Top Events in March 2024

Louis Fensterbank – Activations in Molecular Chemistry: An Introduction

March 7, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marguerite de Navarre Auditorium), with a live stream available on our website.

Salikoko S. Mufwene – Population Movements, Language Contact, and Linguistic Evolution

March 28, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marguerite de Navarre Auditorium), with a live stream available on our website.

Taking Action for Education – Experimental Approaches to Education

A series of lectures organized as part of the “Taking Action for Education” initiative led by Esther Duflo, with support from the Innovations, Data, and Experiments in Education (IDEE) program, focusing on experimentation in education and translational research—essential tools for supporting the development of effective education policies.

Abhijit Banerjee – Critical
Thinking Lecture on March 6, 2024, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marguerite de Navarre Auditorium).

Upcoming lectures in the series: April 3 and May 15, 2024.

The Games at the Collège de France

In anticipation of the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Collège de France, in partnership with France Culture, is organizing a major series of seven roundtable discussions on the intersection of science and sports to mark the arrival of the Games.

Antoine Lilti, Manuel Schotté, and Emmanuel Laurentin – The Fame of Athletes
Lecture on March 21, 2024, from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marguerite de Navarre Auditorium).

Upcoming lectures in the series: April 25, May 2 and 23, June 13, and July 4, 2024.

Jean-Marie Tarascon – The All-Solid-State Battery: Between Idealism and Pragmatism

March 25 and 26, 2024, at the Collège de France (Guillaume Budé Auditorium). Symposium canceled.

Harold Varmus – Reflections on the Scientific Enterprise (4 lectures)

March 4, 11, 18, and 25, 2024, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Maurice Halbwachs Auditorium).

Masanori Tsukamoto – Research on Dreams in Valéry, Proust, and Myōe (1 lecture)

March 6, 2024, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Guillaume Budé Auditorium).

Hiroshi Kageyama – Recent Advances in the Synthesis and Properties of Mixed-Anion Compounds (1 lecture)

March 8, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Room 5).

Sayaka Oki – The Institutionalization of Academic Freedom in France and Its Historical Transmission into the Modern Era (1 lecture)

March 13, 2024, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Room 2).

Start of training for teachers:

• Jean Dalibard
• Louis Fensterbank
• Sonia Garel
• Edith Heard
• Stéphanie Lacour
• Dario Mantovani
• Pierre-Michel Menger
• Lluis Quintana-Murci

Continuation of training sessions for teachers:

• Samantha Besson
• Patrick Boucheron
• Dominique Charpin
• Stanislas Dehaene
• Jean-Luc Fournet
• Frantz Grenet
• Kyle Harper
• François Héran
• Jean-François Joanny
• Xavier Leroy
• Antoine Lilti
• Pierre-Louis Lions
• Stéphane Mallat
• William Marx
• Alessandro Morbidelli
• Emmanuelle Porcher
• François Recanati
• Thomas Römer
• Jean-Marie Tarascon
• Claudine Tiercelin