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José Émilio Burucúa
The ancient massacre and the modern massacre : problems of historiography and representation
José Émilio Burucúa
The ancient massacre and the modern massacre : problems of historiography and representation
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The massacre is an event in human history whose narrative presented Greek and Roman historians with enormous difficulties, both in its narrative construction and in its rational explanation. This lecture will show, firstly, how historiography and art …
11:00am - 12:00pm
Albert de Jong
Mazdaism, the imperial religion
Albert de Jong
Mazdaism, the imperial religion
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Mazdeism begins in a society without kings and survives in a society without (Mazdean) kings. Between the two lies the long period of imperial Mazdeism, which begins with Darius and ends with the last Sassanid king, Yazdegerd III. Between the VIᵉ century …
11:00am - 12:00pm
José Émilio Burucúa
The concept of otherness and pictorial representation the story of Ulysses since the Renaissance
José Émilio Burucúa
The concept of otherness and pictorial representation the story of Ulysses since the Renaissance
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This lecture will examine the reception and treatment of the myth of Ulysses and the story of the Odyssey in Italian and Flemish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries. It will show that a comic interpretation of this story went hand in hand with the …
11:00am - 12:00pm
Ahmad Beydoun
From the 1943 Pact to the Taef Agreement : resistance to deconfessionalization
Ahmad Beydoun
From the 1943 Pact to the Taef Agreement : resistance to deconfessionalization
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5:00 - 6:00pm
Albert de Jong
The formation of the Mazdean identity
Albert de Jong
The formation of the Mazdean identity
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The first lesson serves as a methodological introduction to history proper, which only begins with the Achaemenids. With the rejection of Zarathustra's historicity by some modern scholars also comes the rejection of the notion of an Iranian "conversion" …
11:00am - 12:00pm
Jean Louise Cohen
A Global State of Emergency or the Further Constitutionalisation of International Law
Jean Louise Cohen
A Global State of Emergency or the Further Constitutionalisation of International Law
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3:00 - 4:00pm
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Abstract In just a few decades, numerical simulations have become a preferred tool in many scientific fields (physics, chemistry, mechanics, meteorology, engineering sciences, finance) and industrial sectors (aeronautics, space, automotive, nuclear, …
6:00 - 7:00pm
Jean Louise Cohen
Toward a Jus Post Bellum for Transformative and/or Humanitarian Occupations
Jean Louise Cohen
Toward a Jus Post Bellum for Transformative and/or Humanitarian Occupations
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3:00 - 4:00pm
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What we commonly understand today by the notion of theme comes to us essentially from the 20th century, in the sense that themes are not only at the origin of musical discourse and its development, but are also bearers of meaning: symbolic, anecdotal, …
Instrument-machine interface
Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music
Instrument-machine interface
Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music
Seminar
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Detection methods active detector: reacts by making decisions according to a deterministic or indeterministic method (there are a multitude of paths to positive detection); passive detector: reacts blindly (there is only one path to positive detection). …
Jean Louise Cohen
Rethinking Human Rights and Sovereign Equality in the epoch of Humanitarian Intervention
Jean Louise Cohen
Rethinking Human Rights and Sovereign Equality in the epoch of Humanitarian Intervention
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3:00 - 4:00pm
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The Cuman-Qïpchaqs constituted an acephalous, loosely held tribal union that dominated an area extending from the Pontic Steppes to Western Siberia and Uzbekistan, a region termed the Qïpchaq Steppe (cf. Pers. Dasht-i Qipchâq). The Cuman-Qïpchaqs …
5:00 - 6:00pm
Jean Louise Cohen
Sovereignty and International Law Revisited: A Pluralist Perspective
Jean Louise Cohen
Sovereignty and International Law Revisited: A Pluralist Perspective
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3:00 - 4:00pm
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Various forms of sacral kingship were widespread across Eurasia. It was known among the Türks and elements of it are reported among the Uyghurs (744-840) their successors in the east. Among the Khazars, the sacral kingship took on a somewhat different …
5:00 - 6:00pm
Gaëtan Chenevier
Claude-Antoine Peccot Foundation. Hecke varieties of unitary groups and Galois representations (4)
Gaëtan Chenevier
Claude-Antoine Peccot Foundation. Hecke varieties of unitary groups and Galois representations (4)
Guest lecturer
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4:15 - 5:15pm
Gaëtan Chenevier
Claude-Antoine Peccot Foundation. Hecke varieties of unitary groups and Galois representations (3)
Gaëtan Chenevier
Claude-Antoine Peccot Foundation. Hecke varieties of unitary groups and Galois representations (3)
Guest lecturer
Event
4:15 - 5:15pm
Peter Golden
Successors of the Türks in the Western Eurasian Steppes-The Khazars and their Conversion to Judaism
Peter Golden
Successors of the Türks in the Western Eurasian Steppes-The Khazars and their Conversion to Judaism
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The Khazars (ca. mid-7th century to 965-969), centered in the lower Volga with their capital at Atïl, created one of the largest polities of medieval Eurasia, extending from the Middle Volga in the north to the North Caucasus and Crimea in the south and …
5:00 - 6:00pm
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5:30 - 6:30pm
Peter Golden
The Question of Türk Origins
Peter Golden
The Question of Türk Origins
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The question of the ancient homeland of the Turkic peoples and the origins of the distinct grouping that bore the ethnonym Türk remain a topic of debate. The earliest references to peoples that are presumed to be Turkic date to the era of the Xiongnu ( …
5:00 - 6:00pm