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Elected in 2018 to the Chair of Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome, Dario Mantovani is a legal historian. Born in 1961 in Milan, Italy, after completing his classical studies, he earned a doctorate in law from the University of Pavia (1985), where …

Christina Mitsopoulou is a Greek archaeologist, trained in Paris (Sorbonne) and then at the University of Athens. A lecturer in the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly, she has been running a research …

Born May 17 1940, Lens (France). Died May 14 2022. …

Esther Duflo is the Lemann Foundation Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich and holds the Chair in Poverty and Public Policies at the Collège de France. She is also a co-founder and co-director of J-PAL, the poverty action …

Pierre-Louis Lions was born on August 11 1956 in Grasse, France. A student at the École normale supérieure from 1975 to 1979, he defended his thesis in 1978 and his state thesis in 1979. A researcher at the CNRS from 1979 to 1981, he became a professor at …

François Déroche is a member of the Institut (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres) and Professor at the Collège de France, where he has held the History of the Qurʾān, Text and Transmission chair since 2015. He is a specialist in Arabic …

Born on November 6 1952, Frantz Grenet was a student at the École normale supérieure from 1972 to 1977, and received his agrégation in history in 1975. From 1977 to 1981, he was posted to Kabul as deputy director of the DAFA (Délégation archéologique …