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The Collège de France supports and disseminates groundbreaking research in the sciences, arts and humanities. Lectures, seminars and symposia are open to all and free of charge.

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Symposium
02 Jun 2025
Thierry Coquand

Formalizing mathematics and dependent types

Lecture
2 Jun 2025
10:00 - 11:00
Franck Courchamp

Invasive ants: an excellent model for studying invasions

Seminar
2 Jun 2025
11:15 - 12:15
Céline Bellard

The science of invasions and biodiversity

Guest lecturer
2 Jun 2025
14:00 - 15:00
Mark Bowick

Nonabelian Topological Defects

Lecture
2 Jun 2025
14:00 - 16:00
Edith Heard

Implications of X Inactivation for Female Biology and Disease

Lecture
2 Jun 2025
16:30 - 18:00
Sonia Garel

Dialogue basics : from major communication channels to perceptual systems…

Lecture
3 Jun 2025
10:00 - 11:00
Nathalie Bajos

Sexual health: the reproductive order

Seminar
3 Jun 2025
11:15 - 12:15
Raphaël Perrin

When medicine produces inequalities: the case of abortion

Lecture
3 Jun 2025
14:00 - 15:00
Didier Fassin

Qualify

Lecture
3 Jun 2025
15:15 - 16:15
Didier Fassin

Refuse

Seminar
3 Jun 2025
16:30 - 18:00
Richard Rechtman

To kill, not to let live. Ordinary genocidal destruction

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Guest lecturer
3 Jun 2025
17:00 - 18:00
Hourig Sourouzian

Statuary from the million-year-old temple of Amenhotep III at Thebes

Guest lecturer
3 Jun 2025
17:30 - 19:00
Naama Friedmann

How the Same Dyslexia Manifests Itself in Different Languages

Symposium
04 Jun 2025
Jean-Jacques Hublin

Traces of death, traces of meaning in prehistory

Symposium
04 Jun 2025
Antoine Georges

Recent Advances and Applications of Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for Fermions

Symposium
04 Jun 2025
Patrick Boucheron

Humanités environnementales : a mature field ?

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Guest lecturer
4 Jun 2025
10:00 - 12:00
Cyril Letrouit

Generalizations and applications

Lecture
4 Jun 2025
14:00 - 15:30
Marc Henneaux

The Wheeler-De Witt equation for closed spaces

Guest lecturer
4 Jun 2025
14:00 - 15:00
Panagiota Sarischouli

Graeco-Egyptian voces magicae: Historicizing a Cross-Cultural Phenomenon

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Seminar
4 Jun 2025
16:00 - 17:30
Nele Callebaut

Radial canonical AdS3 gravity and TTbar theory

Symposium
05 Jun 2025 → 06 Jun 2025
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

The daimōn, between polytheism and philosophy

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Guest lecturer
5 Jun 2025
11:00 - 12:00
Takahiro Nakajima

Modern Japanese Sinology As an Imperial Discourse

Guest lecturer
5 Jun 2025
11:00 - 12:00
Marco Bonechi

From 1968 (September, not May) to 2025. Ebla, from darkness to light

Guest lecturer
5 Jun 2025
14:30 - 15:30
Naoko Shimazu

Japanese War Diaries from the Russo-Japanese War

Special events
5 Jun 2025
17:00 - 19:00
Anne-Marie Ducroux, Aurélien Bouayard & Alice Canabate

Ethical dilemmas of environmental activism

Symposium
06 Jun 2025
Sébastien Lecommandoux

Advancing Biomaterials: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Innovations

Lecture
6 Jun 2025
10:00 - 11:30
Luigi Rizzi

Syntactic calculation and locality principles

Guest lecturer
6 Jun 2025
10:30 - 12:00
Hugo Meijer

The origins of war and peace in the human species

Guest lecturer
6 Jun 2025
11:00 - 12:00
Silvia Alaura

The Anatolian studies during the 1930s through the lens of Albrecht Goetze's correspondence

Seminar
6 Jun 2025
11:30 - 13:00
Adam Ledgeway

Linguistic theory and variation : the experimental field of Romance language…

Symposium
10 Jun 2025 → 11 Jun 2025
Edith Heard

X-Chromosome Inactivation

Symposium
10 Jun 2025
Philippe Aghion

The Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Lecture
10 Jun 2025
10:00 - 11:00
Nathalie Bajos

Health and environment: Work-related accidents, a public health issue

Seminar
10 Jun 2025
11:15 - 12:15
Giovanni Prete

Their children after them : pediatric victims, sentinels of inequalities in exposure to industr…

Special events
10 Jun 2025
17:30 - 19:00
Naama Friedmann

Difficulties in Numbers and Difficulties in Letters - Do They Necessarily …

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Lecture
11 Jun 2025
14:00 - 15:30
Marc Henneaux

The Wheeler-DeWitt equation for asymptotically flat spaces

Seminar
11 Jun 2025
16:00 - 17:30
Dionysios Anninos

Cosmological 'Ising' Models

Special events
11 Jun 2025
19:00 - 20:30
Éric Ruf & Patrick Boucheron

Theater and power

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Fromes géométriques colorées (detail from Vassily Kandinsky's painting, Structure joyeuse, 1924)
Agir pour l'éducation: Reenchanting maths at school
Difficulties in Numbers and Difficulties in Letters - Do They Necessarily Appear Together?
Naama Friedmann
10 Jun 2025
The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France: a series of meetings
The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France
Theater and power
Éric Ruf & Patrick Boucheron
11 Jun 2025
Pancarte tenue à deux mains avec le slogan "Save the planet" et le dessin d'une terre
Avenir Commun Durable: Inheriting the future
Ethical dilemmas of environmental activism
Avenir Commun Durable
05 Jun 2025

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Portrait de Jules Oppert par Jacques Pilartz vers 1897 et fouilles de Khorsabad vers 1852, calotype Gabriel Tranchand

Jules Oppert and the discovery of Mesopotamia (1850-1905)

Dominique Charpin, chair Mesopotamian Civilization
Published on 20 May 2025

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May events at Collège de France

Major dates in May 2025

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Published on 28 April 2025

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3D illustration of pastures and ploughed fields seen from above

In search of an Avenir Commun Durable

Jean-Marie Tarascon, chair Chemistry of Materials and Energy
Published on 22 January 2025
Goutte d'eau d'un robinet

Bacteria and microplastics in water : their impact on health

Research
Published on 27 May 2025
Nuages de mousse toxique à la surface de l'eau, causés par les polluants, comme les PFAS, rejetés par les usines

Chemistry to the rescue in PFAS recycling

Louis Fensterbank, chair Activations in Molecular Chemistry
Published on 27 May 2025
Couverture de l'édition imprimée de la leçon inaugurale du Pr Wajdi Mouawad

Publication of the opening lecture by Pr Wajdi Mouawad

Wajdi Mouawad, chair The Invention of Europe through languages and cultures
Published on 27 May 2025
Couverture de l'édition numérique de la leçon inaugurale du Pr Peter Sloterdijk

Digital publication of the opening lecture by Pr Peter Sloterdijk

Peter Sloterdijk, chair The invention of Europe through languages and cultures
Published on 27 May 2025
Couverture de l'édition numérique de la leçon inaugurale de la Pr Stéphanie Lacour

Digital publication of the opening lecture by Pr Stéphanie Lacour

Stéphanie Lacour, chair Technological innovation Liliane Bettencourt
Published on 27 May 2025

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Naama Friedmann
How Can Linguistic Theory Help Neurosurgeons: Language Assessment in Tumor-Removal Surgery for the Preservation of Patients' Language
27 May 2025
Onde audio sur photo de la porte d'entrée du Collège de France
Guest lecturer
Didier Fassin
Certify
27 May 2025
tableau de Goya représentant une scène de fusillade
Lecture
Didier Fassin
Represent
27 May 2025
tableau de Goya représentant une scène de fusillade
Lecture
Emmanuel Beaubatie
Sexual health: sexual and gender minorities
27 May 2025
Petites figurines représentant une foule de personnes
Seminar
Nathalie Bajos
Sexual health: body, sexuality, health
27 May 2025
Petites figurines représentant une foule de personnes
Lecture
Stephen Quake
Understanding the Mysteries of the Cell: How Do Mutations Arise in Our Bodies?
26 May 2025
Guest lecturer
Sonia Garel
From the anecdotal to the systemic : new perspectives on neuroimmune dialogue
26 May 2025
Lecture
Edith Heard
Developmental and Evolutionary Dynamics of X Inactivation
26 May 2025
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