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

Electing Foucault to the Collège de France: Institutional and Scientific Implications
Orazio Irrera & Céline Surprenant

Special events
17:30 to 19:00

Education 2026 Forum
Agir pour l'éducation

Special events
09:00 to 17:45
Live

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

2015 - 2016

Anish Kapoor's major lecture
Anish Kapoor

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Special events
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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2014 - 2015

Around 1914, new figures of thought : sciences, arts, literature
Opening symposia

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Recent advances in arithmetic surface geometry
François Charles

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Guest lecturer
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Geometric representations of spin models on low-dimensional networks
Hugo Duminil-Copin

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Guest lecturer
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Around the local p-adic Langlands correspondence for GL_2(Q_P)
Gabriel Dospinescu

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Guest lecturer
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2013 - 2014

Science and democracy
Opening symposia

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Symposium
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Finetti theorems, mean field limits and Bose-Einstein condensation
Nicolas Rougerie

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Guest lecturer
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2012 - 2013

Tribute to Ernest Renan
Opening symposia, Ernest Renan

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Symposium
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2011 - 2012

The life of shapes
Opening symposia

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Symposium
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Stability in functional inequalities, optimal transport and PDEs
Alessio Figalli

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Guest lecturer
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Hecke variety and coherent cohomology
Vincent Pilloni

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Guest lecturer
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2010 - 2011

The globalization of research
Opening symposia

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Symposium
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Some boundary layer problems in fluid mechanics
Anne-Laure Dalibard

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Guest lecturer
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Model selection and estimator selection for statistical learning
Sylvain Arlot

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Guest lecturer
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2009 - 2010

Great civilizations
Collège de France Mondays at Aubervilliers

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Darwin is two hundred years old
Opening symposia

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Symposium
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2008 - 2009

Concepts and realities
Collège de France Mondays at Aubervilliers

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Special events
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The origins of human dialogue : Word and music
Opening symposia

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Symposium
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2007 - 2008

Utopia and Carnival
Collège de France Mondays at Aubervilliers

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Special events
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Authority
Opening symposia

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Symposium
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