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While there is a strong consensus on the necessity and urgency of taking vigorous action to combat climate change, there is still total confusion at both political and public level as to how this can be achieved, in particular by adapting or …

Historian Edhem Eldem has taught at the universities of Boğaziçi, Berkeley, Harvard and Columbia, EHESS, EPHE and ENS. He is the author of works on the Levant trade, funerary epigraphy, the Ottoman Bank, the dynamics of Westernization, Istanbul at the …

Kustanai silver bowl, Hermitage Museum, 4th-5th century, depicting scenes from Oedipus Rex …

Argument In 2002, an imposing stone stele, inscribed in Greek on both sides and dated to the first half of the 2nd century BC, was unearthed at Marmarini, some fifteen kilometers northeast of the town of Larisa in Thessaly. The text prescribes a series of …

More works are lost than exist. In other words, and against all expectations, the loss of works is the general case, not their preservation. The metaphysical and Leibnizian question is: why are there works rather than nothing? To answer this question, we …

More works are lost than exist. In other words, and against all expectations, the loss of works is the general case, not their preservation. The metaphysical and Leibnizian question  therefore arises: why are there works rather than nothing ? To answer …

Little Oxendon, abandoned medieval village Following on from last year's lecture (" La peste noire "), and the three study days that accompanied it (" Nouvelles recherches sur la peste noire "), this year's lectures will attempt to draw out all the …