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Abstract Today, the witch is a contemporary myth, far removed from the historical experience of the men and women hunted down for demonic witchcraft in the 15th and 17th centuries. Should historians be content to reject it, in the name of their …
14:00 to 15:00
René Bloch
Jewish mythology, Greek mythology
René Bloch
Jewish mythology, Greek mythology
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Abstract Judeo-Hellenistic authors regularly denounce Greek myth as something shameful and incompatible with Judaism. However, this apparently univocal negative impression of Greek myth in Judeo-Hellenistic literature is not without its nuances. Firstly, …
17:00 to 18:00
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Abstract It might seem paradoxical to examine in the same session a music conductor (Warad-ilišu) and a diviner (Asqudum) : but the fact is that these characters, with very different skills, enjoyed the confidence of the king, who gave them missions far …
11:00 to 12:00
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The symposium is an interdisciplinary and specialized gathering of researchers, entrepreneurs, patients, clinicians and ethicists involved in fields related to neurotechnology. The main objective of the symposium is to examine and discuss the promises and …
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11:00 to 12:30
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09:30 to 11:00
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Abstract Diffusion models have revolutionized generative AI. Conceptually, these methods define a mechanism for transporting a noise distribution to a data distribution. Recent work has extended this framework to define transports between arbitrary …
11:15 to 12:30
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Abstract The Langevin equation is a stochastic differential equation that allows for the sampling of exponential distributions. The velocity field is proportional to the energy gradient of the distribution; in this case, the Langevin equation has a unique …
09:30 to 11:00
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15:15 to 16:45
Jean-Luc Fournet, Valérie Schram & Korshi Dosoo
A recently discovered Theban magic papyrus (1)
Jean-Luc Fournet, Valérie Schram & Korshi Dosoo
A recently discovered Theban magic papyrus (1)
Seminar
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Abstract Discovered in July 2022 on the west bank of Thebes by the American-Egyptian archaeological mission of the South Asasif Conservation Project, the perfectly preserved scroll that will be the subject of these three sessions offers a series of texts …
15:30 to 17:00
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Abstract A continuation of the previous lecture. The new lecture presents the content of the Book of Joshua and theories on its composition. The question of the historicity of the conquest of Canaan is examined. Such a conquest never took place; it is an …
14:00 to 15:00
Manon Laurent & Florence Lévy
The educational success of China's "model minority": myth or reality?
Manon Laurent & Florence Lévy
The educational success of China's "model minority": myth or reality?
Symposium
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16:00 to 16:45
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15:00 to 15:45
Grégoire Borst
Developing children's metacognition as a means of combating inequality at school
Grégoire Borst
Developing children's metacognition as a means of combating inequality at school
Symposium
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14:15 to 15:00
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Abstract As the Hellenist Jean-Louis Durand (1939-2016) put it, ancient Greece was a 'sacrificial culture', in the sense that it regularly performed rituals that we call 'sacrifices'. As a general introduction to this year's lectures, we proposed an …
11:00 to 12:00
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12:00 to 12:45
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10:15 to 11:00
Agnès van Zanten
Invisibilization of family sponsorship and belief in merit among the upper classes
Agnès van Zanten
Invisibilization of family sponsorship and belief in merit among the upper classes
Symposium
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09:30 to 10:15
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Le Rêve , Henri Rousseau, 1910, MoMA. In the context of my 2024 lectures on " Epigenetics at the interface between organisms and their environment ", the symposium will further explore aspects of this interface, in particular the molecular and cellular …
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Lisa Sauermann
Three-term arithmetic progressions, the slice rank polynomial method and the Erdös-Ginzburg-Ziv Problem (2)
Lisa Sauermann
Three-term arithmetic progressions, the slice rank polynomial method and the Erdös-Ginzburg-Ziv Problem (2)
Guest lecturer
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Abstract The second lecture will cover the breakthrough upper bound for the size of three-term progression free subset of F_p^n of Ellenberg and Gijswijt. The lecture will present a reformulation of the proof of this bound due to Tao, using the so-called …
10:00 to 12:00
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17:00 to 18:00