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Abstract Global technology giants (Big Tech) are involved, in various ways, in the creation of legal rules or rules with similar characteristics. In addition to influencing the content of technical norms and standards, they themselves adopt rules of …
11:00 to 12:00

Marc Fleurbaey

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Résumé La recherche d’un avenir durable ne repose pas seulement sur l’analyse des scénarios possibles, mais aussi sur une réflexion normative permettant d’évaluer l’état de la société et de la planète. Une telle « boussole » éthique est indispensable pour …
18:00 to 19:00
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Introduction This year’s course by Jean-Luc Fournet is devoted to one of the figures of Late Antiquity in Egypt, the philosopher and grammarian Horapollo ( 5 th century), under whose name a treatise on hieroglyphs has come down to us. Why would a Greek …
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Abstract Metagenomics has opened up an entirely new perspective on life. It reveals that microorganisms colonize every environment on the planet and that the diversity studied in the laboratory represents only a tiny fraction of the total. The number of …
14:00 to 15:30
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Introduction This course will discuss osmosis and osmotic phenomena in their various forms. Osmosis is the prototypical example of so-called entropic forces. It is a universal phenomenon, simple in form yet sometimes abstruse in its underlying principles. …
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10:30 to 12:00
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Execrable Human Traffick, or The Affectionate Slaves , oil on canvas by George Morland, c. 1788. Public domain. Colloquium organized in partnership with the BnF as part of the postdoctoral contract co-funded by the Collège de France and the Bibliothèque …
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Le PIB est devenu le symbole d'une vision du progrès centrée sur la croissance économique. Pourtant, les économistes ont montré qu'il ne constitue un bon indicateur du bien-être social que sous des hypothèses très restrictives. Il ignore notamment les …
10:00 to 11:00
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09:30 to 11:00