Lessons

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

Forum Éducation 2026
Agir pour l'éducation

Special events
09:00 to 17:45
Live

Foucault et la vie du Collège : dialogue avec les pairs, création de chaires
Aurèle Méthivier & Sandra Boehringer

Special events
17:30 to 19:00

Foucault the Teacher: The Coherence of a Career Path and Its Place in His Work
Philippe Sabot & Elisabetta Basso

Special events
17:30 to 19:00

Working with Foucault: The College's Seminars
Pasquale Pasquino & Carolina Verlengia

Special events
17:30 to 19:00

The History and Legacy of a Lesson: “What Is the Enlightenment?”
Antoine Lilti

Special events
17:30 to 19:00

Edith Heard

Special events
10:00 to 12:00

When Genetics Is No Longer Enough (2)
Edith Heard

Special events
10:00 to 12:00

2022 - 2023

Medium-field games and stochastic control in Wasserstein space
Charles Bertucci

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Guest lecturer
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2021 - 2022

The Fear of Shrinking Numbers. Democracy, Demography and the East-West Divide in Europe
Ivan Krastev

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Guest lecturer
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Comics at the Collège de France (continued)
Comics at the Collège de France

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Special events
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Inventing Europe
Opening symposia

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Symposium
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Climate change : transition and adaptation
Jean-Marie Tarascon, Sustainable Common Future

Special events

On the existence of critical points for area and volume
Antoine Song

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Guest lecturer
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Recent advances in enumerative geometry
Pierrick Bousseau

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Guest lecturer
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The two Europes and their constitutional traditions : a history of avoidable misunderstandings or insurmountable differences ?
Angelika Nussberger

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Guest lecturer
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Mazur's Eisenstein ideal
Emmanuel Lecouturier

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Guest lecturer
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What is life?
Paul Nurse

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Guest lecturer
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Night of Ideas 2022 : (re)building together
Collège de France - Institut français - ARTE

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Special events
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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How Do You Feel? The Molecules That Sense Touch
Ardem Patapoutian

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Guest lecturer
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The future: how long to wait ?
Dario Mantovani, Sustainable Common Future

Special events

2020 - 2021

Microscopic aspects of logarithmic interaction systems
Thomas Leblé

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Guest lecturer
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Conference : " Comic genius, from Töpffer to Emil Ferris "
Benoît Peeters

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Special events
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Civilizations : questioning identity and diversity
Opening symposia

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Symposium
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Non-convex optimization for low-rank matrix reconstruction
Irène Waldspurger

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Guest lecturer
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Night of Ideas 2021
Night of Ideas

Special events

Geopolitical Europe : deeds and words
Luuk van Middelaar

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Guest lecturer
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2019 - 2020

Research and innovation : what does the future hold ?
Opening symposia

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