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Abstract Life is animated by a secret life of encounters, interactions and associations that are sometimes unsuspected. These biotic interactions can be beneficial, ineffective or harmful. On the whole, interactions are most often mutually beneficial …
10:00 - 11:00am
Put Another Way: What Is Metaphor?
Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome
Put Another Way: What Is Metaphor?
Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome
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Caryatids of Eleusis, detail. …
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Caryatids of Eleusis, detail. Presentation No scientific language escapes metaphors, not even the one that claims the greatest precision and the least ambiguity: the language of law. Body, head, hands, feet, birth, growth, death: these are just some of …
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Touraj Daryaee
History and Memory: In Search of Lost Time
Touraj Daryaee
History and Memory: In Search of Lost Time
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Abstract Memory of past does not reveal itself to all people in the same manner. For the Sasanians in Late Antiquity (200-651 CE), what they came to profess was their ancient past and for the people they were ruling over, was drastically different from …
5:00 - 6:30pm
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11:15am - 12:30pm
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Abstract This lecture asks whether Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) have played an important role in economic development and technological progress and to what extent it has held back growth in the past. The answers, it turns out are …
5:00 - 6:00pm
Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure
Trashification
Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure
Trashification
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Documents and media Download poster Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure has been invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Samantha Besson. Abstract Post-Rawlsian egalitarianism has been shaped by two main currents. Distributive …
5:00 - 6:00pm
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Round table on the theme: Mithra in dialogue in Central Asia, Iran and Rome: 1. the Iranological viewpoint (part 2. Le point de vue des études gréco-romaines , will take place at Sorbonne Université in November or December …
10:00 - 11:30am
DNA, a witness to the evolution of animals
Denis Duboule, chair Evolution of Development and Genomes
DNA, a witness to the evolution of animals
Denis Duboule, chair Evolution of Development and Genomes
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Subtle genetic variations affect tail length in mice. Source : Delisle et al, PNAS 2024 For more than twenty-five years now, we have been able to analyze the genomes of different animal species (including our own), and see how similar these genomes are …
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Dario Mantovani
The laws of attraction : metaphorical alluvia in the language of Roman jurists
Dario Mantovani
The laws of attraction : metaphorical alluvia in the language of Roman jurists
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Abstract This course explores spatial metaphors in the language of Roman jurists. The analysis will show that the reification of legal concepts is achieved not only through explicitly corporeal terms such as manus or capitis deminutio , but also through a …
2:30 - 3:30pm
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11:30am - 12:45pm
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9:30 - 11:15am
Touraj Daryaee
Touraj Daryaee (1)
Touraj Daryaee
Touraj Daryaee (1)
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Résumé Ardashīr I, in the third century claimed to be the king of the Iranians, and by the time of Shapur I the realm was known as Ērānšahr , i.e., the “Empire of the Iranians.” During the Sasanian period, not only the idea of Iran took form, but its …
5:00 - 6:30pm
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Documents et médias Télécharger le support Abstract This lecture will introduce the concept of nature's contributions to human populations, or ecosystem services. It will show how functional ecology approaches enable ecosystem services to be quantified on …
2:00 - 3:30pm