Résultats de recherche

Résumé Les réflexions suivantes développent la thèse que l’« identité » de l’Europe ne peut être définie en termes essentialistes et ne peut être éclairée que par une étude politico-dramaturgique.  Il s’agit en l’espèce de réfuter le mythe de la …

Résumé L'invention du sport moderne à la fin du XIX e  siècle est consubstantielle à la question des migrations et des circulations puisque la codification des règles sportives universellement acceptées doit permettre d'opposer des concurrents de toute …

Résumé In the final lecture, I will talk about the ways in which parts of the scientific enterprise are trying to create a world in which the opportunities to be a scientist and to share the benefits of science are available everywhere. I will talk about …

Résumé I will talk about how scientists inform others about their results, with emphasis on the rise of scientific journals and the often excessive importance conferred upon work that appears in a few especially prestigious venues. A central element of …

Résumé From western Thebes during the 7 th  century survives the largest body of material connected with Coptic education from any region in Egypt. This seminar will present the material and its distribution, addressing where education took place and the …

Résumé The main theme of the second lecture concerns the way in which fundamental biological research (as an example, my own work to identify and characterize the genes that produce cancers in animals) can produce important benefits for society (e.g., by …

Résumé Light-matter interactions are playing an increasingly crucial role in the understanding and engineering of new states of matter with relevance to the fields of quantum optics, solid state physics, chemistry and materials science. Experiments have …