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Pierre Briant In the footsteps of the empire of the Great Kings. A historiographical survey (1931-2023) More extensive than the Roman Empire ever was, the Achaemenid Empire, born in the middle of the 6th   century and overthrown by Alexander and his …

The precious art collection of the Byzantine Library of the Collège de France includes a vast array of remarkable works: ancient manuscripts and prints (Greek, Coptic, Ethiopian, Arabic, Russian and Armenian), Coptic fabrics and Greek and Russian icons, …

On Friday 23rd   may 2025, starting at 19   hours, the Collège de France will be present at the Nuit des idées at the Quai d'Orsay. The Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs will open its doors for an exceptional edition of the Nuit des idées (Night of …

For the first time this year, we'll be taking part in the Festival des passeurs de livres d'Alès, whose theme will be " Les territoires de l'intime ". The book fair will take place from 16 to 18 mai 2025 : come and meet us at stands 73 to 79 of our …

Affiche de l’exposition “Action !” From April 11 to November 16   2025 , the Musée national du sport in Nice will be presenting the exhibition " Action ! ", which explores the links between sport and cinema in six sections. Among other things, it looks at …

P. Sansonetti and P. Boucheron (eds.) The city of the future A contribution to the debate on adapting urban complexes to the challenges of environmental change. How did our ancestors see their future city ? How do our contemporaries imagine ? How can we …

Pastoral landscape , Giuseppe Zais, Italy Veneto Venice. Louvre Museum. Louise Gentil , under the supervision of Collège de France professors Patrick Boucheron and François-Xavier Fauvelle, is conducting research into irrigated agriculture in Italy …

For the third   year running, the Collège de France is partnering the Toulouse-based history and social science festival L'Histoire à venir . The aim of this festival is to show that history can and must help us understand the issues at stake in …

Pr Thomas Römer, Administrator of the Collège de France, and Pr Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, President of the Colegio Nacional. Thomas Römer, Administrator of the Collège de France, and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, President of Colegio Nacional de México , signed …

As part of the doctoral seminar organized by the chair   Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome, this year devoted to natural law and the rights of nature, on Wednesday 7   may at 11   in the Seminar Lunch room   Mireille Fournier will speak on   : "   …

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 …

A current scientific topic is explored by a researcher from the Collège de France. Perig Pitrou 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 of …