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

Foucault and College Life: Dialogue with Peers, Establishment of Chairs
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

2019 - 2020

Night of Ideas 2020
Night of Ideas

Special events

Real homotopy of configuration spaces
Najib Idrissi

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Guest lecturer
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2018 - 2019

Language and science, language and thought
Opening symposia

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Symposium
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future
Demis Hassabis

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Special events
Marguerite-de-Navarre Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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Itinerary of a Holocaust historian in Poland
Jan Tomasz Gross

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Guest lecturer
Marguerite-de-Navarre Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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Threshold theorem and interacting bubbles for the critical wave maps equation
Jacek Jendrej

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Guest lecturer
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2017 - 2018

Nature in question
Opening symposia

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Symposium
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Mario Vargas Llosa, conversation with Antoine Compagnon
Mario Vargas Llosa

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Special events
Marguerite-de-Navarre Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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Asymptotic geometry of the group of exterior automorphisms of a free group
Camille Horbez

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Semiclassical micro-local analysis on spiked varieties
Yannick Guedes Bonthonneau

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Guest lecturer
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Utilité et inutilité du travail / The Revolt of the Caring Classes
David Graeber

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Special events
Marguerite-de-Navarre Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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The Collège de France welcomes the Opéra national de Paris
The Collège de France welcomes the Opéra national de Paris

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2016 - 2017

Migration, refugees, exile
Opening symposia

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Symposium
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Derived algebraic geometry and Gromov-Witten invariants
Marco Robalo

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Guest lecturer
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Radically unoriginal
Enrique Vila-Matas

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Special events
Marguerite-de-Navarre Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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Patterns on Q of conductor one, from the automorphic point of view
Olivier Taïbi

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Guest lecturer
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Period factorizations and Plancherel formulas
Raphaël Beuzart-Plessis

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Guest lecturer
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Frank Gehry, conversation with Jean-Louis Cohen
Frank Gehry

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Special events
Marguerite-de-Navarre Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
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2015 - 2016

Lights, lights
Opening symposia

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Symposium
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Peeling random planar maps
Nicolas Curien

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