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Abstract After the first divine speech to Joshua, the conquest is "delayed" by the visits of two spies to a Canaanite prostitute. This story reflects the link between war and prostitution. But Rahab's story also introduces a dose of subversion, as this …

Abstract In addition to the sacrifices offered in Pylos by Nestor and the feasting of the suitors, the Odyssey also features more modest meals, such as the one offered by the pig keeper Eumaeus to his master, whom he has not yet recognized (Canto XIV). …

Abstract The talk on March 6   2025 aims to tackle one of the major contemporary challenges  : the democratic challenge. Whereas just fifteen years ago, it was thought that the democratic "   model   " was, if not established everywhere, at least desired …

Abstract In the inter-war period, the universalist legacy of the Enlightenment was not confined to the colonialist discourse advocating Europe' s civilizing mission . It was used in other ways, from a European perspective, to defend democracy, oppose …

Elizabeth Spelke Elizabeth Spelke is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and has been a member of the Conseil Scientifique de l'Éducation Nationale since January   2018 . Her research focuses on the development of the …

Abstract The third lecture will discuss the Erdös-Ginzburg-Ziv Problem in discrete geometry, and show how (at least in high dimension) it can be reformulated as a problem in F_p^n. Specifically, this leads to the question of asking about the maximum …

Abstract Unlike the book, the letter implies a particular situation of writing and enunciation, as well as circumstances of reading: as soon as the envelope is opened, the recipient is transformed into a reader, the text into an event and its message into …

Abstract Poussin's painting Les Bergers d'Arcadie does not require us to choose between contradictory interpretations: they are all valid in the same way as optical illusions whose interpretation and referent change depending on whether we structure the …

Abstract The oracle was expressed in the form of an enigma. It fell to a wise man to decipher it and make the encrypted message apparent. If history is the art of looking at the enigmas of the past and grasping their nature as much as the reasons that …

Philippe Portier: "States and religions in Europe: the weight of history" Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez: "The scope and limits of secularism in effective …

Abstract Since Régine Pernoud and Georges Duby, a tradition, whose influence extends beyond the historiographical framework, locates in the second half of the 12th   century, at the time of Hildegarde de Bingen and Eleanor of Aquitaine, a lost paradise of …

Abstract Writing as an underground temple where we crawl to consult an oracle in the darkness of the cave, the place of pre-writing. Become the pythia who enunciates an enigma to be submitted to the soothsayer who will decipher it. Past, present and …

Abstract From biocatalysts such as enzymes, to therapeutic targets and drugs such as membrane proteins and antibodies, various classes of proteins are manipulated outside their natural context. Stabilizing them is often a challenge. We will illustrate how …

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