Agenda

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 revenge of sovereigns
David Bell

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Guest lecturer
Towards a new history of the Enlightenment
Guillaume-Budé Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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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)
Guillaume-Budé Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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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
Marguerite-de-Navarre Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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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
Marguerite-de-Navarre Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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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
Marguerite-de-Navarre Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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Aurelius Papnouthion and school life in Antinoopolis
François Gerardin

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

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

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Lecture
The gods' share: Greece as a sacrificial culture
Maurice-Halbwachs Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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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
Room 2, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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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
Room 2, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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Egyptian statuary in temples
Hourig Sourouzian

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Guest lecturer
Statuary and temple in ancient Egypt
Mireille-Delmas-Marty Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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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
Room 2, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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The origins of the Justinian plague: From Central Asia to the Mediterranean
Kyle Harper

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Guest lecturer
Mireille-Delmas-Marty Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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Statuary groups
Hourig Sourouzian

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Guest lecturer
Statuary and temple in ancient Egypt
Mireille-Delmas-Marty Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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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
Room 2, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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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
Mireille-Delmas-Marty Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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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
Mireille-Delmas-Marty Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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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
Mireille-Delmas-Marty Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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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
Maurice-Halbwachs Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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Modern Japanese Sinology As an Imperial Discourse
Takahiro Nakajima

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Guest lecturer
Mireille-Delmas-Marty Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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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
Mireille-Delmas-Marty Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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Ethical dilemmas of environmental activism
Sylvaine Bulle, Aurélien Bouayad & Alice Canabate

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Special events
Maurice-Halbwachs Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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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
Mireille-Delmas-Marty Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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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
Maurice-Halbwachs Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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