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Claude Lévi-Strauss Library of the Institut des Civilisations. The libraries and archives will be exceptionally closed from the morning of May 2 to the evening of Monday May 5, and from the evening of May 28 to the morning of Monday June …

We are pleased to announce an exceptional week devoted to the study of manuscripts and book culture in Arabic script, through two colloquia organized in Paris by the EPHE and the Collège de France. From Letters to Digits: The Legacy of Arabic Manuscripts …

At the Collège de France, lectures are open to all, with no conditions of access or prior registration, subject to availability. Major events AI and mathematics for meteorology and climatology Conferences organized by the Avenir Commun Durable initiative …

To celebrate the 30th   anniversary of Byzantium 1200 , a website designed to bring together 3D digital reconstructions of the monuments of Byzantine Constantinople, the Centre d'Histoire et de Civilisation de Byzance and the Byzantine Library are …

Manuscript Rim.161, as it was before the folios were reordered The Indian and Central Asian Studies Library holds over eighty manuscripts written on ôles, or palm leaves. Of these, barely six were written in Tamil. One of them has received particular …

For the second year running , the City of Paris library network, in partnership with the Collège de France, is hosting a bimonthly   event at the Marguerite Yourcenar media library ( 15th arrondissement) to discuss the major intellectual and scientific …

As part of the Boulez colloquium : l'invention au pouvoir  ? Les années   1975-1995 , organized for the centenary of Pierre Boulez's birth by Pr Pierre-Michel Menger, Chair of Sociology of Creative Work , and Nicolas Donin , Professor of Musicology at the …

Off the coast of Corsica, strange rings dot the seabed. How did they come about? The documentary "   Cap Corse: the mystery of the rings   ", directed by Yann Rineau, tells the story of a multi-disciplinary scientific investigation and an extraordinary …

samten Norbù. On April 7   2025, the Collège de France moved to Strasbourg, to the European Parliament, as part of the Curieux Festival , of which we were a partner. Created in 2020, this festival aims to promote all sciences by placing them alongside all …

International symposium organized by Laurent Coulon (Collège de France, EPHE-PSL) and Olivier Perdu (Collège de France). This symposium will bring together international specialists in Pharaonic statuary, a fundamental source of knowledge on Pharaonic …

The Centre for Tibetan Studies at the Collège de France, founded by Professor Rolf Alfred Stein in March 1974 , celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. An afternoon of celebrations was held on Wednesday December 11 at the Institute of Civilizations, focusing …

Hervé Turlier, a CNRS researcher at the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en biologie (CIRB) at Collège de France, has been awarded a prestigious international Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) grant in collaboration with two international …

Étienne Drioton at Tod, 1934-1936 The Musée municipal Josèphe Jacquiot de Montgeron houses most of the archives of Canon Étienne Drioton (1889-1961), who held the chair of Egyptian Philology and Archaeology between 1957 and 1960. The site of Tôd, south of …

Every two weeks, a current scientific topic is explored by a researcher from the Collège de France. Long seen as the study of human societies in their cultural and social dimensions, anthropology is expanding into a new approach, to reflect on the effects …

Alessandro Morbidelli Determinism and stochasticity in planetary formation processes For centuries, it was thought that all planetary systems, by virtue of the universality of physical laws, resembled our own. However, the discovery of numerous extrasolar …

Aurelio Chino Dahua, President FEDIQUEP Pastaza, Peru The Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale (LAS) is organizing a study day around the Bernard Lelong legacy entitled " Indigenous Sovereignties ", on April 4, 2025 from 1pm to 7pm, at the Collège de …

At the Collège de France, lectures are open to all, with no conditions of access or prior registration, subject to availability. Major events In search of a Sustainable Common Future A lecture series organized as part of the Avenir Commun Durable …

The Roger de Spoelberch Foundation Award was presented to Pr   Sonia Garel on March 24   2025 at the Collège de France. The Roger de Spoelberch Foundation is a Geneva-based foundation whose mission is to fund and encourage research and assistance in …

For the first time   , the Collège de France is a partner of the Curieux Festival , a Strasbourg-based event promoting scientific theater. On April 7   , 2025, at 6 pm   , at the European Parliament, Claire Audhuy, a committed playwright, and Prof. Denis …

On March 14, Prof. Thomas Römer, Administrator of the Collège de France, gave a lecture in Annonay, in the amphitheatre of the Lycée Saint-Denis. The lecture, open to all, was organized by the Christian communities and the association Sciences pour tous. …

Anne Vergati, honorary research director at the CNRS and member of the Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative UMR   7535, has just donated a highly original work to the Collège de France's Indian and Central Asian Studies Library. Find out …

Prof. Dr.   Edouard Bard has been elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. This academy, founded in 1652, is dedicated to identifying and analyzing scientific issues of societal importance. The Leopoldina presents its …

Kyle Harper Climate change and social dynamics. From deep past to uncertain future Our destiny has always been inseparable from that of the environment. To understand the role the environment has played in the past, we need to consider climate and human …

The Administrator, the Board of Professors and the entire Collège de France community are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Xavier Le Pichon, Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France, who held the Chair of Geodynamics from 1986 to 2008. They pay …