Share Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Copy url Search results Search 24383 results Filters Content type Content type (-) Lessons (24021) News (1749) People (1389) (-) Editions (362) Chair (360) Page (231) Research (27) Library (14) Annual Chair (12) Award (6) Active filters Lessons Editions Event Ivan Krastev Liberal and Illiberal Projects in Today's Europe Guest lecturer This lecture defines liberalism and illiberalism as two distinct responses to the changing demographic structure of European societies. In a democracy, the most existential collective right is the right to exclude. Democracy is preconditioned on the right … 13 Oct 2021 17:00 to 18:00 Event Claudine Tiercelin Philosophical knowledge, knowledge of essences : where do we stand ? Symposium Abstract There is little doubt that, unless we confine ourselves to a conception of philosophia perennis , reflection on the nature, objects and claims of philosophy to knowledge , and on the relations it should or should not maintain with its past and … 7 Oct 2021 09:00 to 10:00 Event Alberto Manguel Europa : myth as metaphor Opening lecture Abstract In the beginning, there's the myth. Zeus fell in love with Europa, daughter of the African king Agenor, and, transformed into a bull, took her to Crete, where she bore him two sons. Agénor sent Europa's two brothers after her, forbidding them to … 30 Sep 2021 18:00 to 19:00 Event Ivan Krastev Democratization and Ethnic (De)Homogenization Guest lecturer The second lecture focuses on the centrality of the demographic factor in explaining the transformation of European liberal democracies and European welfare states. It argues that while until recently, the relationship between democracy and demography was … 7 Oct 2021 17:00 to 18:00 Event Ivan Krastev How Important Is the East-West Divide in Europe? Guest lecturer Conference in English with simultaneous translation into French. Europe is a complicated maze with many fault lines and internal divisions. This introductory lecture focuses on several of the fault lines in today's Europe: the North-South Divide; the … 6 Oct 2021 17:00 to 18:00 Event Luis Liz-Marzán The Art and Science of Growing and Assembling Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals Guest lecturer Abstract Nanoplasmonics can be defined as the science studying the manipulation of light using materials of size much smaller than the radiation wavelength. This technology finds applications in various fields including sensing and diagnostics. An … 24 May 2022 14:00 to 15:00 Series Real homotopy of configuration spaces Pierre-Louis Lions, chair Partial Differential Equations and Applications Guest lecturer Peccot Lecture Series Since 1885, thanks to an endowment from the family of mathematician Claude-Antoine Peccot, the Collège de France has awarded annual prizes to young mathematicians under the age of 30 who have distinguished themselves in theoretical … 04 Mar 2020 → 28 May 2020 Event Ido Israelowich The midwife : contested pregnancy, maternity and paternity Guest lecturer 9 Feb 2022 11:00 to 12:00 Event Antoine Georges Strange Metals, SYK Models and Beyond Symposium 2 Jun 2022 09:00 to 18:00 Series Archive Challenges Patrick Boucheron, chair History of power in Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth century Symposium Rencontres internationales In 1995, Jacques Derrida diagnosed an archive sickness . The future has not denied him. Today, archives are at the heart of complex technical issues with immense political - and democratic - implications. The originality of … 24 Jan 2020 Event Luis Liz-Marzán Interactions of Light with Gold (and Other Metals) Guest lecturer Abstract The response of noble metals to light changes dramatically when the size of the metal particles is reduced to the nanometer scale. The interaction of light with conduction electrons then results in coherent oscillations that can achieve resonance … 17 May 2022 11:00 to 12:30 Event Ido Israelowich The murder of a thief : the involvement of public doctors in the judicial process Guest lecturer 2 Feb 2022 11:00 to 12:00 Event Fernande Hölscher The power of divinity in its image Guest lecturer Fernande Hölscher is invited by the Assembly of the Collège de France, at the suggestion of Pr Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge. Fernande Hölscher Abstract When the Greeks presented the statues of the gods with their wishes, prayers and thanks, they were not … 7 Apr 2022 17:00 to 18:00 Event Hugues de Thé et Thomas Lecuit Welcome, Seminar Opening Symposium 4 Oct 2021 09:30 to 09:40 Series French democracy and French Muslims in the face of civil war and upheaval in the Arab and Muslim worlds (1979-2019) Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World Seminar Jalila Sbaï seminar, co-hosted by Prof. Henry Laurens and sponsored by the Chair of Contemporary History of the Arab World. The emergence in the Muslim world in the mid-1970s of two similar but competing ideological currents, whose ambition is the … 31 Jan 2020 → 28 Feb 2020 Event Torfi H. Tulinius A poetics of ambiguity : history, fiction and the materiality of language Guest lecturer Icelandic literature reveals a pronounced taste for polysemy and ambiguity. This is partly due to the practice of scaldic poetry, rich in literary allusion and play on the double meaning of terms. This ambiguity also appears in the sagas, both in the … 23 Nov 2021 17:30 to 18:30 Event Torfi H. Tulinius A society and literature grappling with violence Guest lecturer The 13th century saw a long period of upheaval in Icelandic society, culminating in its integration into the Norwegian kingdom in 1262. Increasingly identified with a European-style high aristocracy, members of the Icelandic ruling class engaged in a … 16 Nov 2021 17:30 to 18:30 Series Equity. A Roman history of the desire for justice Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome Lecture 11 Mar 2020 Series The genome in four dimensions Edith Heard, chair Epigenetics and Cellular Memory Lecture 09 Mar 2020 Series Langlands functoriality and the functional equation of automorphic L-functions Bảo Châu Ngô, chair Automorphic forms Opening lecture 12 Mar 2020 Event Torfi H. Tulinius Memory, poetry, storytelling : medieval Iceland mirrors its Viking past Guest lecturer Icelandic medieval literature can be seen as an expression of the shared memory of what has been known for some time as the "Viking diaspora". This is a group of people from Scandinavia, living in a vast geographical area stretching from Russia to … 9 Nov 2021 17:30 to 18:30 Series Gilgamesh or the domestication of time in Mesopotamia Dominique Charpin, chair Mesopotamian Civilization Guest lecturer Gilgamesh and the temporality of man. An archaeology of time in Mesopotamia He who saw the depths - with these words, a tale from ancient Mesopotamia draws its audience not only into a magnificent work of literature, but also into a confrontation with the … 14 Jan 2020 → 04 Feb 2020 Series Symmetry and gravitation Marc Henneaux, chair Fields, Strings and Gravity Opening lecture 05 Mar 2020 Event Phillip Sharp RNA Interference, from Discovery to Patients Guest lecturer Phillip A. Sharp is invited by Professors Alain Fischer and Hugues de Thé. Abstract Historically, primarily through the research of the great French scientists Jacob and Monod, RNA has been viewed as the intermediary transmitting information between DNA … 18 Mar 2022 10:30 to 11:30 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 281 Page 282 Page 283 Page 284 Page 285 Page 286 Page 287 Page 288 Page 289 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Ivan Krastev Liberal and Illiberal Projects in Today's Europe Guest lecturer This lecture defines liberalism and illiberalism as two distinct responses to the changing demographic structure of European societies. In a democracy, the most existential collective right is the right to exclude. Democracy is preconditioned on the right … 13 Oct 2021 17:00 to 18:00
Event Claudine Tiercelin Philosophical knowledge, knowledge of essences : where do we stand ? Symposium Abstract There is little doubt that, unless we confine ourselves to a conception of philosophia perennis , reflection on the nature, objects and claims of philosophy to knowledge , and on the relations it should or should not maintain with its past and … 7 Oct 2021 09:00 to 10:00
Event Alberto Manguel Europa : myth as metaphor Opening lecture Abstract In the beginning, there's the myth. Zeus fell in love with Europa, daughter of the African king Agenor, and, transformed into a bull, took her to Crete, where she bore him two sons. Agénor sent Europa's two brothers after her, forbidding them to … 30 Sep 2021 18:00 to 19:00
Event Ivan Krastev Democratization and Ethnic (De)Homogenization Guest lecturer The second lecture focuses on the centrality of the demographic factor in explaining the transformation of European liberal democracies and European welfare states. It argues that while until recently, the relationship between democracy and demography was … 7 Oct 2021 17:00 to 18:00
Event Ivan Krastev How Important Is the East-West Divide in Europe? Guest lecturer Conference in English with simultaneous translation into French. Europe is a complicated maze with many fault lines and internal divisions. This introductory lecture focuses on several of the fault lines in today's Europe: the North-South Divide; the … 6 Oct 2021 17:00 to 18:00
Event Luis Liz-Marzán The Art and Science of Growing and Assembling Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals Guest lecturer Abstract Nanoplasmonics can be defined as the science studying the manipulation of light using materials of size much smaller than the radiation wavelength. This technology finds applications in various fields including sensing and diagnostics. An … 24 May 2022 14:00 to 15:00
Series Real homotopy of configuration spaces Pierre-Louis Lions, chair Partial Differential Equations and Applications Guest lecturer Peccot Lecture Series Since 1885, thanks to an endowment from the family of mathematician Claude-Antoine Peccot, the Collège de France has awarded annual prizes to young mathematicians under the age of 30 who have distinguished themselves in theoretical … 04 Mar 2020 → 28 May 2020
Event Ido Israelowich The midwife : contested pregnancy, maternity and paternity Guest lecturer 9 Feb 2022 11:00 to 12:00
Series Archive Challenges Patrick Boucheron, chair History of power in Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth century Symposium Rencontres internationales In 1995, Jacques Derrida diagnosed an archive sickness . The future has not denied him. Today, archives are at the heart of complex technical issues with immense political - and democratic - implications. The originality of … 24 Jan 2020
Event Luis Liz-Marzán Interactions of Light with Gold (and Other Metals) Guest lecturer Abstract The response of noble metals to light changes dramatically when the size of the metal particles is reduced to the nanometer scale. The interaction of light with conduction electrons then results in coherent oscillations that can achieve resonance … 17 May 2022 11:00 to 12:30
Event Ido Israelowich The murder of a thief : the involvement of public doctors in the judicial process Guest lecturer 2 Feb 2022 11:00 to 12:00
Event Fernande Hölscher The power of divinity in its image Guest lecturer Fernande Hölscher is invited by the Assembly of the Collège de France, at the suggestion of Pr Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge. Fernande Hölscher Abstract When the Greeks presented the statues of the gods with their wishes, prayers and thanks, they were not … 7 Apr 2022 17:00 to 18:00
Series French democracy and French Muslims in the face of civil war and upheaval in the Arab and Muslim worlds (1979-2019) Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World Seminar Jalila Sbaï seminar, co-hosted by Prof. Henry Laurens and sponsored by the Chair of Contemporary History of the Arab World. The emergence in the Muslim world in the mid-1970s of two similar but competing ideological currents, whose ambition is the … 31 Jan 2020 → 28 Feb 2020
Event Torfi H. Tulinius A poetics of ambiguity : history, fiction and the materiality of language Guest lecturer Icelandic literature reveals a pronounced taste for polysemy and ambiguity. This is partly due to the practice of scaldic poetry, rich in literary allusion and play on the double meaning of terms. This ambiguity also appears in the sagas, both in the … 23 Nov 2021 17:30 to 18:30
Event Torfi H. Tulinius A society and literature grappling with violence Guest lecturer The 13th century saw a long period of upheaval in Icelandic society, culminating in its integration into the Norwegian kingdom in 1262. Increasingly identified with a European-style high aristocracy, members of the Icelandic ruling class engaged in a … 16 Nov 2021 17:30 to 18:30
Series Equity. A Roman history of the desire for justice Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome Lecture 11 Mar 2020
Series The genome in four dimensions Edith Heard, chair Epigenetics and Cellular Memory Lecture 09 Mar 2020
Series Langlands functoriality and the functional equation of automorphic L-functions Bảo Châu Ngô, chair Automorphic forms Opening lecture 12 Mar 2020
Event Torfi H. Tulinius Memory, poetry, storytelling : medieval Iceland mirrors its Viking past Guest lecturer Icelandic medieval literature can be seen as an expression of the shared memory of what has been known for some time as the "Viking diaspora". This is a group of people from Scandinavia, living in a vast geographical area stretching from Russia to … 9 Nov 2021 17:30 to 18:30
Series Gilgamesh or the domestication of time in Mesopotamia Dominique Charpin, chair Mesopotamian Civilization Guest lecturer Gilgamesh and the temporality of man. An archaeology of time in Mesopotamia He who saw the depths - with these words, a tale from ancient Mesopotamia draws its audience not only into a magnificent work of literature, but also into a confrontation with the … 14 Jan 2020 → 04 Feb 2020
Series Symmetry and gravitation Marc Henneaux, chair Fields, Strings and Gravity Opening lecture 05 Mar 2020
Event Phillip Sharp RNA Interference, from Discovery to Patients Guest lecturer Phillip A. Sharp is invited by Professors Alain Fischer and Hugues de Thé. Abstract Historically, primarily through the research of the great French scientists Jacob and Monod, RNA has been viewed as the intermediary transmitting information between DNA … 18 Mar 2022 10:30 to 11:30
