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John Scheid
The cult of water and springs in the Roman world. A problematic subject shaped by modern mythology (1)
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2:30 - 3:30pm

Roger Chartier
Listening to the dead with your eyes
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A Collège de France coproduction - CNED - Doriane Films Abstract " Listen to the dead with your eyes ". This line from Quevedo comes to mind as I inaugurate a course devoted to the role of the written word in the cultures that have characterized European …
6:00 - 7:00pm

Christian Goudineau
Gaul in the aftermath of the Caesarian victory (continued) (1)
Lecture
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2:30 - 3:30pm

Alain Prochiantz
Geometries of the living world
Opening lecture
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Abstract My idea of a theory in biology is far removed from the theoretical biology of putting observed or photographed phenomena into equations. I have a simpler, more concrete conception. Not this mathematical description of what is seen, but an …
6:00 - 7:00pm

Olivier Pironneau
Digital zoom and subdomain methods
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11:15am - 12:15pm

History and anthropology of Meso and South American societies
Nathan Wachtel, chair History and anthropology of Meso and South American societies
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History of the Mediterranean West in the Middle Ages
Pierre Toubert, chair History of the Mediterranean West in the Middle Ages
Opening lecture
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Romance languages and literature
Harald Weinrich, chair Romance languages and literature
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Social history : exclusion and solidarity
Bronisław Geremek, chair International Chair (1992-2008)
Opening lecture
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Hans Wilhelm Müller-Gärtner
The neural bases of consciousness : the contribution of brain imaging
Opening lecture
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6:00 - 7:00pm

Michael Edwards
On a line from Hamlet
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A Collège de France coproduction -   Doriane Films Abstract "   To be, or not to be, that is the question    To be or not to be, that is the question   Why does this line, which contains the most famous phrase in English literature, exert such a …
6:00 - 7:00pm

Indo-Iranian languages and religions
Jean Kellens, chair Indo-Iranian languages and religions
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Don Zagier
Number theory
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6:00 - 7:00pm

Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas
Developmental biology and genetics
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A Collège de France -   CNED coproduction Abstract " The study of development occupies a central place in biology. For centuries, observers of nature have been fascinated by the forces that guide the development of an egg into a multicellular organism …
6:00 - 7:00pm

Pierre Boulez, Seminars 1980–1981
Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music
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Material Generation Material outside of use, outside of time Hierarchy of origin, principle, and generation Functions—to be defined—of generation and the resulting use Specific characteristics of the material: continuous/discontinuous, …

Automation and decision-making
Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music
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Automatism and decisiveness in composition: this theme may seem too restricted, or at any rate exclusively related to recent techniques such as those to which the computer leads us. Although the computer, more than any other piece of equipment, reveals …

The quest for a perfect language in the history of European culture
Umberto Eco, chair European Chair (1989-2008)
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Daniel Roche
History of the French Enlightenment
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6:00 - 7:00pm

Philippe Descola
Anthropology of nature
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A Collège de France - CNED coproduction Abstract On the face of it, the anthropology of nature is something of an oxymoron, since for several centuries in the West, nature has been characterized by the absence of man, and man by what he has been able to …
6:00 - 7:00pm

Analysis and geometry
Alain Connes, chair Analysis and geometry
Lecture
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In my opening lecture, I explained how the classical notions of 1) measure theory ; 2) topology of locally compact spaces and 3) de Rham current theory are replaced in the non-commutative case by 1) von Neumann algebras ; 2) C*-algebras ; 3) cyclic …

Luca Gabbiani
Madness, parricide and the death penalty in the Qing Code and jurisprudence
Symposium
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9:00 - 10:00am

Pierre-Étienne Will
The question of life and death in pre-modern China as seen through the lens of suicide
Symposium
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1:30 - 2:30pm

Physiology of perception and action
Alain Berthoz, chair Physiology of perception and action
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Michael Friedman
Carnap, Cassirer and Heidegger: the Davos Disputation and twentieth-century Philosophy (2)
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5:00 - 6:00pm