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The lectures offered by the Paleoanthropology Chair, created in 2021, follow on from those offered by Jean-Jacques Hublin, since 2014, as part of a visiting chair, then an international chair at the Collège de France. They take a resolutely bio-cultural …

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. Environment and Health in the …

The Biodiversity and Ecosystems Annual Chair is supported by the Fondation Jean-François et Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre. Biodiversity dynamics and evolution : species formation, domestication and adaptation Today's threats to biodiversity are …

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 …

Priest, naturalist, archaeologist and first holder of the Prehistory chair at the Collège de France from 1929 onwards, Henri Breuil put the study of prehistory on a scientific footing, using empirical methods and standardized field description protocols. …

Combinatorics is a somewhat paradoxical area of mathematics, being at once simple and complex, poor and rich, easy and difficult, pure and applied. To be more precise, there are problems that are simple to state, but have complex solutions ; we use weak …

Created in partnership with Inria, the Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Annual Chair is the fruit of a shared desire to highlight the importance of this scientific discipline and the need to give it its rightful …

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

The lectures and seminars offered by the General Linguistics Chair focus on theoretical models of language and the comparative analysis of linguistic structures. Following a long tradition of studies in General Linguistics, the current research presented …

The nervous and immune systems govern the interactions between living organisms and the world around them: they regulate the various aspects of these interactions, from sensory perception to the response to viral infections, right through to the …

Literature is a universal phenomenon, spanning the globe and transcending history, albeit in extremely diverse forms: the study of its variations is the focus of this chair, following in the tradition of courses in Comparative Literatures that emerged in …

"Symmetry is one of the thematic melodies of physics in the XX th century." It's in these colorful terms that Nobel Prize-winning physicist C.N. Yang highlights the invasion of modern physics by ideas of symmetry, which have played an essential guiding …

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 …

Automorphic forms were discovered at the turn of the century XX th  century by Henri Poincaré as a non-commutative generalization of periodic functions. Modular forms, which are special cases of automorphic forms, were studied intensively in Germany …

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

Since 2019, Lluis Quintana-Murci has held the Human Genomics and Evolution Chair. His research focuses on the study of human genome diversity, both from a fundamental perspective and as applied to the understanding of certain pathologies. His work has led …

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 …

The   Chair in Philosophy of Language and Mind hosts the teaching of the incumbent, Prof.   Recanati, as well as the Chair's own colloquia, seminars and study days, and guest lectures. The fields covered by these lectures and events are analytical …

The formidable diversity of African societies is nothing other than historical. The variety of languages spoken across the continent, the proximity of multiple systems of political organization, types of economy, religious forms, techniques and arts tell …

Created in 2019, the International Law of Institutions Chair revives a long tradition of teaching and research in international law at the Collège de France. The new Chair is both more specific in its focus on the institutional dimension of international …

The Francophone Worlds Annual Chair was created in partnership with the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie. …

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

Soft matter physics studies complex fluids: polymers, amphiphilic molecules, liquid crystals, and so on. It is a new and highly relevant approach for studying the physical properties of many living systems: cells, tissues, bacterial suspensions, and the …