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Abstract The extraordinary development of sporting performance, which continues to break records and always seems to be pushing back the physical limits, is based on an increasingly detailed knowledge of physiology and the human body. But what do we know …

Abstract In this lecture, I will discuss the exciting (and for a long time unexpected) finding that distinct areas of the adult brain continue to generate new neurons throughout life. He will show how newborn neurons affect brain structure and function …

Abstract I will be responding to Sloterdijk's leçon at the Collège de France, posing a question about what it means to take possession of the earth, and a question about the modern citizen's obligations in the era of globalization. Robert Pogue Harrison …

Abstract The starting point for the following reflections is provided by the theses of media and cultural theorist Friedrich Kittler, according to whom the poet Homer was the founder of the revolutionary cultural innovation of vowel notation in ancient …

Abstract This second lecture advances the thesis that, after the Second World War, a particular conception of democracy emerged in Western Europe - what the speaker describes as " constrained democracy ". This conception was based on a fear of …

Abstract Codified in England from the end of the 18th   century, modern sports appeared in France at the end of the 19th   century. Despite the spread and spectacularization of the practice in the first half of the twentieth   century, it wasn't until …

Abstract We are interested in the question of counting cuspidal and autodual automorphic representations of GL(n) over Q which are unbranched in all prime and algebraic numbers of given distinct weights. Thanks to Arthur's work, it essentially amounts to …