Share Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Copy url Search results Search 27986 results Filters Content type Content type Lessons (23936) News (1690) People (1356) Chair (359) Editions (356) Page (230) Research (27) Library (14) Annual Chair (12) Award (6) Series In search of an Avenir Commun Durable Avenir Commun Durable Special events Like an ecosystem, knowledge is never an immutable, balanced sum of knowledge. It is constantly changing, nourished by research, its advances and its contradictions. This is all the more true in the face of contemporary challenges, where scientific … 04 Feb 2025 → 12 Jun 2025 Event Jean-Pierre Changeux Boulez and neuroscience: from birdsong to artificial intelligence Symposium 22 May 2025 12:00 to 12:45 Event Jonathan Goldman Boulézian discourse on musical creation around 1980 Symposium Abstract Pierre Boulez has written and spoken surprisingly little about composers active in the second half of the twentieth century. A prolific author and passionate commentator on composers such as Webern, Schoenberg and Debussy, whom he integrated into … 22 May 2025 11:15 to 12:00 Event Edward Campbell What Boulez's Collège de France lectures tell us about Musical Material Symposium Abstract The topic of musical material features prominently throughout Boulez's College de France lectures, and in this paper I set out to establish some of the principal elements of its elaboration. Boulez spoke of the dissatisfaction experienced by … 22 May 2025 10:15 to 11:00 Event Jean-Jacques Nattiez Boulez the writer Symposium Abstract Pierre Boulez was not only the composer of thirty-three works (and their revisions), but also the author of books of various kinds: compositional techniques, interviews, correspondence and three volumes containing one hundred and fifty articles … 22 May 2025 09:30 to 10:15 Event Edith Heard, Claire Rougeulle Introduction Symposium 10 Jun 2025 08:55 to 09:00 Event Giovanni Prete Their children after them: pediatric victims, sentinels of inequalities in exposure to industrial contamination Seminar Abstract Medical research has revealed an increase in pediatric cancers in many countries. While some suggest that this increase is linked to improved monitoring of children and diagnosis of their state of health, others point to major changes in the … 10 Jun 2025 11:15 to 12:15 Event Nathalie Bajos Health and environment: occupational hazards Lecture Documents and media Download support Abstract Work-related accidents are a major public health issue, affecting mainly low-skilled workers. Their scale remains underestimated, despite the fact that working conditions are becoming increasingly precarious. … 10 Jun 2025 10:00 to 11:00 Series Human genomics Lluis Quintana-Murci, chair Human Genomics and Evolution Seminar 07 Mar 2025 → 04 Apr 2025 Series Innate or acquired ? The impact of genetics on biodiversity and disease Lluis Quintana-Murci, chair Human Genomics and Evolution Lecture The lecture 2024-2025 by Prof. Lluis Quintana-Murci aims to illustrate how studies in human genetics shed light on how genetic diversity, as well as the interactions between genetics and the environment, shape our biological diversity, whether simply … 07 Mar 2025 → 04 Apr 2025 Series International regional law Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions Seminar Echoing the title of this year's lecture , the title of the seminar is a double-entry : it will deal both with the international law that regions help to adopt, interpret and/or apply (e.g. regional customs and exceptions), and with the international law … 06 Mar 2025 → 11 Apr 2025 Event Hourig Sourouzian Egyptian statuary in temples Guest lecturer Abstract Divine and royal statuary is an integral part of the Egyptian temple. The temples we visit today may have kept their walls, and sometimes even their ceilings, but most of them are almost completely emptied of their rich furnishings, which … 14 May 2025 17:00 to 18:00 Series International regional law Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions Lecture O caput elleboro dignum (The World in a Madman's Head), 1590. Taking note of the numerous processes of regionalization of international law and, since the end of the Cold War, of their generalization and deepening, and in particular of the multiplication … 06 Mar 2025 → 10 Apr 2025 Series Photochemical activation Louis Fensterbank, chair Activations in Molecular Chemistry Seminar 05 Mar 2025 → 09 Apr 2025 Series Photochemical activation Louis Fensterbank, chair Activations in Molecular Chemistry Lecture Photochemistry is a branch of chemistry that studies light-induced chemical reactions. It plays an increasingly important role in organic synthesis, offering alternative and often gentler routes to chemical bond formation, echoing Giacomo Ciamician's 1912 … 05 Mar 2025 → 09 Apr 2025 Event Didier Fassin The birth of a question Lecture 6 May 2025 15:15 to 16:15 Series Human nature Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Seminar On human nature, or how to reconcile Philosophy of nature and Philosophy of the intellect À travers champs (lithograph) … 04 Mar 2025 → 08 Apr 2025 Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Tragic sacrifices (2) Lecture Abstract After an incursion into tragedies that evoke human sacrifice, animal sacrifice is analyzed in three tragedies: Aeschylus' Agamemnon , Euripides' Electra and Sophocles' Antigone . The Agamemnon , in which the human sacrifice of Iphigenia is … 30 Apr 2025 11:00 to 12:00 Series Human nature Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Lecture On human nature, or how to reconcile Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of the Intellect À travers champs (lithograph) … 04 Mar 2025 → 08 Apr 2025 Event Cyril Letrouit Reconciliation of variance inequalities Guest lecturer 28 May 2025 10:00 to 12:00 Event Mark Bowick Facets of Order Guest lecturer Abstract Sharp structures can occur as minimizers of very regular problems. This means symmetry can lead us badly astray and the resultant symmetry breaking may lead to highly counter-intuitive structures. I will illustrate in a discrete example and then … 12 May 2025 14:00 to 15:00 Event Hervé Reculeau Hydraulics and societies : water control in Mesopotamia and its social implications Guest lecturer Abstract The control of irrigation by a bureaucratic apparatus linked to religious and/or state power is at the heart of social theories that have marked the history of ideas over the last one hundred and fifty years. Although largely discredited, they … 12 May 2025 11:00 to 12:00 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 to 13:00 Event Stéphane Mallat Introduction Special events 5 May 2025 09:00 to 09:10 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 118 Page 119 Page 120 Page 121 Page 122 Page 123 Page 124 Page 125 Page 126 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Series In search of an Avenir Commun Durable Avenir Commun Durable Special events Like an ecosystem, knowledge is never an immutable, balanced sum of knowledge. It is constantly changing, nourished by research, its advances and its contradictions. This is all the more true in the face of contemporary challenges, where scientific … 04 Feb 2025 → 12 Jun 2025
Event Jean-Pierre Changeux Boulez and neuroscience: from birdsong to artificial intelligence Symposium 22 May 2025 12:00 to 12:45
Event Jonathan Goldman Boulézian discourse on musical creation around 1980 Symposium Abstract Pierre Boulez has written and spoken surprisingly little about composers active in the second half of the twentieth century. A prolific author and passionate commentator on composers such as Webern, Schoenberg and Debussy, whom he integrated into … 22 May 2025 11:15 to 12:00
Event Edward Campbell What Boulez's Collège de France lectures tell us about Musical Material Symposium Abstract The topic of musical material features prominently throughout Boulez's College de France lectures, and in this paper I set out to establish some of the principal elements of its elaboration. Boulez spoke of the dissatisfaction experienced by … 22 May 2025 10:15 to 11:00
Event Jean-Jacques Nattiez Boulez the writer Symposium Abstract Pierre Boulez was not only the composer of thirty-three works (and their revisions), but also the author of books of various kinds: compositional techniques, interviews, correspondence and three volumes containing one hundred and fifty articles … 22 May 2025 09:30 to 10:15
Event Giovanni Prete Their children after them: pediatric victims, sentinels of inequalities in exposure to industrial contamination Seminar Abstract Medical research has revealed an increase in pediatric cancers in many countries. While some suggest that this increase is linked to improved monitoring of children and diagnosis of their state of health, others point to major changes in the … 10 Jun 2025 11:15 to 12:15
Event Nathalie Bajos Health and environment: occupational hazards Lecture Documents and media Download support Abstract Work-related accidents are a major public health issue, affecting mainly low-skilled workers. Their scale remains underestimated, despite the fact that working conditions are becoming increasingly precarious. … 10 Jun 2025 10:00 to 11:00
Series Human genomics Lluis Quintana-Murci, chair Human Genomics and Evolution Seminar 07 Mar 2025 → 04 Apr 2025
Series Innate or acquired ? The impact of genetics on biodiversity and disease Lluis Quintana-Murci, chair Human Genomics and Evolution Lecture The lecture 2024-2025 by Prof. Lluis Quintana-Murci aims to illustrate how studies in human genetics shed light on how genetic diversity, as well as the interactions between genetics and the environment, shape our biological diversity, whether simply … 07 Mar 2025 → 04 Apr 2025
Series International regional law Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions Seminar Echoing the title of this year's lecture , the title of the seminar is a double-entry : it will deal both with the international law that regions help to adopt, interpret and/or apply (e.g. regional customs and exceptions), and with the international law … 06 Mar 2025 → 11 Apr 2025
Event Hourig Sourouzian Egyptian statuary in temples Guest lecturer Abstract Divine and royal statuary is an integral part of the Egyptian temple. The temples we visit today may have kept their walls, and sometimes even their ceilings, but most of them are almost completely emptied of their rich furnishings, which … 14 May 2025 17:00 to 18:00
Series International regional law Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions Lecture O caput elleboro dignum (The World in a Madman's Head), 1590. Taking note of the numerous processes of regionalization of international law and, since the end of the Cold War, of their generalization and deepening, and in particular of the multiplication … 06 Mar 2025 → 10 Apr 2025
Series Photochemical activation Louis Fensterbank, chair Activations in Molecular Chemistry Seminar 05 Mar 2025 → 09 Apr 2025
Series Photochemical activation Louis Fensterbank, chair Activations in Molecular Chemistry Lecture Photochemistry is a branch of chemistry that studies light-induced chemical reactions. It plays an increasingly important role in organic synthesis, offering alternative and often gentler routes to chemical bond formation, echoing Giacomo Ciamician's 1912 … 05 Mar 2025 → 09 Apr 2025
Series Human nature Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Seminar On human nature, or how to reconcile Philosophy of nature and Philosophy of the intellect À travers champs (lithograph) … 04 Mar 2025 → 08 Apr 2025
Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Tragic sacrifices (2) Lecture Abstract After an incursion into tragedies that evoke human sacrifice, animal sacrifice is analyzed in three tragedies: Aeschylus' Agamemnon , Euripides' Electra and Sophocles' Antigone . The Agamemnon , in which the human sacrifice of Iphigenia is … 30 Apr 2025 11:00 to 12:00
Series Human nature Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Lecture On human nature, or how to reconcile Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of the Intellect À travers champs (lithograph) … 04 Mar 2025 → 08 Apr 2025
Event Cyril Letrouit Reconciliation of variance inequalities Guest lecturer 28 May 2025 10:00 to 12:00
Event Mark Bowick Facets of Order Guest lecturer Abstract Sharp structures can occur as minimizers of very regular problems. This means symmetry can lead us badly astray and the resultant symmetry breaking may lead to highly counter-intuitive structures. I will illustrate in a discrete example and then … 12 May 2025 14:00 to 15:00
Event Hervé Reculeau Hydraulics and societies : water control in Mesopotamia and its social implications Guest lecturer Abstract The control of irrigation by a bureaucratic apparatus linked to religious and/or state power is at the heart of social theories that have marked the history of ideas over the last one hundred and fifty years. Although largely discredited, they … 12 May 2025 11:00 to 12:00
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 to 13:00
