Share Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Copy url Search results Search 24617 results Filters Content type Content type (-) Lessons (24248) News (1808) People (1402) (-) Editions (369) Chair (360) Page (230) Research (27) Library (14) Annual Chair (12) Award (6) Active filters Lessons Editions Event Olivier Massin The Pure Commodity Theory of Money Symposium Abstract "The paper defends the view that money is any continuant used as a medium of exchange, a view dubbed the pure commodity theory of money. By contrast to the standard commodity theory , which equates money with a material commodity which … 13 Oct 2023 11:30 to 12:45 Event Manuel Garcia-Carpintero On the Mood for Fiction Symposium Abstract How should we think of the utterances that convey (literary) fictions? Searle (1974/5) (and before him MacDonald (1954), with better arguments) influentially argues that they are (non-deceptive) mere pretense - the simulation of acts like … 13 Oct 2023 10:00 to 11:15 Event François Déroche The Mecca Koran (2) Lecture 24 Nov 2023 10:00 to 11:00 Event Justine Lacroix Authoritarian liberalism or the identification of opposites Guest lecturer Abstract In recent times, the European Union has come to be known in many academic and activist circles as : authoritarian liberalism, as embodied in the neo-liberal or ordo-liberal software of the European treaties. The term's origins date back to the … 16 Nov 2023 17:30 to 18:30 Event Kathrin Koslicki Artifact Kinds, Functions, and Capacities Symposium Abstract In the case of some artifacts, the connection between the kind to which the artifact belongs, its function, and its capacities appears to be quite straightforward. For example, a well-functioning can-opener belongs to the artifact-kind, … 12 Oct 2023 16:30 to 17:45 Event Indrek Reiland What Is It to Accept a Rule? Symposium Abstract Regulative rules like social and legal rules and constitutive rules of games and language are in force contingently, and due to human activity. On standard views like Reinach's or Hart's, for rules to be in force is either for a legislative … 12 Oct 2023 15:00 to 16:15 Event Anne Cheng Readings from Ge Hong's Baopuzi (1) Seminar 23 Nov 2023 16:30 to 18:00 Event Hugo Parlier Curves, Surfaces and Intersection Seminar Abstract Understanding curves on surfaces has become a primary tool for understanding their hyperbolic structures and associated moduli spaces. This talk will be on understanding curves through their intersection with other curves and themselves. For … 24 Nov 2023 15:30 to 16:30 Event Nalini Anantharaman Graph and surface spectra (1) Lecture Abstract The 2023-2024 lecture will focus on the spectral theory of negative curvature surfaces and certain discrete graphs. Topics will include trace formulas, dynamical zeta functions, geodesic flow resonances, quantum ergodicity... The focus will be on … 24 Nov 2023 14:00 to 15:15 Event François Héran Slavery, indentured labour, forced labour Lecture Abstract Taking stock of the slave trade The aftermath of the 1848 abolition : Republican racism ? Haiti : a costly revolution The question of reparations : legal and ethical … 24 Nov 2023 10:30 to 12:30 Event Nicolas Vauchelet Mathematical modeling of arbovirosis control techniques Seminar Abstract In the fight against mosquito-borne diseases, several innovative strategies have been developed to reduce mosquito populations or block their vectorial capacity. Mathematical modeling plays an important role in predicting mosquito population … 24 Nov 2023 11:15 to 12:30 Event Anne Cheng Clash of civilizations and war of antiquities Lecture 23 Nov 2023 11:00 to 12:00 Event Pierre-Louis Lions Large random matrices and PDEs - II : control and large deviations (3) Lecture 24 Nov 2023 09:00 to 11:00 Event Justine Lacroix A democracy without freedoms ? Reflections on the notion of illiberal democracy Guest lecturer Abstract Over the past decade, the rise of both elective and authoritarian political regimes has given credence to the idea that the rule of law and respect for freedoms are merely forms of liberal limitation of democracy. This postulate, shared by … 15 Nov 2023 17:30 to 18:30 Event Jean-Jacques Hublin Dating fossils Lecture 23 Nov 2023 14:00 to 15:30 Series Experience, science and the fight against poverty (almost) fifteen years on Esther Duflo, chair Poverty and Public Policy Opening lecture 24 Nov 2022 Event Hugues de Thé Exploring therapeutic response in vivo (1) Lecture 22 Nov 2023 14:30 to 16:00 Event Henry Laurens The origins of the 1967 war (the year 1965) Lecture The lecture is recorded in audio format only. … 22 Nov 2023 10:00 to 12:00 Publication Alessandro Morbidelli Déterminisme et stochasticité des processus de formation planétaire Pendant des siècles, on a pensé que tous les systèmes planétaires, en vertu de l'universalité des lois physiques, ressemblaient au nôtre. Cependant, la découverte de nombreuses planètes extrasolaires nous a révélé leur grande diversité. Ce livre présente … 25 March 2025 Event Laurent Coulon Sources for an anthropology of the Osirian image (2) Seminar Knowledge of ancient Egyptian essential. … 22 Nov 2023 11:00 to 12:30 Series Migrants' rights François Héran, chair Migrations and Societies Seminar Archives of the Paris Prefecture 1930. … 22 Nov 2022 → 21 Feb 2023 Event Carole Reynaud-Paligot & Małgorzata Tryuk School policy and language policy in the colonies Seminar Carole Reynaud-Paligot : " Schooling natives in Algeria... to what extent ? " Małgorzata Tryuk : " Translation, betrayal ? The interpreter in a colonial … 21 Nov 2023 10:00 to 12:00 Series Ergodicity and thermalization of eigenfunctions Nalini Anantharaman, chair Spectral Geometry Seminar Natural mode of vibration of a stadium-shaped cavity. … 22 Nov 2022 → 31 Jan 2023 Event Stéphane Mallat General discussion Symposium 20 Oct 2023 16:40 to 17:10 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 149 Page 150 Page 151 Page 152 Page 153 Page 154 Page 155 Page 156 Page 157 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Olivier Massin The Pure Commodity Theory of Money Symposium Abstract "The paper defends the view that money is any continuant used as a medium of exchange, a view dubbed the pure commodity theory of money. By contrast to the standard commodity theory , which equates money with a material commodity which … 13 Oct 2023 11:30 to 12:45
Event Manuel Garcia-Carpintero On the Mood for Fiction Symposium Abstract How should we think of the utterances that convey (literary) fictions? Searle (1974/5) (and before him MacDonald (1954), with better arguments) influentially argues that they are (non-deceptive) mere pretense - the simulation of acts like … 13 Oct 2023 10:00 to 11:15
Event Justine Lacroix Authoritarian liberalism or the identification of opposites Guest lecturer Abstract In recent times, the European Union has come to be known in many academic and activist circles as : authoritarian liberalism, as embodied in the neo-liberal or ordo-liberal software of the European treaties. The term's origins date back to the … 16 Nov 2023 17:30 to 18:30
Event Kathrin Koslicki Artifact Kinds, Functions, and Capacities Symposium Abstract In the case of some artifacts, the connection between the kind to which the artifact belongs, its function, and its capacities appears to be quite straightforward. For example, a well-functioning can-opener belongs to the artifact-kind, … 12 Oct 2023 16:30 to 17:45
Event Indrek Reiland What Is It to Accept a Rule? Symposium Abstract Regulative rules like social and legal rules and constitutive rules of games and language are in force contingently, and due to human activity. On standard views like Reinach's or Hart's, for rules to be in force is either for a legislative … 12 Oct 2023 15:00 to 16:15
Event Hugo Parlier Curves, Surfaces and Intersection Seminar Abstract Understanding curves on surfaces has become a primary tool for understanding their hyperbolic structures and associated moduli spaces. This talk will be on understanding curves through their intersection with other curves and themselves. For … 24 Nov 2023 15:30 to 16:30
Event Nalini Anantharaman Graph and surface spectra (1) Lecture Abstract The 2023-2024 lecture will focus on the spectral theory of negative curvature surfaces and certain discrete graphs. Topics will include trace formulas, dynamical zeta functions, geodesic flow resonances, quantum ergodicity... The focus will be on … 24 Nov 2023 14:00 to 15:15
Event François Héran Slavery, indentured labour, forced labour Lecture Abstract Taking stock of the slave trade The aftermath of the 1848 abolition : Republican racism ? Haiti : a costly revolution The question of reparations : legal and ethical … 24 Nov 2023 10:30 to 12:30
Event Nicolas Vauchelet Mathematical modeling of arbovirosis control techniques Seminar Abstract In the fight against mosquito-borne diseases, several innovative strategies have been developed to reduce mosquito populations or block their vectorial capacity. Mathematical modeling plays an important role in predicting mosquito population … 24 Nov 2023 11:15 to 12:30
Event Pierre-Louis Lions Large random matrices and PDEs - II : control and large deviations (3) Lecture 24 Nov 2023 09:00 to 11:00
Event Justine Lacroix A democracy without freedoms ? Reflections on the notion of illiberal democracy Guest lecturer Abstract Over the past decade, the rise of both elective and authoritarian political regimes has given credence to the idea that the rule of law and respect for freedoms are merely forms of liberal limitation of democracy. This postulate, shared by … 15 Nov 2023 17:30 to 18:30
Series Experience, science and the fight against poverty (almost) fifteen years on Esther Duflo, chair Poverty and Public Policy Opening lecture 24 Nov 2022
Event Henry Laurens The origins of the 1967 war (the year 1965) Lecture The lecture is recorded in audio format only. … 22 Nov 2023 10:00 to 12:00
Publication Alessandro Morbidelli Déterminisme et stochasticité des processus de formation planétaire Pendant des siècles, on a pensé que tous les systèmes planétaires, en vertu de l'universalité des lois physiques, ressemblaient au nôtre. Cependant, la découverte de nombreuses planètes extrasolaires nous a révélé leur grande diversité. Ce livre présente … 25 March 2025
Event Laurent Coulon Sources for an anthropology of the Osirian image (2) Seminar Knowledge of ancient Egyptian essential. … 22 Nov 2023 11:00 to 12:30
Series Migrants' rights François Héran, chair Migrations and Societies Seminar Archives of the Paris Prefecture 1930. … 22 Nov 2022 → 21 Feb 2023
Event Carole Reynaud-Paligot & Małgorzata Tryuk School policy and language policy in the colonies Seminar Carole Reynaud-Paligot : " Schooling natives in Algeria... to what extent ? " Małgorzata Tryuk : " Translation, betrayal ? The interpreter in a colonial … 21 Nov 2023 10:00 to 12:00
Series Ergodicity and thermalization of eigenfunctions Nalini Anantharaman, chair Spectral Geometry Seminar Natural mode of vibration of a stadium-shaped cavity. … 22 Nov 2022 → 31 Jan 2023
