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9:50 - 10:35am
Claudine Cohen
Jacques Boucher de Perthes (1788 - 1868) : science and imagination at the origins of prehistory
Claudine Cohen
Jacques Boucher de Perthes (1788 - 1868) : science and imagination at the origins of prehistory
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Abstract This lecture evokes the birth of the prehistoric sciences in the middle of the XIX th century, centered on the colorful figure of Jacques Boucher de Perthes : amateur archaeologist and prolific author, an inventive mind with a vivid imagination, …
6:00 - 7:00pm
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Session 2: Global Geodynamics of the Earth Chair: Barbara Romanowicz (Collège de France, UC Berkeley & IPG Paris) …
5:10 - 5:50pm
Isabelle Panet
Mass Structure of the Convecting Mantle: Constraints Using Satellite Gravity Data
Isabelle Panet
Mass Structure of the Convecting Mantle: Constraints Using Satellite Gravity Data
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Session 2: Global Geodynamics of the Earth Chair: Barbara Romanowicz (Collège de France, UC Berkeley & IPG Paris) …
4:30 - 5:10pm
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Session 2: Global Geodynamics of the Earth Chair: Barbara Romanowicz (Collège de France, UC Berkeley & IPG Paris) …
3:20 - 4:00pm
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Session 2: Global Geodynamics of the Earth Chair: Barbara Romanowicz (Collège de France, UC Berkeley & IPG Paris) …
2:40 - 3:20pm
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Session 2: Global Geodynamics of the Earth Chair: Barbara Romanowicz (Collège de France, UC Berkeley & IPG Paris) …
2:00 - 2:40pm
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Session 1: The Planets of Our Solar System and How They Work Chair: Alessandro Morbidelli (Collège de France & OCA Nice) …
11:40am - 12:20pm
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Session 1: The Planets of Our Solar System and How They Work Chair: Alessandro Morbidelli (Collège de France & OCA Nice) …
11:00 - 11:40am
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Session 1: The Planets of Our Solar System and How They Work Chair: Alessandro Morbidelli …
9:50 - 10:30am
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Session 1: The Planets of Our Solar System and How They Work Chair: Alessandro Morbidelli (Collège de France & OCA Nice) …
9:10 - 9:50am
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Session 1: The Planets of Our Solar System and How They Work Chair: Alessandro Morbidelli …
8:40 - 9:10am
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4:00 - 5:30pm
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Robert Campany is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Anne Cheng. Robert F. Campany …
Christian de Perthuis & Marc Fleurbaey
Poverty, nature and the resilience of societies
Christian de Perthuis & Marc Fleurbaey
Poverty, nature and the resilience of societies
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Abstract Climate change creates and reinforces social and economic inequalities. The poorest populations, those who have contributed the least to global emissions, are also those who suffer most from the consequences of global warming, be it droughts, …
6:30 - 8:00pm
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Digestum vetus (detail), 12th century, University Library, Padua, Italy. Presentation Since its emergence in the 1980s, under the pen of Gérard Genette, literary criticism applied to the field of modern print has been able to measure the fruitfulness of …
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Challenging Assumptions about Social Cognition in Infants
François Recanati, chair Philosophy of Language and Mind
Challenging Assumptions about Social Cognition in Infants
François Recanati, chair Philosophy of Language and Mind
Guest lecturer
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The child Hercules with a snake (detail), Pieter van der Werff, 1700-1722. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Gergely Csibra is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor François Recanati. Gergely …
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Futuristic 3D digital virtual reality interface Light-based quantum technologies Light plays a special role in quantum technologies, just as it does in today's information technologies. Light itself can be used to carry quantum information over long …
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9:15 - 9:55am
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Abstract Arab petitions have been studied as a distinct genre, combining diplomatic elements (formulas, layout, medium, writing) and a moral framework ("circle of justice"). Yet letters of request on papyrus show that polite petitions, even outside the …
3:00 - 4:00pm
Louis Jonker
Reforming History: The Book of Chronicles and Its Reception in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Louis Jonker
Reforming History: The Book of Chronicles and Its Reception in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Guest lecturer
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Abstract The second lecture will focus on the book Chronicles as a rewriting of older historical traditions in changed and changing imperial-political environments. It will be shown that Chronicles was (and is) "reforming history" that contributed …
4:00 - 5:00pm