Share Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Copy url Search results Search 28122 results Filters Content type Content type Lessons (24007) News (1735) People (1371) Chair (360) Editions (360) Page (230) Research (27) Library (14) Annual Chair (12) Award (6) Event Agnès Simon-Reecht The archives and the library : new avenues of research based on the BnF collection Symposium Abstract Pierre Boulez has a unique relationship with archives and libraries. The composer, who wanted to "burn libraries" and made them the site of the tension between memory and creation, was himself interested in the archives of others, and took care … 22 May 2025 15:15 to 16:00 Event Catherine Losada Spirals in the Harmonic and Formal Structure of Répons Symposium Abstract A landmark work, Pierre Boulez's Répons (1980-82) was written to showcase the technological potential of IRCAM, the Parisian Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music that Boulez founded in 1977. This piece, like many others, was … 22 May 2025 16:15 to 17:00 Event Alain Galliari Follow Boulez in his archives Symposium Abstract In 1986, Pierre Boulez signed a contract to donate his musical manuscripts to the Swiss conductor and patron Paul Sacher, a friend of many years. The collection was the cornerstone of the musical holdings that have since been preserved and … 22 May 2025 14:30 to 15:15 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 Series Climates and human societies for the past two thousand years Edouard Bard, chair Climate and Ocean Evolution Lecture A sunset by William Turner a few years after the eruption of the Tambora volcano. Current global warming must be placed in a broader temporal context in order to determine its singularity and distinguish the underlying causes, both natural and … 14 Feb 2025 → 07 Mar 2025 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 Anne Marchand Understanding the factors that make occupational cancers invisible Seminar Abstract With almost 430 000 new cases each year in France, the incidence of cancer is rising steadily ; it has doubled since the early 1990s. While much research focuses on so-called individual behaviours (smoking, alcohol consumption, diet, … 17 Jun 2025 11:15 to 12:15 Event Nathalie Bajos Health and work: recognition of occupational diseases Lecture Documents and media Download support Abstract Occupational illnesses are under-reported and under-recognized in France, as in other industrialized countries. They mainly affect people at the bottom of the social ladder and ethno-racial minorities. … 17 Jun 2025 10:00 to 11:00 Event Sonia Garel Sensory neurons and immune cells in the skin Lecture Abstract Using the skin as an example, this lecture will present the direct interactions between sensory neurons and immune cells, illustrating how these dialogues participate in inflammation and the regulation of local immunity. It will highlight the … 16 Jun 2025 16:30 to 18:00 Event Didier Fassin The birth of a question Lecture 6 May 2025 15:15 to 16:15 Series New school papyri (or other) (3) Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology Seminar One of the tablets from the Papnouthion schoolbook (MND 552.h, Musée du Louvre) This year's seminar will be divided between lectures on lectures (by disciplinary field, such as medicine or rhetoric, or through special cases such as Aurelius Papnouthion at … 13 Feb 2025 → 10 Apr 2025 Series The gods' share: Greece as a sacrificial culture Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, chair Religion, History and Society in the Ancient Greek World Lecture Fragmentary red-figured bell-shaped krater (Nola?). London, British Museum E 494. Face A : Sacrifice of Heracles to Chrysae. B : Satyr between two maenads. Date: circa 430 B.C. - London painter E 494. Beazley Archive Pottery Database 214501. For at … 13 Feb 2025 → 30 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 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 Event Guillaume Latombe The science of invasions and conservation Seminar Documents and media Download support in PDF format Download support in PPSX format (slideshow) Abstract Why conserve nature ? This question is far from simple. While the first nationwide conservation initiatives can be dated back to the 17th century, … 16 Jun 2025 11:15 to 12:15 Event Franck Courchamp Interspecific relationships and biological invasions: the surprise effect on a tropical island Lecture Abstract In many cases, biodiversity managers have learned the hard way that eliminating an invasive alien species can have unexpected, counter-intuitive and harmful chain effects. This surprise effect is difficult to study without taking great risks for … 16 Jun 2025 10:00 to 11:00 Series The calamus and the cross : the Christianization of writing and the fate of classical culture in Late Antiquity (6). Schools (3) Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology Lecture Page from a 6th/17th century Coptic schoolbook Last year's study of monastic schools brought us face to face with the increasingly important role played by Coptic (the Egyptian language of late Antiquity Egypt) within a pedagogical framework that was … 12 Feb 2025 → 09 Apr 2025 News The Quantum Workshop: artistic perspectives on the infinitely small Jean Dalibard, chair Atoms and Radiation Documents and media Download the press release Download poster Download the booklet Exceptional public closures November: the 4th, 5th (from 1 p.m.), 13th, 24th, 26th (until 3 p.m.), 27th (from 1 p.m.), and 28th December: the 1st, 2nd, 4th (from 1 p.m.), … Published on 10 September 2025 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 Stéphane Mallat Introduction Special events 5 May 2025 09:00 to 09:10 Event Myriam Cottias, Catherine Porter, Magali Bessone & Jhon Picard Byron Round table : Remembrance and reparations Symposium Round table moderated by Myriam Cottias, CNRS, CIRESC, with the participation of Catherine Porter, New York Times , Magali Bessone, Université Paris 1 … 14 Jun 2025 09:00 to 10:45 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 123 Page 124 Page 125 Page 126 Page 127 Page 128 Page 129 Page 130 Page 131 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Agnès Simon-Reecht The archives and the library : new avenues of research based on the BnF collection Symposium Abstract Pierre Boulez has a unique relationship with archives and libraries. The composer, who wanted to "burn libraries" and made them the site of the tension between memory and creation, was himself interested in the archives of others, and took care … 22 May 2025 15:15 to 16:00
Event Catherine Losada Spirals in the Harmonic and Formal Structure of Répons Symposium Abstract A landmark work, Pierre Boulez's Répons (1980-82) was written to showcase the technological potential of IRCAM, the Parisian Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music that Boulez founded in 1977. This piece, like many others, was … 22 May 2025 16:15 to 17:00
Event Alain Galliari Follow Boulez in his archives Symposium Abstract In 1986, Pierre Boulez signed a contract to donate his musical manuscripts to the Swiss conductor and patron Paul Sacher, a friend of many years. The collection was the cornerstone of the musical holdings that have since been preserved and … 22 May 2025 14:30 to 15:15
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
Series Climates and human societies for the past two thousand years Edouard Bard, chair Climate and Ocean Evolution Lecture A sunset by William Turner a few years after the eruption of the Tambora volcano. Current global warming must be placed in a broader temporal context in order to determine its singularity and distinguish the underlying causes, both natural and … 14 Feb 2025 → 07 Mar 2025
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 Anne Marchand Understanding the factors that make occupational cancers invisible Seminar Abstract With almost 430 000 new cases each year in France, the incidence of cancer is rising steadily ; it has doubled since the early 1990s. While much research focuses on so-called individual behaviours (smoking, alcohol consumption, diet, … 17 Jun 2025 11:15 to 12:15
Event Nathalie Bajos Health and work: recognition of occupational diseases Lecture Documents and media Download support Abstract Occupational illnesses are under-reported and under-recognized in France, as in other industrialized countries. They mainly affect people at the bottom of the social ladder and ethno-racial minorities. … 17 Jun 2025 10:00 to 11:00
Event Sonia Garel Sensory neurons and immune cells in the skin Lecture Abstract Using the skin as an example, this lecture will present the direct interactions between sensory neurons and immune cells, illustrating how these dialogues participate in inflammation and the regulation of local immunity. It will highlight the … 16 Jun 2025 16:30 to 18:00
Series New school papyri (or other) (3) Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology Seminar One of the tablets from the Papnouthion schoolbook (MND 552.h, Musée du Louvre) This year's seminar will be divided between lectures on lectures (by disciplinary field, such as medicine or rhetoric, or through special cases such as Aurelius Papnouthion at … 13 Feb 2025 → 10 Apr 2025
Series The gods' share: Greece as a sacrificial culture Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, chair Religion, History and Society in the Ancient Greek World Lecture Fragmentary red-figured bell-shaped krater (Nola?). London, British Museum E 494. Face A : Sacrifice of Heracles to Chrysae. B : Satyr between two maenads. Date: circa 430 B.C. - London painter E 494. Beazley Archive Pottery Database 214501. For at … 13 Feb 2025 → 30 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
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
Event Guillaume Latombe The science of invasions and conservation Seminar Documents and media Download support in PDF format Download support in PPSX format (slideshow) Abstract Why conserve nature ? This question is far from simple. While the first nationwide conservation initiatives can be dated back to the 17th century, … 16 Jun 2025 11:15 to 12:15
Event Franck Courchamp Interspecific relationships and biological invasions: the surprise effect on a tropical island Lecture Abstract In many cases, biodiversity managers have learned the hard way that eliminating an invasive alien species can have unexpected, counter-intuitive and harmful chain effects. This surprise effect is difficult to study without taking great risks for … 16 Jun 2025 10:00 to 11:00
Series The calamus and the cross : the Christianization of writing and the fate of classical culture in Late Antiquity (6). Schools (3) Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology Lecture Page from a 6th/17th century Coptic schoolbook Last year's study of monastic schools brought us face to face with the increasingly important role played by Coptic (the Egyptian language of late Antiquity Egypt) within a pedagogical framework that was … 12 Feb 2025 → 09 Apr 2025
News The Quantum Workshop: artistic perspectives on the infinitely small Jean Dalibard, chair Atoms and Radiation Documents and media Download the press release Download poster Download the booklet Exceptional public closures November: the 4th, 5th (from 1 p.m.), 13th, 24th, 26th (until 3 p.m.), 27th (from 1 p.m.), and 28th December: the 1st, 2nd, 4th (from 1 p.m.), … Published on 10 September 2025
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 Myriam Cottias, Catherine Porter, Magali Bessone & Jhon Picard Byron Round table : Remembrance and reparations Symposium Round table moderated by Myriam Cottias, CNRS, CIRESC, with the participation of Catherine Porter, New York Times , Magali Bessone, Université Paris 1 … 14 Jun 2025 09:00 to 10:45
