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Abstract Standardised long-term biodiversity monitoring schemes, based on repeated visits to fixed sites, offer the possibility of comparing biodiversity in space and time, while avoiding most of the biases associated with opportunistic data, particularly …

Abstract Switzerland's biodiversity is systematically surveyed by an array of programs, each designed to cover distinct facets of biodiversity across spatial scales as well as policy evaluation needs. Although each initiative has discrete aims, …

Abstract Long-term monitoring is a crucial tool for anticipating population collapse, which is particularly important in the case of priority species (rare, endangered or threatened). The 'Adopt a plant' programme was launched in 2013 as a collaborative …

Abstract Volunteer-based plant monitoring in the UK has focused historically on distribution mapping, with less emphasis on the collection of data on plant communities and habitats. However, abundance monitoring for other groups of organisms is …

Summary Tracing back to the four interlocked ibexes walking in a circle that features the so-called "Hunt Patera" (in the Louvre Museum) from the temple of Baal at Ugarit, Syria, dated to the 14th-13th  century BCE, this lecture discusses the original …

On Thursday April 25 , Entre-Temps organized two round tables at the Collège de France as part of the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. An opportunity to reflect collectively on the experiences of this recent past. For …

Summary In the 7th  century, the Tibetans began to dominate a broad territory that extended across the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. It was suggested that some ideas and practices of their indigenous Bon religion were acquired from western Tibet, which was once …

Abstract The importance of the body in Étienne-Jules Marey's research may seem obvious : the walking man, the trotting horse, the bird and the insect in flight are the privileged objects of the graphic method and chronophotography. Beyond this, the …

Abstract This lecture discusses the often-labeled Sasanian or Sogdian silk textiles featuring beaded roundels enclosing animals which became very popular across Eurasia for the entire Middle Ages. Although some animals, such as the duck, ram, or flying …

Chairman  : Michael Murez Abstract The argument from understanding defends a dualist view about experiential properties: their nature is non-physical. The premises of the argument are (a) phenomenal essentialism (that phenomenal concepts reveal the nature …

Presidency  : Matheus Valente Abstract I argue that there is good reason to deny that first person access to our conscious states is omniscient, infallible, incorrigible, or reveals their essence. Yet first person access is still privileged compared to …

Dreamer , Fu Baoshi (1904-1965), circa 1940-1945. Musée Cernuschi. Haun Saussy is invited by the assembly of the Collège de France on the proposal of Pr Anne Cheng. Abstract In imperial China, the profession of letters was usually pursued alongside an …