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Abstract The book of Joshua curiously concludes with two   farewell speeches by Joshua, who have different functions and come from different production backgrounds. Joshua 23 insists that the conquest will ultimately succeed only if the recipients remain …

Abstract The term Bouphonia refers to a sacrifice performed by Athenians during the Dipolia or Dipoleia, the feast of Zeus Polieus celebrated on the Acropolis of Athens at the beginning of July. Lexically speaking, the name of the ritual associates a …

Résumé La conférence portera sur le milieu d'origine de Julius Oppert, ses modèles convertis ou non et son arrivée en France ou comment un professeur d'allemand de province devient le fondateur d'une nouvelle discipline. Elle tentera de montrer les enjeux …

Project under the direction of  : Philippe Aghion, chair Economics of Institutions, Innovation and Growth and Pierre-Michel Menger, chair Sociology of Creative Work . Abstract Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing the world today. …

Abstract Syntactic structures are complex objects. Obviously, there is no upper limit to the length of a sentence (we can't identify "   the longest sentence in French   "), but it's not simply a question of linear length (number of words). It's also, and …

Abstract It has long been recognized that sign language (i) uses the same logical structures as oral language (sometimes bringing out its abstract components), and at the same time (ii) makes more systematic use of iconicity. But the articulation between …

Elected to the Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge chair, Prof. Claudine Tiercelin gave her opening lecture on Thursday May 5, 2011. Over the next fourteen years, her lectures explored a renewed approach to metaphysics, articulating classical …

Abstract Photocatalysis has progressed enormously over the last decade, with numerous applications in organic synthesis, where the energy of excited states is used to induce reactions involving intermediates that would be inaccessible by thermal means. …

Abstract Discussion of cultural, commercial and political relations between the Levant and Mesopotamia in the Ebla archive period (with Anatolia and Egypt in the background). Examination of the question of center and periphery. Abstract on the original …

Abstract There is no end to the gesture of creating, and yet we have to finish. To declare that here, at this moment, is to end. What's finished  ? How do you recognize the final point  ? How do you stop in time  ? What bursts forth at the moment of …

Abstract Knowing that ending is only an illusion, how can we think of the final point  ? Nothing ends, but is abandoned. So how do we accept abandonment, how do we allow the end to emerge, and the mourning that goes with it  ? How do you submit to the …

Marie Amalric Marie Amalric is a cognitive scientist and post-doctoral associate at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, and the Harvard Department of Psychology, as well as a junior professor at INSERM. Her research focuses on the …

Abstract As misfortune never comes alone, the causes of biodiversity loss never act in isolation. Biological invasions are part of a general context of global change, including habitat loss, climate change and pollution. And each threatened species is …