Search results

Current Chairs Explore the chairs Special events This Year's Guest Speakers Latest News …

Back to the Chair's Home Page 2026–2027 China Lanzhou University Fall 2026, a series of lectures (1.5 hours) on: Molecular Frontiers in Paleoanthropology; Denisovans and the Peopling of Eastern Asia. United Kingdom French House in Oxford* Spring 2027, a …

Back to the Chair home page 2026-2027 Allemagne Université de Bonn* Avril 2027, un cours (2h) sur un sujet à déterminer. *Dans le cadre d’une convention signée avec le Collège de France. 2023-2024 Switzerland University of Lausanne* In spring 2024, a …

Back to the Chair home page 2025-2026 United States New York University* From March 30 to April 2, 2026, two lectures (4h), on: Hox genes in vertebrate development and evolution. *Under an agreement signed with the Collège de France. 2023-2024 United …

Back to the Chair's Home Page 2026–2027 Mexico National College of Mexico City* On October 27, 2026, a lecture (1 hour) on: Otherness and Universalism: The Enlightenment in the Pacific. *As part of an agreement signed with the Collège de France. National …

Visits for professionals Several times a year, the Collège de France offers guided tours for professionals in the arts, culture, higher education and research, presenting the institution's architectural heritage, its history, organization and specific …

Exposition en cours Du 30 septembre 2026 au 15 janvier 2027 Foucault, une aventure intellectuelle au Collège de France Expositions passées Educational resources for past exhibitions are available on each exhibition page. Voir la liste de toutes les …

Conditions d’accès pour toutes les visites Free Tours Reservations required Reservations can be made using the Culture Pass for eligible schools Groups limited to 30 people In case of cancellation, please notify us as soon as possible Tours take place at …

The Collège de France offers free guided tours for professionals and school groups (primary and secondary), as well as for university students accompanied by their teacher. All tours must be booked in advance. Please register online as soon as possible. …

Back to Chinese Studies Library page Presentation In May 2021, the Collège de France and the Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies (TRCCS) of the National Central Library 臺灣漢學資源中心 in Taiwan signed a scientific partnership agreement under the Chinese …

Challenges are proposed by public services, companies or scientific laboratories, and are based on real-life problems. Participants submit the results of their classification or prediction algorithms, which are then put into competition via the website. …

Agreements with Doctoral Schools (ED) To qualify, an agreement must be signed between the doctoral school and the Collège de France. A standard agreement template is available to the doctoral school director and can be signed electronically. For more …

Presentation The patterns of biodiversity that we observe today, are the result of the historical interplay of complex evolutionary processes operating at all scales of time (from mutation to speciation), space (from the local displacement of single cells …

Auguste Bartholdi, "Jean-François Champollion", 1875. Scroll down for English version. This sculpture was conceived in 1865 by Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904), who was both fascinated by Egypt (which he had discovered on a trip in 1855-1856) and a fervent …

Overview The Anthropology Department of the Institute of Civilizations at the Collège de France comprises the Laboratory of Social Anthropology and the Claude Lévi-Strauss Library. Founded in 1960 by Claude Lévi-Strauss, then holder of the Chair of Social …

Presentation Back to the Collège de France prize The Prix du Collège de France 2023 will be awarded in the field of Letters, Humanities and Social Sciences. The theme of the 2023 prize is : " Rencontres des civilisations ". The prize is worth 20 000 …

Presentation Overview The hippocampus is a limbic structure that plays a critical role in the formation, consolidation and recall of various forms of memory, including episodic and spatial memory. How do such complex cognitive functions emerge from the …

Back to the Digital dissemination of knowledge page Main channels A selection of lectures and conferences at the Collège de France. Opening lectures and special events All audio recordings of Collège de France conferences. Colloques Mathematics and …

Back to the Chair home page Presentation Founded in 1872 by Paul Meyer and Gaston Paris, Romania is a French journal devoted to the study of Romance languages and literature up to the Renaissance. It publishes studies on literary and cultural history, …

With : Roger Chartier, Professor at the Collège de France, Dominique Pestre and Kapil Raj, Directors of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Writing the history of science The history of science has undoubtedly been one of the most …

With : Roger Chartier, Patrick Boucheron, professors at the Collège de France and Romain Bertrand, director of research at the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI). A witchcraft trial in Manila in 1577 This first conversation in the " …

With : Roger Chartier, Professor at Collège de France and François Laroque, Professor Emeritus at Université Paris III. Shakespeare or " man-ocean " In his William Shakespeare, published in 1864 as a huge preface to the 18-volume translation by his son …

With : Roger Chartier, Patrick Boucheron, professors at the Collège de France and Pierre-Antoine Fabre, director of studies at EHESS. Representation and presence. The image of religion The recent publication of a book by Alphonse Dupront, entitled L'image …