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Abstract An analysis of transvestism and transidentity in Le Roman de Silence and other literary texts from the 13th and 14th   centuries , as well as the few examples of gender reassignment in medieval hagiography, suggests that in Christian …

Elyamine Settoul: "Jihadism and radicalization" Nadia Fadil: "A critical look at deradicalization programs" …

Exceptionally, this conference will be held on a Tuesday. Abstract Here, despite the almost total loss of architectural structures, the remains of this temple have revealed the presence of abundant royal and divine statuary of various types and materials, …

Abstract The line defects of three dimensional uniaxial nematics have a simple abelian algebra governing their interactions and so simply pass through one another. I will discuss, instead, biaxial nematics for which the fundamental group is non-abelian. …

Abstract from Colin Bonduelle's talk From Natural Proteins to Polymer Synthesis Proteins are natural polymers that possess unique features that are not found in their synthetic counterparts. These include chemical diversity, hierarchical structure, …

Abstract In "Intention and Convention in Speech Acts", Strawson influentially argued for a distinction between essentially conventional acts and communicative acts: conventional acts rely on extralinguistic conventions for their successful execution; …

Abstract Zimri-Lim's private secretary, Šunuhra-Halu, is well known to us: it was he who read to the sovereign the mail from the kingdom's officials, and wrote the letters the monarch sent in reply. The title of another close relative of the king, named …

Abstract According to the "véhicularist" perspective, two co-referential concepts are the same concept if and only if the vehicle (the thin mental file) is the same. The conception (the content of the concept) may vary, but this does not affect the …

Alain Papaux has been invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Samantha Besson. The conference will be held under an agreement signed with the University of Lausanne. "The Lady with an Ermine", oil painting by Leonardo da …

Project under the direction of  : Patrick Boucheron, History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th to 16th century chair and François-Xavier Fauvelle, History and Archaeology of African Worlds chair . Abstract For the past twenty years, the " environmental …

Elizabeth Spelke Elizabeth Spelke is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and has been a member of the Conseil Scientifique de l'Éducation Nationale since January   2018 . Her research focuses on the development of the …

Abstract This study of the emergence of a reading culture in ancient Greece starts from the beginnings of the written text and analyzes its evolution in the Greek world of the 5 th century BC and during the Hellenistic and Imperial periods. The first …

Abstract Judeo-Hellenistic authors regularly denounce Greek myth as something shameful and incompatible with Judaism. However, this apparently univocal negative impression of Greek myth in Judeo-Hellenistic literature is not without its nuances. Firstly, …

Abstract Sleep is accompanied by an inert state which does not prevent the brain from continuing to process sensory information from the environment and internal representations in memory circuits. We will discuss the types of processing that can and …

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