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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 …

Abstract I will discuss the canonical quantization of quantum cosmology on toroidal universes. The wavefunctions are automorphic forms, and the Wheeler-DeWitt equation reduces to a dynamical equation on moduli space, so quantum cosmology can be viewed as …

Abstract Quantum gases in optical cavities have shown many exciting phenomena such as the self-organization into superradiant phases. Additionally many complex phases have been predicted to be realizable in these systems reaching from topologically …

Pastoral landscape, Giuseppe Zais, Italy Veneto Venice. Louvre Museum. Project under the direction of : Patrick Boucheron, History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th to 16th century chair and François-Xavier Fauvelle, History and Archaeology of African …

Abstract Sexual and gender minorities are often studied from a health perspective. Their sexual health, in particular, is a central concern. However, the scope and nature of these health issues largely depend on how we define and circumscribe these …

Documents and media Download support Abstract The new 2023 survey "Contexte des sexualités en France" shows that sexual activity continues to diversify, particularly among women, whether we consider the number of sexual partners, same-sex relationships or …

Abstract This first lecture will trace the evolution of knowledge on the relationship between the immune and nervous systems. From an initial vision of two isolated systems to the recognition of their dynamic interconnections, it will present the major …

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Abstract Non-native marine species are both witnesses to, and players in, a rapidly changing world. Their establishment in new environments raises a paradox : how do they manage to settle permanently in habitats where they have not evolved ? Yet this …

Abstract Whether you love them or hate them, cats leave no one indifferent. The same is true of biological invasions, as this species is invasive on numerous islands and several continents, and is often described as one of the worst invasive alien …

Abstract What a strange thing it is to have as a profession that of acting ! While theater addresses a collective body, present here and now, in a form that will never be reproduced identically, cinema seeks to create the intimate, reproduced and diffused …

Abstract In geology, archaeology and epigraphy, reconstructing the past begins with the present. In this first conference, we will focus on data and methods for reconstructing ancient Mesopotamian environments, using geology, paleoclimatology, site and …

Liam Murphy is invited by the assembly of the Collège de France, on the proposal of Pr   Samantha Besson. As part of the agreement signed between Collège de France and New York University. Frontispiece to Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651). Public domain. …

Abstract Language acquisition is a concerted action of innate language acquisition mechanisms that are neurologically wired, and of language input. Language input has to arrive during a time window called "the critical period for first language …

Abstract Certain properties are systematically observed across all languages   : the unlimited nature of structures, hierarchical organization, displacement and so on. A central aim of General Linguistics is to list these universal properties precisely, …