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International audience; transHumUs is an artistic work recently exhibited at the 56th Venice Biennale. The work aims at freeing trees from their roots. How to translate this poetic ambition into technological terms? This paper reports on the setup and the implementation of the project. It shows how state of the art mobile robotics technology can contribute to contemporary art development. The challenge has been to design original mobile platforms carrying charges of three tones, while moving noiseless according to tree metabolism, in operational spaces populated by visitors.

France’s hesitant stance on EU enlargement towards the Balkans is illustrative of a broader ambivalence among both French elites and citizens towards the European project. Despite principled support for the Balkans’ EU membership, achieving this step is no strategic priority for France. The official approach emphasizes strict conditionality and a rigorous monitoring of reform progress in aspirant countries. A hostile public opinion and superficial media coverage further strengthen the country’s reluctance to admit new, possibly unprepared candidates into the Union. Analysing the historical evolution of the French position on EU enlargement as well as its current political, institutional and societal expressions, this article construes France’s disinvestment from the Balkans’ EU perspective as the result of failed expectations and a growing disillusionment with the EU’s international role and its political future more broadly. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 17 (4)

V International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2013); International audience; The paper presents the early stage of the CRISTAL project, an original French project involving linguists, computer researchers and a firm specializing in multilingual text management. What is at stake from a linguistic point of view is a deeper analysis of the notion of Knowledge Rich Context proposed by Meyer (2001). Using comparable corpora, it analyzes how the notion of KRC can vary according to text genre and/or type of users.

International audience; This essay examines the geographic origins, the political belongings and the confessional profiles of the members of the two most important mercantile nations of eighteenth-century southern Italy: the French nation and the British factory of Naples. Taking into account their pronounced prosopographic heterogeneity, it shows how legal resources and their social uses played a crucial role in defining the boundaries of such groups.

Archaeological and historical report on earth architectures, from prehistorical to modern times, in western countries; Bilan archéologique et historique sur les architectures en terre crue en Occident depuis la préhistoire jusqu'à nos jours.

Les niveaux néolithiques de l'abri-sous-roche de la Grande Rivoire sont formés d'une multitude de lentilles sédimentaires de couleurs très contrastées. Les analyses sédimentologiques montrent que les fractions fines, essentiellement limoneuses et assez fortement carbonatées, ont deux origines principales : d'une part, une importante accumulation d'excréments due au parcage maintes fois renouvelé de troupeaux d'herbivores (présence de sphérolites de calcite, fortes teneurs en matière organique, valeurs élevées en phosphates) et, d'autre part, une forte production de cendres due à des feux de bois allumés par les hommes directement sur les « fumiers » ou dans des foyers peu éloignés. Les ossements d'animaux découverts dans ces niveaux montrent, parmi les espèces domestiques, une nette prédominance des caprinés (chèvres/moutons) sur le bœuf et le porc. Les analyses archéobotaniques suggèrent pour leur part un apport intentionnel de ligneux, sous forme de branchettes feuillées et parfois fleuries. En relation avec la présence de caprinés, on peut penser à du fourrage et/ou de la litière d'arbre.Les niveaux protohistoriques se différencient nettement de ceux du Néolithique par la disparition des horizons cendreux et par une présence plus manifeste de composants naturels détritiques. Toutefois, l'analyse en lames minces des fractions fines montre que les sphérolites de calcite et les phytolithes sont encore bien présents. Cela indique que le parcage du bétail sous l'abri était encore pratiqué durant ces périodes. The neolithic levels of the rock-shelter "La Grande Rivoire" are composed of a multitude of sedimentary layers of very contrasting colours.Sedimentological analyses show that the fine fractions, mainly silty and rather strongly carbonated, have two main origins: on the one hand, an important accumulation of herbivores faeces due to the repeated penning of flocks (presence of calcite spheruliths, high concentrations of organic matter, high rate of phosphate), on the other hand, a large production of ashes from fire kindled directly on the dung or in nearby hearths. Animal bones of domestic species found in these dung levels show a large predominancy of goat/sheep over ox and pig. Archaeobotanical studies suggest a fodder/litter supply based on leafy and flowering tree branches.The protohistoric levels are different from the neolithic ones: ashy layers are missing whereas natural detritic components are better represented. Nevertheless, the analysis of thin sections from these levels shows the lasting presence of spheruliths and phytoliths. This indicates that stabling was during the Bronze and Iron Ages still practiced in the rock-shelter.

International audience; Baya-Laffite and Cointet map the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations topic structure and evolution over 20 years using a digital corpus from the most renowned internal journal of the negotiations available online, the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB). The authors’ methodological strategy combines text mining, network analysis and data visualization tools. The chapter shows how this mixed-method strategy applied to a digital corpus drawn from the ENB website, makes it possible to map climate change negotiations. Mixing traditional research methods and computer-assisted techniques, as well as manual and automated operations results in a series of unique new visual syntheses of the UNFCCC process. Narrating the visualizations allows distant readings of topics’ semantic structure and topic trajectories and thereby to test the robustness of the maps as well as the tools and methods used to produce them.

International audience; This paper describes the workflow of the Grammateus project, from gathering data on Greek documentary papyri to the creation of a web application. The first stage is the selection of a corpus and the choice of metadata to record: papyrology specialists gather data from printed editions, existing online resources and digital facsimiles. In the next step, this data is transformed into the EpiDoc standard of XML TEI encoding, to facilitate its reuse by others, and processed for HTML display. We also reuse existing text transcriptions available on . Since these transcriptions may be regularly updated by the scholarly community, we aim to access them dynamically. Although the transcriptions follow the EpiDoc guidelines, the wide diversity of the papyri as well as small inconsistencies in encoding make data reuse challenging. Currently, our data is available on an institutional GitLab repository, and we will archive our final dataset according to the FAIR principles.

Cet article présente les résultats de la campagne de terrain menée au Sénégal oriental en 2017 dans le cadre du programme international « Peuplement humain et paléoenvironnement en Afrique ». Il intègre les résultats de deux projets complémentaires : le projet ANR-FNS CheRCHA, ainsi que le projet FNS Falémé. Le premier vise à reconstituer le cadre chronostratigraphique et les évolutions culturelles au Pléistocène et à l'Holocène ancien et moyen dans la vallée de la Falémé, tandis que le second est ciblé sur les dynamiques techniques des deux derniers millénaires au Sénégal oriental.

International audience; Dans l’enquête sur la poléogénèse, le dossier érétrien apparaît singulièrement lacunaire. Érétrie se signale par sa non-fondation. L’autel circulaire du sanctuaire d’Apollon est le premier signe de l’émergence d’une communauté politico-religieuse, mais voici que l’imagerie de la céramique locale prend le relais et témoigne des premières pratiques cultuelles et rituelles dans l’enceinte du sanctuaire : s’ouvrent alors les portes du Soleil