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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 …
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In 1530, François   I founded the Collège des lecteurs royaux, now the Collège de France, to provide the nation with the knowledge it needed. One hundred and   fifty years later, in 1680, Louis  XIV founded the Comédie-Française, entrusting it with the …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Funerary stele (bas-relief), 4th century B.C. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, U.S.A. Sophia Aneziri is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge. Sophia Aneziri Presentation Foundations have been …
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On human nature, or how to reconcile Philosophy of nature and Philosophy of the intellect À travers champs (lithograph) …
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On human nature, or how to reconcile Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of the Intellect À travers champs (lithograph) …
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ASMi, MMD arrotolate, 0035, Corso del Po con alluvioni presso Sannazzaro, 1623. Abstract Environmental humanities are a new research horizon for the social sciences as a whole, since the beginning of the 21st century and with increasing intensity over the …
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Abstract Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge's book " consciously leaves out the uses of the term in the works of Greek philosophers, be they poets or presocratics ". Taking up her invitation to bring philosophy into the dance, this paper would like to discuss this …
12:00 to 13:00
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Abstract Do daimones , as conceived in ancient Greek polytheism, provide solutions to philosophical problems, for gods and men alike ? In her latest book, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge shows that Greek thinkers (from Homer to the end of the classical period) …
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Abstract I propose to examine the figure of the daimōn as it appears in the myth of Er (Plato, Republic X, 617e, 620d-e), by relating it to the literary tradition prior to Plato, in particular lyric poetry (in Theognis and Pindar) and tragedy, notably in …
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Abstract There are three occurrences of the word daimôn in the corpus of Empedocles' verses at our disposal. Fr. 59.1 DK offers two occurrences in the singular. Fr. 115.5 has one occurrence in the plural. Moreover, the context in which some of Empedocles' …
14:30 to 15:30
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Abstract Based on the dossier of texts that Marcel Detienne proposed as an appendix to his classic study of Pythagorean demonology (1959/1963), we will attempt to identify the relationship between the various accounts of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans of …
12:00 to 13:00
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Abstract What are we to make of tradition's attribution to Thales of the doctrine that everything is animate and " full of gods " ( δαιμόνων πλῆρες, Aetius I 7, 11) ? To follow the proposals presented by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge in her work on the notion …
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Xinjiang ziyiju, the "provincial assembly" of Xinjiang at Ürümchi Abstract In this presentation, I will examine the representation of Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang in the parliaments of early twentieth-century China, particularly in the Political …
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Abstract Diagrammatic Monte Carlo (DiagMC) is a versatile numerical technique capable of solving strongly correlated fermion systems in a controlled and accurate way. The core idea behind the technique is to sum all connected Feynman diagrams in a …
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Abstract The real-time dynamics of interacting quantum systems remains a major challenge in computational quantum physics. Surprisingly, high-order perturbative expansions have recently emerged as a promising approach to address this question, even in …
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Abstract In this seminar, I will introduce the diagrammatic Monte Carlo method and discuss its application to the two-dimensional Hubbard model at finite temperature. The results obtained through this approach are controlled and, importantly, address the …
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