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Interview with Emmanuelle Porcher Emmanuelle Porcher has been Director of the Centre d'écologie et des sciences de la conservation since 2020. Winner in 2020 of the Recherche prize from the French Society of Ecology and Evolution, she has been invited to …

Laurence Boisson de Chazournes Water in international law   : between singularity and plurality Essential to human life and activity, freshwater has become a concern of international law. Its regulation, initially devoted to rivers shared by several …

Poster for the " Objectif Mer : l'océan filmé " exhibition The Collège de France is lending the Musée de la Marine a recently restored chronophotograph by Étienne-Jules Marey, for the exhibition " Objectif Mer : l'océan filmé " (13 December 2023 - 5 May …

Antoine Lilti Actuality of the Enlightenment : a plural history The Enlightenment refers not only to an intellectual movement rooted in the 18th  century of Europe, or to a historical period that is no longer with us. They also refer to a philosophical …

Alessandro Morbidelli patrick Imbert, Collège de France. An astronomer and planetologist with a passion for celestial mechanics, Alessandro Morbidelli is world-renowned for having formulated the Nice model, which shows that the current structure of the …

Fonds Edoardo Volterra, library of the École française de Rome. Ph. Ch. Mantuano/EFR The call for applications for the 8th  edition of the " Introduction aux sources du droit romain " workshop is open. The workshop will take place from June 17 to 21 2024 …

The Collège de France has accepted an invitation from the Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (ITEM - ENS/CNRS) to take part in the Renan Sources project. ITEM has partnered with several institutions to put the archives of Ernest Renan (1823-1892), …

Maxime Decker, an M2 student in the year 2022-2023 under the supervision of Dr. Maria Gomez-Mingot at the Chemistry of Biological Processes Laboratory of the Collège de France and Dr. Carlos Sánchez-Sánchez at the LISE of Sorbonne University, has been …

Following the launch of the new version of its website in September 2022, the Collège de France will shortly be putting a new version of its site online, with reworked graphics and ergonomics. This update will not affect the site's navigation, sections or …

Mathilde Touvier The role of nutrition in chronic disease prevention. A public health issue At the interface of epidemiology, socio-anthropology, culture, politics and economics, food and nutrition are key public health issues. Over the course of a …

Denis Duboule The times of the embryo This opening lecture is based on a new field of study : the multiple temporal referents that intertwine during embryonic development. At the intersection of evolutionary biology, developmental biology, embryogenesis, …

Interview with Denis Knoepfler The discovery of archaeological remains can sometimes take a lifetime. The search for the sanctuary of Artemis in Amarynthos, Greece, enthralled generations of archaeologists before finally yielding its secrets. Professor   …

Blaise Pascal (Edited by Jacques Chevalier, preface by Jean Guitton, afterword by Carlo Ossola) Thoughts "   It is necessary to know oneself -   writes Pascal   -  : when this would not serve to find the truth, it at least serves to regulate one's life, …

Michel Butor/Carlo Ossola Conversation on time In Saint-Émilion, on May 28 2011, two men are chatting. One, Michel Butor, an author without equal, is in a strange mood : last year, he lost his wife and saw the publication of the last volume of his Œuvres …

Piero Calamandrei (Afterword by Carlo Ossola) Encounter with Piero della Francesca Piero Calamandrei recalls a 1938 excursion to the outskirts of Arezzo, on the borders of Tuscany and Umbria, where he first   saw Piero della Francesca's now-famous fresco …

The framework scientific and cultural partnership agreement between the Musée du Louvre and the Collège de France was renewed on November 25 2023, with a visit to the new Institut des Civilisations at the Collège de France by Laurence des Cars, President …

To mark the publication of the book Sciences sociales par temps de crise , the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme is organizing a meeting with Didier Fassin on December 21   2023 at 6 pm   h  30 as part of an evening of "   Livres en dialogue   ". …

At the Collège de France, all lectures are open to the general public, with no admission requirements or prior registration required, subject to availability. Special events Avenir Commun Durable: The City of the Future A series of lectures organized as …

It is with deep sadness that the Administrator, the Board of Professors and the entire Collège de France community learn of the death of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Honorary Professor at the Collège de France and holder of the  Chair in the History of Modern …

The administrator, professors and entire Collège de France community congratulate paleoanthropologist Pr Jean-Jacques Hublin, who was awarded the Balzan Prize 2023 at a ceremony in Bern on November 17 2023. The prize was awarded for " the importance of …

As part of the 31st  edition of the Les Boréales festival, Torfi H. Tulinius will be presenting his work on Icelandic sagas at the Mondeville and Mortagne-au-Perche media libraries, the Alexis de Tocqueville library in Caen and the Drakkar cinema in …

Conference organized by the Avenir Commun Durable initiative , on November 30 and December 1, 2023 in the Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site). © Ksana-Gribakina, Mykola Syvak | Claude-Matthieu Pezon. The …

Every year, the Collège de France awards scientific prizes to researchers chosen for the excellence of their achievements. A public awards ceremony was held in the Marguerite de Navarre amphitheatre on Tuesday, November 14 2023. Award ceremony The …

At a time of ever-increasing environmental challenges, what does the future hold for major metropolises ? Historians, economists, biologists, geographers, anthropologists and hydrologists will combine their analyses to design the city of the future, on …