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Left : Pierre Boulez ©Collège de France. Right : Pierre Boulez with, from left to right, Didier Arditti, Andrew Gerzso and Giuseppe di Giugno working with the electroacoustic device for Répons à l'Espace de projection (1980) ©Fabien Chalhoub. To mark the …
Published on 22 May 2025
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From June 18 to October 10 2025, discover the incredible adventure of deciphering cuneiform writing and the Assyrian language. This exhibition follows the work of Jules Oppert, a pioneer of Assyriology and professor at the Collège de France from 1874 to …
Published on 20 May 2025
Hydrodynamics of cell movement
Jean-François Joanny, chair Soft Matter and Biophysics
Hydrodynamics of cell movement
Jean-François Joanny, chair Soft Matter and Biophysics
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jacques Lauga Eric Lauga has been invited by the Collège de France Assembly, at the suggestion of Professor Jean-François Joanny. Eric Lauga Hydrodynamics of Cellular Motion Fluid mechanics plays a crucial role in a number of biological processes, from …
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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
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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
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Conference in English, organized by Xavier Leroy and Jean-Baptiste Tristan. Probabilistic programming Probabilistic programming provides powerful tools for statistical modeling. It draws on formal semantics, compilers and other tools from programming …
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11:45 to 12:30
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Moderated by Iqbal Dhaliwal, J-PAL Global Executive Director. …
18:00 to 18:30
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Moderated by Iqbal Dhaliwal (J-PAL Global Executive Director). …
16:15 to 17:30
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Moderated by Iqbal Dhaliwal (J-PAL Global Executive Director). …
15:15 to 15:45
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Moderated by Esther Duflo (Professor, Collège de France, MIT; J-PAL Director). …
12:00 to 13:00