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The European Geosciences Union has bestowed its highest distinction on Édouard Bard, making him an honorary member and awarding him the 2013 Alfred Wegener Medal. Prof. Édouard Bard and Prof. André Berger The ceremony took place on April 10, 2013 as part …

Around 21,000 years ago, the geography of Europe was very different from that of today. A veritable mountain of ice, the Fennoscandian ice cap, covered all of northern Europe from the British Isles to Siberia. Fennoscandian ice cap Ocean levels were then …

Article published in Nature , April 5, 2012. The climate of the last few million years has been characterized by a cyclical alternation of ice ages. The main reason for this is the cyclicity of the geographical distribution of insolation due to slow …

International symposium A good knowledge of classical Chinese is required. Thursday, November 21 and Friday, November 22, 2013 Collège de France – Site Cardinal Lemoine Salle Lévi-Strauss 52, rue du Cardinal-Lemoine 75005 Paris Go to the symposium page …

Ingela Nilsson Professor at Uppsala University (Sweden) Two conferences: November 18 and 21, 2013 Go to the conferences page John Scheid, chair Religion, institutions and society in ancient …

Air movements encountering an inclined curved surface. Chronophotography on a fixed plate, Etienne-Jules Marey, 1901 Seminar in English. In the last forty years, the philosophy of causality has undergone considerable development, although it is not …

Professor Barbara Romanowicz Chair in Physics of the Earth's Interior Colloque en anglais - Workshop in English Tuesday, November 19 and Wednesday, November 20, 2013 Collège de France Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot 75005 Paris …

The Persians, whose clan came to power throughout the Near East in 521-522, were an Iranian people. We can therefore logically assume, and several testimonies confirm, that their religion is identical or similar to that of the Avestic texts composed as …

Electronic version of his opening lecture, delivered on November 30, 2006. Free access. Alongside the traditional theoretical or historical question: "What is literature?", a critical and political question arises with greater urgency today: "What can …

Electronic version of his opening lecture, delivered on December 13, 2001. Free access. From the infinitely small to the infinitely large, covering more than sixty orders of magnitude of spatial dimension, quantum theory is invoked, both to describe the …

Electronic version of his opening lecture, delivered on January 16, 1976. Free access. The brain is a machine that processes information, records it and gives orders like a computer. All its functions, however noble, result exclusively from the assembly …

Chair in Artistic creation (2013-2014) A major figure in contemporary sculpture, Tony Cragg will give his opening lecture on Thursday, October 24 at 6 pm. Admission free, no registration required, subject to availability. Thursday, October 24 at 6 p.m …

Tony Cragg : Recent works September 14, 2013 to January 5, 2014 Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne métropole Rue Fernand Léger 42270 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez Tony Cragg offers a selection of works from his most recent years of production: unique wood …

The Collège de France lectures are part of the 2013-2014 "Sciences en question" program organized by the Institut français de Tunisie. They will be followed by debates and broadcast by videoconference to various university sites outside Tunis. Free …

John Scheid Religion, Institutions and Society in Ancient Rome " By opposing sectarian discourse with the universal weapons of history, philology and anthropology - in short, the whole arsenal of science and reason - the history of past religions puts us …

Michel Zink Literatures of medieval France " Medieval letters crystallize all the associations between the past and literature, all the indications that an essential link unites the notion of literature with a feeling for the past. The curiosity aroused …

GMOs, shale gas, nuclear energy, climate change, stem cell research, drug efficacy: there is a long list of issues on which scientists have ceased to have a clear voice in our societies. First and foremost, there are uncertainties and controversies within …

On the "Autour de la question" program "From Monday to Thursday, from 4.10pm to 5pm (Paris time), from August 12 to 29, 2013, Caroline Lachowsky and the "Autour de la question" program team invite all audiences to spend the summer at the Collège de …

The Collège de France and the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori of Pavia invite you to the Presentation of two volumes published by the Centro di Studi e Ricerche sui Diritti Antichi (CEDANT) on Friday September 13th, at 5.30pm, at the Collège de …

Colloquium, September 12-14, 2013 in Samarkand, co-organized by Prof. Frantz Grenet as part of the labex TransferS, partner of the Collège de France. Until recently, theoretical reflection on cultural transfers rarely went beyond the framework constituted …

mPI-CEC Mülheim CEA article " For the first time, a research team from the CEA [1] , Collège de France, CNRS and Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, has developed a novel and effective process for activating in vitro an enzyme, hydrogenase, present in …

Program What remains of our loves? - Michel Zink Lecture at 5:00 pm, in the auditorium of the Bâtiment Le France, 190, avenue de France, 75013 Paris Chanter m'estuet Concert at 6:00 pm Songs of the troubadours and trouvères Ensemble Alla francesca …

Dominique Kerouedan Geopolitics of global health " Taking as her starting point the major developments in health cooperation over the last twenty years, Dominique Kerouedan looks at how transformations in global governance in the health sector are …

Yves Bréchet The science of materials : from meeting materials to tailor-made materials " Throughout the ages, man has applied his knowledge and know-how to mastering materials. We've gone from encountering materials available in our environment to …