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Abstract Physical activities, now considered part of our leisure time, as well as sports in which certain individuals demonstrate exceptional abilities, were once daily and vital practices for our most remote ancestors. Adaptations to climbing, bipedal …

Abstract Volunteer-based plant monitoring in the UK has focused historically on distribution mapping, with less emphasis on the collection of data on plant communities and habitats. However, abundance monitoring for other groups of organisms is …

On Thursday April 25 , Entre-Temps organized two round tables at the Collège de France as part of the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. An opportunity to reflect collectively on the experiences of this recent past. For …

Summary Tracing back to the four interlocked ibexes walking in a circle that features the so-called "Hunt Patera" (in the Louvre Museum) from the temple of Baal at Ugarit, Syria, dated to the 14th-13th  century BCE, this lecture discusses the original …

Abstract The importance of the body in Étienne-Jules Marey's research may seem obvious : the walking man, the trotting horse, the bird and the insect in flight are the privileged objects of the graphic method and chronophotography. Beyond this, the …

Summary In the 7th  century, the Tibetans began to dominate a broad territory that extended across the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. It was suggested that some ideas and practices of their indigenous Bon religion were acquired from western Tibet, which was once …

Abstract This lecture discusses the often-labeled Sasanian or Sogdian silk textiles featuring beaded roundels enclosing animals which became very popular across Eurasia for the entire Middle Ages. Although some animals, such as the duck, ram, or flying …

Chairman  : Michael Murez Abstract The argument from understanding defends a dualist view about experiential properties: their nature is non-physical. The premises of the argument are (a) phenomenal essentialism (that phenomenal concepts reveal the nature …

Presidency  : Matheus Valente Abstract I argue that there is good reason to deny that first person access to our conscious states is omniscient, infallible, incorrigible, or reveals their essence. Yet first person access is still privileged compared to …

Adam Jaffe , Moderator Manuel Trajtenberg Antonin Bergeaud Kevin Bryan Reinhilde Veugelers …

Bronwyn Hall , "Explorations of cumulative advantage using data on French physicists" (Co-author: J. Mairesse) Discussant: Francesco Lissoni Listen to audio Carolyn Stein , "The Wandering Scholars: Understanding the Heterogeneity of University …

Introduction: Adam Jaffe Speaker: Kathryn Shaw …