Published on 28 November 2025
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Key dates in December 2025

December events at Collège de France

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

Opening lectures

Mental health and addictions: from the intimate to the population-based

Opening lecture by Maria Melchior, visiting professor at the Public Health Annual Chair.

December 4, 2025 at 6pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater) and live on the Collège de France Youtube channel.

The beginnings of a second quantum revolution

Opening lecture by Pascale Senellart, visiting professor at the Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Annual Chair .

December 11, 2025 at 6pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater) and live on the Collège de France Youtube channel.

Special event

Music! The Philharmonie at the Collège de France

Cycle of meetings in partnership with the Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris

The Collège de France has invited the Philharmonie de Paris to host a series of six free meetings on music, open to all. Conferences, masterclasses and round tables will welcome composers, artists and theorists alongside Collège de France professors for a series of exceptional events.

"Composing today" with Thierry Escaich & Chloë Cambreling
December 2, 2025 from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater).

Exhibitions

L'Atelier quantique: artistic views on the infinitely small

To mark the International Year of Quantum Physics, the exhibition "L'Atelier quantique: regards artistiques sur l'infiniment petit" at the Collège de France presents works from artist Caroline Delétoille's residency at the Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel.

From October 9, 2025 to January 8, 2026 at the Collège de France, Marcelin-Berthelot site.

From field to text. Publishing ethnology and its images

The exhibition Du terrain au texte. Publier l'ethnologie et ses images invites you to discover the different facets of the ethnologist's profession through two collections published by The Collège de France Publishing Department's Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale (LAS): the Cahiers d'anthropologie sociale (éditions de L'Herne) and the Ethnologiques collection (éditions Mimésis), both directed by Philippe Descola.

From November 14, 2025 to February 6, 2026 at the Institute of Civilizations of the Collège de France.

Colloques

Fermionic Neural Quantum States: Recent Advances

Symposium organized by Professor Antoine Georges.

December 1-2, 2025 at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, room 2).

Journée François Jacob - The Living Clock: Biology in the Flow of Time

Every year,the Journées François Jacob, organized by the Collège de France's Institute of Biology, bring together leading specialists from France and abroad to discuss a theme at the cutting edge of biology research.

December 3, 2025 at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, room 2).

Politics and Poetics on the Ruins of Gaza

Symposium organized by Professor Didier Fassin.

December 16, 2025 at Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheatre).

Guest speakers

Athens: democracy as an institution of collective intelligence

Lecture by Chloé Santoro, winner of the Collège de France Award 2025 for young researchers.

December 10, 2025 at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Maurice Halbwachs amphitheater).

David Nesvorný

Cycle of four lectures by David Nesvorný, invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Alessandro Morbidelli.

December 4, 11 and 18* at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site).

*The first lecture took place in November.