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By contrasting the written sources with archaeological documentation on the … 18 May 2022 14:30 - 15:00 Event Dominique Farout et Vincent Morel The Egyptians and the Sahara : at the crossroads of sources Symposium Abstract Far from confining themselves to the Nile Valley, the Egyptians have, since earliest antiquity, woven multiple and complex relationships with their various neighbors, the inhabitants of the Sahara. Although Egyptologists are dependent on a small … 18 May 2022 14:00 - 14:30 Event David Mattingly Oasis systems, mobility and trade in and across the Sahara (800 B.C.-650 A.D.) Symposium Abstract The Abstract will summarize work on the pre-Islamic emergence of oases and networks of oasis systems across the Sahara, with significant implications for the diffusion of technologies and trade connections. The contribution will focus on specific … 18 May 2022 11:30 - 12:15 Event Dominique Casajus The Sahara : an inscribed landscape Symposium Abstract The Tuareg use alphabets derived from much older alphabets, usually referred to as "Libyan". Libyan" inscriptions are found throughout the Maghreb, from Libya to Morocco and even as far as the Canary Islands, sometimes in association with Punic … 18 May 2022 10:30 - 11:15 Event Yves Gauthier Protohistory in the Sahara : chariots and metal Symposium Abstract To date, no remains of tanks have been found in the Sahara. However, their presence in every landform (from the Atlantic to the Tibesti) where rock art is known, and the multiple technological variations represented, testify to their use in the … 18 May 2022 09:30 - 10:15 Event Jean-Loïc Le Quellec The Sahara as a pastoral and agrarian space (from 5 000 to 1 500 BC) Symposium Abstract Saharan rock archives have aroused the enthusiasm of comparatists who have sought to study them as if they were the notebooks of ancient anthropologists. Some have thought they could be deciphered in the light of Fulani traditions, which would be … 17 May 2022 15:00 - 15:45 Event Barbara E. Barich Re-population in the early Holocene (12 000-5 000 AEC) Symposium Abstract This paper presents a synthesis of cultural developments in the Sahara, starting with the reoccupation of the region around 12,000-10,000 BP, after the long arid period corresponding to the last glacial maximum. The resumption of the monsoon … 17 May 2022 14:00 - 14:45 Event Lameen Souag Linguistic history of the Sahara Symposium Abstract Written traces of the languages spoken in the Sahara date back less than three millennia, and for most of this period are limited to its Berber-speaking and Arabic-speaking northern bangs, with traces of Mande and Songhay as well as linguistic … 17 May 2022 11:30 - 12:15 Series The Guptas and Indian nationalism Gérard Fussman, chair History of the Indian world Lecture 06 Mar 2007 → 03 Apr 2007 Event Anne-Marie Lézine Floristic history of the Sahara Symposium Abstract Pollen and plant macroremains from the Saharan desert are used to reconstruct past vegetation changes. Pollen data are extremely scarce for pre-Holocene periods in one of the world's driest regions. The most detailed and continuous record of … 17 May 2022 10:30 - 11:15 Event Friederike Jesse Archaeology of material cultures : ceramics Symposium Abstract Ceramics in the Sahara are a fascinating subject of research, not least because they appeared very early. It has been present since the early Holocene (10th millennium BC) in the central Sahara and the Nile Valley, and available data indicate … 16 May 2022 15:45 - 16:15 Event Latifa Sari Prehistoric cultures in the Sahara as seen through mineral artefacts Symposium Abstract This paper presents the current state of knowledge of lithic and movable mineral industries from prehistoric times in the Sahara. These artifacts are placed in their archaeological context in connection with other paleoenvironmental and … 16 May 2022 15:15 - 15:45 Event Hamady Bocoum Protohistoric and medieval tumuli and megaliths in the Sahel region Symposium Abstract From Senegambia to Mali, from Niger to Chad, the Sahel region offers an exceptional corpus of stone monuments and monumental structures. This presentation will offer a history of research and outline the main archaeological missions, monument … 16 May 2022 14:30 - 15:00 Event Yves Gauthier Lithic monuments from the Sahara and Sahel (4th-1st millennium BC) Symposium Abstract To date, over four hundred thousand megalithic and monumental structures have been recorded in the Sahara. Funerary monuments make up the bulk of these structures, far ahead of dwellings, trapping devices and ritual or cult monuments. These … 16 May 2022 14:00 - 14:30 Event Scott MacEachern Physical anthropology : a critical review Symposium Abstract Physical anthropology raises potentially alarming questions. Nevertheless, given the weight of colonial science in academic as well as popular literature, this critical presentation of all biological data in the Sahara, whether ancient raciology … 16 May 2022 11:30 - 12:15 Event Frédérique Duquesnoy Saharan rock art : state of the art Symposium Abstract Revealed to Western eyes nearly a hundred and sixty years ago, the rock paintings and engravings of the Sahara have generated a great deal of interest and literature. In the specific context of the Sahara, they provide precious evidence of the … 16 May 2022 10:30 - 11:15 Event Aziz Ballouche The Sahara : a paleo-environmental setting Symposium Abstract This contribution aims to provide a long-term environmental perspective of the Sahara as a large-scale geographical area. We will first address the question of the origin of aridity, before dealing with fluctuations in the limits of the Sahara on … 16 May 2022 09:30 - 10:15 Series The worlds of public health: anthropological excursions Didier Fassin, chair Public health Lecture With the covid pandemic, public health burst onto the scene. Everything that makes societies tick suddenly began to revolve around health issues. To grasp this experience, the lecture takes a detour, starting with an ordinary, little-known scene, and … 14 Apr 2021 → 16 Jun 2021 Series Interactions, Feedback, Crises Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, chair Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Seminar 07 Apr 2021 → 09 Jun 2021 Series From statistical physics to the social sciences : the challenges of multidisciplinarity Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, chair Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Lecture Jean-Philippe Bouchaud presents his lecture in the series les courTs du Collège de France In his lecture, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud will illustrate how ideas from the statistical physics of complex systems can be transposed to economics and the social … 07 Apr 2021 → 09 Jun 2021 Event David Ownby Intellectual life in China between Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping : pluralism and diversity Guest lecturer 7 Jun 2022 17:00 - 18:00 Event Vincent Lafforgue Classical limit of the functoriality kernel and values of L functions Seminar 20 Apr 2022 11:30 - 12:30 Event Jean-Pierre Brun Olive oil production in Greece and Cyprus Lecture Abstract At the same time as the first cereal crops were being cultivated, Neolithic man began to look after trees that were useful to him, including olive trees, which grew on marginal land, in the garrigues and hills, where cereal cultivation was not … 21 Mar 2022 10:00 - 12:00 Pagination First page Previous page … Page 248 Page 249 Page 250 Page 251 Current page 252 Page 253 Page 254 Page 255 Page 256 … Next page Last page
Event Thouraya Belkahia The image of the Sahara in Roman artworks Symposium Abstract This study will attempt to present Roman literature's view of the Sahara. We'll take a look at how the Romans perceived this region, and recall the latitudinal extent they attributed to it. We will then examine the image(s) given to its peoples, … 18 May 2022 15:00 - 15:30
Event Mohamed Tahar The Sahara in ancient written sources from the Phoenician and Greek periods (up to 650 CE) Symposium Abstract This presentation will examine Greek sources relating to accounts of Phoenician, Persian and Greek circumnavigations around the African continent and the Sahara desert. By contrasting the written sources with archaeological documentation on the … 18 May 2022 14:30 - 15:00
Event Dominique Farout et Vincent Morel The Egyptians and the Sahara : at the crossroads of sources Symposium Abstract Far from confining themselves to the Nile Valley, the Egyptians have, since earliest antiquity, woven multiple and complex relationships with their various neighbors, the inhabitants of the Sahara. Although Egyptologists are dependent on a small … 18 May 2022 14:00 - 14:30
Event David Mattingly Oasis systems, mobility and trade in and across the Sahara (800 B.C.-650 A.D.) Symposium Abstract The Abstract will summarize work on the pre-Islamic emergence of oases and networks of oasis systems across the Sahara, with significant implications for the diffusion of technologies and trade connections. The contribution will focus on specific … 18 May 2022 11:30 - 12:15
Event Dominique Casajus The Sahara : an inscribed landscape Symposium Abstract The Tuareg use alphabets derived from much older alphabets, usually referred to as "Libyan". Libyan" inscriptions are found throughout the Maghreb, from Libya to Morocco and even as far as the Canary Islands, sometimes in association with Punic … 18 May 2022 10:30 - 11:15
Event Yves Gauthier Protohistory in the Sahara : chariots and metal Symposium Abstract To date, no remains of tanks have been found in the Sahara. However, their presence in every landform (from the Atlantic to the Tibesti) where rock art is known, and the multiple technological variations represented, testify to their use in the … 18 May 2022 09:30 - 10:15
Event Jean-Loïc Le Quellec The Sahara as a pastoral and agrarian space (from 5 000 to 1 500 BC) Symposium Abstract Saharan rock archives have aroused the enthusiasm of comparatists who have sought to study them as if they were the notebooks of ancient anthropologists. Some have thought they could be deciphered in the light of Fulani traditions, which would be … 17 May 2022 15:00 - 15:45
Event Barbara E. Barich Re-population in the early Holocene (12 000-5 000 AEC) Symposium Abstract This paper presents a synthesis of cultural developments in the Sahara, starting with the reoccupation of the region around 12,000-10,000 BP, after the long arid period corresponding to the last glacial maximum. The resumption of the monsoon … 17 May 2022 14:00 - 14:45
Event Lameen Souag Linguistic history of the Sahara Symposium Abstract Written traces of the languages spoken in the Sahara date back less than three millennia, and for most of this period are limited to its Berber-speaking and Arabic-speaking northern bangs, with traces of Mande and Songhay as well as linguistic … 17 May 2022 11:30 - 12:15
Series The Guptas and Indian nationalism Gérard Fussman, chair History of the Indian world Lecture 06 Mar 2007 → 03 Apr 2007
Event Anne-Marie Lézine Floristic history of the Sahara Symposium Abstract Pollen and plant macroremains from the Saharan desert are used to reconstruct past vegetation changes. Pollen data are extremely scarce for pre-Holocene periods in one of the world's driest regions. The most detailed and continuous record of … 17 May 2022 10:30 - 11:15
Event Friederike Jesse Archaeology of material cultures : ceramics Symposium Abstract Ceramics in the Sahara are a fascinating subject of research, not least because they appeared very early. It has been present since the early Holocene (10th millennium BC) in the central Sahara and the Nile Valley, and available data indicate … 16 May 2022 15:45 - 16:15
Event Latifa Sari Prehistoric cultures in the Sahara as seen through mineral artefacts Symposium Abstract This paper presents the current state of knowledge of lithic and movable mineral industries from prehistoric times in the Sahara. These artifacts are placed in their archaeological context in connection with other paleoenvironmental and … 16 May 2022 15:15 - 15:45
Event Hamady Bocoum Protohistoric and medieval tumuli and megaliths in the Sahel region Symposium Abstract From Senegambia to Mali, from Niger to Chad, the Sahel region offers an exceptional corpus of stone monuments and monumental structures. This presentation will offer a history of research and outline the main archaeological missions, monument … 16 May 2022 14:30 - 15:00
Event Yves Gauthier Lithic monuments from the Sahara and Sahel (4th-1st millennium BC) Symposium Abstract To date, over four hundred thousand megalithic and monumental structures have been recorded in the Sahara. Funerary monuments make up the bulk of these structures, far ahead of dwellings, trapping devices and ritual or cult monuments. These … 16 May 2022 14:00 - 14:30
Event Scott MacEachern Physical anthropology : a critical review Symposium Abstract Physical anthropology raises potentially alarming questions. Nevertheless, given the weight of colonial science in academic as well as popular literature, this critical presentation of all biological data in the Sahara, whether ancient raciology … 16 May 2022 11:30 - 12:15
Event Frédérique Duquesnoy Saharan rock art : state of the art Symposium Abstract Revealed to Western eyes nearly a hundred and sixty years ago, the rock paintings and engravings of the Sahara have generated a great deal of interest and literature. In the specific context of the Sahara, they provide precious evidence of the … 16 May 2022 10:30 - 11:15
Event Aziz Ballouche The Sahara : a paleo-environmental setting Symposium Abstract This contribution aims to provide a long-term environmental perspective of the Sahara as a large-scale geographical area. We will first address the question of the origin of aridity, before dealing with fluctuations in the limits of the Sahara on … 16 May 2022 09:30 - 10:15
Series The worlds of public health: anthropological excursions Didier Fassin, chair Public health Lecture With the covid pandemic, public health burst onto the scene. Everything that makes societies tick suddenly began to revolve around health issues. To grasp this experience, the lecture takes a detour, starting with an ordinary, little-known scene, and … 14 Apr 2021 → 16 Jun 2021
Series Interactions, Feedback, Crises Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, chair Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Seminar 07 Apr 2021 → 09 Jun 2021
Series From statistical physics to the social sciences : the challenges of multidisciplinarity Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, chair Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Lecture Jean-Philippe Bouchaud presents his lecture in the series les courTs du Collège de France In his lecture, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud will illustrate how ideas from the statistical physics of complex systems can be transposed to economics and the social … 07 Apr 2021 → 09 Jun 2021
Event David Ownby Intellectual life in China between Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping : pluralism and diversity Guest lecturer 7 Jun 2022 17:00 - 18:00
Event Vincent Lafforgue Classical limit of the functoriality kernel and values of L functions Seminar 20 Apr 2022 11:30 - 12:30
Event Jean-Pierre Brun Olive oil production in Greece and Cyprus Lecture Abstract At the same time as the first cereal crops were being cultivated, Neolithic man began to look after trees that were useful to him, including olive trees, which grew on marginal land, in the garrigues and hills, where cereal cultivation was not … 21 Mar 2022 10:00 - 12:00