Major events Page menu Current chairs Major events Guest speakers All lectures Current chairs Major events Guest speakers All lectures
Share Facebook Linkedin Copy url Readings Major events In addition to its regular lectures, the Collège de France organizes a number of special events every year, aimed at a wide audience : exhibitions, European Heritage Days, themed cycles, conferences and round tables on major contemporary issues. Upcoming Previous Special events 22 Jan 2025 17:30 - 19:00 Elizabeth Spelke The cognitive foundations of mathematics : universal and early intuitions Live Special events 28 Jan 2025 12:30 - 13:30 Willem M. Jongman The archaeology of Roman slavery Not recorded Special events 29 Jan 2025 19:00 - 20:30 Éric Ruf, Thomas Römer, William Marx & Mathilde Serrell The Comédie-Française and the Collège de France : two democratic utopias ? Special events 4 Feb 2025 18:00 - 19:00 Avenir commun durable Water policies in the Near East, from Sumer to the present day Special events 12 Feb 2025 19:00 - 20:30 Éric Ruf, William Marx, Dominique Blanc & Denis Podalydès Saying the lines Special events 19 Feb 2025 17:30 - 19:00 Stéphane Mallat, Akim Viennet & Miguel Toquet Teaching intuition and mathematical abstraction in high school with AI challenges Live Special events 5 Mar 2025 19:00 - 20:30 Éric Ruf & Florence Naugrette Theater audiences Special events 6 Mar 2025 18:00 - 19:00 Avenir commun durable Modeling agricultural transitions Special events 12 Mar 2025 19:00 - 20:30 Éric Ruf & Béline Dolat Stage space Special events 19 Mar 2025 17:30 - 19:00 Pierre-Michel Menger Developing a culture of effort. Mathematics competitions and contests Live Special events 1 Apr 2025 18:00 - 19:00 Avenir commun durable Green innovation and energy transition: the role of economic and social players Special events 2 Apr 2025 17:30 - 19:00 Marie Amalric What changes in the brain when learning mathematics ? Live Special events 9 Apr 2025 19:00 - 20:30 Éric Ruf, Pierre-Michel Menger & Béline Dolat Actors and actresses, roles and jobs Special events 13 May 2025 18:00 - 19:00 Avenir commun durable For an epistemology of inquiry into pre-industrial socio-agrosystems Special events 14 May 2025 19:00 - 20:30 Éric Ruf, Antoine Lilti, Isabelle Nanty & Béline Dolat Play : in theaters, cinemas and elsewhere Special events 21 May 2025 17:30 - 19:00 Monica Neagoy How to cultivate a taste for mathematics with the Singapore method ? Live Special events 11 Jun 2025 19:00 - 20:30 Éric Ruf, Patrick Boucheron & Béline Dolat Theater and power Special events 12 Jun 2025 18:00 - 19:00 Avenir commun durable Atmospheric water at a glance Special events 18 Jun 2025 17:30 - 19:00 Emmanuel Sander What makes a good mathematical problem ? :(Re)reconciling intuition and… Live Next 2024 - 2025 Special events Not recorded European Heritage Days 2024 Exhibitions and European Heritage Days 21 Sep 2024 → 22 Sep 2024 On the occasion of the European Heritage Days on September 21 and 22, 2024, the Collège de France opens its doors to you for an exceptional tour of two historic sites, enabling you to appreciate the rich history and diversity of its heritage. 21 Sep 2024 → 22 Sep 2024 Special events Gender and Science Opening symposia 17 Oct 2024 → 18 Oct 2024 The Collège de France's 2024 back-to-school symposium aims to explore the relationship between “gender” and “science” from two different and complementary angles: gender in science and gender as an object. 17 Oct 2024 → 18 Oct 2024 Special events Not recorded Wines, oils and perfumes: an archaeological journey around the ancient Mediterranean Exhibitions and European Heritage Days, Jean-Pierre Brun 05 Nov 2024 → 28 Jan 2025 A series of 5 lectures on the theme of the exhibition, at the Institut des civilisations du Collège de France. 05 Nov 2024 → 28 Jan 2025 Guest lecturer Stories and memories of African Europeans from Antiquity to the present day Olivette Otele 06 Nov 2024 → 14 Nov 2024 06 Nov 2024 → 14 Nov 2024 Special events Not recorded The Cité de la réussite at the Collège de France Avenir Commun Durable, Jean-Marie Tarascon, Marc Fontecave 23 Nov 2024 → 24 Nov 2024 This year, the Cité de la réussite brings together leading figures from the worlds of academia, science, politics, business and the media, to debate and exchange ideas on the theme of trust. 23 Nov 2024 → 24 Nov 2024 Special events 18:00 - 19:00 Measuring glaciers Fanny Brun & Natacha Triou 12 Dec 2024 Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot 12 Dec 2024 18:00 - 19:00 Special events Re-enchanting maths at school Acting for education, Stanislas Dehaene, Pierre-Michel Menger, Stéphane Mallat 22 Jan 2025 → 18 Jun 2025 22 Jan 2025 → 18 Jun 2025 Special events The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France 29 Jan 2025 → 11 Jun 2025 A series of seven meetings during which teachers and actors will discuss the science of theater, what it means to act, to direct, to speak verse and prose, to embody life and society, to take to the stage to speak of the world and to the world.... 29 Jan 2025 → 11 Jun 2025 Guest lecturer Three-term arithmetic progressions, the slice rank polynomial method and the Erdös-Ginzburg-Ziv Problem Lisa Sauermann 04 Feb 2025 → 10 Mar 2025 04 Feb 2025 → 10 Mar 2025 Special events In search of an Avenir Commun Durable Avenir Commun Durable, Jean-Marie Tarascon 04 Feb 2025 → 12 Jun 2025 04 Feb 2025 → 12 Jun 2025 Guest lecturer On maximal hypoellipticity and sub-Riemannian geometry Omar Mohsen 13 Mar 2025 → 03 Apr 2025 13 Mar 2025 → 03 Apr 2025 Guest lecturer Quantitative stability of optimal transport Cyril Letrouit 14 May 2025 → 04 Jun 2025 14 May 2025 → 04 Jun 2025 2023 - 2024 Special events Not recorded European Heritage Days 2023 Exhibitions and European Heritage Days 16 Sep 2023 → 17 Sep 2023 16 Sep 2023 → 17 Sep 2023 Special events Learning and teaching, from prehistory to the future Opening symposia 19 Oct 2023 → 20 Oct 2023 19 Oct 2023 → 20 Oct 2023 Special events 18:30 - 20:30 Young researchers : what's the point of research today ? Collège de France 14 Nov 2023 Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 14 Nov 2023 18:30 - 20:30 Guest lecturer European values and democratic indeterminacy Justine Lacroix 15 Nov 2023 → 23 Nov 2023 15 Nov 2023 → 23 Nov 2023 Special events The city of the future Avenir Commun Durable, Patrick Boucheron, Philippe Sansonetti 30 Nov 2023 → 01 Dec 2023 The future is in the city. In 2022, 56% of the world's population - some 4.4 billion people - lived in urban areas. If this trend continues, by 2050, 7 out of 10 people will be city dwellers. 30 Nov 2023 → 01 Dec 2023 Special events 17:00 - 18:00 Hanafi law in the Mughal Empire. Islamic institutions, norms and practices in India (1650-1700) Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy 14 Dec 2023 Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot 14 Dec 2023 17:00 - 18:00 Special events Experimental approaches to education Acting for education, Esther Duflo 12 Jan 2024 → 15 May 2024 12 Jan 2024 → 15 May 2024 Guest lecturer Representations of p-adic Groups Jessica Fintzen 24 Jan 2024 → 14 Feb 2024 24 Jan 2024 → 14 Feb 2024 Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Next page Last page
Special events 22 Jan 2025 17:30 - 19:00 Elizabeth Spelke The cognitive foundations of mathematics : universal and early intuitions Live
Special events 28 Jan 2025 12:30 - 13:30 Willem M. Jongman The archaeology of Roman slavery Not recorded
Special events 29 Jan 2025 19:00 - 20:30 Éric Ruf, Thomas Römer, William Marx & Mathilde Serrell The Comédie-Française and the Collège de France : two democratic utopias ?
Special events 4 Feb 2025 18:00 - 19:00 Avenir commun durable Water policies in the Near East, from Sumer to the present day
Special events 12 Feb 2025 19:00 - 20:30 Éric Ruf, William Marx, Dominique Blanc & Denis Podalydès Saying the lines
Special events 19 Feb 2025 17:30 - 19:00 Stéphane Mallat, Akim Viennet & Miguel Toquet Teaching intuition and mathematical abstraction in high school with AI challenges Live
Special events 19 Mar 2025 17:30 - 19:00 Pierre-Michel Menger Developing a culture of effort. Mathematics competitions and contests Live
Special events 1 Apr 2025 18:00 - 19:00 Avenir commun durable Green innovation and energy transition: the role of economic and social players
Special events 2 Apr 2025 17:30 - 19:00 Marie Amalric What changes in the brain when learning mathematics ? Live
Special events 9 Apr 2025 19:00 - 20:30 Éric Ruf, Pierre-Michel Menger & Béline Dolat Actors and actresses, roles and jobs
Special events 13 May 2025 18:00 - 19:00 Avenir commun durable For an epistemology of inquiry into pre-industrial socio-agrosystems
Special events 14 May 2025 19:00 - 20:30 Éric Ruf, Antoine Lilti, Isabelle Nanty & Béline Dolat Play : in theaters, cinemas and elsewhere
Special events 21 May 2025 17:30 - 19:00 Monica Neagoy How to cultivate a taste for mathematics with the Singapore method ? Live
Special events 11 Jun 2025 19:00 - 20:30 Éric Ruf, Patrick Boucheron & Béline Dolat Theater and power
Special events 18 Jun 2025 17:30 - 19:00 Emmanuel Sander What makes a good mathematical problem ? :(Re)reconciling intuition and… Live
Special events Not recorded European Heritage Days 2024 Exhibitions and European Heritage Days 21 Sep 2024 → 22 Sep 2024 On the occasion of the European Heritage Days on September 21 and 22, 2024, the Collège de France opens its doors to you for an exceptional tour of two historic sites, enabling you to appreciate the rich history and diversity of its heritage. 21 Sep 2024 → 22 Sep 2024
Special events Gender and Science Opening symposia 17 Oct 2024 → 18 Oct 2024 The Collège de France's 2024 back-to-school symposium aims to explore the relationship between “gender” and “science” from two different and complementary angles: gender in science and gender as an object. 17 Oct 2024 → 18 Oct 2024
Special events Not recorded Wines, oils and perfumes: an archaeological journey around the ancient Mediterranean Exhibitions and European Heritage Days, Jean-Pierre Brun 05 Nov 2024 → 28 Jan 2025 A series of 5 lectures on the theme of the exhibition, at the Institut des civilisations du Collège de France. 05 Nov 2024 → 28 Jan 2025
Guest lecturer Stories and memories of African Europeans from Antiquity to the present day Olivette Otele 06 Nov 2024 → 14 Nov 2024 06 Nov 2024 → 14 Nov 2024
Special events Not recorded The Cité de la réussite at the Collège de France Avenir Commun Durable, Jean-Marie Tarascon, Marc Fontecave 23 Nov 2024 → 24 Nov 2024 This year, the Cité de la réussite brings together leading figures from the worlds of academia, science, politics, business and the media, to debate and exchange ideas on the theme of trust. 23 Nov 2024 → 24 Nov 2024
Special events 18:00 - 19:00 Measuring glaciers Fanny Brun & Natacha Triou 12 Dec 2024 Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot 12 Dec 2024 18:00 - 19:00
Special events Re-enchanting maths at school Acting for education, Stanislas Dehaene, Pierre-Michel Menger, Stéphane Mallat 22 Jan 2025 → 18 Jun 2025 22 Jan 2025 → 18 Jun 2025
Special events The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France 29 Jan 2025 → 11 Jun 2025 A series of seven meetings during which teachers and actors will discuss the science of theater, what it means to act, to direct, to speak verse and prose, to embody life and society, to take to the stage to speak of the world and to the world.... 29 Jan 2025 → 11 Jun 2025
Guest lecturer Three-term arithmetic progressions, the slice rank polynomial method and the Erdös-Ginzburg-Ziv Problem Lisa Sauermann 04 Feb 2025 → 10 Mar 2025 04 Feb 2025 → 10 Mar 2025
Special events In search of an Avenir Commun Durable Avenir Commun Durable, Jean-Marie Tarascon 04 Feb 2025 → 12 Jun 2025 04 Feb 2025 → 12 Jun 2025
Guest lecturer On maximal hypoellipticity and sub-Riemannian geometry Omar Mohsen 13 Mar 2025 → 03 Apr 2025 13 Mar 2025 → 03 Apr 2025
Guest lecturer Quantitative stability of optimal transport Cyril Letrouit 14 May 2025 → 04 Jun 2025 14 May 2025 → 04 Jun 2025
Special events Not recorded European Heritage Days 2023 Exhibitions and European Heritage Days 16 Sep 2023 → 17 Sep 2023 16 Sep 2023 → 17 Sep 2023
Special events Learning and teaching, from prehistory to the future Opening symposia 19 Oct 2023 → 20 Oct 2023 19 Oct 2023 → 20 Oct 2023
Special events 18:30 - 20:30 Young researchers : what's the point of research today ? Collège de France 14 Nov 2023 Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 14 Nov 2023 18:30 - 20:30
Guest lecturer European values and democratic indeterminacy Justine Lacroix 15 Nov 2023 → 23 Nov 2023 15 Nov 2023 → 23 Nov 2023
Special events The city of the future Avenir Commun Durable, Patrick Boucheron, Philippe Sansonetti 30 Nov 2023 → 01 Dec 2023 The future is in the city. In 2022, 56% of the world's population - some 4.4 billion people - lived in urban areas. If this trend continues, by 2050, 7 out of 10 people will be city dwellers. 30 Nov 2023 → 01 Dec 2023
Special events 17:00 - 18:00 Hanafi law in the Mughal Empire. Islamic institutions, norms and practices in India (1650-1700) Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy 14 Dec 2023 Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot 14 Dec 2023 17:00 - 18:00
Special events Experimental approaches to education Acting for education, Esther Duflo 12 Jan 2024 → 15 May 2024 12 Jan 2024 → 15 May 2024
Guest lecturer Representations of p-adic Groups Jessica Fintzen 24 Jan 2024 → 14 Feb 2024 24 Jan 2024 → 14 Feb 2024