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Patrick Boucheron
Introduction
Patrick Boucheron
Introduction
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Session 1: A Look Back at a Moment in Historiography …
9:30 - 9:45am
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Quentin Blake, The art of Conversation . Editions The QB papers, 2019. This interdisciplinary colloquium, in English, is part of the ERC project Mental Files: New Foundations , hosted by the Philosophy of Language and Mind chair at the Collège de France. …
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Louis Jonker
Socio-Political Transformation and Biblical Interpretation: The Case of Post-Apartheid South Africa
Louis Jonker
Socio-Political Transformation and Biblical Interpretation: The Case of Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Abstract In the first lecture the issue of changing biblical interpretation in the South African context since the 1990s when Nelson Mandela was released and the ANC party unbanned, and since 1994 when the first democratic post-apartheid elections were …
4:00 - 5:00pm
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There will be no seminar on Wednesday June 10, as Professor Henneaux will give two lectures back-to-back: from 2 pm to 3:30 pm and then from 4 pm to 5:30 …
4:00 - 5:30pm
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The aim of functional ecology is to shed light on the links between the structure of organisms and their functions, from the scale of the individual to the ecosystem and planet Earth. The aim of this lecture is to present the main facets and stages of …
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There will be no seminar on Wednesday June 10, as Professor Henneaux will give two lectures back-to-back: from 2 pm to 3:30 pm and then from 4 pm to 5:30 …
2:00 - 3:30pm
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Abstract In this first talk we give an introduction of the theory of p-adic modular forms and to the completed cohomology groups of the modular curve. We recall the theory of Lue Pan of locally analytic vectors in completed cohomology and the relevance of …
10:00am - 12:00pm
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In collaboration with Philip Huyse, EPHE 4 th section. …
4:30 - 6:00pm
Anneliese Depoux & Franck Ramus
Communicating science
Anneliese Depoux & Franck Ramus
Communicating science
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Abstract Hardly a day goes by without hearing about climate change in the media. Alarmist rhetoric, even if based on factual elements, paradoxically provokes doubts and challenges to scientific messages. The political world, for its part, has no …
6:30 - 8:00pm
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Abstract In his famous and difficult essay "On the Concept of History," Walter Benjamin introduces the idea of revolutionary redemption. Through their actions, revolutionaries of the present can redeem those whose struggles for liberation failed in the …
4:30 - 5:30pm
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Documents and Media Download the support material Abstract Recently, political philosophy has seen a resurgence of debates regarding the wrongs of capitalism and the purpose of socialism. Some argue that capitalism is unjustly exploitative, but only …
3:30 - 4:30pm
Martin O'Neill
The Climate Emergency, State Power, and the Expansion of Democratic Control
Martin O'Neill
The Climate Emergency, State Power, and the Expansion of Democratic Control
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Documents and media Download support Abstract The global climate emergency has presented a deep challenge to the capacities of states throughout the world, and this challenge has been one to which thus far most states have failed adequately to respond. At …
2:00 - 3:00pm
Anca Gheaus
Socialist Childhood
Anca Gheaus
Socialist Childhood
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Anca Gheaus is a political philosopher interested in justice and the normative significance of personal relationships. Before joining CEU, she worked at various universities in Europe. In 2023 she published a co-authored book on Debating Surrogacy (with …
1:00 - 2:00pm
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Nicholas Vrousalis Nicholas Vrousalis is an associate professor in Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and an associate professor in Political Philosophy at the University of …
11:00am - 12:00pm
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Exceptionally, the seminar will be held on a Monday. Documents and media Download support …
11:00am - 12:15pm
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Abstract The human brain contains an immense number of neuronal types. How is this diversity established during development ? The spatial origin of neural stem cells and their temporal evolution during division contribute to this diversity. Using simpler …
4:00 - 5:00pm
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Abstract The Zoroastrian texts supply kind of division of the world and the reason for it which is important for understanding the Persian view of the world in Late Antiquity. In the Middle Persian texts, we come across a story which is not present in the …
5:00 - 6:30pm
Tomislav Rovis
Redshifting Photoredox Catalysis
Tomislav Rovis
Redshifting Photoredox Catalysis
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Abstract The use of visible light to drive organic reactions has revolutionized synthetic chemistry. The field is dominated by catalysts that absorb in the 400-450 nm range, wavelengths that correspond to 63- 70 kcal/mol. Such high energy light is not …
11:00am - 12:00pm
Kenichi Abe
William Marx, chair Comparative Literatures
Kenichi Abe
William Marx, chair Comparative Literatures
Guest lecturer
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Cover of Kenzaburô Ôe, Manen Gannen no Futobôl (The Game of the Century), Tokyo, Kodansha, 1967. Kenichi Abe is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Prof. William Marx. Kenichi …
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Abstract The phenomenon of superfluidity is characterized by the frictionless flow of a fluid below a critical velocity. Initially observed in liquid helium at low temperatures, and later in ultracold atomic gases, superfluidity has also been demonstrated …
11:15am - 12:30pm
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Cette vidéo est proposée dans une version doublée en français. La version originale en anglais est également accessible ci-dessous. Documents and Media Watch the video in English (original …
9:00 - 9:15am
Nothing new ? Four lessons on the book of Qohelet
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
Nothing new ? Four lessons on the book of Qohelet
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
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Color Study: Squares with Concentric Circles, Vassily Kandinsky, 1913 Markus Saur is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Thomas Römer. Markus Saur Presentation The book of Qohelet is one of the sapiential writings of …
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