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Image from Histoire des deux carrés: conte suprématiste en six figures , El Lissitzky, 1922 Presentation This symposium explores an essential dialogue between two major traditions of contemporary political thought: socialism and liberal egalitarianism. …
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Abstract Crisis management has become a common approach to managing organizational complexity, even without a specific triggering event or threat preceding it. This reliance on crisis management to coordinate increasingly complex and uncertain systems is …
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Touraj Daryaee has been invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Prof. Frantz Grenet. He will give a series of four lectures in English. Touraj Daryaee Relief from Naqsh-e Rostam: King of Kings Shāpūr I st subduing the Roman emperors …
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Abstract For ocean currents with a very small aspect ratio, the geostrophic constraint (which balances pressure and the Coriolis force) is associated solely with the vertical component of Earth’s rotation. This component varies with latitude (and vanishes …
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Abstract The writing of history is by definition conditioned by the sources available. The history of Upper Mesopotamia is no exception to this rule. The various political groupings that developed there are documented by sources whose nature varies …
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Abstract When the Émar site was discovered in 1972, specialists hoped to discover the city mentioned in the Mari sources in the Amorite period, and thus document a new major Middle Bronze urban center on the Euphrates. However, after six excavation …
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Abstract The political geography of Southwest Asia was transformed by non-state actors during the second quarter of the second millennium BC. These were often mercenaries or militias engaged beyond the borders of established territorial states, who rarely …
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Abstract In the 1990s, Mirjo Salvini published the Labarna letter and the Ḫabiru prism, providing the first glimpse into the 'Dark Age', a period in the mid-second millennium characterized by significant gaps in the historical record. Both cuneiform texts …
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Abstract Several sources provide us with information on the early reign of Samsī-Addu before the capture of Mari, such as the eponymous Chronicles of Mari , the Assyrian King List ( AKL ) or a few rare documents from Aššur, Tell Leilan (the ancient …
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