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Electronic version of his opening lecture, delivered on November 30, 2006. Free access. Alongside the traditional theoretical or historical question: "What is literature?", a critical and political question arises with greater urgency today: "What can …
Published on 25 October 2013
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Electronic version of his opening lecture, delivered on December 13, 2001. Free access. From the infinitely small to the infinitely large, covering more than sixty orders of magnitude of spatial dimension, quantum theory is invoked, both to describe the …
Published on 25 October 2013
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Electronic version of his opening lecture, delivered on January 16, 1976. Free access. The brain is a machine that processes information, records it and gives orders like a computer. All its functions, however noble, result exclusively from the assembly …
Published on 25 October 2013
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Abstract The brain is a machine that processes information, records it and gives orders like a computer. All its functions, however noble, result exclusively from the assembly of cellular elements, their interactions and the signals received from the …
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Chair in Artistic creation (2013-2014) A major figure in contemporary sculpture, Tony Cragg will give his opening lecture on Thursday, October 24 at 6 pm. Admission free, no registration required, subject to availability. Thursday, October 24 at 6 p.m …
Published on 14 October 2013
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Tony Cragg : Recent works September 14, 2013 to January 5, 2014 Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne métropole Rue Fernand Léger 42270 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez Tony Cragg offers a selection of works from his most recent years of production: unique wood …
Published on 14 October 2013
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Abstract It is above all as a historian, concerned with the concrete data of the evolution of Chinese society, that I intend to approach the history of ideas, conceptions and intellectual currents in China. The time has passed when Chinese history was …
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The Collège de France lectures are part of the 2013-2014 "Sciences en question" program organized by the Institut français de Tunisie. They will be followed by debates and broadcast by videoconference to various university sites outside Tunis. Free …
Published on 27 September 2013
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John Scheid Religion, Institutions and Society in Ancient Rome " By opposing sectarian discourse with the universal weapons of history, philology and anthropology - in short, the whole arsenal of science and reason - the history of past religions puts us …
Published on 25 September 2013
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In the West of the 16th-18th   centuries, what were the reciprocal relationships between the religious behavior of a community recognized as significant, its mental tools, its conceptual grid, its scale of values, and its type of emotionality  ? The aim …
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Michel Zink Literatures of medieval France " Medieval letters crystallize all the associations between the past and literature, all the indications that an essential link unites the notion of literature with a feeling for the past. The curiosity aroused …
Published on 12 September 2013
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GMOs, shale gas, nuclear energy, climate change, stem cell research, drug efficacy: there is a long list of issues on which scientists have ceased to have a clear voice in our societies. First and foremost, there are uncertainties and controversies within …
Published on 10 September 2013
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On the "Autour de la question" program "From Monday to Thursday, from 4.10pm to 5pm (Paris time), from August 12 to 29, 2013, Caroline Lachowsky and the "Autour de la question" program team invite all audiences to spend the summer at the Collège de …
Published on 16 August 2013
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Abstract The molecular revolution in biology is fourfold  : the chemical identification of hereditary material as polymerized nucleic acid, the elucidation of the structures of biological macromolecules, the proof that the structure and biosynthesis of …
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Documents and media Download the full text of the opening lecture …
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Abstract The subject of the lecture I'd like to present this year at the Collège de France is the economy-society, or rather the traditional eco-demography of a world that has now disappeared, as it " functioned ", so to speak, from the 14th to the 18th …
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Abstract When physicists began to explore the world of the atom more closely, in an attempt to understand its structure and the laws governing its behavior, they soon ran into serious difficulties. Our intuitive concepts, based on our everyday experience …
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The Collège de France and the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori of Pavia invite you to the Presentation of two volumes published by the Centro di Studi e Ricerche sui Diritti Antichi (CEDANT) on Friday September 13th, at 5.30pm, at the Collège de …
Published on 29 July 2013
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Colloquium, September 12-14, 2013 in Samarkand, co-organized by Prof. Frantz Grenet as part of the labex TransferS, partner of the Collège de France. Until recently, theoretical reflection on cultural transfers rarely went beyond the framework constituted …
Published on 24 July 2013
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mPI-CEC Mülheim CEA article " For the first time, a research team from the CEA [1] , Collège de France, CNRS and Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, has developed a novel and effective process for activating in vitro an enzyme, hydrogenase, present in …
Published on 28 June 2013
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Program What remains of our loves? - Michel Zink Lecture at 5:00 pm, in the auditorium of the Bâtiment Le France, 190, avenue de France, 75013 Paris Chanter m'estuet Concert at 6:00 pm Songs of the troubadours and trouvères Ensemble Alla francesca …
Published on 20 June 2013