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Alain Fischer Experimental Medicine Experimental medicine, founded by Claude Bernard in the nineteenth century, decisively oriented medical research and especially modern biology. Amongst other things, it shed light on the role of the immune system, in …
Published on 13 March 2025
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Bénédicte Savoy Objects of Desire, Desire for Objects At the museum, this means seeing the objects where they are, and simultaneously seeing them where they no longer are, that is to say, in the regions from which they were taken. It means enjoying the …
Published on 13 March 2025
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87 CDF 9/9, Photo 4, Petra : Palace, tomb and imitation, 1965 The collection of Jean Starcky, archaeologist and epigraphist, has just been enriched by a donation from one of his former collaborators, Émile Puech. Among the new documents is a collection of …
Published on 12 March 2025
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Laurent Coulon Pathways to Egyptology The Civilization of Pharaonic Egypt stretched along the Nile for almost 3 500 years. The discipline that studies it, Egyptology, was born in 1822 with the deciphering of the hieroglyphs by Champollion, who taught at …
Published on 12 March 2025
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E-fuels (electro-fuels) are fuels produced from decarbonized electricity. They are alternatives to fossil fuels, for use in industry and transport, for example. They can potentially be synthesized by direct electroreduction of carbon dioxide ( CO2) , …
Published on 12 March 2025
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As part of this year's The Invention of Europe through languages and cultures Annual Chair offered to Wajdi Mouawad, in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture, the fourth seminar (11 March 2025) focused on " Écriture des conciliations et …
Published on 12 March 2025
The metaphysics of induction
Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge
The metaphysics of induction
Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge
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Colloquium organized in partnership with the SND laboratory of the Université Paris-Sorbonne on June 8 at the Maison de la recherche and on June 9 at the Collège de France. With the support of : Sciences, Norms, Democracy (UMR 8011/ Sorbonne …
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Franck Courchamp, invited to occupy the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Annual Chair , will give his opening lecture on March 27 2025. Documents and media Download the press release Read the article "Understanding the world at a time of biological …
Published on 11 March 2025
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The Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en biologie (CIRB) is seeking to recruit a Scientific Affairs Delegate. Hosting structure Unit: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology - CIRB - U 1050 Director: Marie-Hélène Verlhac About the unit: CIRB …
Published on 11 March 2025
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" En chair et en or : regards sur l'icône, XVe-XXe " / " Flesh and Gold: Gazing at Icons, 15th-20th Century " International symposium organized with the exceptional support of the Cercle des Mécènes de la Société des Amis du Louvre. It will be held on …
Published on 10 March 2025
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Introduced by Cillian Nolan (Director of Policy, J-PAL Europe) Moderated by Ilf Bencheikh , Director of Training, Finance and Operations, J-PAL …
10:45 to 11:15
Secularization : European exception or global process ?
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
Secularization : European exception or global process ?
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
Guest lecturer
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© Flick - Kokorowashinjin Prof. Jörg Jörg Stolz is invited by the Collège de France assembly, at the suggestion of Prof. Thomas Römer. Jörg Stolz Leading sociologists of religion have argued that European secularization is a global exception (Berger et …
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Abstract The aim of this paper is to examine the relevance of the notion of polis-religion for Late Antiquity, and more specifically for the post-Constantinian era. Two aspects will be analyzed : firstly, the possible reorganization of civic religion in …
12:45 to 13:45
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Abstract The entrance ceremony ( apantèsis ), a specimen of the cult of rulers in Hellenistic times, has been the subject of readings vacillating between politics and religion : a simple tool of domination according to historiography of the early 20th …
11:45 to 12:45
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Abstract Historiography has generally classified the historiettes engraved on Anatolian confession stelae, like the mystical experience (that of initiation at Eleusis, which I'll take as an example), as individual and personal religious experiences, or …
10:30 to 11:30
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Abstract The example of divination enriches the debate on religious polis . The classicists had long since freed the Greek political sphere, and all decision-making power, from the influence of religion. Relying on the " rationalism " of the elites, …
17:30 to 18:30
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Abstract The notions of polis-religion and civic religion were first used to characterize the specificity of Greek and Roman polytheistic experience in relation to Christianity. Recent criticisms have highlighted the importance of individual and …
16:30 to 17:30
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Abstract The notion polis religion has been the focus of debate in recent decades and its applicability to Greek religion questioned, in particular concerning its relevance for covering the religious activity of individuals. Most discussions have taken …
15:00 to 16:00
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Abstract From Cretan mnemonics to Athenian exegetes, the Greek cities of the 6th and 5th centuries frequently entrusted the preservation of their laws to one or more persons charged with verbalizing them on various occasions. The status of these speech …
14:00 to 15:00
Emily Kearns
"Learning my instructions, Orestes...": Who Authorises Worship in the Greek World?
Emily Kearns
"Learning my instructions, Orestes...": Who Authorises Worship in the Greek World?
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Abstract Modern scholars discuss the foundation of cults in human terms, often through the opposition of public and private, city and individual. The Greeks themselves could also speak in this way, but on other levels - and not only that of myth - they …
11:30 to 12:30
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Abstract The polis-religion model was born to explain the dynamics of authority in a tradition without church and dogma. A good way to test the efficacy of the model is therefore to assess it in the light of the Greek vision of authority understood as …
10:30 to 11:30