Published on 29 May 2025
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June 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.

Major events

Inheriting the future

As part of its commitment to a shared sustainable future, the Collège de France is organizing a series of round-table discussions bringing together leading figures from the worlds of academia, business, associations and institutions, and students from higher education.

Conceived as a structured forum for dialogue, this cycle aims to enable the younger generation to question, understand and debate the major issues surrounding climate change. It is part of a process of transmitting knowledge, but also of active listening and co-construction. The Collège de France plays the role of guarantor and facilitator, ensuring the scientific quality of exchanges without influencing their content.

"Ethical dilemmas of environmental activism" with Anne-Marie Ducroux, Aurélien Bouayard and Alice Canabate
June 5, 2025 from 5pm to 7pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Maurice Halbwachs amphitheater).

"Adaptation of ecosystems to new climatic conditions" 
June 19, 2025 from 5pm to 7pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Maurice Halbwachs amphitheater).

Agir pour l'éducation - Reenchanting maths at school

A series of conferences on mathematicsorganized by Stanislas Dehaene, Stéphane Mallat and Pierre-Michel Menger as part of the Agir pour l'éducation initiative .

Notoriously difficult, but also a source of beauty, mystery and enthusiasm, mathematics is losing interest among many students. What's even more worrying is that, over the past thirty years, 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.

"Difficulties in Numbers and Difficulties in Letters - Do They Necessarily Appear Together?" by Naama Friedmann
Lecture on June 10, 2025 from 5:30pm to 7pm at the Collège de France (site Marcelin Berthelot, amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs) and live on the Collège de France Foundation channel.

"What is a beautiful mathematical problem? (Re)reconciling intuition and mathematical sense" by Emmanuel Sander
Lecture on June 18, 2025 from 5:30pm to 7pm at the Collège de France (site Marcelin Berthelot, amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs) 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.

"Theater and power" by Éric Ruf and Patrick Boucheron
Conference on June 11, 2025 from 7pm to 8:30pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater).

In search of a Sustainable Common Future

A lecture series organized as part of the Avenir Commun Durable initiative , in the form of a round-table discussion moderated by a journalist and featuring researchers from projects supported by the initiative.

In keeping with the values of the Collège de France, Avenir Commun Durable aims to contribute to public debate by providing reliable information and data, based on rigorous and demanding research. Since its launch, the initiative has already supported five ambitious research projects in the humanities, social sciences and experimental sciences.
The aim of these roundtables is to give everyone a better understanding of the ambitions, approaches and expectations that shape this research.

"Regards croisés sur l'eau atmosphérique" by Matteo Bächtold, Damien Delorme and Guillaume Guez Maillard
Conference on June 12, 2025 from 6pm to 7pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Guillaume Budé amphitheater).

Colloques

Formalizing mathematics and dependent types

Symposium organized by Thierry Coquand, visiting professor in the Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Annual Chair .

June 2, 2025 at the Collège de France (Marcelin-Berthelot site, Guillaume Budé amphitheater).

The colloquium will address the extent to which the recent rapprochement between the formalism of dependent types and the notions of homotopy and higher-order categories may be relevant to the actual formalization of mathematics.

Traces of death, traces of meaning in prehistory

Symposium organized by Professor Jean-Jacques Hublin, Paleoanthropology Chair .

June 4, 2025 at the Collège de France (Marcelin-Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheatre).

Recent Advances and Applications of Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for Fermions

Symposium organized by Professor Antoine Georges, Quantum Condensed Matter Physics Chair.

June 4, 2025 at the Collège de France (Marcelin-Berthelot site, Guillaume Budé amphitheatre).

The daimōn, between polytheism and philosophy

Symposium organized by Professor Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, holder of the Religion, History and Society in the Ancient Greek World Chair.

June 5 and 6, 2025 at the Institute of Civilizations (Cardinal Lemoine site, Françoise Héritier room).

The aim of the colloquium is to discuss the achievements of an approach that we shall describe - to put it briefly - as "polytheistic", and what particularly active research on the daimōn and the philosophers' "demonology" has uncovered over the last decade.

Advancing Biomaterials: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Innovations

Symposium organized by Sébastien Lecommandoux, Visiting Professor at the Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Annual Chair.

June 6, 2025 at the Collège de France (Marcelin-Berthelot site, Maurice Halbwachs amphitheater).

The symposium will focus on cutting-edge innovations in biomaterials, with an emphasis on functional synthetic organelles and biomimetic (bio)materials. These materials, inspired by natural systems, are designed to reproduce and enhance biological functions in advanced medical applications. A central aspect of the discussions will be multi-scale and multi-component supramolecular self-assemblies, dynamic structures capable of spontaneous organization, with direct implications for regenerative medicine, drug delivery systems or in the longer term in neuroscience.

X chromosome inactivation

Symposium organized by Professor Edith Heard, holder of the Epigenetics and Cellular Memory Chair .

June 10 and 11, 2025 at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Maurice Halbwachs amphitheatre).

The Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Symposium co-organized by Professor Philippe Aghion, holder of the Economics of Institutions, Innovation and Growth Chair, the RCEA and the Innovation Laboratory (Collège de France).

June 10, 2025 at Collège de France (site Marcelin Berthelot, salle 2).

Haiti, 1825: from independence to debt

Symposium organized by Professor Antoine Lilti, holder of the History of the Enlightenment, 18th to 21st century Chair .

June 12, 13 and 14, 2025 at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheatre).

This colloquium will bring together some thirty participants from Haiti, the Caribbean, the United States and Europe, to focus on the 1825 episode, to understand how the indemnities were calculated and then paid out, the context in which they were imposed on Haiti, the short- and long-term consequences they had on Haitian society, economy and politics, as well as the commercial conditions that accompanied them, which are sometimes overlooked.

The colloquium will broaden the perspective to present the public with a synthesis of the most recent work on Saint-Domingue before and during the revolution, with a particular focus on the intellectual history of Haiti in the 19th century , a field that is now booming.

Contemporary issues linked to the memory of the events of 1825, to repeated demands for reparations, notably by Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2003, and to the current political situation will also be addressed.

Genocide. Law and history of the crime of crimes

Symposium co-organized by Professor Samantha Besson, holder of the International Law of Institutions Chair, and Professor Henry Laurens, holder of the Contemporary History of the Arab World Chair.

June 13, 2025 at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Maurice Halbwachs amphitheatre).

During this one-day meeting, jurists and historians, specialists in genocide, will engage in a dialogue around four questions of common interest for the understanding of the crime of genocide by both disciplines or practices: 1) Prohibition of genocide: from violence and "black legends" to the crime of customary law; 2) Perpetrators of genocide: individual, collective and/or institutional; 3) Conditions of genocide: genocidal intentions and/or processes; and 4) Justice and truth of genocide: "the past that does not pass" and "murderers of memory". The treatment of these questions will of course provide an opportunity to look back at various cases of genocide in history, including that of international law.

Jules Oppert (1825-1905) and the Assyriology of his time

Symposium co-organized by Professor Dominique Charpin, holder of the Mesopotamian Civilization Chair, and Antoine Jacquet, researcher attached to the Mesopotamian Civilization Chair.

June 20, 2025 at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Maurice Halbwachs amphitheatre).

This colloquium is part of the in-depth research into the history of Assyriology carried out within the framework of the Mesopotamian Civilization Chair. It aims to explore the emergence of this discipline. Through fourteen papers, some of which use previously unpublished sources, the event will enable us to rediscover Oppert and his fundamental role in the birth of Assyriology, a rapidly evolving field.

Neuroimmune Crosstalk in Brain/Body Interactions

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

June 20, 2025 at Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Mireille Delmas-Marty amphitheatre).

The social production of health inequalities: theoretical approaches and empirical evidence. International perspectives

Conference organized by Nathalie Bajos, visiting professor on the Public Health Annual Chair, and the Gendhi (Gender and Health Inequalities) ERC project research team.

June 26, 2025 at the Collège de France (Marcelin-Berthelot site, Maurice Halbwachs amphitheatre).

The aim of the symposium is to compare different theoretical models for analyzing the production of health inequalities, whether they focus on specific stages in this production (damage to health, access to care, medical treatment), or propose a global approach.

Guest speakers

Order, Geometry and Defects

Cycle of 4 lectures by Mark Bowick, invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Jean-François Joanny, holder of the Soft Matter and Biophysics chair.

June 2, 2025 from 2 pm to 3 pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Mireille Delmas-Marty amphitheater).

Previous lectures: May 12, 20 and 26, 2025.

Statuary and temple in ancient Egypt

Series of 4 lectures by Hourig Sourouzian, invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Laurent Coulon, Chair of The Civilization of Pharaonic Egypt.

June 3, 2025 from 2 pm to 3 pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Mireille Delmas-Marty amphitheatre).

Previous lectures: May 14, 21 and 28, 2025.

How the Same Dyslexia Manifests Itself in Different Languages

Lecture by Naama Friedmann, invited by the assembly of the Collège de France, at the suggestion of Professors Stanislas Dehaene, Experimental Cognitive Psychology Chair, and Luigi Rizzi, General Linguistics Chair.

Naama Friedmann will give a series of four lectures in May and June 2025.

June 3, 2025 from 5:30 pm to 7 pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Mireille Delmas-Marty amphitheater).

Quantitative stability of optimal transport

Cycle of lectures given by Cyril Letrouit as part of the Cours Peccot. 
Since 1885, thanks to an endowment from the family of mathematician Claude-Antoine Peccot, the Collège de France has awarded annual prizes to young mathematicians under the age of 30, who are invited to give a series of lectures at the Collège de France.

June 4, 2025 from 10am to 12pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Mireille Delmas-Marty amphitheater).

Previous lectures: May 14, 21 and 28.

Graeco-Egyptian voces magicae: Historicizing a Cross-Cultural Phenomenon

Lecture by Panagiota Sarischouli, invited by Professor Jean-Luc Fournet, Chair of Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology.

June 4, 2025 from 2 to 3 pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Mireille Delmas-Marty amphitheatre).

Modern Japanese Sinology As an Imperial Discourse

Lecture given by Takahiro Nakajima, invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Anne Cheng, holder of the Chinese Intellectual History Chair 

June 5, 2025 from 11am to 12pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Mireille Delmas-Marty amphitheater).

Research on the Ebla cuneiform archives: retrospective and prospective

Series of 4 lectures given by Marco Bonechi, invited by the Collège de France assembly, at the suggestion of Professor Dominique Charpin, holder of the Mesopotamian Civilization Chair.

June 5, 12, 19 and 25 2025, 11am-12pm, Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Maurice Halbwachs amphitheatre).

War and Peace: A Global History of Japan, 1904-1943

Series of 4 lectures by Naoko Shimazu, invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Anne Cheng, holder of the Chinese Intellectual History Chair 

June 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2025 from 2:30 to 3:30 pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Maurice Halbwachs amphitheater).

The origins of war and peace in the human species

Lecture by Hugo Meijer, invited by Professor Jean-Jacques Hublin, holder of the Paleoanthropology Chair.

June 6, 2025 from 10.30am to 12pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheatre).

The Anatolian studies during the 1930s through the lens of Albrecht Goetze's correspondence

Lecture given by Silvia Alaura, invited by the assembly of the Collège de France, at the suggestion of Professor Dominique Charpin, holder of the Mesopotamian Civilization Chair .

June 6, 2025 from 11am to 12pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Maurice Halbwachs amphitheatre).

Assimilation or integration? The representation of Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang in the parliaments of the Qing Empire and the Republic of China

Lecture by Egas Bender de Moniz Bandeira, invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Anne Cheng, holder of the Chinese Intellectual History Chair 

June 26, 2025 from 11am to 12pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Mireille Delmas-Marty amphitheatre).

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