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International symposium organized by Laurent Coulon (Collège de France, EPHE-PSL) and Olivier Perdu (Collège de France). This symposium will bring together international specialists in Pharaonic statuary, a fundamental source of knowledge on Pharaonic …
Published on 8 April 2025
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16:30 to 17:00
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Discussant   :Manon-Nour Tannous Stanislas de Laboulaye Stanislas de Laboulaye is a French diplomat. He joined the Ministry in the Asia Department, and was Consul General in Jerusalem (1996-1999), then Director General of Political and Security Affairs at …
15:15 to 16:30
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Discussant   : Dima Alsajdeya Henry Laurens Henry Laurens is Professor at the Collège de France and holds the   Contemporary History of the Arab World Chair. He was previously Senior Lecturer at Sorbonne University Paris-IV and University Professor at …
14:00 to 15:15
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Discussant   : Valérie Stiegler Olivier Roy Olivier Roy is a professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. A political scientist specializing in political Islam, he first focused on Afghanistan, then studied Islamist political …
10:45 to 12:00
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Discussant  : François Ceccaldi Jean-Pierre Filiu Jean-Pierre Filiu is Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History at Sciences Po Paris. He has also been a visiting professor at Columbia and Georgetown universities in the USA. A former diplomat, he …
09:30 to 10:45
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Seahorse tail fractal figure (detail of the Mandelbrot set) © CC BY-SA 3.0 The lecture introduces a mathematical approach to statistical learning through maximum likelihood estimation, information theory and the construction of approximation models. Both …
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Ruined temple in the city of Uruk, photo D. Charpin As the ANR has decided not to fund the program into which the originally planned lecture on Upper Mesopotamia in the 18th century B.C. fell, the subject finally chosen will focus on the Mesopotamians' …
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Stephen Yablo International colloquium in English co-organized by Prof. François Recanati , Philosophy of Language and Mind Chair, and Jean-Baptiste Rauzy, Faculty of Letters, Sorbonne University and UMR 8011 "Sciences, Norms, …
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From the outset, research into human evolution and prehistory has served a dual function. On the one hand, they developed as new scientific disciplines, at the frontier between biology and the humanities. On the other hand, in the West at least, they …
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Abstract When a child has difficulties in reading -how can we help them and how should we teach them? The first step is understanding exactly what their problem is. Dyslexia is a general term for various deficits in reading. There are more than 20 …
17:30 to 18:30
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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 …
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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 …
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Kustanai silver bowl, Hermitage Museum, 4th-5th century, depicting scenes from Oedipus Rex …
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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 …
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Program Practical workshop 10   h -   11   h   30 - Registering archaeological data in Ergaleion through case studies : P. Ballet   : " la lopas et ses comparses" (based on archaeological data) M. Mossakowska: the example of the kolobion (based on textual …
10:00 to 18:00
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The Centre for Tibetan Studies at the Collège de France, founded by Professor Rolf Alfred Stein in March 1974 , celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. An afternoon of celebrations was held on Wednesday December 11 at the Institute of Civilizations, focusing …
Published on 4 April 2025
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Program Introduction and structure of the database 14   h -   14   h   30 - Welcome (J.-L. Fournet) and tour de table (presentation of participants : body of work and expectations for Ergaleion 14   h   30 -   16   h - Review of the " Contextes et …
14:00 to 18:00
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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 …