Top Events in May 2023

Avenir Commun Durable: Reading the IPCC Reports to Understand the World Ahead – An Introduction to Societal Challenges at the Intersection of Science, Utopia, and Reality (5 lectures)

A series of educational lectures on the IPCC’s 2021–2022 report, organized by the Collège de France and the Avenir Commun Durable initiative under the supervision of Prof. Dario Mantovani.

Third lecture in the series on May 12, 2023, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Maurice Halbwachs Auditorium).
Laurent Bopp : The IPCC and Consensus-Building – The Experience of an Author of the IPCC’s Last Two Assessment Reports

Fourth lecture in the series on May 15, 2023, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Maurice Halbwachs Amphitheater).
Laurent Fonbaustier : The Implicit Values and Models in IPCC Reports (1)

Lecture Series: Learning to Read and Related Challenges (5 lectures)

A lecture series organized as part of the “Agir pour l’éducation” initiative, aimed at teachers and the general public interested in international research on reading acquisition—including its methods, psychology, and pedagogy—as well as related challenges, such as dyslexia.

The third lecture in the series will take place on May 24, 2023, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Collège de France (Maurice Halbwachs Auditorium).
Jérôme Deauvieau: Teaching Practices and Educational Inequalities at the Onset of Literacy

Denis Duboule: The Stages of the Embryo

May 11, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marguerite de Navarre Auditorium), with a live stream available on our website.

Nils P. Heeßel: The Origins of Scholarship in Mesopotamia (4 lectures)

May 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2023, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Collège de France (Room 5).

Orhan Pamuk: The Paradox of the Novelist (4 lectures)

May 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2023, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Collège de France (Marguerite de Navarre Auditorium).

Ronald Hendel: The Bible and Collective Memory (1 lecture)

May 10, 2023, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Maurice Halbwachs Auditorium).

James Q. Whitman: From Slave Owners to Landlords: The Transformation of Property Law in the West (4 lectures)

The first, second, and third lectures in the series will take place on May 16, 23, and 30, 2023, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Collège de France (Room 2).

Next lecture in the series: June 6, 2023.

Edda Vardanyan: The Armenian Version of the Alexander Romance (2 lectures)

May 24 and 31, 2023, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Collège de France (Room 2).

Laurence Boisson de Chazournes: International Environmental Law and the Challenge of Effectiveness

May 12, 2023, at the Collège de France.

Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo: Integrating Evolutionary Genetics and Ecology

The symposium is organized in partnership with the Jean-François & Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Foundation, the Jacques-Monod Institute, and Paris-Cité University.

May 22, 2023, at the Collège de France, and May 23, 2023, at the Jacques-Monod Institute.

Hugues de Thé: Chemotherapy Revisited

May 22, 2023, from 9:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Collège de France.

Pierre-Michel Menger: “Meritocracy”—A Comparative Perspective

May 22, 2023, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Collège de France.

Dominique Charpin: Paleo-Babylonian Archives: 140 Years of Publications and Studies (1882–2022)

May 25 and 26, 2023, at the Collège de France.

Lydéric Bocquet: Nanofluidics at a Crossroads

May 25, 2023, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:40 p.m. at the Collège de France.

Didier Fassin: Racial Borders

May 31, 2023, at the Collège de France.

Start of training for teachers:

• Denis Duboule
• Sonia Garel
• Antoine Georges
• Marc Henneaux
• Luigi Rizzi

Continuation of training sessions for teachers:

• Phượng Bùi Trân
• Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo
• Didier Fassin
• Frantz Grenet
• Pierre-Louis Lions
• Dario Mantovani
• Bao Chau Ngo
• Mathilde Touvier