DOSSIER: Excellent body Introduction Manuel Schotté, p. 3 “Mountaineering is something more than a sport”. The Ethics of Alpinism in Victorian England Delphine Moraldo, p. 7 The invention of the ‘best French workers’ competition (1920-1930) Stéphane Lembré, p. 29 Georges Carpentier, birth of a sport...

Oscar Wilde is regarded as the emblematic figure of Aestheticism and Art for Art’s sake and thus of the autonomisation of the arts in late nineteenth-century Britain. That is why The Soul of Man under Socialism, his most overtly political essay, published in The Fornightly Review in February 1891, h...

The issue of citizenship as the concept of social rights, such as the right to insurance of an existential minimum, are at the heart of the concerns of local and transnational legislators and judges. The aim here is to define, not without difficulty, what concepts of citizenship are likely to overla...

National audience This contribution shows the origin, intentions (sporting, cultural, territorial) and principles of this programme, and then briefly summarises the arrangements for organising the Pyrenees adventure Games in 1993. Following various studies in the geography or sociology of sport (BES...

The walls of Dickens’s city are covered in posters, bills, signs and inscriptions, resulting in the disappearance of those very walls behind the accumulation of messages. Simultaneously, these words go beyond the space allotted to them, erecting walls of words in the public space, constantly modifyi...

This article shows that the word sold, a comedy published in 1678 in the name of Fernando de Zárate (pseudonym of Antonio Enríquez Gómez) and unanimously attributed to the criticism of Lope de Vega, is in reality a recasting by Enríquez Gómez of a comedy originally due to Lope. A careful analysis of...

Study Day organised by Emeline Durand and Florian Rada Avec the support of the Paris Doctoral School of Philosophy 1 (ED 280) University Paris 1, 26-27 January 2018 Friday 26 January Grand Room Picard (UFR of History), 17 rue de la Sorbonne, 3th floor Moderation: Florian Rada 14h: Welcome to partici...

Quebec tourism on Hollywood beach in Florida, December 2013. R. Tremblay. In Quebec, the South does not exist! In the 80s, the geograph Christian Morissonneau noted that the Quebec people’s consensus on the south was around a region outside the state borders, but in the same time zone: Miami and Flo...

Islands are the first to be affected by climate change (CC): their small size, generally low altitudes and external dependence increase their vulnerability to natural, particularly coastal hazards, aggravated by CC (Bertrand and Richard, 2011). Nowadays, the introduction of adaptation to CC is criti...

In this paper we present {\em refinement modal logic}. A refinement is like a bisimulation, except that from the three relational requirements only `atoms' and `back' need to be satisfied. Our logic contains a new operator 'all' in addition to the standard modalities 'box' for each agent. The operat...

Applied ontology is a relatively new field which aims to apply theories and methods from diverse disciplines such as philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics and formal logics to perform or improve domain-specific tasks. To support the development of effective research methodologies for applied on...

There are many high-speed train projects in Europe and elsewhere in the world. These projects are now part of a context of sustainable development, and their ambition is primarily to limit, or even counter, the continuous growth of road transport for people. However, this primary ambition is accompa...

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This book describes the issues of recognition of religious diversity in terms of relations, urban public space, public debate, public visibility and social and legal recognition. It suggests thinking about the contemporary situation of plural societies at the crossroads of empirics and norms. It is...

This research work focuses on studying the representations of the journey put into circulation via the Instagram device by a group of users — which we simply define as a globe-trotters whose passion and practice from the other side are laid down as communal denominators. The study of the process of...

by Patrick Giromini When we are confronted with everyday life, any reflection in our living environment seems to be a source. Subjectivity is expressed objectively, as if the other, the subject to which our thoughts are directed, would only record a subject already given to it. But it is enough to c...

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Appellation privileges ignored the various territorial court systems with the empire and can therefore be seen as important building blocks of the judicial system of the old empire. This article examines the effects of the appeal privileges in the judicial system and thus comes within the tension be...

In addition to its wide range of substantive jurisdiction at first instance, the Supreme Court was primarily an appeal court to review decisions of regional higher courts and French courts of Austrägal. The evaluation of some 40 000 cases recorded in the Bochum database shows the variable quantitati...

The aim of this paper is to make some remarks on the seventeenth-century bilingual vocabularies of Spanish and indigenous American languages. These vocabularies were composed by missionaries who had the practical needs of evangelization in mind. I will comment on the lexicographic purposes of these...

After more than ten years of hectic debates on international ‘land grabs’, academic interest in collapsed land deals or projects with unexpected results is growing. According to the Land Matrix, Tanzania is one of the target countries for such deals, with a number ‘abandoned’ or delayed and projects...

HTWK students have added archives to their portal: http://bibliotheken-leipzig.de What should this happen? ‘The archives of the Leipzig Zoo are a mere service archive and therefore not accessible to the public.’ Reine Service Archives have every company and every authority, we call them in our jargo...

A few pictures and videos from last weekend's debut of the Penelopean weaving robots at the Algomech festival in Sheffield. After a frantic couple of weeks in mass production, a swarm of 8 robots and a may pole invaded the winter gardens, wove and un-wove braids to the sounds of livecoded beats and...

Programme 2006-2007: Mythological and artistic performances; new discoveries, new approaches.

The study which one will present door on "the French diplomacy and the Mediterranean interests' maghreban". It proposes to draw up an assessment of various aspects of the co-operation between France and the States of the Maghreban in particular the three countries of the "central Maghreb" (Morocco,...