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Abstract The fourth   lecture will focus on the relationship between Greek and local cultures. After an overview of the problem, we will focus on the particularly significant case of Greek literature in Egypt. While current opinion tends to regard the …

Abstract Poetry and artistic expression are the means by which Amerindian peoples express their vision of the world. How is the diversity and creativity of the Amerindian arts and the spaces they occupy expressed today  ? Does artistic expression have a …

Abstract The indigenous languages of South America reveal visions of worlds present, past and future. They are also the vehicle for a way of thinking that unites and engages humans, the forest and living beings in a community. Since time immemorial, the …

Abstract Relations between indigenous peoples and European colonizers have been imbued with a multi-faceted violence that has developed over the centuries through the imposition of a single worldview, a single language and a single notion of territory. …

Abstract One of the most elementary foundations of living together, the relationship with the Earth, is expressed through language. For Amerindian peoples, a relationship with the land is an indication of their identity, and implies recognition of the …

Andrea-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca Andrea-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca is a linguistic anthropologist, director of the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale (LAS), and holder of the Religions des Indiens Sud-Américains  : sociétés des Basses Terres chair at the …

Patrick Suppes is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Pr Anne Fagot-Largeault. …

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 The third   lecture will focus on the question of aesthetic values, attempting to disregard a qualitative, classicist perspective in favor of the "   variable-geometry paradigm   " of the "   democratization of culture   ". The traditional …

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 …