Major Events in March 2025

The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France

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

“The Theater Audience” by Éric Ruf & Florence Naugrette
Lecture on March 5, 2025, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot campus, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater).

“The Space of the Stage” by Éric Ruf & Anne Marret
Lecture on March 12, 2025, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot campus, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater).

Taking Action for Education – Rekindling a Love of Math in Schools

A series of lectures organized as part of the “Taking Action for Education” initiative by Stanislas Dehaene, Stéphane Mallat, and Pierre-Michel Menger, on the topic of mathematics.

Notoriously difficult, yet also a source of beauty, mystery, and enthusiasm, mathematics is losing its appeal among many students. Even more concerning is that, over the past thirty years, surveys have shown a steady decline in student performance, particularly in arithmetic and problem-solving, which now places France—according to the TIMSS survey—at the bottom of the rankings among European countries.

“Fostering a Culture of Effort: Competition and Contests in Mathematics” by Pierre-Michel Menger
. Lecture on March 19, 2025, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot campus, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater) and live on the Collège de France Foundation’s channel.

In Search of Avenir Commun Durable

A series of conferences organized as part of the Avenir Commun Durable initiative, taking the form of a roundtable discussion moderated by a journalist and attended by researchers from projects supported by the initiative.

True to the values of the Collège de France, Avenir Commun Durable aims to contribute to public debate by providing reliable information and data derived from rigorous and demanding research. Since its launch, the initiative has already supported five ambitious research projects, spanning both the humanities and social sciences as well as the experimental sciences.
These roundtables aim to help everyone better understand the goals, approaches, and expectations that shape this research.

“Modeling Agricultural Transitions”
Conference on March 6, 2025, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot campus, Guillaume Budé lecture hall).

“Type Theory, from Russell to Proof Assistants” – Thierry Coquand

March 13, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot campus, Marguerite de Navarre lecture hall) and live on the Collège de France YouTube channel.

“Biodiversity: Between Complexity, Paradoxes, and Holism” – Franck Courchamp

March 27, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot campus, Marguerite de Navarre lecture hall) and live on the Collège de France YouTube channel.

“Three-Term Arithmetic Progressions, the Slice Rank Polynomial Method, and the Erdős–Ginzburg–Ziv Problem” – Lisa Sauermann

A lecture series organized as part of the Cours Peccot International . Established in 2023, it specifically honors young European female mathematicians, who are invited to give a series of lectures at the Collège de France.

March 3 and 10, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot campus, Guillaume Budé lecture hall).

“On Maximal Hypoellipticity and Sub-Riemannian Geometry” – Omar Mohsen

A series of lectures organized as part of the Peccot Course . Since 1885, thanks to an endowment from the family of mathematician Claude-Antoine Peccot, the Collège de France has annually honored young mathematicians under the age of 30, who are invited to give a series of lectures at the Collège de France.

March 13, 20, and 27, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot campus, Room 5).

Next lecture: April 3, 2025.

“Toward a New History of the Enlightenment” – David Bell

March 17, 24, and 31, 2025, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marcelin-Berthelot campus, Maurice Halbwachs lecture hall).

Next lecture: April 7, 2025.

“Is There an Islamic Exception in International Law?” – Slim Laghmani

March 19, 2025, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marcelin-Berthelot campus, Room 5).

“From CRISPR-Cas Immunity to Targeted Genome Editing and Beyond” – Virginijus Šikšnys

March 21, 2025, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marcelin-Berthelot campus, Maurice Halbwachs lecture hall).