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Marie Amalric Marie Amalric is a cognitive scientist and post-doctoral associate at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, and the Harvard Department of Psychology, as well as a junior professor at INSERM. Her research focuses on the …

Abstract The sequencing of the human genome has taught us that the majority of our genetic differences are made up of extra pages, missing pages and/or pages whose order is altered in our "   encyclopedia of life   ". These variations in the architecture …

Abstract This lecture will address a major question in human genomics and public health  : how do genetics and the environment interact in the development of disease  ? We'll start by examining how the environment -   the exposome   - can affect our …

La vidéo sera disponible prochainement. Abstract Inequalities in health, a phenomenon as old as it is universal, represent a major challenge for social justice. Health statistics attest to their scale in every country in the world. Numerous studies, most …

Abstract Taking as its starting point the only medical teaching contract on papyrus known to date, this book examines the concrete conditions of access to the medical profession in Greco-Roman Egypt. What do papyri tell us about the training of future …

Abstract In 1948, when the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it affirmed "   that the United Nations cannot remain indifferent to the fate of minorities   ". Nevertheless, it decided "   not to deal with the question …

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Takahiro Nakajima has been invited by the assembly of the Collège de France at the suggestion of Professor Anne Cheng. Abstract The Organization of Philosophy as an Institution Inoue Tetsujirō claimed to have introduced the now widely used distinction …

Abstract Chapters 7-10 present several accounts of conquest. Before the conquest of the city of Ai (Jos 8), chapter 7 relates a case of non-compliance with the ritual of the interdict. Jos 9 raises the question of cohabitation instead of conquest, and Jos …

Abstract Following on from the Homeric Hymn to Demeter in the previous lecture, this lesson focuses on the Hymn to Hermes. Like other works of the same type, this hymn explores the timē of the god, the honors that should accrue to him. The son of the …

Abstract This lecture will focus on one of the five global drivers of biodiversity loss, biological invasions. Through a variety of examples, we will explore definitions, concepts, patterns and trends. We will summarize the major global figures revealed …

Lecture outline: group unbundling operation; a paradigmatic example of the definition of non-set types, the Eilenberg-MacLane spaces; use of these types to define cohomology …

Abstract The control of irrigation by a bureaucratic apparatus linked to religious and/or state power is at the heart of social theories that have marked the history of ideas over the last one hundred and fifty years. Although largely discredited, they …

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 The idea that the individual was susceptible to cultivation also drew the attention of XVIIIᵉ   century writers to the problem of defining the individual, and to the question of his ability to reinvent himself. In this lecture, I will examine …

Gunnel Ekroth's lecture "A table for two? Food consumption, the use of space and divine-human interaction in the temenos ", originally scheduled to follow Emmanuel Dupraz's lecture, has been …