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Jean-François Dars & Anne Papillault
Au fil de la truelle. Archaeology through the eyes of documentary filmmakers
Jean-François Dars & Anne Papillault
Au fil de la truelle. Archaeology through the eyes of documentary filmmakers
Special events
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Abstract The spirit of research is nourished as much by the sources of reality as by the labyrinths of the imaginary. Through rapid monologues, four archaeologists give us a glimpse of the forces that drive them to delve ever deeper into the deciphering …
12:30 - 1:30pm
Polymer Physics in Cell Nucleus
Jean-François Joanny, chair Soft Matter and Biophysics
Polymer Physics in Cell Nucleus
Jean-François Joanny, chair Soft Matter and Biophysics
Guest lecturer
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Alexander Grosberg is invited by the Collège de France assembly, at the suggestion of Pr Jean-François Joanny. Alexander Grosberg Series of 4 lectures about polymer physics and cell nucleus. A more provocative, although entirely justified, title would …
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Lisa Sauermann
Three-term arithmetic progressions, the slice rank polynomial method and the Erdös-Ginzburg-Ziv Problem (1)
Lisa Sauermann
Three-term arithmetic progressions, the slice rank polynomial method and the Erdös-Ginzburg-Ziv Problem (1)
Guest lecturer
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Abstract The first lecture will give an overview over the problem of estimating the maximum possible size of a three-term progression free subset of F_p^n for a fixed prime p and large n, as well as over the analogous problem in {1,...,N}. More …
10:00am - 12:00pm
Wajdi Mouawad
The shadow that writes
Wajdi Mouawad
The shadow that writes
Opening lecture
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Abstract Hero that he is, Ulysses resists the sirens' songs and asks to be tied to the ship's mast. The son of Laërte is determined not to take part in what attracts his crew. To do so would mean the end of the voyage. Likewise, the poet fiercely resists …
6:00 - 7:00pm
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3:15 - 4:45pm
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Abstract This lecture will present the concept of war in ancient Israel, in Near Eastern inscriptions and in biblical texts. We will see that the ideology of war is not necessarily opposed to peace, but often presented as a means of restoring order. The …
2:00 - 3:00pm
Europe and the defense of democracy
Cycle Europe
Europe and the defense of democracy
Cycle Europe
Guest lecturer
Series
Democratic Europe - from EU Parliamentary Elections Result map, 2019. Jan-Werner Müller is invited by the Collège de France assembly, at the suggestion of Prs Samantha Besson, Edith Heard, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge and Thomas Römer. Jan-Werner Müller This …
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Abstract The " République universelle " was one of the slogans of February 1848 , calling for solidarity with the uprisings of European peoples. By following the iconographic program of citizen Goldsmid, Victor Hugo's rallying to the Republic, the …
2:30 - 3:30pm
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Abstract At the turn of the 20th century, the notion of literature as a pastime seemed to fade in favor of a restorative and therapeutic one. After formalism, literature regained a form of transitivity through the desire to bond and heal. The therapeutic …
6:00 - 7:00pm
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Abstract The Guerchin's Et in Arcadia ego can be transposed as a list of signs constituting the words of a sentence, in the tradition of Ripa's emblems: an element represents an abstract idea, and the elements are brought together in a composition by …
5:00 - 6:00pm
Colin Bonduelle & Hua Lu
Amino acid-based polymers: from the origin of life to modern medicines
Colin Bonduelle & Hua Lu
Amino acid-based polymers: from the origin of life to modern medicines
Seminar
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Abstract from Colin Bonduelle's talk From Natural Proteins to Polymer Synthesis Proteins are natural polymers that possess unique features that are not found in their synthetic counterparts. These include chemical diversity, hierarchical structure, …
11:00am - 12:00pm
Sébastien Lecommandoux
Amino acid-based polymers: from the origin of life to modern medicines
Sébastien Lecommandoux
Amino acid-based polymers: from the origin of life to modern medicines
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10:00 - 11:00am
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Elyamine Settoul: "Jihadism and radicalization" Nadia Fadil: "A critical look at deradicalization programs" …
10:00am - 12:00pm
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Abstract An analysis of transvestism and transidentity in Le Roman de Silence and other literary texts from the 13th and 14th centuries , as well as the few examples of gender reassignment in medieval hagiography, suggests that in Christian …
2:00 - 3:00pm
Maryam Ebrahimi Dinani
Communicative acts in the second person. The lessons of Reinach and Reid
Maryam Ebrahimi Dinani
Communicative acts in the second person. The lessons of Reinach and Reid
Seminar
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Abstract In "Intention and Convention in Speech Acts", Strawson influentially argued for a distinction between essentially conventional acts and communicative acts: conventional acts rely on extralinguistic conventions for their successful execution; …
11:30am - 1:00pm
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Abstract According to the "véhicularist" perspective, two co-referential concepts are the same concept if and only if the vehicle (the thin mental file) is the same. The conception (the content of the concept) may vary, but this does not affect the …
10:00 - 11:30am
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Abstract Zimri-Lim's private secretary, Šunuhra-Halu, is well known to us: it was he who read to the sovereign the mail from the kingdom's officials, and wrote the letters the monarch sent in reply. The title of another close relative of the king, named …
11:00am - 12:00pm
New frontiers in radical chemistry
Louis Fensterbank, chair Activations in Molecular Chemistry
New frontiers in radical chemistry
Louis Fensterbank, chair Activations in Molecular Chemistry
Symposium
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The " New Frontiers in Radical Chemistry " symposium concludes the first cycle of lectures in radical chemistry, mainly devoted to the fundamentals of the field and its evolution in the context of green chemistry, and in particular to the …
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Vincent Van Gogh, Round of Prisoners , Pushkin Museum During the last decades of the twentieth century, most Western countries have experienced a considerable increase in their prison populations, with no direct link to trends in crime. This « punitive …
