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Abstract The insertion of an implant into the nervous system is accompanied by an immune response from the biological tissue. Scar tissue forms around the implant and often interferes with the proper functioning of the implant by impeding electrical …

Abstract Today's sportsmen and women are veritable public figures. They are known to everyone, including those who are not interested in sport. Their visibility and popularity can be seen, for example, in the fact that two footballers (Cristiano Ronaldo …

Abstract Public policies aimed at reducing social inequalities and promoting academic success by adding extra resources are sometimes ineffective because they overlook the psychosocial determinants of human behavior. This is the starting point for …

Abstract Jurists, like everyone else, whether philosopher or man in the street, were aware of man's constitutive dualism, the unity of body and soul (better still, of corpus , animus , the rational component of interiority, and anima , the sensory …

Exceptionally, the course takes place on a Wednesday. Summary Evolutionary studies discourage predictions about the future, even though they teach us not to repeat previous disastrous choices. Why shouldn't we fear that Mandarin will take the place of …

Abstract General introduction and brief history of human embryology, why study the human embryo and why grow embryoids in culture  ? Is the human embryo a mammalian embryo like any other  ? This year's lecture focuses on the latest developments in the …

Abstract The aim of this paper is to examine how language, economic and political hegemonies interact in a globalized world, and how certain tools, such as the digital, make it possible, in certain contexts, to reframe dominant languages, such as standard …

Summary In its fight against the growing hegemony of English, the institutional Francophonie has made the defense of French and its "   partner languages   " a common cause. To what extent do the latter benefit from this strategy  ? Download …

Johann Chapoutot Johann Chapoutot is Professor of Contemporary History at Sorbonne University. A specialist in the history of Nazism, Germany and Western modernity, he is the author of ten books, translated into fifteen languages and awarded ten national …

Abstract With the publication of the first volume of Spengler's monumental study Le Déclin de l'Occident -   Esquisse d'une morphologie de l'histoire universelle (Der Untergang des Abendlandes. Umrisse einer Morphologie der Weltgeschichte , published by …

Exceptionally, the lecture takes place on a Tuesday. …

Abstract After presenting the concept of " endangered languages " and the factors accelerating this phenomenon " naturel ", my talk will focus on the particular situation in Africa. The vehicularization of a language can lead to assimilation and, …

Exceptionally, the lecture takes place on a Tuesday. Abstract Giving body to ideas and making them move in space is an effective way of representing and handling abstractions. Certain spatial and ontological metaphors have become so commonplace in legal …

Summary English has emerged as a strong competitor to French in North America and in the context of global economic globalization. For demographic reasons, the future of French in the world depends on its fate in Africa. What are the challenges involved …