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The annual L'invention de l'Europe par les langues et les cultures chair was created in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture (Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France) . A cultural dream : Europe in the plural Rooted …

The annual Avenir Commun Durable chair is supported by the Fondation du Collège de France and its major sponsors, the Covéa Foundation and TotalEnergies. International law and water Freshwater is an essential natural resource whose many uses leave their …

Spectral Geometry is the field of mathematics that aims to relate the geometry of an object to its vibrational spectrum. The field had its first birth in the years 1910, when the precursors of quantum mechanics sought to calculate the spectrum of atoms …

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 innovation. …

The annual Biodiversity and Ecosystems Chair is supported by the Jean-François and Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Foundation. Thinking differently about living things The living world is fascinating. Its complexity surpasses that of the most …

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

The last thirty years present an astonishing paradox : while the world's richest have seen their fortunes multiply and their share of global income distribution become ever more overwhelming, the world's poorest have also enjoyed a period of remarkable …

From human rights to humanitarian action, from truth and reconciliation commissions to international conventions on refugees, from the integrity of governments to the regulation of finance, from the recognition of gender relations to the legitimization of …

The Enlightenment is at once a historical moment, a philosophical ideal and an intellectual legacy. This polysemy is what makes them so complex and interesting. As a period, it corresponds to a long eighteenth century, marked by profound transformations, …

The development of a fertilized egg, first into an embryo and then into an adult form, depends largely on the genetic information contained in its DNA. While DNA is the same in all cells, the information produced is specific to each of our cells. In …

The Mondes francophones annual chair was created in partnership with the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie. Vietnamese women : Powers, cultures and plural identities As a witness to the contemporary history of Việt Nam and a historian, I invite you …

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 Avenir Commun Durable Annual Chair is supported by the Collège de France Foundation and its major sponsors the Covéa Foundation and TotalEnergies. End of the month and end of the world : How to reconcile economy and ecology ? While there is a strong …

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 …

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 the work that needs to be devoted to …

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 …

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 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 …

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 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 …

The Biodiversity and Ecosystems Annual Chair is supported by the Jean-François and Marie-Laure 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 …