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Abstract The topic of musical material features prominently throughout Boulez's College de France lectures, and in this paper I set out to establish some of the principal elements of its elaboration. Boulez spoke of the dissatisfaction experienced by …
10:15 to 11:00
Mark Bowick
Facets of Order
Mark Bowick
Facets of Order
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Abstract Sharp structures can occur as minimizers of very regular problems. This means symmetry can lead us badly astray and the resultant symmetry breaking may lead to highly counter-intuitive structures. I will illustrate in a discrete example and then …
14:00 to 15:00
Jean-Jacques Nattiez
Boulez the writer
Jean-Jacques Nattiez
Boulez the writer
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Abstract Pierre Boulez was not only the composer of thirty-three works (and their revisions), but also the author of books of various kinds: compositional techniques, interviews, correspondence and three volumes containing one hundred and fifty articles …
09:30 to 10:15
Hervé Reculeau
Hydraulics and societies : water control in Mesopotamia and its social implications
Hervé Reculeau
Hydraulics and societies : water control in Mesopotamia and its social implications
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Abstract The control of irrigation by a bureaucratic apparatus linked to religious and/or state power is at the heart of social theories that have marked the history of ideas over the last one hundred and fifty years. Although largely discredited, they …
11:00 to 12:00
Exegesis of sacrifice as a unitary principle of the Avesta
Jean Kellens, chair Indo-Iranian languages and religions
Exegesis of sacrifice as a unitary principle of the Avesta
Jean Kellens, chair Indo-Iranian languages and religions
Closing lecture
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The Avesta in our possession is not a book whose contents have been haphazardly pruned by the passage of time, as Karl Hoffmann's approach may have suggested, but the direct and complete culmination of a liturgy of variable composition and, in all its …
First International THEMA Leukemia Symposium
Hugues de Thé, chair Cellular and Molecular Oncology
First International THEMA Leukemia Symposium
Hugues de Thé, chair Cellular and Molecular Oncology
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The first THEMA Saint-Louis international symposium on leukemia will be held on September 9 and 10 , 2024 at the Collège de France. THEMA Saint-Louis is a new university hospital institute bringing together fundamental and clinical research teams. THEMA …
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Abstract In geology, archaeology and epigraphy, reconstructing the past begins with the present. In this first conference, we will focus on data and methods for reconstructing ancient Mesopotamian environments, using geology, paleoclimatology, site and …
11:00 to 12:00
Patrick Boucheron, Louise Gentil & Salomé Tissolong
For an epistemology of inquiry into pre-industrial socio-agrosystems
Patrick Boucheron, Louise Gentil & Salomé Tissolong
For an epistemology of inquiry into pre-industrial socio-agrosystems
Special events
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Pastoral landscape, Giuseppe Zais, Italy Veneto Venice. Louvre Museum. Project under the direction of : Patrick Boucheron, History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th to 16th century chair and François-Xavier Fauvelle, History and Archaeology of African …
18:00 to 19:00
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Superposition of 3D point clouds of Notre-Dame de Paris (Andrew Lewis lasergrammetric survey 2006-2012) and its rubble (2020). Seminar organized with the support of the Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge. With Étienne Anheim (director of studies …
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Cyril Letrouit
Generalizations, applications, and measurement transport in machine learning
Cyril Letrouit
Generalizations, applications, and measurement transport in machine learning
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10:00 to 12:00
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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 …
09:00 to 18:00
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Abstract When it comes to exploring Greek poetic material to study the role of the gods in sacrificial contexts, tragedy is a prime example. Indeed, the association between tragedy and sacrifice is one of the most historiographically charged ever, for at …
10:00 to 11:00
Ailton Krenak
For a florescidade and a florestania : inhabiting the Earth in the Anthropocene
Ailton Krenak
For a florescidade and a florestania : inhabiting the Earth in the Anthropocene
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French version of the video. Other versions of the conference Watch the video in its original version (Portuguese and French) Watch the video in Portuguese Abstract I'd like to talk about metropolises and their civilizational effects from the perspective …
17:30 to 18:30
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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 …
09:00 to 18:00
Stories and memories of African Europeans from Antiquity to the present day
Cycle Europe
Stories and memories of African Europeans from Antiquity to the present day
Cycle Europe
Guest lecturer
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Olivette Otele has been invited by the Collège de France assembly, at the suggestion of Profs Samantha Besson, Edith Heard, Antoine Lilti, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge and Thomas Römer. Olivette Otele This series of four lectures by Olivette Otele is part of …
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On the occasion of the European Heritage Days on September 21 and 22 2024, the Collège de France opens its doors to you for an exceptional tour of two historic sites, enabling you to appreciate the rich history and diversity of its heritage. On the …
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