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Newsletter Collège De France CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT CAN EUROPE RISE TO THE CHALLENGE? Collège de France Newsletter 2013 / 2014 NO. 9 Published annually since the 2005 / 2006 academic year, the English-language Collège de France Newsletter is an anthology of translated articles selected from the two or three yearly issues of La lettre du Collège de France, which was launched in January 2001. Both the French and English publications mir- ror the life of the institution, its inaugural lectures, lectures and seminars, and include information and announcements relating to the Collège de France’s Chairs and professors: interviews with professors, in- depth analyses of current debates, reviews of the insti- tution’s and its professors’ publications and activities, as well as institutional fact-sheets. The Collège de France Newsletter is but one of the means through which the Collège de France dissemin- ates teaching and research throughout the world. It is also available on www.college-de-france.fr. Most art icles included in this issue were first published in nos. 38 and 39 (Academic year 2013 / 2014). 9 2 Editorial ............................................................................................................................. 05 Serge HAROCHE INAUGURAL LECTURES CONTENTS Sanjay SUBRAHMANYAM ...................................................................................... 08 At the Origins of Global History Frantz GRENET ............................................................................................................ 09 Re-Centring Central Asia Pierre-Michel MENGER............................................................................................ 10 Difference, Competition and Disproportion Alain de LIBERA .......................................................................................................... 11 Where is Medieval Philosophy Going? Jean-Marie TARASCON ............................................................................................ 12 Examples and Future of a Millennial History Alain FISCHER .............................................................................................................. 13 Immunity, Genetics and Medicine Dominique CHARPIN ................................................................................................ 14 How to be an Assyriologist? On the Assyriologist’s daily work PLURI-ANNUAL VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS Jean-Louis COHEN ..................................................................................................... 15 Architecture, Modernity, and Modernization Jean-Jacques HUBLIN ............................................................................................. 16 Biology of Culture ANNUAL CHAIRS Gilles BŒUF .................................................................................................................. 17 Biodiversity, from the Ocean to the City Philippe WALTER ......................................................................................................... 18 On the Artist’s Palette: Chemical physics in artistic creativity François BOURGUIGNON ...................................................................................... 19 Poverty and Development in a Globalized World: Does development aid help development? Nicholas AYACHE ........................................................................................................ 20 From Medical Imaging to the Digital Patient SPECIAL REPORTS Two New Institutes at the Collège de France ........................................................... 21 The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology ............................................. 28 The Institute of Civilizations: Interview with Thomas RÖMER ............................. 32 CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT: Can Europe rise to the challenge? ................. 34 PRIZES AND DISTINCTIONS INSERM Grand Prize for 2013: Prof. Stanislas Dehaene ....................... 40 Other Prizes and Distinctions ..................................................................................... 41 The 2014 Fields Medals .......................................................................................... 42 CHAIRS Jean-Noël ROBERT .................................................................................................... 44 The Many Faces of Ling Gesar Jean KELLENS .............................................................................................................. 46 The Achaemenid Religion: Comparing sources John SCHEID ................................................................................................................. 47 Temples in Gaul and Italy. New excavations and discoveries Claudine TIERCELIN .................................................................................................. 48 The Philosophy of Causation Thomas RÖMER ........................................................................................................... 50 Between Gods and Humans: Angels, demons and others Antoine COMPAGNON .............................................................................................. 52 The Collège de France: 1973, 1993, 2013 A retrospective outlook on Marcel Bluwal’s documentaries Pierre ROSANVALLON ................................................................................................... 54 Democracy in Labour 3 Pierre-Michel MENGER............................................................................................ 55 Big Data, Businesses and the Social Sciences Édouard BARD ............................................................................................................. 56 Holocene North African Climate CONTENTS Gabriele VENEZIANO ..................................................................................................... 58 A Boson Named Higgs PLURI-ANNUAL VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS Jean-Louis COHEN ..................................................................................................... 60 Architecture and Urban Form ANNUAL CHAIRS Yves BRÉCHET ............................................................................................................. 62 Filling Gaps in Materials Space: Methods and applications Nicholas AYACHE ........................................................................................................ 63 From Medical Images to Computational Medicine Philippe WALTER ......................................................................................................... 64 Art and Chemistry AUTUMN SYMPOSIUM 2014 Around 1914 New Figures of Thinking: Science, art and literature ............................. 65 INTERNATIONAL Yoichi HIGUCHI ........................................................................................................... 72 Overview of the Notion of the Individual in Modern Japan Zurab MAKHARADZE ..................................................................................................... 73 The Rich Kurgans of the Ancient Bronze in Eastern Georgia Frédéric LAUGRAND ................................................................................................. 74 Ontology on Ice: The Inuit of the central Canadian Arctic and their animals Helmut MÜLLER .......................................................................................................... 76 Hellenistic and Roman Pergamon: Five centuries of history illuminated by inscriptions Glen W. BOWERSOCK ............................................................................................... 78 Pagan Angels in Late Antiquity INTERVIEW “Christine Petit is Bringing the Deaf out of the World of Silence” .................................................................................. 79 TRIBUTES Christine PETIT, Philippe SANSONETTI .......................................................... 80 François Jacob Nicolas VATIN .................................................................................................................... 86 A Day of Tribute to Gilles Veinstein André MIQUEL .............................................................................................................. 87 Jean-Pierre de Morant Roger CHARTIER, Pierre ROSANVALLON ...................................................... 88 Maurice Agulhon FACTS AND DATA 2013 / 2014 Professors.......................................................................................................................... 92 Emeritus Professors ....................................................................................................... 93 Sponsorships ................................................................................................................. 94 Exhibition: Tony Cragg at the Collège de France ........................................ 97 Visiting Professors ...................................................................................................... 98 Pluri-Annual Visiting Professorships .............................................................. 100 Libraries and Archives ........................................................................................... 101 Publications ................................................................................................................... 114 Announcements ........................................................................................................ 116 4 EDITORIAL In my last editorial as Administrator, I would like to reflect on the Collège de France in the twenty-first century, on its projects, and on the
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