Share Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Copy url Search results Search 28478 results Filters Content type Content type Lessons (24248) News (1810) People (1402) Editions (369) Chair (360) Page (230) Research (27) Library (14) Annual Chair (12) Award (6) Series Thinking and writing about Africa today Alain Mabanckou, chair Artistic creation Symposium 02 May 2016 Event Barbara Romanowicz Proposed physical processes and characteristics of intermediate and deep seismicity Lecture Abstract We have outlined the structure and mineralogy of the mantle and the phase transitions undergone by olivine, the majority constituent of the upper mantle, at depths of 400 km and 660 km, under the effect of increasing pressure and temperature. … 29 Oct 2018 16:00 to 17:30 Event Dominique Charpin The first years of the reign Lecture Abstract The first years of Samsu-iluna's reign are poorly known. From the point of view of sources, we are handicapped by the fact that we have no correspondence from Samsu-iluna equivalent to what we have for Hammu-rabi. Sent by Hammu-rabi, we have a … 29 Oct 2018 11:00 to 12:00 Series Visual restoration : new strategies, new challenges José-Alain Sahel, chair Technological innovation Liliane Bettencourt Symposium International symposium in English. … 06 Jun 2016 → 07 Jun 2016 Series Architecture, arts and culture in Vichy France, 1940-1944 Jean-Louis Cohen, chair Architecture and urban form Symposium What happened to architecture while France was living through the "sinister, icy nightmare" that was, in the words of Roland Barthes, the Vichy regime? The architectural policies pursued by the French state cannot be measured solely by the infinitesimal … 16 Jun 2016 Event Rachid Guerraoui Atomicity in a distributed system Lecture Abstract The aim of this first lecture has been to define precisely what a correct distributed algorithm is. The safety property considered is what we call " atomicity ", or " linearizability ", defined by reference to the sequential specification of a … 26 Oct 2018 10:00 to 11:00 Event Rachid Guerraoui Distributed algorithms : in search of lost universality Opening lecture Abstract Algorithms have been around for as long as humans have been trying to calculate. In the Middle Ages, their execution was delegated to machines. In 1936, Alan Turing proposed a universal machine, capable of executing all conceivable algorithms, … 25 Oct 2018 18:00 to 19:00 Series Sandra Kleinau Alain Fischer, chair Experimental medicine Guest lecturer 07 Apr 2016 News Death of André Miquel, Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France André Miquel, chair Classical Arabic language and literature The Administrator, the Faculty Assembly and the entire Collège de France community are deeply saddened to learn of the death of André Miquel, Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France, holder of the Chair of Classical Arabic Language and Literature from … Published on 30 December 2022 Event Philippe Aghion Inequality and growth Lecture Measuring inequality : Kuznets and beyond Explaining the rise in skill-premium since 1980 Evolution of top income inequality Innovation and top income inequality Inclusive policies Documents and media Download … 23 Oct 2018 14:00 to 16:00 Event Amos Gitai Documentary as metaphor. House and Wadi, two documentary trilogies filmed over a quarter of a century; Pineapple Lecture Films : House (1980) ; News from Home/News from House (2005) ; Pineapple (1983). Documentaries " House and Wadi are two films for which I felt the need to return, several years later, to the same locations to film the same people. For me, Wadi is a kind … 23 Oct 2018 11:00 to 12:30 Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture Abstract I have first shown that most intermediate and deep earthquakes occur in " subduction zones ", tectonic plate convergence zones where one of the plates (usually oceanic) plunges beneath the other. The hypocentres of these earthquakes are … 22 Oct 2018 16:00 to 17:30 Event Dominique Charpin The advent of Samsu-iluna Lecture Abstract The lecture began with an overview of the kingdom Samsu-iluna inherited from his father. The text used as a guide is the prologue to the Code of Hammu-rabi, written at the end of his reign. In it, the ruler defines himself in relation to the main … 22 Oct 2018 11:00 to 12:00 Event Karine Chemla How mathematical activity shapes its language and textual forms Symposium In 1920, Marcel Granet (1884-1940), an influential sinologist of the first decades of the 20th century, thought it appropriate to make some recommendations to those who were reforming the Chinese language at the time. In an article entitled "Quelques … 19 Oct 2018 16:50 to 17:30 Event General discussion Symposium 19 Oct 2018 17:30 to 18:00 Event William F. Hanks Non-Western concepts in comparative pragmatics : from the Kyoto School to the context of enunciation Symposium This lecture proposes a new approach to the concept of the "context of enunciation" in social pragmatics, based on a critical reading of the philosophy of the Kyoto school, Japan. The key concept is " basho ", which translates as "place, location, field", … 19 Oct 2018 16:10 to 16:50 Event Irène Rosier Catach Reflections on the power of words in Western medieval thought Symposium Biography Irène Rosier-Catach is Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS (UMR "Histoire des Théories Linguistiques") and Director of Studies Emeritus at the École Pratique des Hautes Études ( 5th section). A specialist in the history of linguistic and … 19 Oct 2018 15:10 to 15:50 Event Laurent Dubreuil The thought, the poem Symposium Proposing to introduce a distinction between thinking and thinking , or between the cognitive and the intellective , I suggest that certain uses of language are out of the ordinary and capable of transporting us beyond the limits of our ordinary thinking. … 19 Oct 2018 14:30 to 15:10 Event Joël Fagot Thinking without language: an experimental approach in baboons Symposium Animal research is a privileged way of approaching the question of the relationship between thought and language. The non-human primate, which does not have our language, displays a multitude of behaviors whose complexity suggests the existence of … 19 Oct 2018 11:10 to 11:50 Event Guy Theraulaz The collective intelligence of animal societies Symposium Numerous animal species display collective behaviors that are often spectacular. Starlings, for example, gather in their tens of thousands at dusk to perform astonishing aerial choreographies. On another scale, social insects (ants, termites, certain … 19 Oct 2018 11:50 to 12:30 Series Hieroglossia II : the founding texts Jean-Noël Robert, chair Philology of Japanese civilization Symposium 08 Jun 2016 → 09 Jun 2016 Event Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Giving the same name to two different things Symposium Biography Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician with a particular interest in differential geometry, especially as it relates to partial differential equations and mathematical physics. He is particularly interested in Ricci curvature, both in … 19 Oct 2018 10:10 to 10:50 Event François Recanati Thinking with language Symposium Verbal thinking is a specific form of thinking, based on a mechanism of "deference" and parasitic in relation to language. Acknowledging the existence of such thought means recognizing that language not only serves to express thoughts formed independently … 19 Oct 2018 09:30 to 10:10 Event Marwan Rashed Greek, the language of being ? Arab answers Symposium Modern philosophers have argued about the nature of Aristotle's "Categories": categories of language or categories of thought? This debate is reminiscent of another, almost as famous and much older one: the one that pitted Philosophers in 10th-century … 18 Oct 2018 16:50 to 17:30 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 537 Page 538 Page 539 Page 540 Page 541 Page 542 Page 543 Page 544 Page 545 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Series Thinking and writing about Africa today Alain Mabanckou, chair Artistic creation Symposium 02 May 2016
Event Barbara Romanowicz Proposed physical processes and characteristics of intermediate and deep seismicity Lecture Abstract We have outlined the structure and mineralogy of the mantle and the phase transitions undergone by olivine, the majority constituent of the upper mantle, at depths of 400 km and 660 km, under the effect of increasing pressure and temperature. … 29 Oct 2018 16:00 to 17:30
Event Dominique Charpin The first years of the reign Lecture Abstract The first years of Samsu-iluna's reign are poorly known. From the point of view of sources, we are handicapped by the fact that we have no correspondence from Samsu-iluna equivalent to what we have for Hammu-rabi. Sent by Hammu-rabi, we have a … 29 Oct 2018 11:00 to 12:00
Series Visual restoration : new strategies, new challenges José-Alain Sahel, chair Technological innovation Liliane Bettencourt Symposium International symposium in English. … 06 Jun 2016 → 07 Jun 2016
Series Architecture, arts and culture in Vichy France, 1940-1944 Jean-Louis Cohen, chair Architecture and urban form Symposium What happened to architecture while France was living through the "sinister, icy nightmare" that was, in the words of Roland Barthes, the Vichy regime? The architectural policies pursued by the French state cannot be measured solely by the infinitesimal … 16 Jun 2016
Event Rachid Guerraoui Atomicity in a distributed system Lecture Abstract The aim of this first lecture has been to define precisely what a correct distributed algorithm is. The safety property considered is what we call " atomicity ", or " linearizability ", defined by reference to the sequential specification of a … 26 Oct 2018 10:00 to 11:00
Event Rachid Guerraoui Distributed algorithms : in search of lost universality Opening lecture Abstract Algorithms have been around for as long as humans have been trying to calculate. In the Middle Ages, their execution was delegated to machines. In 1936, Alan Turing proposed a universal machine, capable of executing all conceivable algorithms, … 25 Oct 2018 18:00 to 19:00
News Death of André Miquel, Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France André Miquel, chair Classical Arabic language and literature The Administrator, the Faculty Assembly and the entire Collège de France community are deeply saddened to learn of the death of André Miquel, Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France, holder of the Chair of Classical Arabic Language and Literature from … Published on 30 December 2022
Event Philippe Aghion Inequality and growth Lecture Measuring inequality : Kuznets and beyond Explaining the rise in skill-premium since 1980 Evolution of top income inequality Innovation and top income inequality Inclusive policies Documents and media Download … 23 Oct 2018 14:00 to 16:00
Event Amos Gitai Documentary as metaphor. House and Wadi, two documentary trilogies filmed over a quarter of a century; Pineapple Lecture Films : House (1980) ; News from Home/News from House (2005) ; Pineapple (1983). Documentaries " House and Wadi are two films for which I felt the need to return, several years later, to the same locations to film the same people. For me, Wadi is a kind … 23 Oct 2018 11:00 to 12:30
Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture Abstract I have first shown that most intermediate and deep earthquakes occur in " subduction zones ", tectonic plate convergence zones where one of the plates (usually oceanic) plunges beneath the other. The hypocentres of these earthquakes are … 22 Oct 2018 16:00 to 17:30
Event Dominique Charpin The advent of Samsu-iluna Lecture Abstract The lecture began with an overview of the kingdom Samsu-iluna inherited from his father. The text used as a guide is the prologue to the Code of Hammu-rabi, written at the end of his reign. In it, the ruler defines himself in relation to the main … 22 Oct 2018 11:00 to 12:00
Event Karine Chemla How mathematical activity shapes its language and textual forms Symposium In 1920, Marcel Granet (1884-1940), an influential sinologist of the first decades of the 20th century, thought it appropriate to make some recommendations to those who were reforming the Chinese language at the time. In an article entitled "Quelques … 19 Oct 2018 16:50 to 17:30
Event William F. Hanks Non-Western concepts in comparative pragmatics : from the Kyoto School to the context of enunciation Symposium This lecture proposes a new approach to the concept of the "context of enunciation" in social pragmatics, based on a critical reading of the philosophy of the Kyoto school, Japan. The key concept is " basho ", which translates as "place, location, field", … 19 Oct 2018 16:10 to 16:50
Event Irène Rosier Catach Reflections on the power of words in Western medieval thought Symposium Biography Irène Rosier-Catach is Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS (UMR "Histoire des Théories Linguistiques") and Director of Studies Emeritus at the École Pratique des Hautes Études ( 5th section). A specialist in the history of linguistic and … 19 Oct 2018 15:10 to 15:50
Event Laurent Dubreuil The thought, the poem Symposium Proposing to introduce a distinction between thinking and thinking , or between the cognitive and the intellective , I suggest that certain uses of language are out of the ordinary and capable of transporting us beyond the limits of our ordinary thinking. … 19 Oct 2018 14:30 to 15:10
Event Joël Fagot Thinking without language: an experimental approach in baboons Symposium Animal research is a privileged way of approaching the question of the relationship between thought and language. The non-human primate, which does not have our language, displays a multitude of behaviors whose complexity suggests the existence of … 19 Oct 2018 11:10 to 11:50
Event Guy Theraulaz The collective intelligence of animal societies Symposium Numerous animal species display collective behaviors that are often spectacular. Starlings, for example, gather in their tens of thousands at dusk to perform astonishing aerial choreographies. On another scale, social insects (ants, termites, certain … 19 Oct 2018 11:50 to 12:30
Series Hieroglossia II : the founding texts Jean-Noël Robert, chair Philology of Japanese civilization Symposium 08 Jun 2016 → 09 Jun 2016
Event Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Giving the same name to two different things Symposium Biography Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician with a particular interest in differential geometry, especially as it relates to partial differential equations and mathematical physics. He is particularly interested in Ricci curvature, both in … 19 Oct 2018 10:10 to 10:50
Event François Recanati Thinking with language Symposium Verbal thinking is a specific form of thinking, based on a mechanism of "deference" and parasitic in relation to language. Acknowledging the existence of such thought means recognizing that language not only serves to express thoughts formed independently … 19 Oct 2018 09:30 to 10:10
Event Marwan Rashed Greek, the language of being ? Arab answers Symposium Modern philosophers have argued about the nature of Aristotle's "Categories": categories of language or categories of thought? This debate is reminiscent of another, almost as famous and much older one: the one that pitted Philosophers in 10th-century … 18 Oct 2018 16:50 to 17:30
