008 14:30 to 15:30 Event Victor Stoichita Tears and saints (3) Guest lecturer 30 May 2008 16:00 to 17:00 Event Karl Friston Action, Perception and Free-Energy Guest lecturer Value-learning and perceptual learning have been an important focus over the past decade, attracting the concerted attention of experimental psychologists, neurobiologists and the machine learning community. Despite some formal connections; e.g. , the … 29 May 2008 17:00 to 18:00 Event Ahmad Beydoun Does Lebanon's political system have a future ? Guest lecturer 29 May 2008 17:00 to 18:00 Event Pierre-Louis Lions Partial Differential Equations and Applications Opening lecture Abstract In just a few decades, numerical simulations have become a preferred tool in many scientific fields (physics, chemistry, mechanics, meteorology, engineering sciences, finance) and industrial sectors (aeronautics, space, automotive, nuclear, … 22 May 2003 18:00 to 19:00 Event Ahmad Beydoun A new inter-community deal ? Guest lecturer 27 May 2008 17:00 to 18:00 Event Martin Schwartz The Esoteric Dimensions of Gathic Style Guest lecturer 27 May 2008 16:00 to 17:00 Event Albert de Jong The emancipation of the Mazdeans Guest lecturer The destinies of the Indian and Iranian communities followed distinct readings: for the Parsis, the 19th century was a time of emancipation and wealth. For the Mazdeans of Iran, the 19th century was a time of repression and loss. So the Parsis set about … 27 May 2008 11:00 to 12:00 Series Untitled lecture Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music Lecture In a sentence from Jean Santeuil, and quite unexpectedly, Proust speaks of "those two prestiges of analogy and difference that have so much power over our minds". I couldn't think of a better phrase to define what I've called the thematic stakes. I'd even … 01 Sep 1983 Series The relationship between the instrumental score and real-time electro-acoustic development processes Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music Seminar The difference in level between the instrumental score and the score of electro-acoustic transformations is due to the fact that an instrument/an ensemble of instruments directly produces a sound object determined by the writing (first-degree activity, … 01 Sep 1983 Event José Émilio Burucúa Engravings of the Quixote in seventeenth-century French : prints by Jacques Lagniet Guest lecturer There are few texts that, like Quixote , have aroused such an intense and frequent impulse among visual artists towards the desire or necessity of illustration. In the West, perhaps only the Bible and the Divine Comedy could compare with Quixote in the … 26 May 2008 11:00 to 12:00 Event Michel Brunet Perspectives and discussions related to the lecture Seminar 11 Jun 2008 14:30 to 15:30 Event Victor Stoichita Tears and saints (2) Guest lecturer 23 May 2008 16:00 to 17:00 Event Ahmad Beydoun What " independence " meant... Guest lecturer 22 May 2008 17:00 to 18:00 Event Martin Schwartz Compositional Techniques of the Individual Poems, and of the Serial Generation of the Corpus Guest lecturer 20 May 2008 16:00 to 17:00 Event Albert de Jong Mazdean quietism Guest lecturer The Arab conquests of the Sassanid empire had, in one fell swoop, robbed the Mazdeans of Iran of all profane power. The success of these conquests is seen in Muslim tradition (and historiography) as proof of the superiority of Islam. For the Mazdeans, … 20 May 2008 11:00 to 12:00 Event José Émilio Burucúa The pathosformeln of laughter and European engraving at the beginning of modernity Guest lecturer For Aby Warburg, a Pathosformel is a set of representative and meaningful forms, historically determined at the moment of their first synthesis, which reinforces the understanding of the meaning of what is represented by mobilizing the affective field … 19 May 2008 11:00 to 12:00 Event Gilles Ramstein The contribution of climate modeling to the evolutionary history of life and hominids Seminar 4 Jun 2008 14:30 to 15:30 Event Victor Stoichita Tears and saints (1) Guest lecturer 15 May 2008 16:00 to 17:00 Event José Émilio Burucúa The ancient massacre and the modern massacre : problems of historiography and representation Guest lecturer The massacre is an event in human history whose narrative presented Greek and Roman historians with enormous difficulties, both in its narrative construction and in its rational explanation. This lecture will show, firstly, how historiography and art … 14 May 2008 11:00 to 12:00 Event Albert de Jong Mazdaism, the imperial religion Guest lecturer Mazdeism begins in a society without kings and survives in a society without (Mazdean) kings. Between the two lies the long period of imperial Mazdeism, which begins with Darius and ends with the last Sassanid king, Yazdegerd III. Between the VIᵉ century … 13 May 2008 11:00 to 12:00 Event Patrick Vignaud Faunas, fossil flora and paleoenvironments Seminar 28 May 2008 14:30 to 15:30 Event José Émilio Burucúa The concept of otherness and pictorial representation the story of Ulysses since the Renaissance Guest lecturer This lecture will examine the reception and treatment of the myth of Ulysses and the story of the Odyssey in Italian and Flemish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries. It will show that a comic interpretation of this story went hand in hand with the … 7 May 2008 11:00 to 12:00 Event Albert de Jong The formation of the Mazdean identity Guest lecturer The first lesson serves as a methodological introduction to history proper, which only begins with the Achaemenids. With the rejection of Zarathustra's historicity by some modern scholars also comes the rejection of the notion of an Iranian "conversion" … 6 May 2008 11:00 to 12:00 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 978 Page 979 Page 980 Page 981 Page 982 Page 983 Page 984 Page 985 Page 986 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Karl Friston Variational Filtering and Inference Guest lecturer We present a variational treatment of dynamic models that furnishes the time-dependent conditional densities of a system's states and the time-independent densities of its parameters. These obtain by maximising the variational free energy of the system … 30 May 2008 14:30 to 15:30
Event Karl Friston Action, Perception and Free-Energy Guest lecturer Value-learning and perceptual learning have been an important focus over the past decade, attracting the concerted attention of experimental psychologists, neurobiologists and the machine learning community. Despite some formal connections; e.g. , the … 29 May 2008 17:00 to 18:00
Event Ahmad Beydoun Does Lebanon's political system have a future ? Guest lecturer 29 May 2008 17:00 to 18:00
Event Pierre-Louis Lions Partial Differential Equations and Applications Opening lecture Abstract In just a few decades, numerical simulations have become a preferred tool in many scientific fields (physics, chemistry, mechanics, meteorology, engineering sciences, finance) and industrial sectors (aeronautics, space, automotive, nuclear, … 22 May 2003 18:00 to 19:00
Event Martin Schwartz The Esoteric Dimensions of Gathic Style Guest lecturer 27 May 2008 16:00 to 17:00
Event Albert de Jong The emancipation of the Mazdeans Guest lecturer The destinies of the Indian and Iranian communities followed distinct readings: for the Parsis, the 19th century was a time of emancipation and wealth. For the Mazdeans of Iran, the 19th century was a time of repression and loss. So the Parsis set about … 27 May 2008 11:00 to 12:00
Series Untitled lecture Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music Lecture In a sentence from Jean Santeuil, and quite unexpectedly, Proust speaks of "those two prestiges of analogy and difference that have so much power over our minds". I couldn't think of a better phrase to define what I've called the thematic stakes. I'd even … 01 Sep 1983
Series The relationship between the instrumental score and real-time electro-acoustic development processes Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music Seminar The difference in level between the instrumental score and the score of electro-acoustic transformations is due to the fact that an instrument/an ensemble of instruments directly produces a sound object determined by the writing (first-degree activity, … 01 Sep 1983
Event José Émilio Burucúa Engravings of the Quixote in seventeenth-century French : prints by Jacques Lagniet Guest lecturer There are few texts that, like Quixote , have aroused such an intense and frequent impulse among visual artists towards the desire or necessity of illustration. In the West, perhaps only the Bible and the Divine Comedy could compare with Quixote in the … 26 May 2008 11:00 to 12:00
Event Michel Brunet Perspectives and discussions related to the lecture Seminar 11 Jun 2008 14:30 to 15:30
Event Martin Schwartz Compositional Techniques of the Individual Poems, and of the Serial Generation of the Corpus Guest lecturer 20 May 2008 16:00 to 17:00
Event Albert de Jong Mazdean quietism Guest lecturer The Arab conquests of the Sassanid empire had, in one fell swoop, robbed the Mazdeans of Iran of all profane power. The success of these conquests is seen in Muslim tradition (and historiography) as proof of the superiority of Islam. For the Mazdeans, … 20 May 2008 11:00 to 12:00
Event José Émilio Burucúa The pathosformeln of laughter and European engraving at the beginning of modernity Guest lecturer For Aby Warburg, a Pathosformel is a set of representative and meaningful forms, historically determined at the moment of their first synthesis, which reinforces the understanding of the meaning of what is represented by mobilizing the affective field … 19 May 2008 11:00 to 12:00
Event Gilles Ramstein The contribution of climate modeling to the evolutionary history of life and hominids Seminar 4 Jun 2008 14:30 to 15:30
Event José Émilio Burucúa The ancient massacre and the modern massacre : problems of historiography and representation Guest lecturer The massacre is an event in human history whose narrative presented Greek and Roman historians with enormous difficulties, both in its narrative construction and in its rational explanation. This lecture will show, firstly, how historiography and art … 14 May 2008 11:00 to 12:00
Event Albert de Jong Mazdaism, the imperial religion Guest lecturer Mazdeism begins in a society without kings and survives in a society without (Mazdean) kings. Between the two lies the long period of imperial Mazdeism, which begins with Darius and ends with the last Sassanid king, Yazdegerd III. Between the VIᵉ century … 13 May 2008 11:00 to 12:00
Event José Émilio Burucúa The concept of otherness and pictorial representation the story of Ulysses since the Renaissance Guest lecturer This lecture will examine the reception and treatment of the myth of Ulysses and the story of the Odyssey in Italian and Flemish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries. It will show that a comic interpretation of this story went hand in hand with the … 7 May 2008 11:00 to 12:00
Event Albert de Jong The formation of the Mazdean identity Guest lecturer The first lesson serves as a methodological introduction to history proper, which only begins with the Achaemenids. With the rejection of Zarathustra's historicity by some modern scholars also comes the rejection of the notion of an Iranian "conversion" … 6 May 2008 11:00 to 12:00