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Lectures at the Collège de France are free and open to all, subject to availability. The public is advised to arrive at least 30 minutes before the lecture starts. Places cannot be reserved and are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

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The use of the book of Joshua in the books of the Maccabees
Katell Berthelot

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Seminar
Wars, conquests and peace strategies in the Ancient Near East and the Bible
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Aurelius Papnouthion and school life in Antinoopolis
François Gerardin

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Seminar
New school papyri (or other) (3)
Salle 1, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Tragic sacrifices (1)
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

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Lecture
The gods' share: Greece as a sacrificial culture
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Tragic sacrifices (2)
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

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Lecture
The gods' share: Greece as a sacrificial culture
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Making clay speak : in search of the ghost landscapes of Mesopotamia
Hervé Reculeau

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Guest lecturer
In the land of two rivers: environment and societies in ancient Mesopotamia
Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Hydraulics and societies : water control in Mesopotamia and its social implications
Hervé Reculeau

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Guest lecturer
In the land of two rivers: environment and societies in ancient Mesopotamia
Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Egyptian statuary in temples
Hourig Sourouzian

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Guest lecturer
Statuary and temple in ancient Egypt
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The book in the Muslim world. History and techniques
François Déroche

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The book in the Muslim world. History and techniques
François Déroche

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Mesopotamians and climate : the " climate paradigm " and its critics
Hervé Reculeau

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Guest lecturer
In the land of two rivers: environment and societies in ancient Mesopotamia
Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The origins of the Justinian plague: From Central Asia to the Mediterranean
Kyle Harper

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Guest lecturer
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Statuary groups
Hourig Sourouzian

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Guest lecturer
Statuary and temple in ancient Egypt
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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At the source of the Flood : environmental catastrophe as a literary and religious motif in Mesopotamia
Hervé Reculeau

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Guest lecturer
In the land of two rivers: environment and societies in ancient Mesopotamia
Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Investigating Osirid statues and the iconography of Osiris in two-dimensional representations
Hourig Sourouzian

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Guest lecturer
Statuary and temple in ancient Egypt
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Statuary from the million-year-old temple of Amenhotep III at Thebes
Hourig Sourouzian

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Guest lecturer
Statuary and temple in ancient Egypt
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Humanités environnementales : a mature field ?
Patrick Boucheron, Sustainable Common Future

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

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Guest lecturer
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The daimōn, between polytheism and philosophy
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

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

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Guest lecturer
Research into the Ebla cuneiform archives: retrospect and future prospects
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Modern Japanese Sinology As an Imperial Discourse
Takahiro Nakajima

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Guest lecturer
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Japanese War Diaries from the Russo-Japanese War
Naoko Shimazu

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Guest lecturer
War and Peace: A Global History of Japan, 1904-1943
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Ethical dilemmas of environmental activism
Sylvaine Bulle, Aurélien Bouayad & Alice Canabate

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Special events
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The daimōn, between polytheism and philosophy
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

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

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Guest lecturer
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Haiti, 1825 : from independence to debt
Antoine Lilti

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The cuneiform limits of our knowledge, or : from Ebla, too much light !
Marco Bonechi

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Guest lecturer
Research into the Ebla cuneiform archives: retrospect and future prospects
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The Making of a Heroic War Myth in Modern Japan
Naoko Shimazu

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Guest lecturer
War and Peace: A Global History of Japan, 1904-1943
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Genocide. Law and history of the crime of crimes
Samantha Besson, Henry Laurens

Symposium

During the day, jurists and historians specializing in genocide will debate four questions: the prohibition of genocide; the perpetrators of genocide; the conditions of genocide; and justice and the truth of genocide.

Haiti, 1825 : from independence to debt
Antoine Lilti

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Haiti, 1825 : from independence to debt
Antoine Lilti

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