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Qohelet and his perception of the world Guest lecturer 11 Mar 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Event François Déroche The Medinese Koran (7) Lecture 23 Jan 2026 10:00 to 11:00 Event Pierre-Michel Menger What is art for? Functions, utilities, values. Lecture 23 Jan 2026 10:00 to 12:00 Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge In the cities: Greece as a sacrificial culture (2) Lecture 12 Feb 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Event Thomas Römer Saul, David, Solomon : mythical or historical figures ? Writing the books of Samuel and Kings Lecture Abstract The question of the function of the stories about the first kings of Israel and of their historicity will be addressed. The stories of these kings can be found in the books of Samuel and Kings, and in part in the books of Chronicles. We will … 12 Feb 2026 14:00 to 15:00 Event Andrea Pillon Legitimations and contestations of political power in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (1) Seminar 12 Feb 2026 15:15 to 16:45 Event Frantz Grenet The origins of medieval Khurâsân: interactions between Sassanid Iran and Central Asia (3rd-7th c. AD) (4) Lecture 12 Feb 2026 15:30 to 16:30 Event Lea Ypi The idea of moral socialism Opening lecture Abstract What is moral socialism ? " If we seek an answer to those who hesitate and ask us whether they should be socialists or not " wrote Austro-Marxist Otto Bauer over a century ago, " we still need Kant's ethics ". In this opening lecture, Lea Ypi … 12 Feb 2026 18:00 to 19:00 Event Frantz Grenet The origins of medieval Khurâsân: interactions between Sassanid Iran and Central Asia (3rd-7th c. AD) (1) Lecture 22 Jan 2026 15:30 to 16:30 Event Anne Cheng Chinese citizens between autocracy and freedom (8) Lecture 22 Jan 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Event Pierre-Michel Menger Artistic work as the subject of a contract Lecture 13 Feb 2026 10:00 to 12:00 Event Markus Saur "There is a time for everything." (Ecclesiastes 3:1). Qohelet and his understanding of time Guest lecturer 18 Mar 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Event Stanislas Dehaene Depth and limits of non-conscious processing : recent data Lecture 13 Feb 2026 11:00 to 12:30 Event Jean-Jacques Hublin Sapiens replaces Neandertal (3) Lecture 21 Jan 2026 17:00 to 18:30 Event Antoine Lilti Fanfaron and impostor : the Greek origins of the charlatan Lecture Abstract Were the sophists, as Condorcet thought, the ancestors of modern charlatans, skilled rhetors who were enemies of the truth ? Or was Socrates himself, as Voltaire claimed, a bit of a charlatan ? To better understand the importance of the Greek … 21 Jan 2026 14:30 to 15:30 Event Nalini Anantharaman Haagerup-Thorbjørnsen's work on strong spectral convergence of Gaussian matrices II Lecture Abstract We demonstrate that the Stieltjes transform of Hermitian random matrices NxN is the fixed point of a certain transformation (to within N^{-2}). The study is completed using a method inspired by Froese-Hasler-Spitzer : we show that the … 21 Jan 2026 10:00 to 11:30 Series DNA, a witness to the evolution of animals Denis Duboule, chair Evolution of Development and Genomes Lecture 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 … 06 Mar 2026 → 27 Mar 2026 Event Mete Atatüre Shedding Light on a Central Spin System: How Quantum Optics Can Tame a Noisy Nuclear Spin Ensemble Seminar Abstract Optically active spins in solids are strong candidates for scalable devices towards quantum networks. Semiconductor quantum dots set the state-of-the-art as single-photon sources with high level tuneability, brightness, and indistinguishability. … 20 Jan 2026 15:45 to 16:45 Event Patrick Boucheron Can beauty save the world ? Lecture Abstract In search of an archaeology of Dostoyevskian belief in the saving power of aesthetic emotion, we propose to focus on a " text " of the political mystique of beautifying places of power in the XV th century: leon Battista Alberti's De re … 20 Jan 2026 14:00 to 15:00 Event Markus Saur "Vanity of vanities, says Qohelet." (Ecclesiastes 1,2). Qohelet and the sapiential discourse of the Persian and Hellenistic eras Guest lecturer 25 Mar 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Pierluigi Lanfranchi Christian animal sacrifice: the history and anthropology of a little-known ritual Seminar 11 Feb 2026 14:30 to 16:00
Event Antoine Lilti Charlatans! Scholars and philosophers in the public arena (6) Lecture 11 Feb 2026 14:30 to 15:30
Event Isabelle Ratié Reading Sanskrit philosophical texts (2) Seminar Knowledge of Sanskrit essential. … 11 Feb 2026 16:00 to 18:00
Event Markus Saur "Nothing new under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Qohelet and his perception of the world Guest lecturer 11 Mar 2026 11:00 to 12:00
Event Pierre-Michel Menger What is art for? Functions, utilities, values. Lecture 23 Jan 2026 10:00 to 12:00
Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge In the cities: Greece as a sacrificial culture (2) Lecture 12 Feb 2026 11:00 to 12:00
Event Thomas Römer Saul, David, Solomon : mythical or historical figures ? Writing the books of Samuel and Kings Lecture Abstract The question of the function of the stories about the first kings of Israel and of their historicity will be addressed. The stories of these kings can be found in the books of Samuel and Kings, and in part in the books of Chronicles. We will … 12 Feb 2026 14:00 to 15:00
Event Andrea Pillon Legitimations and contestations of political power in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (1) Seminar 12 Feb 2026 15:15 to 16:45
Event Frantz Grenet The origins of medieval Khurâsân: interactions between Sassanid Iran and Central Asia (3rd-7th c. AD) (4) Lecture 12 Feb 2026 15:30 to 16:30
Event Lea Ypi The idea of moral socialism Opening lecture Abstract What is moral socialism ? " If we seek an answer to those who hesitate and ask us whether they should be socialists or not " wrote Austro-Marxist Otto Bauer over a century ago, " we still need Kant's ethics ". In this opening lecture, Lea Ypi … 12 Feb 2026 18:00 to 19:00
Event Frantz Grenet The origins of medieval Khurâsân: interactions between Sassanid Iran and Central Asia (3rd-7th c. AD) (1) Lecture 22 Jan 2026 15:30 to 16:30
Event Anne Cheng Chinese citizens between autocracy and freedom (8) Lecture 22 Jan 2026 11:00 to 12:00
Event Pierre-Michel Menger Artistic work as the subject of a contract Lecture 13 Feb 2026 10:00 to 12:00
Event Markus Saur "There is a time for everything." (Ecclesiastes 3:1). Qohelet and his understanding of time Guest lecturer 18 Mar 2026 11:00 to 12:00
Event Stanislas Dehaene Depth and limits of non-conscious processing : recent data Lecture 13 Feb 2026 11:00 to 12:30
Event Antoine Lilti Fanfaron and impostor : the Greek origins of the charlatan Lecture Abstract Were the sophists, as Condorcet thought, the ancestors of modern charlatans, skilled rhetors who were enemies of the truth ? Or was Socrates himself, as Voltaire claimed, a bit of a charlatan ? To better understand the importance of the Greek … 21 Jan 2026 14:30 to 15:30
Event Nalini Anantharaman Haagerup-Thorbjørnsen's work on strong spectral convergence of Gaussian matrices II Lecture Abstract We demonstrate that the Stieltjes transform of Hermitian random matrices NxN is the fixed point of a certain transformation (to within N^{-2}). The study is completed using a method inspired by Froese-Hasler-Spitzer : we show that the … 21 Jan 2026 10:00 to 11:30
Series DNA, a witness to the evolution of animals Denis Duboule, chair Evolution of Development and Genomes Lecture 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 … 06 Mar 2026 → 27 Mar 2026
Event Mete Atatüre Shedding Light on a Central Spin System: How Quantum Optics Can Tame a Noisy Nuclear Spin Ensemble Seminar Abstract Optically active spins in solids are strong candidates for scalable devices towards quantum networks. Semiconductor quantum dots set the state-of-the-art as single-photon sources with high level tuneability, brightness, and indistinguishability. … 20 Jan 2026 15:45 to 16:45
Event Patrick Boucheron Can beauty save the world ? Lecture Abstract In search of an archaeology of Dostoyevskian belief in the saving power of aesthetic emotion, we propose to focus on a " text " of the political mystique of beautifying places of power in the XV th century: leon Battista Alberti's De re … 20 Jan 2026 14:00 to 15:00
Event Markus Saur "Vanity of vanities, says Qohelet." (Ecclesiastes 1,2). Qohelet and the sapiential discourse of the Persian and Hellenistic eras Guest lecturer 25 Mar 2026 11:00 to 12:00
