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Key dates in April 2026

At the Collège de France, lectures are open to all, with no conditions of access or prior registration, subject to availability.

Exhibition

Prehistory: Between Utopia and Reality

The Collège de France's major exhibition "Prehistory: Between Utopia and Reality" invites us to come face-to-face with our most distant ancestors, between what we know about them... and what it says about us. A journey at the crossroads of science and the imaginary, to rediscover what prehistory actually tells us about ourselves yesterday, today and tomorrow..

The exhibition is free and open to all, with a catalog and children's book, free mediation for schoolchildren and a series of free lectures.

From April 29 to July 19, 2026 at the Collège de France, Marcelin Berthelot site (11, place Marcelin-Berthelot, 75005 Paris.).

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Symposium

Neuroimmune Crosstalk in Brain/Body interactions: from Physiology to Pathology

Symposium organized by Professor Sonia Garel, Neurobiology and the Immune System Chair.

April 10, 2026 at Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Mireille Delmas-Marty amphitheater).

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At the Court of the God. Religious Organization and Court Mechanisms in Egypt in the 1^stmillennium BC.

Symposium organized by Professor Laurent Coulon, holder of The Civilization of Pharaonic Egypt Chair.

This symposium is the third part of The Civilization of Pharaonic Egypt Chair's work on the court and courtiers. Following lectures on the Old and Middle Kingdoms, and the New Kingdom, the focus here is on the 1^stmillennium BC period and the links between the royal and divine courts.

April 13, 2026 at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Maurice Halbwachs amphitheatre).

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Light-based Quantum Technologies

Symposium organized by Pascale Senellart, Visiting Professor at the Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Annual Chair.

This symposium will bring together experts in light-based quantum technologies, aiming to cover the broad spectrum of applications envisaged. The aim will be to illustrate current advances in this field and address future challenges.

April 16, 2026 at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, room 2).

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Guest speakers

Madness at Home in Tokyo: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in Tokyo, 1920-1945

Lecture given by Akihito Suzuki, invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Patrick Boucheron, holder of the History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th-16th century chair.

April 10, 2026 from 5 to 6 pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Maurice Halbwachs amphitheatre).

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How We Sold Our Future. The Failure to Fight Climate Change

Lecture given by Jens Beckert, invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Pierre-Michel Menger, holder of the Sociology of Creative Work chair.

April 15, 2026 from 2 to 3 pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Mireille Delmas-Marty amphitheatre).