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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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Different accounts of conquest (Jos 7-11)
Thomas Römer

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Lecture
God at war : accounts of conquest in the book of Joshua
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Jerusalem conquered in Solomon's Psalms
Patrick Pouchelle

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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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Becoming a doctor in Greco-Roman Egypt
Antonio Ricciardetto

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Seminar
New school papyri (or other) (3)
Salle 1, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Zimri-Lim, the comeback
Dominique Charpin

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Lecture
upper Mesopotamia in the 18th century : portrait gallery
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The revenge of sovereigns
David Bell

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Guest lecturer
Towards a new history of the Enlightenment
Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Coptic teaching (9) : don't forget Greek !(3)
Jean-Luc Fournet

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Lecture
The calamus and the cross : the Christianization of writing and the fate of classical culture in Late Antiquity (6). Schools (3)
Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Killing an ox : etiology of Bouphonies
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

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Lecture
The gods' share: Greece as a sacrificial culture
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Joshua's two farewell speeches : an (almost) successful conquest (Jos 23-24)
Thomas Römer

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Lecture
God at war : accounts of conquest in the book of Joshua
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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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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