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Our species, Homo sapiens , presents a remarkable paradox : we are the only species capable of … 6 Jun 2025 10:30 to 12:00 Series The shadow that writes Wajdi Mouawad, chair The Invention of Europe through languages and cultures Opening lecture 06 Feb 2025 Series Wars, conquests and peace strategies in the Ancient Near East and the Bible Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Seminar Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Die Bibel in Bildern, 1860. Public domain. … 06 Feb 2025 → 10 Apr 2025 Event Kyle Harper The origins of the Justinian plague: From Central Asia to the Mediterranean Guest lecturer Left: Mihirakula (r. 515-540), probable victim of the plague; right: Justinian (r. 527-565), who escaped. Kyle Harper has been invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Pr Frantz Grenet. Lecture followed by discussion with Pr Frantz … 20 May 2025 17:00 to 18:30 Series God at war : accounts of conquest in the book of Joshua Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Lecture Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Die Bibel in Bildern , 1860. Public domain. … 06 Feb 2025 → 10 Apr 2025 Event François Déroche Conclusions Symposium 16 May 2025 16:30 to 17:00 Event Henning Sievert Traces of Lost Books. What Did High-Level Bureaucrats Read Before 1840? Symposium Abstract The Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Europe underwent profound changes during the late 18 th and early 19 th centuries, before the Ottoman Empire reinvented and rebuilt itself between 1840 and 1880. Contrary to earlier assumptions, this … 16 May 2025 16:00 to 16:30 Event Lucia Raggetti Abū al-ʿAlā ibn Zuhr, His Library, and the 'Galenic Book Club': Bibliophilia, Indirect Tradition, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Islamicate Scholarship Symposium Abstract The Andalusian family of the Banū Zuhr astounded the Mediaeval world with a lineage of physicians spanning several generations. The family library served as the foundation for erudite medical research, and the manuscript tradition of the Kitāb … 16 May 2025 15:30 to 16:00 Event Boris Liebrenz The Manṭiq al-waḥš and the Early Arabic Illustrated Book Symposium Abstract An illustrated page preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has equally attracted and puzzled a number of art historical attempts at interpreting the texts and images found on them. It has been identified as the fragment of an … 16 May 2025 14:30 to 15:00 Event Annabel Gallop Qur'anic art in Southeast Asia: Localising the Sulawesi Diaspora Geometric Style Symposium Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and … 16 May 2025 14:00 to 14:30 Series Three-Term Arithmetic Progressions, the Slice Rank Polynomial Method and the Erdös-Ginzburg-Ziv Problem Collège de France prize-winners Guest lecturer International Peccot Lecture Series Created in 2023, the International Peccot Lecture Series specifically rewards young European mathematicians, who are invited to give a series of lectures at the Collège de France. Lisa Sauermann is winner of the … 04 Feb 2025 → 10 Mar 2025 Event Serpil Bağcı Revising the Iskendernāme: Akkoyunlu and Safavid Turkmen Manuscripts of Ottoman Legendary History Symposium Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and … 16 May 2025 11:30 to 12:00 Event Christoph Rauch Data-Supported Collection History – Provenance Information in the Qalamos Portal Using the Example of the Berlin Collection Symposium Abstract With the launch of the Qalamos portal, the descriptions of more than 40,000 Islamic manuscripts from around 45 institutions in Germany have been made accessible. Supported by the systematic integration of accession data, manuscript annotations … 16 May 2025 11:00 to 11:30 Event Sara Fani Strategies of the Early Modern International Book Trade: Acquisition and Sales by Diplomats, Scholars, and Booksellers in the Islamicate World Symposium Abstract The early modern period was a pivotal moment in European engagement with the diverse literary traditions of the Islamicate world, and the languages transmitting them. Scholars, collectors, and printers actively sought after manuscripts from these … 16 May 2025 09:30 to 10:00 Series Electrolyte materials and interfaces for the Na-ion battery, the eco-responsible little sister to the Li-ion battery Jean-Marie Tarascon, chair Chemistry of Materials and Energy Seminar 03 Feb 2025 → 10 Mar 2025 Series Electrolyte materials and interfaces for the Na-ion battery, the eco-responsible little sister to the Li-ion battery Jean-Marie Tarascon, chair Chemistry of Materials and Energy Lecture Batteries are always in the news, in an alternation of euphoria and gloom. Euphoria due to the all-solid state battery, a subject I covered in last year's lecture. Gloom due to the recent difficulties encountered by European gigafactories as a result of … 03 Feb 2025 → 10 Mar 2025 Event Jawdath Jabbour Avicenna at Topkapı. The Avicennian collections in ʿAṭūfī's catalog (1502-1504) Symposium Abstract The inventory of books in the library of Bāyazīd II compiled by ʿAṭūfī at the request of the sultan is a major witness to Ottoman cultural history in the sixteenth century. By crossing codicological and textual perspectives, the paper will seek … 15 May 2025 14:30 to 15:00 Event Lbachir Tahali A Wandering Library: an Attempt to Restore the Manuscripts of Mulāy Zaydān Scattered Outside the Escurial Symposium Abstract Taking into consideration the trials that Mulay Zaydān’s library housed at El Escorial went through in the course of its history, we realise that it does not include all the manuscripts that belonged to the Saʿdian sultan. It should be remembered … 15 May 2025 14:00 to 14:30 Event Michele Bernardini The Donation of a Safavid Shāhnāme to the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in 1093/1682-3 by the Ḳapūdan-i deryā Mușṭafā Muṣāḥib, from Documents in the Florence State Archive Symposium Abstract MS Or.5, preserved at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, contains a Safavid Shāhnāme dated Shavvāl 990/ September-October 1582. Included in Angelo Michele Piemontese’s catalogue of Persian manuscripts in Italian libraries (1989), the manuscript, … 15 May 2025 11:30 to 12:00 Event Mahdi Sahragard A Newly Discovered Manuscript from the Ghaznavid Court Scriptorium: A Codicological Study of a Fragmentary Qurʼan dated 434 AH/1042 CE Symposium Abstract This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of a significant Qurʼanic manuscript discovered in the Geniza of the Imām Riḍā shrine in Mashhad, comprising 244 fire-damaged folios. The manuscript's colophon identifies its scribe as Abū ʿAlī … 15 May 2025 11:00 to 11:30 Event François Déroche Medieval Moroccan Bookbinding in the Light of the Escorial Collection Symposium Abstract The study of Medieval bookbinding in the Muslim world has come up against major methodological problems, but faces also (and perhaps because of these problems) a certain scepticism on the part of specialists in manuscript studies. The Escorial … 15 May 2025 10:00 to 10:30 Event Claudia Colini The Booklet and the Multivolume Set in the History of the Qur’anic book Symposium Abstract If we consider the role of the book as a communication tool, an analysis of its different materials and forms can reveal aspects of its use and function. 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Event Raphaël Itzykson Targeting Cystine Import in Acute Myeloid Leukemias Symposium 26 May 2025 10:15 to 10:50
Event Guido Kroemer A Pro-Aging Hormone that Fuels Metabolic Syndrome and Hepatic Oncogenesis Symposium 26 May 2025 09:40 to 10:15
Event Hugo Meijer The origins of war and peace in the human species Guest lecturer Bust of Janus , marble (Summer Garden, Saint Petersburg). Hugo Meijer is invited by Pr Jean-Jacques Hublin. Abstract What are the origins of war and peace ? Our species, Homo sapiens , presents a remarkable paradox : we are the only species capable of … 6 Jun 2025 10:30 to 12:00
Series The shadow that writes Wajdi Mouawad, chair The Invention of Europe through languages and cultures Opening lecture 06 Feb 2025
Series Wars, conquests and peace strategies in the Ancient Near East and the Bible Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Seminar Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Die Bibel in Bildern, 1860. Public domain. … 06 Feb 2025 → 10 Apr 2025
Event Kyle Harper The origins of the Justinian plague: From Central Asia to the Mediterranean Guest lecturer Left: Mihirakula (r. 515-540), probable victim of the plague; right: Justinian (r. 527-565), who escaped. Kyle Harper has been invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Pr Frantz Grenet. Lecture followed by discussion with Pr Frantz … 20 May 2025 17:00 to 18:30
Series God at war : accounts of conquest in the book of Joshua Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Lecture Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Die Bibel in Bildern , 1860. Public domain. … 06 Feb 2025 → 10 Apr 2025
Event Henning Sievert Traces of Lost Books. What Did High-Level Bureaucrats Read Before 1840? Symposium Abstract The Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Europe underwent profound changes during the late 18 th and early 19 th centuries, before the Ottoman Empire reinvented and rebuilt itself between 1840 and 1880. Contrary to earlier assumptions, this … 16 May 2025 16:00 to 16:30
Event Lucia Raggetti Abū al-ʿAlā ibn Zuhr, His Library, and the 'Galenic Book Club': Bibliophilia, Indirect Tradition, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Islamicate Scholarship Symposium Abstract The Andalusian family of the Banū Zuhr astounded the Mediaeval world with a lineage of physicians spanning several generations. The family library served as the foundation for erudite medical research, and the manuscript tradition of the Kitāb … 16 May 2025 15:30 to 16:00
Event Boris Liebrenz The Manṭiq al-waḥš and the Early Arabic Illustrated Book Symposium Abstract An illustrated page preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has equally attracted and puzzled a number of art historical attempts at interpreting the texts and images found on them. It has been identified as the fragment of an … 16 May 2025 14:30 to 15:00
Event Annabel Gallop Qur'anic art in Southeast Asia: Localising the Sulawesi Diaspora Geometric Style Symposium Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and … 16 May 2025 14:00 to 14:30
Series Three-Term Arithmetic Progressions, the Slice Rank Polynomial Method and the Erdös-Ginzburg-Ziv Problem Collège de France prize-winners Guest lecturer International Peccot Lecture Series Created in 2023, the International Peccot Lecture Series specifically rewards young European mathematicians, who are invited to give a series of lectures at the Collège de France. Lisa Sauermann is winner of the … 04 Feb 2025 → 10 Mar 2025
Event Serpil Bağcı Revising the Iskendernāme: Akkoyunlu and Safavid Turkmen Manuscripts of Ottoman Legendary History Symposium Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and … 16 May 2025 11:30 to 12:00
Event Christoph Rauch Data-Supported Collection History – Provenance Information in the Qalamos Portal Using the Example of the Berlin Collection Symposium Abstract With the launch of the Qalamos portal, the descriptions of more than 40,000 Islamic manuscripts from around 45 institutions in Germany have been made accessible. Supported by the systematic integration of accession data, manuscript annotations … 16 May 2025 11:00 to 11:30
Event Sara Fani Strategies of the Early Modern International Book Trade: Acquisition and Sales by Diplomats, Scholars, and Booksellers in the Islamicate World Symposium Abstract The early modern period was a pivotal moment in European engagement with the diverse literary traditions of the Islamicate world, and the languages transmitting them. Scholars, collectors, and printers actively sought after manuscripts from these … 16 May 2025 09:30 to 10:00
Series Electrolyte materials and interfaces for the Na-ion battery, the eco-responsible little sister to the Li-ion battery Jean-Marie Tarascon, chair Chemistry of Materials and Energy Seminar 03 Feb 2025 → 10 Mar 2025
Series Electrolyte materials and interfaces for the Na-ion battery, the eco-responsible little sister to the Li-ion battery Jean-Marie Tarascon, chair Chemistry of Materials and Energy Lecture Batteries are always in the news, in an alternation of euphoria and gloom. Euphoria due to the all-solid state battery, a subject I covered in last year's lecture. Gloom due to the recent difficulties encountered by European gigafactories as a result of … 03 Feb 2025 → 10 Mar 2025
Event Jawdath Jabbour Avicenna at Topkapı. The Avicennian collections in ʿAṭūfī's catalog (1502-1504) Symposium Abstract The inventory of books in the library of Bāyazīd II compiled by ʿAṭūfī at the request of the sultan is a major witness to Ottoman cultural history in the sixteenth century. By crossing codicological and textual perspectives, the paper will seek … 15 May 2025 14:30 to 15:00
Event Lbachir Tahali A Wandering Library: an Attempt to Restore the Manuscripts of Mulāy Zaydān Scattered Outside the Escurial Symposium Abstract Taking into consideration the trials that Mulay Zaydān’s library housed at El Escorial went through in the course of its history, we realise that it does not include all the manuscripts that belonged to the Saʿdian sultan. It should be remembered … 15 May 2025 14:00 to 14:30
Event Michele Bernardini The Donation of a Safavid Shāhnāme to the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in 1093/1682-3 by the Ḳapūdan-i deryā Mușṭafā Muṣāḥib, from Documents in the Florence State Archive Symposium Abstract MS Or.5, preserved at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, contains a Safavid Shāhnāme dated Shavvāl 990/ September-October 1582. Included in Angelo Michele Piemontese’s catalogue of Persian manuscripts in Italian libraries (1989), the manuscript, … 15 May 2025 11:30 to 12:00
Event Mahdi Sahragard A Newly Discovered Manuscript from the Ghaznavid Court Scriptorium: A Codicological Study of a Fragmentary Qurʼan dated 434 AH/1042 CE Symposium Abstract This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of a significant Qurʼanic manuscript discovered in the Geniza of the Imām Riḍā shrine in Mashhad, comprising 244 fire-damaged folios. The manuscript's colophon identifies its scribe as Abū ʿAlī … 15 May 2025 11:00 to 11:30
Event François Déroche Medieval Moroccan Bookbinding in the Light of the Escorial Collection Symposium Abstract The study of Medieval bookbinding in the Muslim world has come up against major methodological problems, but faces also (and perhaps because of these problems) a certain scepticism on the part of specialists in manuscript studies. The Escorial … 15 May 2025 10:00 to 10:30
Event Claudia Colini The Booklet and the Multivolume Set in the History of the Qur’anic book Symposium Abstract If we consider the role of the book as a communication tool, an analysis of its different materials and forms can reveal aspects of its use and function. For example, its dimensions and form can influence its mobility, its materials can affect … 15 May 2025 09:30 to 10:00
