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Roger Chartier
Listening to the dead with your eyes
Roger Chartier
Listening to the dead with your eyes
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A Collège de France coproduction - CNED - Doriane Films Abstract " Listen to the dead with your eyes ". This line from Quevedo comes to mind as I inaugurate a course devoted to the role of the written word in the cultures that have characterized European …
18:00 to 19:00
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14:30 to 15:30
Alain Prochiantz
Geometries of the living world
Alain Prochiantz
Geometries of the living world
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Abstract My idea of a theory in biology is far removed from the theoretical biology of putting observed or photographed phenomena into equations. I have a simpler, more concrete conception. Not this mathematical description of what is seen, but an …
18:00 to 19:00
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11:15 to 12:15
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International symposium organized by Laurent Cuvelier, Adrien Genoudet and Clément Weiss. Collège de France-Bibliothèque nationale de France. Thursday, February 2 : "Reflet Medicis" cinema (Paris 5e ), 8 p.m. Friday February 3 : Collège de France, 11, …
Published on 25 January 2017
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Members of the Climate and Ocean Evolution Chair are mobilizing to study fine particle air pollution. Their work on the origin of aerosols in Alpine valleys was recently published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Pollution over Paris …
Published on 24 January 2017
Romance languages and literature
Harald Weinrich, chair Romance languages and literature
Romance languages and literature
Harald Weinrich, chair Romance languages and literature
Opening lecture
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Monday, January 16, 2017 Thierry Mandon , Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research, has signed the agreement marking the launch of the program to help welcome scientists in exile. Collège de France becomes the operator of this program and the …
Published on 16 January 2017
Automation and decision-making
Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music
Automation and decision-making
Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music
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Automatism and decisiveness in composition: this theme may seem too restricted, or at any rate exclusively related to recent techniques such as those to which the computer leads us. Although the computer, more than any other piece of equipment, reveals …
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Engendering the material Material out of use, out of time Hierarchy of beginning, of principle, of begetting Functions, to be defined, of generation and subsequent use Material specificity: continuous/discontinuous, perceptible absolutely/relatively …
Hans Wilhelm Müller-Gärtner
The neural bases of consciousness : the contribution of brain imaging
Hans Wilhelm Müller-Gärtner
The neural bases of consciousness : the contribution of brain imaging
Opening lecture
Event
18:00 to 19:00
Michael Edwards
On a line from Hamlet
Michael Edwards
On a line from Hamlet
Opening lecture
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A Collège de France coproduction - Doriane Films Abstract " To be, or not to be, that is the question To be or not to be, that is the question Why does this line, which contains the most famous phrase in English literature, exert such a …
18:00 to 19:00
Don Zagier
Number theory
Don Zagier
Number theory
Opening lecture
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Documents and media Read the excerpt from the opening lecture Télécharger le texte intégral …
18:00 to 19:00
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Published on 3 January 2017
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In my opening lecture, I explained how the classical notions of 1) measure theory ; 2) topology of locally compact spaces and 3) de Rham current theory are replaced in the non-commutative case by 1) von Neumann algebras ; 2) C*-algebras ; 3) cyclic …
Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas
Developmental biology and genetics
Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas
Developmental biology and genetics
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A Collège de France - CNED coproduction Abstract " The study of development occupies a central place in biology. For centuries, observers of nature have been fascinated by the forces that guide the development of an egg into a multicellular organism …
18:00 to 19:00
Philippe Descola
Anthropology of nature
Philippe Descola
Anthropology of nature
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A Collège de France - CNED coproduction Abstract On the face of it, the anthropology of nature is something of an oxymoron, since for several centuries in the West, nature has been characterized by the absence of man, and man by what he has been able to …
18:00 to 19:00
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A joint venture between Tel Aviv University and Collège de France, to be led by Israel Finkelstein (Tel Aviv University), Christophe Nicolle (Collège de France) and Thomas Römer (Collège de France). Under the joint direction of Israel Finkelstein (Tel …
Published on 13 December 2016
Composition and its various gestures
Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music
Composition and its various gestures
Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music
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The year's lecture Abstract is not available. …