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Armand de Ricqlès' research focuses on the history of life, the mechanisms underlying this history and the successive interpretations that have been made of it. He is the bearer of a revolutionary, little-used theory that overturns classical thinking …
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Collège de France - USIAS - IGBMC Organized by Jean-Louis Mandel, Professor of Human Genetics at the Collège de France. Download program May 13, 2016 from 8:45 a.m. to 7:30 p.m IGBMC Auditorium Illkirch, Strasbourg Jean-Louis Mandel, chair Human …
Published on 9 May 2016
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Alain Mabanckou Lettres noires : from darkness to light " For centuries, Africa was seen, imagined and fantasized by Europeans as a savage, dark continent, the raw material for tales of adventure and exploration, tinged with exoticism, yet with only one …
Published on 26 April 2016
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Thomas Sterner Environmental policy instruments " The development of the global economy is coming up against multiple, intertwined planetary limits: global warming, loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification, depletion of natural resources, and so on. …
Published on 26 April 2016
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Round table discussion with Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine Dr Harold Varmus With the participation of Professors Philippe Aghion, Hugues de Thé, Marc Fontecave, Pierre-Michel Menger and Marie-Hélène Verlhac. Moderator: Alain Prochiantz, …
Published on 18 April 2016
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Language matters to us in philosophy because reality matters to us. If, as we say in Recherches philosophiques , in philosophy we must guard against the constant temptation to predicate of the thing what resides in the mode of representation, it is …
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Press kit (extract) " Since 2005, the Artistic Creation Chair at the Collège de France has welcomed creative artists from all fields: architecture, visual arts, music, theater... Alain Mabanckou is the first writer to occupy this chair. With this …
Published on 11 March 2016
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Alain Supiot Beyond employment What future for labor law in a profoundly changing economy and society? In 1999, Alain Supiot presided over the drafting of a report commissioned by the European Commission on "the transformation of work and the future of …
Published on 10 March 2016
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Jean-Pol Tassin, Thérèse Jay, Michael Zugaro The brain is our body's most mysterious and complex organ, a highly "plastic" organ, capable of adapting to the environment and managing multiple functions. Because of its complexity, it conceals many secrets …
Published on 2 March 2016
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As part of her seminar entitled " super-massive black holes, active cores and quasars ", Françoise Combes, Chair of " Galaxies and Cosmology ", welcomed Jean-Pierre Luminet from the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille. Here are the questions they …
Published on 16 February 2016
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Chair of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases The intestinal microbiota: after "metagenomics", "experimentomics" Specialized conference Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 3pm Institut Pasteur de Tunis Microbes and people, an (almost) perfect symbiosis …
Published on 27 January 2016
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Summary Russian history has too often fallen victim to contradictory biases and Western viewpoints, rather than being taken for what it is. François-Xavier Coquin prefers to speak of the " Russian world " rather than Russia, because Russia, incorporated …
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Photo (from left to right): Alain Prochiantz (Administrator of the Collège de France) & Jean-François Bach (Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Sciences) Eight leading scientists from the Académie des Sciences and the Collège de France, including …
Published on 12 January 2016
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The second day of the "Avec Roland Barthes" symposium had to be cancelled on November 14, 2015 , in the wake of the Paris and Saint-Denis attacks. The organizers, Antoine Compagnon, Éric Marty and Philippe Roger, have decided to reschedule the day as soon …
Published on 11 January 2016
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Abstract In the Mediterranean and Near Eastern world, the transition from monetary instruments to coins took place around 600 BC. By " monetary instrument ", we mean any object that could have been used to measure the value of goods and enable exchanges : …
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