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It's also, and … 20 Jun 2025 10:00 - 11:30 Event Philippe Schlenker The double face of linguistic meaning : a framework for integrating logic and iconicity Seminar Abstract It has long been recognized that sign language (i) uses the same logical structures as oral language (sometimes bringing out its abstract components), and at the same time (ii) makes more systematic use of iconicity. But the articulation between … 20 Jun 2025 11:30 - 13:00 Event Hugo Meijer The origins of war and peace in the human species Guest lecturer Bust of Janus , marble (Summer Garden, Saint Petersburg). Hugo Meijer is invited by Pr Jean-Jacques Hublin. Abstract What are the origins of war and peace ? Our species, Homo sapiens , presents a remarkable paradox : we are the only species capable of … 6 Jun 2025 10:30 - 12:00 Event Takahiro Nakajima Modern Japanese Sinology As an Imperial Discourse Guest lecturer Monument for Hattori Unokichi. Takahiro Nakajima has been invited by the assembly of the Collège de France at the suggestion of Professor Anne Cheng. Abstract The Organization of Philosophy as an Institution Inoue Tetsujirō claimed to have introduced the … 5 Jun 2025 11:00 - 12:00 Series Boulez : the power of invention ? The years 1975-1995 Pierre-Michel Menger, chair Sociology of Creative Work Symposium Colloquium organized for the centenary of Pierre Boulez's birth by Pr Pierre-Michel Menger, Sociology of Creative Work Chair, and Nicolas Donin , Professor of Musicology at the University of Geneva. With the support of the Collège de France Foundation and … 22 May 2025 → 23 May 2025 Event Naoko Shimazu Japanese War Diaries from the Russo-Japanese War Guest lecturer Abstract The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 was the first modern warfare of the twentieth century. Japan won the war against Russia which had the largest land army in the world at the time. In this lecture, we focus on the personal war diaries of Japanese … 5 Jun 2025 14:30 - 15:30 Event Egas Bender de Moniz Bandeira Assimilation or integration? The representation of Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang in the parliaments of the Qing Empire and the Republic of China Guest lecturer Xinjiang ziyiju, the "provincial assembly" of Xinjiang at Ürümchi Abstract In this presentation, I will examine the representation of Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang in the parliaments of early twentieth-century China, particularly in the Political … 26 Jun 2025 11:00 - 12:00 Series Quantum gravity and the Wheeler-DeWitt equation Marc Henneaux, chair Fields, Strings and Gravity Seminar Reconciling the principles of quantum mechanics with Einsteinian gravitation is one of the major challenges of modern physics. The Wheeler-DeWitt equation, introduced in the late 1960s, plays a central role in the canonical approach to the problem of … 21 May 2025 → 18 Jun 2025 Event Naama Friedmann How Can Linguistic Theory Help Neurosurgeons: Language Assessment in Tumor-Removal Surgery for the Preservation of Patients' Language Guest lecturer Naama Friedmann has been invited by the assembly of the Collège de France, at the suggestion of Professors Stanislas Dehaene, Experimental Cognitive Psychology Chair , and Luigi Rizzi, General Linguistics Chair . She will give a series of four lectures in … 27 May 2025 17:30 - 19:00 Series Faced with immigration, the scientist and the politician François Héran, chair Migrations and Societies Closing lecture 15 May 2025 Event Adam Ledgeway Linguistic theory and variation : the experimental field of Romance languages and dialects Seminar Abstract In this talk, I will explore how the diachronic and synchronic variation documented by Romance languages, and in particular by their dialectal varieties, offers us an unparalleled harvest of linguistic data (often of a typologically exotic … 6 Jun 2025 11:30 - 13:00 Event Naoko Shimazu Symbolic Diplomacy: Tojo and the 1943 Tokyo Conference Guest lecturer Abstract The Greater East Asia Conference was held on 5 and 6 November 1943 in Tokyo, under the chairmanship of Prime Minister General Tōjō Hideki. Variously known as the Tokyo Conference, the Greater East Asia Congress, or the Assembly of East Asiatic … 26 Jun 2025 14:30 - 15:30 Event Luigi Rizzi Syntactic calculation and locality principles Lecture Abstract While linguistic representations are unlimited, some fundamental structural relations are local : they must be satisfied within a very limited portion of structure. For example, grammatical agreement phenomena must typically be satisfied … 6 Jun 2025 10:00 - 11:30 Event Frédérique Ildefonse On the daimōn that is said to be personal Symposium Abstract Should we say personal the daimōn of each because a distinct daimōn is assigned to each ? The expression οἰκεῖος δαίμων exists, but it is late. And how does the idea of a daimōn assigned to each person, or chosen by each person, if we take into … 6 Jun 2025 09:30 - 10:30 Event Jan van Hest Polymer-based artificial cells Symposium Abstract Compartmentalization is generally regarded as one of the key prerequisites for life. To better understand its role, there is a clear need for model systems in which life-like properties can be installed. In this lecture I will discuss a synthetic … 6 Jun 2025 09:10 - 09:45 Event Owen O’Donnell An Economist's Perspective on What We Know, Can Know and Need to Know About the Causes of Health Inequality Symposium Session 1: Explaining health inequalities in economics and sociology Discussion: Cyrille Delpierre (Inserm) Résumé Socioeconomic health inequality is substantial, ubiquitous and persistent. From an economics perspective, I review what is known about its … 26 Jun 2025 10:00 - 11:00 Event Janet Shim Sociological Tools for Understanding the Social Production of Health Inequalities Symposium Session 1: Explaining health inequalities in economics and sociology Discussion: Cyrille Delpierre (Inserm) Abstract This presentation will cover some commonly used theoretical concepts and frameworks used in the sociology of health and illness, to … 26 Jun 2025 11:00 - 12:00 Event Muriel Darmon What can a socialization approach bring to the study of health inequalities? Symposium Session 2: Capturing the incorporation of the social: socialization (sociology) and embodiment (social epidemiology) Discussion: Anne McMunn (University College London) Abstract Socialization can be defined as the way in which society shapes and … 26 Jun 2025 13:30 - 14:30 Event Didier Fassin Refuse Lecture 3 Jun 2025 15:15 - 16:15 Event Michelle Kelly-Irving Socio-Structural Processes Underlying the Production of Health Inequalities over the Life Course: Theoretical Tools and Empirical Evidence Symposium Session 2: Capturing the incorporation of the social: socialization (sociology) and embodiment (social epidemiology) Discussion: Anne McMunn (University College London) Abstract Understanding how structural, social and psychosocial factors come to affect … 26 Jun 2025 14:30 - 15:30 Event Greta Bauer A New Framework for Understanding Social Privilege and Health Symposium Session 3: Questioning the social structuring of health inequalities in anthropology and epidemiology Discussion: Pierre-Yves Geoffard (CNRS) Abstract While health research has increasingly included a role for stigma and discrimination in impacting … 26 Jun 2025 16:00 - 17:00 Event Panagiota Sarischouli Graeco-Egyptian voces magicae: Historicizing a Cross-Cultural Phenomenon Guest lecturer Panagiota Sarischouli is invited by Prof. Jean-Luc Fournet, Chair of Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology . Abstract Although the phenomenon of voces magicae is most often associated with Roman and Late Antique Egypt, the use of … 4 Jun 2025 14:00 - 15:00 Event Seth Holmes Enviro-Anthropo-Genesis: The Co-production and Destruction of Bodies of People, Land and Water Symposium Session 3: Questioning the social structuring of health inequalities in anthropology and epidemiology Discussion: Pierre-Yves Geoffard (CNRS) Abstract Enviro-Anthropo-Genesis proposes a new way to understand the simultaneous co-production of environments … 26 Jun 2025 17:00 - 18:00 Pagination First page Previous page … Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Current page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 … Next page Last page
Event Daniel Andler Talk to an LLM? Symposium Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) seem capable of sustaining discussion on all kinds of topics. There are three possible reactions to this observation. We can attribute to LLMs a form of intelligence, which includes a certain understanding of the … 27 May 2025 09:00 - 09:55
Event Luigi Rizzi Mapping syntax Lecture Abstract Syntactic structures are complex objects. Obviously, there is no upper limit to the length of a sentence (we can't identify " the longest sentence in French "), but it's not simply a question of linear length (number of words). It's also, and … 20 Jun 2025 10:00 - 11:30
Event Philippe Schlenker The double face of linguistic meaning : a framework for integrating logic and iconicity Seminar Abstract It has long been recognized that sign language (i) uses the same logical structures as oral language (sometimes bringing out its abstract components), and at the same time (ii) makes more systematic use of iconicity. But the articulation between … 20 Jun 2025 11:30 - 13:00
Event Hugo Meijer The origins of war and peace in the human species Guest lecturer Bust of Janus , marble (Summer Garden, Saint Petersburg). Hugo Meijer is invited by Pr Jean-Jacques Hublin. Abstract What are the origins of war and peace ? Our species, Homo sapiens , presents a remarkable paradox : we are the only species capable of … 6 Jun 2025 10:30 - 12:00
Event Takahiro Nakajima Modern Japanese Sinology As an Imperial Discourse Guest lecturer Monument for Hattori Unokichi. Takahiro Nakajima has been invited by the assembly of the Collège de France at the suggestion of Professor Anne Cheng. Abstract The Organization of Philosophy as an Institution Inoue Tetsujirō claimed to have introduced the … 5 Jun 2025 11:00 - 12:00
Series Boulez : the power of invention ? The years 1975-1995 Pierre-Michel Menger, chair Sociology of Creative Work Symposium Colloquium organized for the centenary of Pierre Boulez's birth by Pr Pierre-Michel Menger, Sociology of Creative Work Chair, and Nicolas Donin , Professor of Musicology at the University of Geneva. With the support of the Collège de France Foundation and … 22 May 2025 → 23 May 2025
Event Naoko Shimazu Japanese War Diaries from the Russo-Japanese War Guest lecturer Abstract The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 was the first modern warfare of the twentieth century. Japan won the war against Russia which had the largest land army in the world at the time. In this lecture, we focus on the personal war diaries of Japanese … 5 Jun 2025 14:30 - 15:30
Event Egas Bender de Moniz Bandeira Assimilation or integration? The representation of Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang in the parliaments of the Qing Empire and the Republic of China Guest lecturer Xinjiang ziyiju, the "provincial assembly" of Xinjiang at Ürümchi Abstract In this presentation, I will examine the representation of Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang in the parliaments of early twentieth-century China, particularly in the Political … 26 Jun 2025 11:00 - 12:00
Series Quantum gravity and the Wheeler-DeWitt equation Marc Henneaux, chair Fields, Strings and Gravity Seminar Reconciling the principles of quantum mechanics with Einsteinian gravitation is one of the major challenges of modern physics. The Wheeler-DeWitt equation, introduced in the late 1960s, plays a central role in the canonical approach to the problem of … 21 May 2025 → 18 Jun 2025
Event Naama Friedmann How Can Linguistic Theory Help Neurosurgeons: Language Assessment in Tumor-Removal Surgery for the Preservation of Patients' Language Guest lecturer Naama Friedmann has been invited by the assembly of the Collège de France, at the suggestion of Professors Stanislas Dehaene, Experimental Cognitive Psychology Chair , and Luigi Rizzi, General Linguistics Chair . She will give a series of four lectures in … 27 May 2025 17:30 - 19:00
Series Faced with immigration, the scientist and the politician François Héran, chair Migrations and Societies Closing lecture 15 May 2025
Event Adam Ledgeway Linguistic theory and variation : the experimental field of Romance languages and dialects Seminar Abstract In this talk, I will explore how the diachronic and synchronic variation documented by Romance languages, and in particular by their dialectal varieties, offers us an unparalleled harvest of linguistic data (often of a typologically exotic … 6 Jun 2025 11:30 - 13:00
Event Naoko Shimazu Symbolic Diplomacy: Tojo and the 1943 Tokyo Conference Guest lecturer Abstract The Greater East Asia Conference was held on 5 and 6 November 1943 in Tokyo, under the chairmanship of Prime Minister General Tōjō Hideki. Variously known as the Tokyo Conference, the Greater East Asia Congress, or the Assembly of East Asiatic … 26 Jun 2025 14:30 - 15:30
Event Luigi Rizzi Syntactic calculation and locality principles Lecture Abstract While linguistic representations are unlimited, some fundamental structural relations are local : they must be satisfied within a very limited portion of structure. For example, grammatical agreement phenomena must typically be satisfied … 6 Jun 2025 10:00 - 11:30
Event Frédérique Ildefonse On the daimōn that is said to be personal Symposium Abstract Should we say personal the daimōn of each because a distinct daimōn is assigned to each ? The expression οἰκεῖος δαίμων exists, but it is late. And how does the idea of a daimōn assigned to each person, or chosen by each person, if we take into … 6 Jun 2025 09:30 - 10:30
Event Jan van Hest Polymer-based artificial cells Symposium Abstract Compartmentalization is generally regarded as one of the key prerequisites for life. To better understand its role, there is a clear need for model systems in which life-like properties can be installed. In this lecture I will discuss a synthetic … 6 Jun 2025 09:10 - 09:45
Event Owen O’Donnell An Economist's Perspective on What We Know, Can Know and Need to Know About the Causes of Health Inequality Symposium Session 1: Explaining health inequalities in economics and sociology Discussion: Cyrille Delpierre (Inserm) Résumé Socioeconomic health inequality is substantial, ubiquitous and persistent. From an economics perspective, I review what is known about its … 26 Jun 2025 10:00 - 11:00
Event Janet Shim Sociological Tools for Understanding the Social Production of Health Inequalities Symposium Session 1: Explaining health inequalities in economics and sociology Discussion: Cyrille Delpierre (Inserm) Abstract This presentation will cover some commonly used theoretical concepts and frameworks used in the sociology of health and illness, to … 26 Jun 2025 11:00 - 12:00
Event Muriel Darmon What can a socialization approach bring to the study of health inequalities? Symposium Session 2: Capturing the incorporation of the social: socialization (sociology) and embodiment (social epidemiology) Discussion: Anne McMunn (University College London) Abstract Socialization can be defined as the way in which society shapes and … 26 Jun 2025 13:30 - 14:30
Event Michelle Kelly-Irving Socio-Structural Processes Underlying the Production of Health Inequalities over the Life Course: Theoretical Tools and Empirical Evidence Symposium Session 2: Capturing the incorporation of the social: socialization (sociology) and embodiment (social epidemiology) Discussion: Anne McMunn (University College London) Abstract Understanding how structural, social and psychosocial factors come to affect … 26 Jun 2025 14:30 - 15:30
Event Greta Bauer A New Framework for Understanding Social Privilege and Health Symposium Session 3: Questioning the social structuring of health inequalities in anthropology and epidemiology Discussion: Pierre-Yves Geoffard (CNRS) Abstract While health research has increasingly included a role for stigma and discrimination in impacting … 26 Jun 2025 16:00 - 17:00
Event Panagiota Sarischouli Graeco-Egyptian voces magicae: Historicizing a Cross-Cultural Phenomenon Guest lecturer Panagiota Sarischouli is invited by Prof. Jean-Luc Fournet, Chair of Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology . Abstract Although the phenomenon of voces magicae is most often associated with Roman and Late Antique Egypt, the use of … 4 Jun 2025 14:00 - 15:00
Event Seth Holmes Enviro-Anthropo-Genesis: The Co-production and Destruction of Bodies of People, Land and Water Symposium Session 3: Questioning the social structuring of health inequalities in anthropology and epidemiology Discussion: Pierre-Yves Geoffard (CNRS) Abstract Enviro-Anthropo-Genesis proposes a new way to understand the simultaneous co-production of environments … 26 Jun 2025 17:00 - 18:00
