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Dario Mantovani
The body and its opposite, incorporeal things. Are voice and family bodies ?
Lecture
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Abstract "   It is to language, and to language alone, that fictional entities owe their existence, their impossible yet indispensable existence   ". We can add to this statement by Jeremy Bentham, father of utilitarianism, by pointing out that language, …
14:30 to 15:30

Patrick Boucheron
The revolts of the obscene (14th-15th centuries)
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Abstract Can we escape censorship and authority by "   realizing sexually   ", or by speaking freely about it  ? In 1975, when Pier-Paolo Pasolini wrote his poignant "   j' abjure la Trilogie de la vie   ", Michel Foucault questioned this "  l' hypothèse …
11:00 to 12:00

Franc Schuerewegen
Why I love Raymond Picard or : the postextual method
Seminar
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Abstract How do we read  ? By "   postextual   ", as Franc Schuerewegen puts it, in other words, by questioning the authority of the text. Indeed, the text is very little. It is a series of instructions for making an object that begins to exist when the …
18:00 to 19:00

William Marx
The counter-society of readers
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Documents and media Download support Abstract Any theory of interpretation must start from the naïve, empirical experience  : what American critic Michael Warner calls uncritical reading , the uncritical, unprofessional reading of the standard reader. The …
17:00 to 18:00

Sonia Garel
Early neural activity in the construction and plasticity of sensory maps
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Abstract This second lecture will focus on the development of sensory representations in the cerebral cortex and the emerging roles of different phases of spontaneous and evoked activity in their construction and plasticity. It will focus on recent work …
16:00 to 18:00

Claudine Tiercelin
Skepticism and knowledge (continued) (5)
Lecture
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14:00 to 16:00

Dominique Charpin
A public law ? (1) The beginnings of administrative law
Lecture
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11:00 to 12:00

Louis Fensterbank
Radical elementary reactions
Lecture
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09:30 to 11:00

Geometric representation theory
Bảo Châu Ngô, chair Automorphic forms
Seminar
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Based on B. Fuller's geodesic dome. …
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Invariant theory and moduli spaces
Bảo Châu Ngô, chair Automorphic forms
Lecture
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Based on B. Fuller's geodesic dome. …
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Antoine Lilti
A right to be different ? The French Revolution and the Jews
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Abstract The pantheonization of Abbé Grégoire in 1989, alongside Monge and Condorcet, sparked off unexpected debates that focused not only on his activities as a priest who rallied to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, but also on his role in the …
14:30 to 15:30

Anouch Bourmayan
Affect in language : an undervalued dimension ?
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Abstract Largely neglected in the course of the 20th   century, affect was gradually rehabilitated towards the end of the century by certain works in psychology  : Zajonc (1980, 2000) in particular defends the idea that affect can intervene in the …
11:30 to 13:00

François Recanati
Strength and content
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Abstract The thesis that the content of judgment is constituted by the mental act of attributing to something (the subject) a property (the predicate) runs up against two objections. The first is the putative existence of simple (one-term) judgment …
10:00 to 11:30

Edith Heard
Examples of environmental impacts on the animal kingdom
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Abstract Examples of environmental impacts on the animal kingdom. Documents and media Download support …
10:00 to 12:30

Piet Lammers
The Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition at the critical point (2)
Guest lecturer
Event
14:00 to 16:00

Social sciences in times of crisis
Didier Fassin, chair Moral Questions and Political Issues in Contemporary Societies
Opening lecture
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Workshop Ergaleion 1 : Realities and archaeological remains
Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology
Symposium
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Ergaleion - Papyrological lexicography of material life Conceived as part of the Ifao program " Realia d'Égypte de l'époque ptolémaïque aux débuts de l'Islam : mots et mobiliers " (dir. P. Ballet, M. Mossakowska-Gaubert, V. Schram), Ergaleion - Outil de …
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Anne Boud’hors
School Ostraca from the Theban region
Seminar
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Abstract The region known as theban (Upper Egypt), populated by monastic establishments of various types, has yielded thousands of texts written on pottery shards or limestone chips, mostly in Coptic ( 6th-8th   centuries). School texts are far from being …
15:30 to 17:00

The letters and spirits of the law : Diego Quaglioni's Scritti
Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome
Symposium
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16th-century fresco   depicting Nemesis : Palazzo Cazuffi, Trento (Italy). Study day organized by the Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome chair at the Collège de France, in collaboration with IRN Phedra. Scientific organization : Luisa Brunori, Dario …

Pierre-Michel Menger
Women and educational growth. Changing family structures - couples and single-parent families. What impact does this have on children's success at school?
Lecture
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10:00 to 12:00

Aline Lefebvre-Lepot
Contacts and lubrication : numerical schemes based on convex optimization problems
Seminar
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Abstract This presentation focuses on the numerical simulation of granular materials and suspensions. Contacts between grains lead to singular interactions for which adapted numerical schemes must be developed. We take as our starting point models of the …
11:15 to 12:30

Rudolf Grimm
Ultracold Fermion Mixtures with Tunable Interactions: Polarons and the Quest for Novel Superfluids
Seminar
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Abstract The possibility to tune interatomic interactions by means of magnetically controlled Feshbach resonances has opened up unprecedented opportunities for experiments concerning the intriguing many-body physics of ultracold matter in the strongly …
11:15 to 12:30

Jean Dalibard
The excitation spectrum and its roton-maxon structure
Lecture
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09:30 to 11:00

Olivier Beaud
The legal challenge of academic freedom
Seminar
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Abstract Academic freedom is not a legal concept, nor is it easily grasped by the law. It is even sometimes distorted by the law when the latter seeks to protect it through the principle of free expression (ECHR law) or Free Speech ( 1st Amendment in the …
14:30 to 16:00