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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, …

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; …

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 …

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 …

Abstract Sleep is accompanied by an inert state which does not prevent the brain from continuing to process sensory information from the environment and internal representations in memory circuits. We will discuss the types of processing that can and …

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Abstract During the Hellenistic period, which seems so ancient yet so modern, Jewish authors explored ways in which Jewish tradition and Greek thought converged. This was also the period when the history of Jewish philosophy began. For Philo of Alexandria …

Abstract After a brief look back at the Egyptian Expedition and the notion of Orientalism, this session explores the emergence of French cultural imperialism under Napoleon, showing how the universalist, civilizing ideals of the Enlightenment were …

Abstract A translation surface is a Riemann surface with a holomorphic differential. This differential defines a flat metric (outside the singular locus) whose holonomy is trivial. I will explain how the counting of long geodesics on a generic translation …

Abstract When Barthes asserts that we must not emotionally adhere to fiction in order to maintain objectivity, he is reactivating a questioning that goes back to the Greek tragedies. But the reader's inner experience is ambivalent: awareness of the …

Abstract The extravagant readings of Poussin's Shepherds of Arcadia may serve to define what a good reading should be. To read well, unlike certain Kabbalistic decodings, we must neither eliminate the surface of the work nor disengage ourselves from its …

Résumé Le droit de cuissage a-t-il existé au Moyen Âge   ? Certainement pas comme ius primae noctis,  et il faut pour cela suivre la démonstration d’Alain Boureau qui montre comment les controverses sur cette redevance seigneuriale imaginaire au XIX e   …

Abstract The talk deals with a type of random geometry which combines convex and integral geometry together with probability theory and specifically the notion of point processes. In general, it consists in starting with a discrete set of random points in …