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The quality of the forecasts up to 1 year portends a potential revolution in improving model … 5 May 2025 09:10 to 10:10 Event Hourig Sourouzian Investigating Osirid statues and the iconography of Osiris in two-dimensional representations Guest lecturer Abstract Origin and evolution of the Osirian statue. Large groups of Osirid statues and pillars in temple lecture halls. Evolution of the mummiform type of accoutrement; transition from shroud to ceremonial costume. Representation of the god in royal … 28 May 2025 17:00 to 18:00 Event Éric Ruf, Patrick Boucheron & Florence Naugrette Theater and power Special events Abstract The theater, as a space where people speak to a collective body, is by its very nature a place where power is exercised. This tripartite power emanates from the text, the artists and the audience. It is within this three-tiered billiard … 11 Jun 2025 19:00 to 20:30 Series Central Asia's lost literatures saved by the figurative arts Frantz Grenet, chair History and Cultures of Pre-Islamic Central Asia Lecture Punjikent (Tajikistan), detail of a mural painting, circa 740: a Sogdian variation on the theme of Beauty and the Beast (the cursed young girl goes to draw water and encounters the aquatic demon) Pre-Islamic Central Asia produced a large number of texts … 09 Jan 2025 → 27 Mar 2025 Event Mark Bowick Order in Biological Development Guest lecturer Abstract How does a biological system set up a body plan to produce a final organism with everything in the right place and orientation? I will discuss a developmental system (parhyale) that exploits activity and cell division to establish four-fold … 26 May 2025 14:00 to 15:00 Series In the name of the universal : crises and legacies Antoine Lilti, chair History of the Enlightenment, 18th-21st century Lecture 1848 / Universal Democratic and Social Republic / Le Pacte. Sorrieu, Frédéric , Dessinateur-lithographe / Goldsmid, Marie-Cécile (Citoyenne), Dessinateur-lithographe. Musée Carnavalet, … 08 Jan 2025 → 26 Mar 2025 Event Hervé Reculeau At the source of the Flood : environmental catastrophe as a literary and religious motif in Mesopotamia Guest lecturer Abstract To conclude the lecture series, we will explore the perceptions and concepts developed by the ancient Mesopotamians themselves to account for the complex relationships between societies and environments. In particular, we will focus on the motif … 26 May 2025 11:00 to 12:00 Series The sex of power Patrick Boucheron, chair History of power in Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth century Lecture Phyllis straddling Aristotle , bronze Aquamanile (late 14th-early 15th century), New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection. This year's lecture extends and clarifies the inquiry into " politiques de l'amour ", which attempts to … 07 Jan 2025 → 18 Mar 2025 Series Philosophy of Language and Mind François Recanati, chair Philosophy of Language and Mind Seminar Caesar at the Rubicon , Wilhelm Trübner (1851-1917). … 06 Jan 2025 → 10 Feb 2025 Series Cognitive dynamics François Recanati, chair Philosophy of Language and Mind Lecture Caesar at the Rubicon , Wilhelm Trübner (1851-1917). Presentation In this lecture on concepts and their persistence through time, we begin by recalling the classical theory (now discredited) that the content of a concept is a "definition". The definition … 06 Jan 2025 → 10 Feb 2025 Event Didier Fassin In search of origins Lecture 13 May 2025 15:15 to 16:15 Series One hand, many scripts: aspects of polygraphism Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology Symposium VIIth day of the Groupe de recherches transversales en paléographie (GRTP) The Groupe de recherches transversales en paléographie (GRTP), which aims to develop a transdisciplinary approach to palaeography, invites you to take part in a new day of study … 05 Dec 2024 Event Hourig Sourouzian Statuary groups Guest lecturer Abstract The study of different types of statuary groups allows us to glimpse, when we know their exact position in a given part of a temple, the role and interference of the figures represented. King and deities For the most part, the statuary group … 21 May 2025 17:00 to 18:00 Event Mark Bowick Membranes - Control by Geometry in Graphene Statistical Mechanics Guest lecturer Abstract Thermalized elastic membranes show strong scale-dependence of their elastic moduli. A beautiful realization is in the physics of thermalized 2D metamaterials, such as graphene, where thermal effects already set in at microscopic length scales. … 20 May 2025 14:00 to 15:00 Event Hervé Reculeau Mesopotamians and climate : the " climate paradigm " and its critics Guest lecturer Abstract Faced with the growing success of discourses that make climate change the driving force behind the successes and (above all) the failures of ancient societies, we need to give a voice to the actors - humans and non-humans alike - of … 19 May 2025 11:00 to 12:00 Event Frantz Grenet Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress (2) Symposium The symposium will be held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 July 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris). Program Pre-Islamic Late Antiquity (200 - 750 CE) 9.00am - 9.30am: "Preliminary Results of the Study … 3 Jul 2025 09:00 to 18:00 Series Paul Veyne at the Collège de France Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome Symposium Paul Veyne in his office. A meeting organized by Dario Mantovani, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge and John Scheid. In the mid-70s, the titles of the professorships at the Collège de France no longer had the generic, repetitive character of their predecessors. … 10 Dec 2024 Event Frantz Grenet Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress (1) Symposium The symposium will be held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 July 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris). Program Final Bronze - Earliest Iron Age 9.00am - 9.30am: "Connecting the Dots: the site of … 2 Jul 2025 09:00 to 18:00 Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Tragic sacrifices (2) Lecture Abstract After an incursion into tragedies that evoke human sacrifice, animal sacrifice is analyzed in three tragedies: Aeschylus' Agamemnon , Euripides' Electra and Sophocles' Antigone . The Agamemnon , in which the human sacrifice of Iphigenia is … 30 Apr 2025 11:00 to 12:00 Event Didier Fassin The birth of a question Lecture 6 May 2025 15:15 to 16:15 Event Ensemble intercontemporain & Jean-Louis Leleu Closing concert: Figures of incompletion Symposium This event is not broadcast online. The concert is open to the public by invitation or prior registration . Registration is compulsory: attendance on the day of the 23 rd does not guarantee a place. Program Presentation by Jean-Louis Leleu, Professor … 23 May 2025 20:00 to 21:30 Event Edward Campbell, Eric Drott, Jonathan Goldman & Catherine Losada Concluding round-table discussion "Where is Boulez now?" Symposium Hosted by Nicolas Donin … 23 May 2025 17:15 to 18:15 Event Christian Merlin Opposition to Boulez, between personal resentment and opposition to a model Symposium Abstract It's hardly surprising that a man who built his career on disobedience and refusal of authority should have seen his own authority challenged early on. The virulence of opposition to Boulez was commensurate with the man's intransigence and the … 23 May 2025 16:00 to 16:45 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Thomas Dubos Hamiltonian insights and the challenge of unresolved processes in geophysical models Special events Abstract Mathematical and numerical models of the atmosphere and ocean rely on various assumptions, approximations, and simplifications. Over the past decade, significant progress has been made in elucidating their structure and interconnections, … 5 May 2025 10:10 to 11:10
Event Michael Brenner The neural GCM, and other remarks Special events Abstract I will discuss the Neural GCM, which we built by building a dynamical core in JAX and then training the parameterization on ERA5 on 5-day forecasts. The quality of the forecasts up to 1 year portends a potential revolution in improving model … 5 May 2025 09:10 to 10:10
Event Hourig Sourouzian Investigating Osirid statues and the iconography of Osiris in two-dimensional representations Guest lecturer Abstract Origin and evolution of the Osirian statue. Large groups of Osirid statues and pillars in temple lecture halls. Evolution of the mummiform type of accoutrement; transition from shroud to ceremonial costume. Representation of the god in royal … 28 May 2025 17:00 to 18:00
Event Éric Ruf, Patrick Boucheron & Florence Naugrette Theater and power Special events Abstract The theater, as a space where people speak to a collective body, is by its very nature a place where power is exercised. This tripartite power emanates from the text, the artists and the audience. It is within this three-tiered billiard … 11 Jun 2025 19:00 to 20:30
Series Central Asia's lost literatures saved by the figurative arts Frantz Grenet, chair History and Cultures of Pre-Islamic Central Asia Lecture Punjikent (Tajikistan), detail of a mural painting, circa 740: a Sogdian variation on the theme of Beauty and the Beast (the cursed young girl goes to draw water and encounters the aquatic demon) Pre-Islamic Central Asia produced a large number of texts … 09 Jan 2025 → 27 Mar 2025
Event Mark Bowick Order in Biological Development Guest lecturer Abstract How does a biological system set up a body plan to produce a final organism with everything in the right place and orientation? I will discuss a developmental system (parhyale) that exploits activity and cell division to establish four-fold … 26 May 2025 14:00 to 15:00
Series In the name of the universal : crises and legacies Antoine Lilti, chair History of the Enlightenment, 18th-21st century Lecture 1848 / Universal Democratic and Social Republic / Le Pacte. Sorrieu, Frédéric , Dessinateur-lithographe / Goldsmid, Marie-Cécile (Citoyenne), Dessinateur-lithographe. Musée Carnavalet, … 08 Jan 2025 → 26 Mar 2025
Event Hervé Reculeau At the source of the Flood : environmental catastrophe as a literary and religious motif in Mesopotamia Guest lecturer Abstract To conclude the lecture series, we will explore the perceptions and concepts developed by the ancient Mesopotamians themselves to account for the complex relationships between societies and environments. In particular, we will focus on the motif … 26 May 2025 11:00 to 12:00
Series The sex of power Patrick Boucheron, chair History of power in Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth century Lecture Phyllis straddling Aristotle , bronze Aquamanile (late 14th-early 15th century), New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection. This year's lecture extends and clarifies the inquiry into " politiques de l'amour ", which attempts to … 07 Jan 2025 → 18 Mar 2025
Series Philosophy of Language and Mind François Recanati, chair Philosophy of Language and Mind Seminar Caesar at the Rubicon , Wilhelm Trübner (1851-1917). … 06 Jan 2025 → 10 Feb 2025
Series Cognitive dynamics François Recanati, chair Philosophy of Language and Mind Lecture Caesar at the Rubicon , Wilhelm Trübner (1851-1917). Presentation In this lecture on concepts and their persistence through time, we begin by recalling the classical theory (now discredited) that the content of a concept is a "definition". The definition … 06 Jan 2025 → 10 Feb 2025
Series One hand, many scripts: aspects of polygraphism Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology Symposium VIIth day of the Groupe de recherches transversales en paléographie (GRTP) The Groupe de recherches transversales en paléographie (GRTP), which aims to develop a transdisciplinary approach to palaeography, invites you to take part in a new day of study … 05 Dec 2024
Event Hourig Sourouzian Statuary groups Guest lecturer Abstract The study of different types of statuary groups allows us to glimpse, when we know their exact position in a given part of a temple, the role and interference of the figures represented. King and deities For the most part, the statuary group … 21 May 2025 17:00 to 18:00
Event Mark Bowick Membranes - Control by Geometry in Graphene Statistical Mechanics Guest lecturer Abstract Thermalized elastic membranes show strong scale-dependence of their elastic moduli. A beautiful realization is in the physics of thermalized 2D metamaterials, such as graphene, where thermal effects already set in at microscopic length scales. … 20 May 2025 14:00 to 15:00
Event Hervé Reculeau Mesopotamians and climate : the " climate paradigm " and its critics Guest lecturer Abstract Faced with the growing success of discourses that make climate change the driving force behind the successes and (above all) the failures of ancient societies, we need to give a voice to the actors - humans and non-humans alike - of … 19 May 2025 11:00 to 12:00
Event Frantz Grenet Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress (2) Symposium The symposium will be held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 July 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris). Program Pre-Islamic Late Antiquity (200 - 750 CE) 9.00am - 9.30am: "Preliminary Results of the Study … 3 Jul 2025 09:00 to 18:00
Series Paul Veyne at the Collège de France Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome Symposium Paul Veyne in his office. A meeting organized by Dario Mantovani, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge and John Scheid. In the mid-70s, the titles of the professorships at the Collège de France no longer had the generic, repetitive character of their predecessors. … 10 Dec 2024
Event Frantz Grenet Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress (1) Symposium The symposium will be held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 July 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris). Program Final Bronze - Earliest Iron Age 9.00am - 9.30am: "Connecting the Dots: the site of … 2 Jul 2025 09:00 to 18:00
Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Tragic sacrifices (2) Lecture Abstract After an incursion into tragedies that evoke human sacrifice, animal sacrifice is analyzed in three tragedies: Aeschylus' Agamemnon , Euripides' Electra and Sophocles' Antigone . The Agamemnon , in which the human sacrifice of Iphigenia is … 30 Apr 2025 11:00 to 12:00
Event Ensemble intercontemporain & Jean-Louis Leleu Closing concert: Figures of incompletion Symposium This event is not broadcast online. The concert is open to the public by invitation or prior registration . Registration is compulsory: attendance on the day of the 23 rd does not guarantee a place. Program Presentation by Jean-Louis Leleu, Professor … 23 May 2025 20:00 to 21:30
Event Edward Campbell, Eric Drott, Jonathan Goldman & Catherine Losada Concluding round-table discussion "Where is Boulez now?" Symposium Hosted by Nicolas Donin … 23 May 2025 17:15 to 18:15
Event Christian Merlin Opposition to Boulez, between personal resentment and opposition to a model Symposium Abstract It's hardly surprising that a man who built his career on disobedience and refusal of authority should have seen his own authority challenged early on. The virulence of opposition to Boulez was commensurate with the man's intransigence and the … 23 May 2025 16:00 to 16:45
