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Abstract After a brief look back at the Egyptian Expedition and the notion of Orientalism, this session explores the emergence of French cultural imperialism under Napoleon, showing how the universalist, civilizing ideals of the Enlightenment were …

Abstract A translation surface is a Riemann surface with a holomorphic differential. This differential defines a flat metric (outside the singular locus) whose holonomy is trivial. I will explain how the counting of long geodesics on a generic translation …

Abstract When Barthes asserts that we must not emotionally adhere to fiction in order to maintain objectivity, he is reactivating a questioning that goes back to the Greek tragedies. But the reader's inner experience is ambivalent: awareness of the …

Abstract The extravagant readings of Poussin's Shepherds of Arcadia may serve to define what a good reading should be. To read well, unlike certain Kabbalistic decodings, we must neither eliminate the surface of the work nor disengage ourselves from its …

Abstract The talk deals with a type of random geometry which combines convex and integral geometry together with probability theory and specifically the notion of point processes. In general, it consists in starting with a discrete set of random points in …

Résumé Le droit de cuissage a-t-il existé au Moyen Âge   ? Certainement pas comme ius primae noctis,  et il faut pour cela suivre la démonstration d’Alain Boureau qui montre comment les controverses sur cette redevance seigneuriale imaginaire au XIX e   …

Abstract In this lecture, Laurent Billon will introduce the concepts of biomimicry and bio-inspiration for materials. These concepts will then be explained through examples of his research on microgels inspired by marine sponges, which led to the creation …

Abstract The ability to attribute beliefs to others (mentalization) and the ability to perform a disjunctive syllogism share something in common. To believe that [Sally believes that p], one must be able to think p without judging p to be true. To believe …

Abstract First, we look at the women of the  royal family: Queen Mother Addu-duri, and Zimri-Lim's two principal wives, Dam-huraṣi and Šibtu respectively. We'll then look at the status of the royal children, the princesses having had a special place in …

Abstract In a Fregean case, a rational subject can believe that a certain entity possesses property F, and , at the same time, refuse to believe that this same entity possesses property F . It follows that concepts, the constituents of thoughts, are not …