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Abstract The hypothesis guiding this session (and the following one) is that the Napoleonic period is an essential milestone for understanding the transformation of the languages of the universal inherited from the Enlightenment, and their revival in an …

Abstract Demographic transitions are often attributed to reduced fertility, triggered by significant developments in several areas. In this respect, Africa's health gains should be given greater recognition for its demographic growth. The fact that Africa …

Abstract We give further proofs of the fact that, for a random hyperbolic surface of large genus, the spectral hole is close to 1/4. In the first hour, we address the problem of the existence of infinitely many topological types of periodic geodesics in …

Abstract Over the past three years, negotiations under the parallel processes of the Post-Cotonou and African Union-European Union Agreements, initiated following the AU-EU Abidjan Summit in November 2017, have adopted a cynical and unproductive tone. …

Abstract The relationship that develops between reader and author can last over time, reshaping itself according to the sensitivities of different eras and personal evolution. Chantal Thomas's lifelong relationship with the Marquis de Sade has taken …

Abstract With its evocation of the grave and death threatening love and happiness, Paul-Jean Toulet's poem " En Arles " could provide a fairly good commentary on Nicolas Poussin's Shepherds of Arcadia . As for the fanciful couplet quoted in the previous …

Abstract While his assimilation of repudiation to divorce aroused the displeasure of his disciples, Christ used a parable about the eunuchs to make himself understood, or rather obeyed ( "   comprenne qui pourra   ") ( Matthew, 1, 10-12). Those who are " …

Daniele Ferrari: "Religious minorities: international and European law" Jocelyne Cesari: "Islam and democracy in immigration countries" …

Abstract The assumptive attitudes theorized by Meinong are mental attitudes about states of affairs, factual or otherwise, which they qualify positively or negatively, but without implying, with regard to them, the kind of conviction characteristic of …

Abstract The portraits to be drawn in the lecture are those of people who lived during the reign of Zimri-Lim : we will therefore begin by studying this king, who occupied the throne of Mari from 1775 to 1761. Little is known about his life before his …

Abstract What makes a concept what it is? What distinguishes, for example, my concept of a tiger from my concept of a cat? Is it what the concept refers to, or is it the subject's conception of it? According to the referentialist thesis, the first answer …

Abstract The cutoff phenomenon is an abrupt transition from the non-equilibrium state to the equilibrium state undergone by certain Markov processes in the limit where the number of states tends to infinity. Discovered forty years ago in the context of …