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Abstract In this lecture, I will discuss the exciting (and for a long time unexpected) finding that distinct areas of the adult brain continue to generate new neurons throughout life. He will show how newborn neurons affect brain structure and function …
17:00 to 18:00
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International colloquium organized by William Marx and Matilde Manara as part of the Comparative Literatures Chair, with the support of the Collège de France Foundation and The Hugot Foundation of Collège de France . Paul Valéry represents an exceptional …
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Presentation This symposium is the research seminar of the History and Archaeology of African Worlds chair at the Collège de France. It is co-organized and led by Pr François-Xavier Fauvelle (Collège de France) and Ghislaine Lydon, Professor at the …
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Since 1988, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (or IPCC) has been regularly publishing thick reports, ranging in size from two thousand to three thousand pages, presenting the state of knowledge on climate change, its causes and impacts, and …
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Abstract I will report on recent joint work with M.   Mauri and R.   Pagaria which, building on my previous work with de Cataldo and Heinloth, gives a complete determination of the supports in the sense of Ngô of the Hitchin fibration (for GL_n), and the …
15:30 to 16:30
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14:00 to 15:00
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Abstract Why do anaphoric expressions such as herself/lui-même have the interpretive and distributive properties observed for them (viz. Marie est fière d'elle-même) and why do they also function as intensifiers (viz. Marie elle-même est fière de lui) ? …
11:30 to 13:00
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Abstract The configurations revealed by cartographic studies are complex in both syntactic organization and interface properties. How do children master this complexity  ? In recent years, a simple model for the acquisition of syntactic structures has …
10:00 to 11:30
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09:30 to 10:15
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gary Comer Friday, June 9   2023 from 9   h to 18   h , Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater, Collège de France. Open to the public in …
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View from a Minot village street (pho_minot_1968_11_1231) Yvonne Verdier (1941-1989) is a major figure in French anthropology, as much for her research, which contributed to the renewal of rural ethnology and studies of traditional societies, as for her …
Published on 5 September 2025
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Abstract The second   conference will examine one of the most distinctive and still undervalued features of Late Antique culture, namely the role of orality in disseminating culture and defining values. Through a selection of examples from all over the …
14:00 to 15:00
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The symposium " Vietnamese women : creativity and commitment " features Vietnamese women from several generations. What these women have in common is their commitment to the values they have each chosen to stand up for. Some have participated in wars and …
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09:00 to 09:10
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Summary The latest conference systematically examines how the European Union could better defend and promote democracy. It explains why the destruction of democracy within member states is a greater threat to the Union than rather technocratic failures …
17:30 to 18:30
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Abstract I shall appeal to teleological considerations to argue that there are no elements in thought that are simultaneously indexical and file-like. So-called perceptual demonstratives are particularly interesting in this …
09:30 to 10:30
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Abstract I propose a couple of revisions to the standard criterion of difference for modes of presentation attributed to Frege. First, we need to broaden the scope of the criterion so that not merely the thoughts of a given subject at a given time may or …
09:30 to 10:30
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Catherine Meurisse, drawing from La jeune femme et la mer. The aim of this symposium is to take stock of comics in the French-speaking world, from a variety of angles. Of course, we'll be looking at the aesthetic dimension, evoking poetry comics, the …
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To mark the publication of Leçons de ténèbres. Ce que la violence dit du monde , Didier Fassin will be the guest of the Compagnie bookshop on Wednesday, September 17 2025 at 7 pm  . Event address : librairie Compagnie, 58 rue des Écoles, 75005 Paris. Find …
Published on 4 September 2025
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Didier Fassin Lessons from darkness. What violence says about the world Violence haunts the world. From homicides to genocides, from sexual abuse to civil wars, from the repression of protests to the persecution of minorities, from citizen movements that …
Published on 4 September 2025
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Abstract The purpose of this talk will be to determine certain special representations (i.e. in the discrete series, but not cuspidal) whose space is generated by spherical automorphic functions. Volker Heiermann 1994  : Doctoral thesis, University of …
15:30 to 16:30