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New Indicators for a New Society – Marc Fleurbaey The Avenir Commun Durable Annual Chair is supported by the Collège de France Foundation and its major sponsor, the Covéa …

The Language of Europe? – Barbara Cassin One of the most fruitful challenges posed by Europe is that of languages: we can choose a dominant language—the “Globish” of a globalized Anglo-American world—or strive to preserve plurality by highlighting the …

The Age of Uncertainty: Risks and Crises in the Organocene – Olivier Borraz This course will analyze how our societies cope with uncertainty. It will begin by describing the deployment of risk management tools, designed to bring within the realm of …

History of the Arts in Early Modern Europe …

New Microbiology: From Molecules to Ecosystems – Tâm Mignot The Biodiversity and Ecosystems Annual Chair is supported by the Collège de France …

The annual Cinema Chair, created in partnership with the National Center for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC), encourages reflection, research, and intellectual debate on contemporary issues in cinema. Its main objective is to highlight the practices, …

Data Management: Expressiveness and Performance – Ioana Manolescu Digital data constitutes a “second world”—that is, a representation, shaped by modeling choices, of a wide range of human activities, such as economics, communications, healthcare, and …

Modeling Epidemics: Data, Methods, and Public Health Issues – Simon Cauchemez In this lecture series, I will demonstrate how mathematical modeling tools are used to study the spread of infectious diseases in human populations. I will detail the impact on …

The chair’s research focuses on mathematical models in fluid mechanics, and more specifically on geophysical fluids, which are characterized by the involvement of multiple time and spatial scales and by high anisotropy. This anisotropy—which in this …

Experimental Medicine …

A pebble bouncing a few times on a lake. A sandcastle. The splash of a stone falling into the water. The wake left by a boat. Waxing skis. But also… the “whispers” of microparticles. A trickle of water flowing through a carbon straw just a few nanometers …

The primary goal of the Chair of the History of Indian Systems of Thought is to help dispel the persistent prejudice—fundamentally Eurocentric but now entrenched even in South Asia—that philosophy proper has remained the exclusive domain of the West, …

Emerging Quantum Technologies - Pascale Senellart The revolution in information science and technology during the 20 th century tapped into only a tiny fraction of the concepts introduced by quantum mechanics. For the past two decades, a second …

Critical reason and the legacy of the Enlightenment: rethinking socialism in the 21st century This year's lectures focus on re-elaborating the concept of moral socialism as a response to the joint impasses of state socialism and contemporary capitalism. …

Mental Health and Addiction: From Individual Suffering to Population-Wide Action – Maria Melchior About one in five French people is affected by a mental health disorder each year. The COVID-19 health crisis has highlighted the importance of prevention …

Functional Ecology: Understanding Ecosystem Dynamics in a Changing World – Sandra Lavorel Functional ecology aims to shed light on the links between the structure of organisms and their functions, from the individual level up to the ecosystem and the …

Complexity Reduction for Numerical Simulations: Methods, Algorithms, and Associated Numerical Analysis – Yvon Maday Numerical simulation is now a ubiquitous tool used across many scientific fields. It is based primarily on mathematical models: …

Scientific Ecology and Biochemistry: A Symbiosis at the Heart of Sustainable Development – Claude Grison The Avenir Commun Durable Annual Chair is supported by the Collège de France Foundation and its major sponsors, the Covéa Foundation and …

The annual Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Chair , created in 2006, marks the joint determination of the Collège de France and the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller to highlight the importance of work devoted to technological …

The Biodiversity and Ecosystems Annual Chair is supported by the Jean-François de Clermont-Tonnerre Foundation. …

Created in partnership with Inria, the Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Annual Chair reflects a shared determination to highlight the importance of this scientific discipline and the need to give it its rightful place. Dependent type theory and …

The Avenir Commun Durable Annual Chair is supported by the Collège de France Foundation and its major sponsors, the Covéa Foundation and …

The Invention of Europe through languages and cultures Annual Chair was created in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture (Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de …

Created in partnership with the national agency Santé publique France, the Public Health Annual Chair is designed to encourage excellence in research and intellectual debate at the highest level on public health issues. The social production of health …