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Antoine Compagnon
Memory and recognition
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Abstract If the memory of literature can be described as a "kind of space", a palace or a landscape, a corollary is the representation of reading as a promenade. We walk in a book, following Montaigne's or Descartes' metaphor of thought as wandering. The …
16:30 to 17:30

Antoine Compagnon
Novel and landscape
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Abstract A novel is like an unknown city in which I wander. We become acquainted with literature, with a particular novel, as we walk along, as if we had arrived in a city by night. A good reader is one with a nose, like a hunting dog sniffing out clues …
17:30 to 18:30

Death of Christian Goudineau, archaeologist and Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France
Collège de France
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The administrator, the faculty assembly and the entire Collège de France community were deeply saddened to learn of the death of Christian Goudineau, Professor Emeritus and holder of the Chair of National Antiquities (1984-2010). They pay tribute to a …
Published on 11 May 2018

Gabriele Veneziano
Gauge theories on the network: an introduction
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09:45 to 10:45

Reiner Schaetzle
The Willmore Functional in Geometry and the Calculus of Variations
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11:15 to 12:15

Pierre-Louis Lions
Medium-field games (continued) (5)
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09:00 to 10:00

Luciano Canfora
The image of Cicero in 19th-century Germany

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17:00 to 18:00

Eliezer Rabinovici
Phases of network gauge theories (1)
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11:00 to 12:00

Henry Laurens
Political autobiography in the Arab world (1)
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11:30 to 12:30

Henry Laurens
The Palestine question from the October 1973 war onwards (1)
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15:00 to 16:00

Antoine Compagnon
Memory and space
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Abstract Far removed from Proust's memory seems to be artificial memory, the architectural memory of Antiquity and the memory theater of the Renaissance, examined in Frances Yates' great book, The Art of Memory (1966). Yet doesn't Proust, surrounded in …
16:30 to 17:30

Encounter with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus
Alain Prochiantz, chair Morphogenetic processes
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On May 18, Prof. Alain Prochiantz's Morphogenetic Processes Chair is organizing a meeting to celebrate the bicentenary of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus . "Two hundred years ago, Mary Shelley's novel was published. From the …
Published on 9 May 2018

Stanislas Dehaene
Can brain imaging decode the content of thought ?
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The last part of the lecture examined the extent to which brain imaging techniques could shed direct light on cognitive psychology questions concerning the content, at a given moment, of the subject's mental state. Would it be possible, from a …
09:30 to 11:00

Alfonso Caramazza
Objects, Actions, Nouns and Verbs: The View from Cognitive Neuropsychology
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11:00 to 12:00

Eliezer Rabinovici
Black Holes, String Theory and Phases of Gravity (1)
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11:00 to 12:00

Jean Kellens
Out of sacrifice (1)
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09:30 to 10:30

Jean Kellens
Reading texts related to the course topic (1)
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11:00 to 12:00

Don Zagier
Topology, combinatorics and modular forms (continued) (7)
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16:15 to 17:15

Luciano Canfora
Cicero's reception in late antiquity and the Middle Ages
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17:00 to 18:00

Paolo Di Vecchia
More on QCD's effective action
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11:00 to 12:00

Antoine Compagnon
What is Literature for ?
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A Collège de France coproduction - CNED - Doriane Films Abstract Alongside the traditional theoretical or historical question : " What is literature ? ", today a critical and political question  is posed with greater urgency: " What can literature ? " …
18:00 to 19:00

Gabriele Veneziano
U(1) problem solution and effective action at large N
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09:45 to 10:45

Image of collections in Europe in the XVIIIᵉ century
Thomas Gaehtgens, chair European Chair (1989-2008)
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Pierre-Louis Lions
Medium-field games (continued) (3)
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09:00 to 10:00