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Claude Grison
The exploration of life by the various scientific disciplines : a history of scale
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Documents and media Download support Abstract Carbon dioxide is essential to life, and lies at the heart of nature's riches. Plants, algae and cyanobacteria convert CO2 like chemical factories powered by solar energy. They implement the unique and …
10:00 - 11:00am

Yvon Maday
Preserving structures
Lecture
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9:30 - 11:00am

" Today's Chinese citizens can only endure autocracy, they don't know how to enjoy freedom " (Liang Qichao, 1903)
Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History
Lecture
Series
Chinese citizens between autocracy and freedom Diary of the New People (Xinmin congbao ) …
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What is biological information (continued)?
Thomas Lecuit, chair Dynamics of Living Systems
Lecture
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© T. Lecuit, image generated by AI. …
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Dominique Charpin
Aššur and Ekallatum
Lecture
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11:00am - 12:00pm

Music! The Philharmonie at the Collège de France
Music! The Philharmonie at the Collège de France
Special events
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Cycle of meetings in partnership with the Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris The Collège de France has invited the Philharmonie de Paris to host a series of six encounters dedicated to music, free of charge and open to all. Conferences, …
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Edouard Bard
Collapse of Viking settlements in Greenland
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3:00 - 4:30pm

The Medinese Koran
François Déroche, chair History of the Koran. Text and transmission
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Stanislas Dehaene
The relationship between consciousness and working memory, and clinical applications
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Documents and media Download support …
11:00am - 12:30pm

Denis Duboule
The disappearance of the tail in great apes
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Documents and media Download support Abstract Review of key points from previous lesson. History of the T locus and cloning of the Tbxt gene. Potential importance of this gene in tail loss in hominids, following an exon skipping phenomenon specific to …
10:00 - 11:30am

Lionel Marti
Can power in Assyria be illegitimate ?
Seminar
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3:15 - 4:45pm

Palestine and Europe : the weight of the past and contemporary dynamics
Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World
Symposium
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The symposium is cancelled.  Map of Palestine under the British Mandate (detail), coll. Amjad Ghannam Conference co-organized by the Contemporary History of the Arab World Chair at Collège de France and the Centre arabe de recherches et d'études …
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Secure calculation: calculating on encrypted or private data
Xavier Leroy, chair Software Science
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Thomas Römer
Saul, a cursed king? David's arrival at Saul's court (continued)
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Documents and media Download support Abstract In some texts, Saul is presented as a cursed king, even a tragic figure. As soon as he is installed, he is rejected by Yhwh. This rejection goes hand in hand with the arrival of young David at Saul's court, of …
2:00 - 3:00pm

Naïm Vanthieghem
The Fayoum merchant archives: testimony to the culture of merchant circles in Tulunid Egypt
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Abstract With over two one hundred fifty documents, the archives of Abū Hurayra Ǧaʿfar b. ʾAḥmad (floruit 849-868) constitute one of the richest and best-preserved corpora of medieval Egypt. This exceptional collection includes a wide variety of …
3:30 - 5:00pm

Claude Grison
Ecological Transition: The Hope of Sustainability Science
Opening lecture
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Documents and media Download the press release Read the interview "To be free is also to reflect on what makes us free" Abstract "Our house is burning down and we're looking the other way. Nature, mutilated, overexploited, can no longer replenish itself, …
6:00 - 7:00pm

Stéphane Feuillas et Claude Romano
Around authenticity: readings, reflections, discussions (1)
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Stéphane Feuillas (Université Paris Cité) and Claude Romano (Sorbonne Université): "Dialogue on authenticity from Chinese and European textual traditions". Stéphane Feuillas : "Lectures de textes autour des notions de cheng 誠 et de zhen …
2:00 - 5:00pm

Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
In the cities: Greece as a sacrificial culture (6)
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Documents et médias Télécharger le support Résumé « Le serment est ce qui maintient la démocratie », déclare l’orateur et homme politique athénien Lycurgue au IVe siècle avant notre ère. Une fois remise en contexte, cette affirmation fait émerger les …
11:00am - 12:00pm

Samantha Besson
Sovereignty, territoriality & property
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10:00 - 11:30am

Hocine Benkheira
Life stages and sacrificial practices : a comparative approach between Islam and cuneiform sources
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Mr. Hocine Benkheira's speech is recorded in audio only. …
2:30 - 4:00pm

Laurent Pernot
"The most frequent and by far the most beautiful trick". Greek and Roman theories of metaphor
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4:00 - 6:00pm

Dario Mantovani
Imagining law as a living body : an introduction to Roman legal metaphors
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Abstract When Justinian reorganized law in the VI th century, he spoke of it as a body, in which institutions circulate like blood in the veins. The metaphor draws on the body to think about law, and in so doing, it conveys a whole series of ideas : the …
2:30 - 3:30pm

Lea Ypi
Progress, history and class
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Abstract This session explores the idea of progress, its necessity and its dangers, within the framework of the philosophy of history and the concept of class. Progress is an idea that is both necessary and dangerous  : necessary to improve the world and …
5:00 - 6:00pm

Antoine Lilti
The world is full of charlatans
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Abstract In 1789, Henri Descremps published Les Petites Aventures de Jérôme Sharp (The Little Adventures of Jerome Sharp ), in which he tells the story of an educated but ruined young man who crosses France from Marseille to Paris and encounters a gallery …
2:00 - 3:00pm