In this session Mohammad Larijani will talk about WTO (World Trade Organization), its origin, development and structure. Then he will explain some key concepts in international economy and trade along with WTO approach towards them. At the end he will discuss Iran's accession request and process to WTO and will talk about effects, advantages and disadvantages of Iran's accession to WTO.... more >>

Why languages die and what can accelerate or decelerate this? This talk will be a brief overview of Claude Hagege's book titled "On the death and life of Languages". Hagege is a renowned French linguist currently the chair of Linguistic Theory at the College de France in Paris. In his book he reviews the most important factors that play a role in extinction of languages all over the world, the measure that can be taken to stop this seemingly inevitable... more >>

The "dangerous idea" of Charles Darwin, Evolution, has intensely influenced not only the biological fields but also most of our perceptions of the world. The word culture is a controversial concept It has various definitions depending on the context. Culture is used as synonym to art, literature, history, religion, society, ... individually or or all together. The evolutionary point of view to culture, tries to explain the origins, development and characteristic of cultures as well as the commencement of the... more >>

The scientific definition of climate includes a very complex interaction between several dynamic systems that leads to a very delicate balance. Antropogenic, or human induced, climate change is a critical issue in science and in the affairs of humankind. The political heat of the debate has masked the scientific aspect of it from the public. Though the target of substantial research, the conclusions of climate change studies remain subject to numerous uncertainties. In this talk we present a very brief... more >>

Relieved from the non-secular metaphysics, the modern Man is struggling with a new kind of metaphysics which we may call it "metaphysics in the sense of Heidegger" or "secular metaphysics". In contrast to natural sciences in which the Man gave up the idea of being at the center of the universe, and got benefited from this incredibly, when it comes to "knowledge", he still implicitly assume a central role for himself. He assumes he has the responsibility, and morally... more >>

CaféLitt is not a place; it is a gathering of minds. We are a group of mostly Persian young students, scholars and professionals who gather every Thursday evening around 19h00 in a café to discuss various subjects and share different ideas, ranging vastly from history to science, from literature to fine arts. We started these gatherings on Jan 17th, 2006. Each week, one of us takes the responsibility of presenting a topic (in Persian, English or French) for about an hour in a subject s/he is intimately familiar with or has an expertise in... more...