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The Bible and collective memory
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
The Bible and collective memory
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
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Jean-Jacques Hublin The Biology of Culture. Palaeoanthropology of the genus Homo How can the extraordinary fate of hominins be explained? Humanity's close kinship with African great apes has been soundly established today, but our species stands out due …
Published on 18 June 2025
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Edhem Eldem The Ottoman Empire and Turkey facing the West During the long nineteenth century, faced with an increasingly powerful and arrogant West, the Ottoman Empire modernised itself with the objective of dealing with an increasingly precarious …
Published on 18 June 2025
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collège de France. The results of the " ERC Advanced Grant 2024 " call have just been published. Thomas Lecuit, Dynamics of Living Systems Professor , is the winner of the GeoMorpho project " Constraints and geometric feedbacks during morphogenesis ". …
Published on 18 June 2025
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With simultaneous French-LSF interpretation. Abstract Research on bimodal bilinguals has shown that, if distinct articulators are involved, the same sentence can be produced simultaneously in a speech language and in a sign language. Based on this …
11:30 to 13:00
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Abstract Structure mapping tackles the issue of syntactic complexity by attempting to draw maps as detailed as possible of the internal structure of phrases and sentences across languages and dialects (Rizzi & Cinque 2016). But how can we map an …
10:00 to 11:30
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09:00 to 18:00
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Abstract Metaphors are ubiquitous, not only in literary texts, but also in everyday language and even in technical languages such as law. In this sense, they are endless, and the angles from which they can be studied are manifold. In this, our final …
14:30 to 15:30
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How do you move on a hyperbolic surface? What's the unexpected link between the metro network and a mountain landscape? Mathematician Nalini Anantharaman, holder of the Spectral Geometry chair at the Collège de France, answers questions from critic and …
Published on 17 June 2025
The birth of scholarship in Mesopotamia
Dominique Charpin, chair Mesopotamian Civilization
The birth of scholarship in Mesopotamia
Dominique Charpin, chair Mesopotamian Civilization
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British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). In recent years, I have been intensely involved in the study of the development of Mesopotamian scholarly texts from the 2nd and 1st millennia BC. Several Assyriologists and I have published new metatexts containing …
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17:00 to 19:00
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"Self-portrait, Orhan Pamuk. Orhan Pamuk, world-renowned writer and essayist, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Prof. William Marx . Orhan Pamuk In this series of …
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Abstract In this presentation, we will reflect on the social and economic dynamics that contribute to the linguistic vitality of French in sub-Saharan Africa, from its introduction on the continent's west coast in the 16th century to the present day. …
11:15 to 12:15
Salikoko S. Mufwene
Les " passeurs de francophonie " dans le monde : vrais ou faux francophones ?
Salikoko S. Mufwene
Les " passeurs de francophonie " dans le monde : vrais ou faux francophones ?
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Summary In the discourse of the Francophonie, the term passeur describes people who, through their emigration, spread the French language to non-French-speaking territories. Is there necessarily a correlation between coming from a French-speaking country …
10:00 to 11:00
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Abstract Gastruloids ; definition, production, characterization and mouse/human comparisons. Gastruloids as objects of study and as test tubes. This third lesson begins with a brief history of gastruloid production and initial characterization. Then, …
17:00 to 19:00
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Martin Meyer Martin Meyer (b. 1951) is a journalist, publicist and author. From 1974, he was editor-in-chief of the reporting section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , and from 1992 to the end of 2015, he was its boss. He studied history, German literature …
15:45 to 16:45
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Abstract One of the distinctive features of European culture is the practice of " telling the truth about yourself ", which has been practiced in learned circles since early Christianity. From this point of view, Europe can justifiably be called an …
14:30 to 15:30
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Conference in English. Nutrition is now recognized as one of the main modifiable determinants of chronic disease risk. This scientific symposium will bring together internationally recognized researchers and stakeholders in the field of public health …
