The Harris School of Public Policy
(University of Chicago): Fall Meeting of the Dean's International
Council.
October 23-25
Conference Numerical and
Stochastic Models
Organized by the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions of the Université
Paris VI and the Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles
Aléatoires of the Université Paris VI / Paris VII.
with George Papanicolaou (Stanford), Jean-Luc Starck (CEA Saclay),
Mireille Bossy (INRIA Sophia), Eric Moulines (ENS Télécommunications),
Pierre Del Moral (Nice), Sylvie Méléard (Ecole Polytechnique),
Emmanuel Grenier (ENS Lyon), Jacques Demongeot (Grenoble), Agnès
Sulem (INRIA Rocquencourt), Jean-Pierre Fouque (UC Santa Barbara)
Nicole El Karoui (Ecole Polytechnique), Didier Lucor (Paris 6),
Josselin Garnier (Paris 7), Etienne Pardoux (Marseille).
Conference "Agricultural
Policies in the United States and Europe: What's at Stake"
Organized by the Chicago Council on Global Policy, the Consulate
General of France in Chicago, the Paris Center of the University
of Chicago, the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and the Institut National pour la Recherche Agronomique
(INRA).
The Looting of Antiquities in Iraq Today: What is to be done ?
Organized by Lawrence Rothfield (University of Chicago)
with Neil Brodie (Research Director, Illicit Antiquities Research Centre, Cambridge University), Lt. Col. Joris D. Kila, (Network Manager for Cultural Affairs with the Civil-Military Co-operation (CIMIC) of the Netherlands Army and advisor for International Cultural Heritage), Guido Carducci (Chief, International Standards Section, Culture Sector, UNESCO), Gaetano Palumbo (Director of Archaeological Conservation Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia, World Monuments Fund), Anna Paolini (Program Specialist for Middle East Countries, Museum Section, Division of Cultural Heritage, UNESCO)
Monolingual and Bilingual
Dictionaries: language, culture, literature.
Organized by Giovanni Dotoli (Università di Bari)
with Jana Altmanovà (Università di Bari), Celeste Boccuzzi (Università di Bari), Giovanni
Dotoli (Università di Bari), Annick Farina (Università
di Firenze), Yves Garnier (Larousse, France), Jean Pruvost (Unviversité
de Cergy-Pontoise), Alain Rey (Le Robert, France) and Valeria
Zotti (Università di Bologna).
Organized by Philippe Desan (University of Chicago).
Prominent Marx specialists will examine the place of Marx
in the 21st century.
with Jacques Bidet (Université de Paris X), Alex Callinicos
(King’s College), Michael Hardt (Duke University), Yann Moulier-Boutang
(Université de Technologie de Compiègne), Moishe
Postone (University of Chicago) and Emmanuel Renault (ENS-LSH, Lyon).
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March 16
2007
9:30 AM to 6:30 PM
Modernités de Perrault
Organized by Larry Norman (University of Chicago) and Jean-Pierre
Van Elslande (Université de Neuchâtel).
with Emmanuel Bury (Université de Versailles et Institut
Universitaire de France), Marc Escola (Université de Paris
IV – Sorbonne), Françoise Lavocat (Université
de Paris VII – Denis Diderot), Ludivine Goupillaud (Université
de Versailles), Larry Norman (University of Chicago), Jean-Paul
Sermain (Université de Paris III – Sorbonne nouvelle)
and Jean-Pierre Van Elslande (Université de Neuchâtel).
a talk with Allen Sanderson, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Chicago.
Why do Americans think that watching soccer is like watching paint dry? Is the use of drug enhancement in sports really different than enhancements used in other professions? Are we justified in criticizing sports superstars for their salaries? Why are young athletes allowed in certain sports but not others? Why do professional leagues
employ player drafts but colleges do not? What would Robin Hood -- and Adam Smith -- think about all of this?
Economics can explain many interesting phenomena in sports that we will explore together.
March 20
2007
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM.
Auger France Meeting
9:30: Welcome:
Phillipe Desan – director of The University of Chicago Paris Center
Tiina Sumoijarvi – Announcements
9:40-9:55: Summary of the Spectrum Meeting - Nicolas Busca (APC)
10:00-10:10: Spectrum Results – Nicolas Busca (APC)
10:15-10:30: Spectre horizontal – Olivier Deligny (IPNO)
10:35-10:50 Elongation Rate – Denis Allard (APC)
11:30-11:40: Distributions a priori des temps d'arrivee des muons et des photons dans les cuves d'Auger - Sylvie Dagoret (LAL)
11:45-12:00: Modélisation du signal muonique par Monte Carlo Markov chains
Balazs Kegl (LAL)
12:05-12:15: Le comptage de muon - Garrido Xavier (LAL)
12:20-12:30: Shower Simulations - Anne Stutz (Grenoble)
14:00-14:15: Summary of Auger North Meeting – Angela Olinto (APC)
14:20-14:40: Update on Ntuplet Search - Pierre Billoir (LPNHE)
14:45-15:00: Simulated Ntupleas and Auger North – Nicolas Busca (APC)
15:05-15:25: Correlations with AGN's - Dmitri Semikoz (APC)
16:00-16:15: Acceptance - Benjamin Rouille’ d’Orfeuil (LPNHE)
16:20-16:40: Simulations de propagation - Gunter Sigl (APC)
16:45-17:00 Multiwavelength studies - Toni Venters (APC)
17:05-17:30: Discussion
17:30 – adjourn
March 30-31
2007
9:30 AM to 6:30 PM
Montaigne théologien ?
Organized by Philippe Desan (University of Chicago).
This international colloquium will study the religious and
theological aspects of Montaigne’s writings. Several papers
will also situate his role as mayor of Bordeaux and special envoy
of the King in the context of the Religious wars and the Huguenot
uprisings in the region of Gascony.
with Jean-Robert Armogathe (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes),
Jean Balsamo (Université de Reims), Frédéric
Brahami (Université de Franche-Comté), Hans-Peter
Bippus (Tübingen), Vincent Carraud (Université de
Caen), Jaume Casals (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelone), Jean
Céard (Université de Paris X – Nanterre),
Philippe Desan (University of Chicago), Emmanuel Faye (Université
de Paris X – Nanterre), Thierry Gontier (Université de Lyon III), Amy Graves (State
University of New York – Buffalo), Philip Hendrick (University
of Ulster), Ruedi Imbach (Université de Paris IV –
Sorbonne), Alain Legros (CESR, Tours), Jean-Luc Marion (Université
de Paris IV – Sorbonne), Paul Mathias (Lycée Henri IV), Jan Miernowski (University
of Wisconsin – Madison), Jesús
Navarro (Universidad de Sevilla), John O’Brien (University
of London), André Pessel (Paris), Bernard Sève (Lycée
Louis-le-Grand), André Tournon (Université d’Aix-Marseille).
Variations, competition
and evolution of case
in several linguistic domains
Conference organized by the universities of Chicago, Limoges,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Paris I, Paris IV, the Institut catholique de
Paris and the UMR 8546.
This conference deals with languages belonging to various
linguistic domains. It focuses on questions arising from the synchronic
variation and the competition between several cases within the
same language as well as, as a consequence of this variation,
on their diachronic evolution.
with Agostiniani Luciano (Université de Pérouse),
Françoise Bader (EPHE), Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest (CNRS,
EPHE), Pelio Fronzaroli (Université de Florence) , Michèle
Fruyt (Paris IV), Gene Gragg (University of Chicago), Hani Hanajneh
(Jordanie, Paléo-Arabe du nord et du sud), Rebecca Hasselbach
(University of Chicago), Jean Haudry (Lyon 3 et EPHE), Gerd Haverling
(Göteborg, Suède), Robert Hawley (Yale University,
ICP), Wolfhart Heinrichs (Harvard University), Folke Josephson
(Université de Göteborg, Suède), Jean Kellens
(Collège de France), Isabelle Klock-Fontanille (Université
de Limoges), Isebart Lambert (Louvain-la-Neuve), René Lebrun
(Université de Louvain-la-Neuve et Institut catholique
de Paris), Florence Malbran-Labat (CNRS), Vincent Martzloff (Lyon
2), Michel Mazoyer (Paris I), Craig Melchert (Université
du Michigan), Dennis Pardee (University of Chicago), Jorge Pérez
Rey (Paris 1), Daniel Petit (ENS-Ulm), Georges Pinault (EPHE),
Eric Pirart (Université de Liège), Paolo Poccetti
(Université de Rome 2 « Tor Vergata » ), Serguei
Sakhno (Paris 10), Mirio Salvini (hourrite/Ourartien), Christian
Touratier (Université d’Aix-en-Provence), Gilles
Van Heems (Ecole française de Rome) and Christopher Woods
(University of Chicago).
A talk by Robert Fogel (University of Chicago, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1993) on Health Trends and Health Policy , followed by a roundtable chaired by Pierre Rosanvallon (Collège de France), with Patrice Bourdelais (directeur d'études à l'EHESS), François Héran (directeur de l'INED), Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (Caltech, Ecole Economique de Paris) and Jean-Frédéric Schaub (directeur d'études à l'EHESS).
Fondation des Etats-Unis, 15 boulevard Jourdan, Paris 14e.
The Symposium seeks to foreground the significance of Cervantes in the works of French writers and thinkers from Rabelais to Foucault. The participants are distinguished scholars from the United States and Europe.
Organized by Frederick de Armas (University of Chicago)
with
2:00 PM: Philippe Desan (University of Chicago): “Rabelais, Montaigne and Cervantes: the Nobility on Horseback”,
2:45 : Anthony Close (Cambridge University): “Cervantes and Neo-Classicism”,
3:30 : Frederick de Armas (University of Chicago): “Quixotic Ekphrasis: Cervantes and Diderot’s Le Neveu de Rameau”,
4:30 : Jean Canavaggio (University of Paris X): “Flaubert, lecteur de Don Quichotte à travers sa correspondance”,
5:15 : Julio Jensen (University of Copenhagen): “Cervantes and Foucault”.
Conference: Littérature et morale, d'un genre à l'autre
Organized by Jean-Charles Darmon (ENS), Philippe Desan (University of Chicago) and Michel Murat (ENS).
Friday May 11: ENS (Salle des Actes).
Saturday May 12: Université de Chicago, Paris Center.
with Barbara Carnevali (Université de Pise), Philippe Desan (University of Chicago), Gerard Ferreyrolles (Université Paris IV), Pierre Force (Columbia University), Denis Guénoun (Université Paris-IV), Béatrice Guion (Université Toulouse II), Yves Hersant (EHESS), Marielle Macé (CNRS), Gianni Paganini (Universita del Piemonte Orientale), Maël Renouard (ENS), Jean Salem (Université Paris I) and Florence Vatan (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).
Organized by Francine Markovits (Université de Paris X
- Nanterre)
with Olivier Jouanjan (Université de Strabourg), Agnès Lejbowicz (CNRS-UMR Besançon), Francine Markovits (Université de Paris X
- Nanterre), Eric Maulin
(Université de Strasbourg), Georges Pieri (Université
de Bourgogne), Jean-Fabien Spitz (Université Paris I) and Michel Troper (Université Paris X – Nanterre).
La question du machiavélisme est centrale dans la réflexion politique moderne; celle-ci se développe en référence aux textes fondateurs d’une nouvelle science politique, les Discours sur la première décade de Tite-Live et le Prince, par un approfondissement de l’héritage conceptuel de l’antiquité et la sécularisation de l’ancien ordre chrétien. Le XVIe siècle voit en France à la fois une précoce découverte des écrits de Machiavel, à la cour et dans les milieux de robe, l’instrumentalisation de la pensée politique machiavélienne et l’utilisation polémique de la figure du secrétaire florentin dans le contexte des guerres civiles, l’Âge classique, la récupération, sous divers avatars, d’une doctrine longtemps scandaleuse, mais seule capable de donner à comprendre la réalité.
Dans le cadre du réseau européen de recherche et de débat consacré à la pensée machiavélienne et au « machiavélisme » dans la tradition politique occidentale (XVIe-XXe siècle), patronné par la Fondazione Luigi Firpo, de Turin, cette journée d’étude permettra de faire le point de vingt années de recherches sur le domaine français, et de présenter un certain nombre de « figures » du machiavélisme sous les derniers Valois et les premiers Bourbons.
avec Enzo Baldini (Università di Torino), Jean Balsamo
(Université de Reims), Ariane Boltanski (Université de Rennes), Arnaud Coulombel (Université de Chicago), Rosanna Gorris Camos (Universita di Verona), Chiara Lastraioli (Université de Tours, CESR), Catherine
Séguier-Leblanc (Université de Reims) et Jacob Soll
(Rutgers University).
Organized by Philippe Desan (University of Chicago), Frank Lestingant (Université Paris IV Sorbonne, Centre V.L. Saulnier) and Alexandre Tarrête.
with Michel Jeanneret (Johns Hopkins University), G.Hugo Tucker (University of Reading), Philippe Desan (University of Chicago), Richard A.Cooper (University of Oxford), Guillaume Berthon (Université Paris-IV Sorbonne), Colette H. Winn (Washington University), Marie-Madeleine Fragonard (Université Paris III), Grégoire Holtz (Université Paris-IV Sorbonne), Laurence Augereau (Université du Havre), Elsa Kammerer (Université Lille-III).
Round table led by: Alexandre Tarrête with David Ellis (University of Kent), Anne-Marie Cocula (Université Bordeaux-III), Madeleine Lazard (Université Paris-III), Yvonne Bellenger (Université de Reims) and Franck Lestringant (Université Paris-IV Sorbonne)
Organized by Max Blechman (University of Chicago) in collaboration with literary review Europe.
with Max Blechman, University of Chicago and co-editor of the Chicago Review's special issue on Rexroth, Jean-Baptiste Para, managing editor of Europe, and Joël Cornuault, Rexroth's main french translator (L'automne en Californie, Editions Fédérop, 1994, and Les constellations d'hiver, Librairie La Brèche, 1999). They will discuss the relevance of Rexroth as a poet, critic and visionary. A selection of Rexroth's poems will be read in the original English, followed by Cornuault's french renderings. Books in both languages, on and bu Rexroth, will be available for sale, as well as issues of the Rexroth edition of the Chicago Review.
