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Abstract Sharp structures can occur as minimizers of very regular problems. This means symmetry can lead us badly astray and the resultant symmetry breaking may lead to highly counter-intuitive structures. I will illustrate in a discrete example and then …

Abstract Divine and royal statuary is an integral part of the Egyptian temple. The temples we visit today may have kept their walls, and sometimes even their ceilings, but most of them are almost completely emptied of their rich furnishings, which …

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 …

Liam Murphy is invited by the assembly of the Collège de France, on the proposal of Pr   Samantha Besson. As part of the agreement signed between Collège de France and New York University. Frontispiece to Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651). Public domain. …

Résumé Dans cette présentation, j’examinerai la représentation de la Mongolie, du Tibet et du Xinjiang dans les parlements de la Chine du début du XX e  siècle, notamment au sein du Conseil consultatif politique ( Zizhengyuan   資政院 ) de la fin des Qing et …

Abstract Traditionally, actors were hired to do jobs that condemned them to playing the same range of characters throughout their careers. It was in the 1980s, with Antoine Vitez in particular, that this practice began to crumble, giving way to roles and …

Abstract What a strange thing it is to have as a profession that of acting ! While theater addresses a collective body, present here and now, in a form that will never be reproduced identically, cinema seeks to create the intimate, reproduced and diffused …