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Alain Fuchs, President of the CNRS, has just announced that computer scientist Gérard Berry, Professor of Algorithms, Machines and Languages, is the winner of France's most prestigious scientific award. Gérard Berry, chair Algorithms, machines and …

Michel Foucault was Professor at the Collège de France (1970-1984), holding the History of Systems of Thought Chair. Abstracts of his lectures and seminars, as well as the activities of his chair, are now available to download from the Collège de France's …

A Collège de France coproduction - CNED Extract "Politics as I understand it is both a field and a job . As a field, it refers to the place where the multiple threads of men's and women's lives are knotted together, the place that provides the overall …

University of Toronto and Collège de France, for epistemology and theory of knowledge "For his fundamental contributions to the philosophy and history of the natural and social sciences, for the thematic breadth of his research, for an original …

Abstract The opening lecture focused on one of the greatest challenges facing theoretical physics today, that of unifying our understanding of the infinitely large (the entire Universe) and the infinitely small (the physics of elementary particles). …

Program subject to change LYON - École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Gérard Berry, Chair of Algorithms, Machines and Languages , will give on January 28, 2015, 1 lecture and 1 seminar on : The computer revolution in science. AIX-MARSEILLE - University of …

Program subject to change GERMANY - Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn-Chaire Ernst Robert Curtius* Christine Petit, Chair of Genetics and Cell Physiology , will give in autumn 2014, 1 lecture and 1 seminar on : Sound frequency perception and …

For centuries, the Collège de France's mission has been to freely teach all interested parties about research in progress, to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge, to encourage the emergence of new disciplines and a multidisciplinary approach to …

Collège de France Marguerite de Navarre Amphitheatre 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot - 75005 Paris Free admission, without registration, subject to availability The year 2014 is not yet over, but the commemorations of the centenary of the Great War have …

A Collège de France coproduction - CNED Extract " My research has often touched on human genetics and, like all researchers in this field, I am very impressed by the recent sequencing of our genetic heritage. Today marks exactly fifty years since Watson …

Alain de Libera Where is medieval philosophy going? " Where does medieval philosophy go? It goes where philosophy goes . It goes where philosophy goes . It became medieval after the Middle Ages. It was only philosophy when the Middle Ages were still …

Maurice Agulhon History of contemporary France The French Revolution did not create French nationality, but neither did it demolish it. The desire to usher in a new era - l'An I de la Liberté - was not a desire to wipe the slate clean. The enlightened …

From the infinitely small to the infinitely large, covering more than sixty orders of magnitude of spatial dimension, quantum theory is invoked, both to describe the still largely mysterious vibrations of microscopic strings that could be the elementary …

Pierre Bourdieu was Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France (1982-2001). Abstracts of his lectures and seminars, as well as the activities of his chair, are now available for download from the Collège de France's "Cours et travaux" yearbook …

Jacques Bouveresse was Professor at the Collège de France (1982-2001) and held the Chair of Philosophy of Language and Knowledge (1995-2010). The abstracts of his lectures and seminars, as well as the activity of his chair, are now available to download …

A Collège de France coproduction - CNED Extract "In my opinion, the study of dead civilizations is an irreplaceable tool for maintaining control over assertions concerning the identity of one's community, country or continent, no less than over the …

Extract " A recent science, born just a few decades ago, solid state chemistry is in fact part of a thousand-year-old tradition. As Jean Rouxel points out, it is undoubtedly the potter's gesture that best expresses the continuity that links this …

Excerpt " If the physician's task is to prevent or cure disease, the anthropologist's is to "resocialize" the tragedy of those who suffer needlessly, to reveal what links it to the whole of contemporary society as well as to past events (...) What …

La Lettre du Collège de France , created in January 2001, is published three times a year. Its articles reflect the life of the institution and the events taking place there. It includes announcements and information about Collège de France professors and …