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Around authenticity: readings, reflections, discussions
Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History
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Touraj Daryaee
History and Memory: In Search of Lost Time
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Abstract Memory of past does not reveal itself to all people in the same manner. For the Sasanians in Late Antiquity (200-651 CE), what they came to profess was their ancient past and for the people they were ruling over, was drastically different from …
5:00 - 6:30pm

Put Another Way: What Is Metaphor?
Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome
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Caryatids of Eleusis, detail. …
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The body of law, "Corpus Iuris". Imagining law through bodily metaphors in Roman legal literature (2)
Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome
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Caryatids of Eleusis, detail. Presentation No scientific language escapes metaphors, not even the one that claims the greatest precision and the least ambiguity: the language of law. Body, head, hands, feet, birth, growth, death: these are just some of …
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Christophe Salomon
A cold cesium atom clock in space : the PHARAO/ACES mission
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11:15am - 12:30pm

Jean Dalibard
The Josephson junction and the double potential well

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9:30 - 11:00am

Joel Mokyr
Religion and Economic development: an inevitable clash?
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Abstract This lecture asks whether Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) have played an important role in economic development and technological progress and to what extent it has held back growth in the past. The answers, it turns out are …
5:00 - 6:00pm

Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure
Trashification
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Documents and media Download poster Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure has been invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Samantha Besson. Abstract Post-Rawlsian egalitarianism has been shaped by two main currents. Distributive …
5:00 - 6:00pm

Eglantine Heude
The Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms
Symposium
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9:05 - 9:50am

Louis Fensterbank
Introduction
Symposium
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9:00 - 9:05am

Frantz Grenet & Touraj Daryaee
Mithra and Mithraism in the Gaze of Modern Iranians
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Round table on the theme: Mithra in dialogue in Central Asia, Iran and Rome: 1. the Iranological viewpoint (part 2. Le point de vue des études gréco-romaines , will take place at Sorbonne Université in November or December …
10:00 - 11:30am

Michel Boudot
Sensitive metaphor and technical metaphor in private law
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4:00 - 6:00pm

Niels Obers
Non-Lorentzian Geometry in Gravity and String Theory
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4:00 - 5:30pm

Dario Mantovani
The laws of attraction : metaphorical alluvia in the language of Roman jurists
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Abstract This course explores spatial metaphors in the language of Roman jurists. The analysis will show that the reification of legal concepts is achieved not only through explicitly corporeal terms such as manus or capitis deminutio , but also through a …
2:30 - 3:30pm

Marc Henneaux
Algebraic Aspects, Inönü-Wigner Contraction
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2:00 - 3:30pm

Nicolas Regnault
Fractional Chern Insulators: Toy Models, Moiré and New Mysteries
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11:30am - 12:45pm

Antoine Georges
The fractional quantum Hall effect
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9:30 - 11:15am

DNA, a witness to the evolution of animals
Denis Duboule, chair Evolution of Development and Genomes
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Subtle genetic variations affect tail length in mice. Source : Delisle et al, PNAS 2024 For more than twenty-five years now, we have been able to analyze the genomes of different animal species (including our own), and see how similar these genomes are …
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Judith Revel
Strapped to a tiger's back. Michel Foucault and truth
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4:30 - 6:00pm

Didier Fassin
Truth
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2:00 - 3:00pm

Touraj Daryaee
Touraj Daryaee (1)
Guest lecturer
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Résumé Ardashīr I, in the third century claimed to be the king of the Iranians, and by the time of Shapur I the realm was known as Ērānšahr , i.e., the “Empire of the Iranians.” During the Sasanian period, not only the idea of Iran took form, but its …
5:00 - 6:30pm

Sandra Lavorel
Ecosystem services
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Documents et médias Télécharger le support Abstract This lecture will introduce the concept of nature's contributions to human populations, or ecosystem services. It will show how functional ecology approaches enable ecosystem services to be quantified on …
2:00 - 3:30pm

Claude Grison
Ecocatalysis, a green and sustainable revolution in chemistry
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Documents and media Download support Abstract Faced with an alarming ecological diagnosis, we urgently need to change our modes of operation and production towards mutual and harmonious growth of the economy and natural ecosystems. We show how solutions …
10:00 - 11:00am

Nicolas Leroux
Esprit de corps and court etiquette : the Egyptian clergy through priestly epigraphy of the Istmillennium b.c.
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Abstract In the Egyptian context of the first millennium B.C., where gods and goddesses were frequently named king or queen , and where a plethoric and highly hierarchical clergy was at their service, the expression " court of the god ", which constitutes …
4:50 - 5:25pm