Published on 27 January 2025
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Key dates in February 2025

February events at the Collège de France

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

Major events

Agir pour l'éducation - Reenchanting maths at school

A series of conferences on mathematicsorganized by Stanislas Dehaene, Stéphane Mallat and Pierre-Michel Mengeras part of the Agir pour l'éducationinitiative . Notoriously difficult, but also a source of beauty, mystery and enthusiasm, mathematics is losing interest among many students. Even more worrying is the fact that, over the past thirty years or so, surveys have shown a steady decline in student performance, particularly in numeracy and problem-solving, which, according to the TIMSS survey, now places France at the bottom of the European league table.

"Teaching intuition and mathematical abstraction in high school with AI challenges" by Stéphane Mallat, Akim Viennet and Miguel Toquet
Conference on February 19, 2025 from 5:30 pm to 7 pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater) and live on the Collège de France Foundation channel.

The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France

The Collège de France and the Comédie-Française are organizing a series of seven meetings during which professors and actors will discuss the science of theater, what it means to play, to direct, to say verse and prose, to embody life and society, to take to the stage to speak of the world and to the world.

"Dire les vers" by Éric Ruf, William Marx, Denis Podalydès & Danièle Lebrun
Conference on February 12, 2025 from 7pm to 8:30pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater).

Opening lecture

"L'ombre en soi qui écrit" - Wajdi Mouawad

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

Guest speakers

"Three-term arithmetic progressions, the slice rank polynomial method and the Erdös-Ginzburg-Ziv Problem" - Lisa Sauermann

Cycle of lectures organized as part of the Cours Peccot International. Created in 2023 , the Cours Peccot International specifically rewards young European women mathematicians, who are invited to give a series of lectures at the Collège de France.

February 4 and 10, 2025 from 10am to 12pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Guillaume Budé amphitheatre).

Next lectures: March 3 and 10, 2025.

"For eternity: the foundations of Greek antiquity between individual and collective history" - Sophia Aneziri

February 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2025 from 5:30 to 6:30 pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin-Berthelot site, room 2).

"The beginnings of Jewish philosophy in Antiquity" - René Bloch

February 5 and 12, 2025 from 5 to 6 pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin-Berthelot site, Maurice Halbwachs amphitheater).