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Value-learning and perceptual learning have been an important focus over the past decade, attracting the concerted attention of experimental psychologists, neurobiologists and the machine learning community. Despite some formal connections; e.g. , the …

The destinies of the Indian and Iranian communities followed distinct readings: for the Parsis, the 19th century was a time of emancipation and wealth. For the Mazdeans of Iran, the 19th century was a time of repression and loss. So the Parsis set about …

There are few texts that, like Quixote , have aroused such an intense and frequent impulse among visual artists towards the desire or necessity of illustration. In the West, perhaps only the Bible and the Divine Comedy could compare with Quixote in the …

The Arab conquests of the Sassanid empire had, in one fell swoop, robbed the Mazdeans of Iran of all profane power. The success of these conquests is seen in Muslim tradition (and historiography) as proof of the superiority of Islam. For the Mazdeans, …

For Aby Warburg, a Pathosformel is a set of representative and meaningful forms, historically determined at the moment of their first synthesis, which reinforces the understanding of the meaning of what is represented by mobilizing the affective field …

The massacre is an event in human history whose narrative presented Greek and Roman historians with enormous difficulties, both in its narrative construction and in its rational explanation. This lecture will show, firstly, how historiography and art …

Mazdeism begins in a society without kings and survives in a society without (Mazdean) kings. Between the two lies the long period of imperial Mazdeism, which begins with Darius and ends with the last Sassanid king, Yazdegerd III. Between the VIᵉ century …

A Collège de France - CNED coproduction Abstract " If the doctor's task is to prevent or cure disease, the anthropologist's is to "resocialize" the tragedy of those who suffer needlessly, to reveal what links it to the whole of contemporary society as …

This lecture will examine the reception and treatment of the myth of Ulysses and the story of the Odyssey in Italian and Flemish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries. It will show that a comic interpretation of this story went hand in hand with the …

The first lesson serves as a methodological introduction to history proper, which only begins with the Achaemenids. With the rejection of Zarathustra's historicity by some modern scholars also comes the rejection of the notion of an Iranian "conversion" …