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Abstract One of our first projects focused on untranslatable terms in the cultural heritage of sub-Saharan Africa. With the help of the African Academy of Languages, we sought to understand the distortions at play between French, English, Fulfulde, and …

Abstract While crises are often viewed as unique events, they also share common traits. This lecture will propose a framework for analysis that situates the occurrence of crises—particularly, but not exclusively, health crises—within the emergence of …

Abstract Epidemics can lead to a rapid and significant influx of patients into hospitals. To plan healthcare capacity as effectively as possible, Regional Health Agencies and hospital directors need forecasts that allow them to anticipate this influx. How …

Abstract The primary expectation for a storage system is that it be fast. To achieve this, two types of approaches can be employed: hardware (moving data up the memory hierarchy, with the highest levels being the fastest) and logical redundancy (creating …

Abstract How do we refer to God, how do we refer to the other, and how does God speak of Himself? The corpus—which is difficult to define precisely—consists of the canonical texts of the three Abrahamic religions, in their original languages and in their …

Abstract Using the case of contaminated blood as a starting point, this course will revisit what was described at the time as an “affair” or “scandal,” before analyzing the reasons that led to the development of the concept of public health safety—within …