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Stem cells have a central place in biology. Through their ability to self-renew and differentiate, they maintain, repair and, in some cases, regenerate tissues. However, there is no consensus nowadays on what exactly is a stem cell. Experimental data accumulated in recent years have challenged the t

Over the course of the XXth century, urban projects, the modern Movement, the emergence of social programs and new techniques, contributed to profound changes in the teaching of architecture, which similarly experienced the effects of the democratization and feminization of higher education. In Ger

The scribe laying down a charter did so in the expectation of its (maybe fictive?) reception by a third part, a third part which had to be convinced of the charter's validity, beyond the judicial control of formal authenticity. A charter was also the carrier of the outward expression of validity, an

The study of medieval preaching – and its main source, the sermon – offers a privileged insight into intellectual work and its techniques. This vast system of mass communication of the Church’s message and its values left a wealth of written traces, bearing witness to the ordinary, daily preaching t

The first objective is to identify these epidemics as precisely as possible (archaeological facts, chronology, DNA of pathogen), to retrace their itineraries and understand their dispersal. For the time being, although the chronology and expansion of Justinian plague can be more readily followed tha

The objectives of WILDSILKS is to study the role played by WS substances and associated cultures in the longue durée between Asia, Africa and Europe given that they have been long disregarded by social and materials sciences. Through a comparative approach with BM substances and cultures, such ref

The LiPoL research program aims to exploit the potentialities of the edition of the Tale of Baybars (Presses de l'Ifpo, 2000-2020, 18 volumes) in order to give a new impetus to research about popular Levantine literature and about Middle Arabic, its dominant linguistic register. By relying on "pop

The “Neolithic way of life" developed in the Caucasus ca. 6200 BCE, which is fairly late when compared with the astonishing steps taken by Near-Eastern cultures in the neighbouring Fertile Crescent as early as the 9th mill. BC. The existence of organic links between the Neolithisation process of the

ALMAS (the Arabic word for ‘diamond’), is an international and interdisciplinary consortium composed of excellent scientific partners based in different countries of Europe and America and aiming at renewing the study of the living and extinct languages of South Arabia (Oman, southwestern Saudi Arab

Cham Documentation Keywords : Vietnam, Cham, ancient cham, middle cham, automatic indexing of the cham characters, artificial intelligence. Parterss : CASE, Paris ; L3i, La Rochelle ; MICA, Hanoi ; Lab. des Structures Sonores, Ottawa. Fundings requested : 418219 € Duration : 48 months The CH

Human societies share the ability to develop cultural traits and to have them evolve in various geo-cultural environments, imposing different types of constraints on cultural changes. Given the geographic spread of human societies and their vast cultural diversity, these changes vary according to th

From the hominin evolution perspective, interglacial MIS 11 (including glacial MIS 10 in some places) stands out in Europe. Archaeological remains have highlighted that this period as a threshold. Following MIS 12 glaciation, considered by many as a major climatic driven crisis for Hominins, archaeo

Running counter to the cliché of an 18th century Europe enamoured with Chinese goods, culture and techniques, our project aims to uncover the —almost unknown— reverse side of the global history of technology, and in particular the taste for European decorative arts in the Sino-Manchu court. Our proj

Our project focuses on a comparative analysis of collective burial and funerary practices currently occuring in Europe and Latin America, in post-mass death and mass violence contexts. It aims at enleightening their transformations, but also the ritual, religious and political arrangements that lie

The aim of project PHILAT is to build up a lexicon of the words and notions of the Latin philosophical vocabulary and of the corresponding Greek terms in order to show how the Greek philosophical notions have been translated and acclimated in Rome, in philosophical texts as well as in other aspects

The preparation of the RIIG (Recueil informatisé des inscriptions gauloises) aims to produce a critical and commented edition of the Gaulish texts known to date, in order to constitute a complete synthesis of knowledge on Gaulish epigraphy and language. The work carried out on the inscriptions aims

Our project will: 1) produce the first annualized historical GIS (H-GIS) for France, recreating exact boundaries of all municipalities from the Revolution to the present day. It also links these spatial units to population data and access to transport networks; 2) develop a multimodal model of the t

The originality of this approach lies in its large- or medium-scale focus on cases, which makes it possible to gauge very precisely the impact of ruins on society. In short, the study will allow us to measure the heuristic value of the notion of «war landscapes«. This project is base on the cooper

Aiôn is a term from ancient philosophy, designating cyclical time, as opposed to Chronos (physical time) and Kairos (metaphysical time). While our contemporary societies function according to the model of a unidirectional time (Chronos), the case of the so-called «alternative« leisure activities all

The ALEA CRP analyses the ways in which chance has been represented in literature, the arts and fiction in general, in Europe and the United States since the 16th century. At the time of the Anthropocene, at the beginning of a 21st century deeply marked by crises (environmental, financial, health),

The archaeology of the 19th and first half of the 20th century strongly affected the cultural heritage of ancient sites through numerous and extensive excavations using improper methods As a result, a considerable information was lost, and the management of the sites was difficult to ensure. In view

MERYT project aims to build an accurate, complex and multi-technical absolute chronological model for the Egyptian Old Kingdom (~3000-2400 BCE), through an integrated approach bringing together all the analytical criteria of Egyptology, Archaeology and Archaeometry. As part of an interdisciplinary a

IThAC aims at the study of the reception of Ancient Drama in XVIth c. Europe through the analysis of the scholarly printed paratexts of its editions, and at the diffusion of the French translation of this corpus thnaks to a dynamic website. Our hypothesis is that the gathering, translation and anal

AFRINUM aims at renewing the discourse about innovation in Western African societies through the lens of the popular music industry. We consider digital technology as a globalized tool vs a cultural artifact to reflect upon the many peculiarities that this tool takes and the values to which it refer

This project seeks to reevaluate the importance of Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) in the constitution of various forms of 17th-century empiricisms in Europe. Gassendi was certainly one of the most important founding fathers of the new science and philosophy of the 17th century. But unfortunately, in co

The Western world is currently steeped in vigorous societal and scientific debates about how to deal with the experience of grief. The recent introduction of grief related mental disorders into the two international psychiatric diagnostic manuals can be seen as an historical landmark, signaling for

In the Near East, the Neolithic period is characterized by significant economic, social and symbolic changes that particularly affect the dietary habits of prehistoric societies. The gradual introduction of domesticated plants (wheat, barley, lentil) and animals (goats, sheep, cattle) in the composi