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Abstract After Victor Hugo last week , another giant of the 19th   century joins us for this   session : Jules Michelet. Michelet, "   creator of the history of France   ", was instrumental in naturalizing the idea of France's universal mission. To …

Abstract Discussion of cultural, commercial and political relations between the Levant and Mesopotamia in the Ebla archive period (with Anatolia and Egypt in the background). Examination of the question of center and periphery. Abstract on the original …

Abstract Ever since Barthes' "Death of the Author", we've known that the author of a fictional text must be separated from its narrator. However, certain statements generate tensions that lead the reader to wonder who is speaking, who is responsible for …

Abstract In Poussin's first version of Et in Arcadia ego , the formal tension between the discrete and the continuous, between the movement of reality, on the one hand, and the immobility imposed by pictorial representation, on the other, this formal …

Abstract Oratores, bellatores, laboratores  : can we make a gendered history of the famous trifunctionality by which medieval society was supposed to represent itself  ? In Les Trois Ordres ou l'imaginaire du féodalisme (1973), Georges Duby asserts that " …

Exceptionally, the lecture will take place on a Thursday. …

Juliette Galonnier: "Conversions to Islam" Sébastien Fath: "Evangelical Protestantism: proselytism and conversions" …

Exceptionally, the seminar will be held on a Thursday. …

Abstract The second lecture will cover the breakthrough upper bound for the size of three-term progression free subset of F_p^n of Ellenberg and Gijswijt. The lecture will present a reformulation of the proof of this bound due to Tao, using the so-called …

Abstract of the presentation by Fouzia Boulmedais Nanocoatings of polysaccharides and proteins with bioactive properties for biomaterials Biomaterials are medical devices designed to diagnose, treat or prevent disease. Their surface is where interactions …

Abstract Peter Strawson has argued that every object in our everyday experience is one as an individual particular. However, why should anything be one if it is individual and also particular? I argue that being individual and being particular introduce …

Abstract The case of Habdu-malik is interesting, as this " prime minister " (SUKKAL), being mostly close to the king, left few letters and remains rather poorly known. Fortunately, this is not the case for the " ministers of the economy " (šandabakkum ), …

Abstract According to a second hypothesis, the R relation that makes two private concepts (the mental files of two distinct individuals) instances of the same shared concept is simply the fact that the two files refer to the same thing. This …

Abstract 90 years ago, in a study that caused a scandal at the time (By Light, Light: The Mystic Gospel of Hellenistic Judaism , New Haven 1935) , Erwin R. Goodenough put forward the idea that Judaism in the Greek world had evolved into a form of mystical …