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February 10 and 11, 2007 Espace des Blancs-Manteaux 48, rue Vieille du Temple 75004 Paris Saturday February 10 from 17 h 30 to 18 h 30 Philippe Descola will give a lecture on " L' anthropologie de la nature " (followed by a discussion with Frédéric Keck …

Excerpt from the opening lecture Usually, those who study literature consider it as a cognitive target, as an object of historical or interpretative examination. This time, we're going to change our point of view and reflect on what happens when a certain …

The Collège de France has created a new chair which will be inaugurated on January 18 2007 : the Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Chair in partnership with the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation. Inauguration during which Jean-Paul Clozel, the …

The Collège de France, the Institut français de coopération and the Bibliothèque Nationale de Tunisie are pleased to invite you to the following conferences : Laser cooling of atoms. Methods and applications Claude Cohen-Tannoudji: Chair of Atomic and …

International colloquium organized by the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Section des Sciences Religieuses (Paris-Sorbonne), and the UMR 7133 Centre de recherches sur les civilisations chinoise, japonaise et tibétaine. December 14 to 16, 2006: …

Michel Zink, Chair Littératures de la France médiévale Singing, telling, storytelling in the Middle Ages : poetry as narrative november 27 2006 Michel Zink Lecture 04 April 2006 (5/8) 28 november 2006 Michel Zink Lecture from 25 april 2006 (6/8) …

Thursday, November 30 at 6 p.m Collège de France Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot 75005 Paris Go to the opening lecture page Born in Brussels in 1950, Antoine Compagnon grew up in England, Tunisia, the United States and …

Jon Elster Reason and reasons For classical moralists, reason , as opposed to passions or particular interest, is a normative idea, meant to guide us in the public arena; inculcating it is the task of the prince's tutor. For modern economists, rationality …

Pierre Rosanvallon Counter-democracy. Politics in an age of mistrust The democratic ideal now reigns unchallenged, but the regimes that lay claim to it are widely criticized. The erosion of trust in representatives is one of the major problems of our …

In the history of opera, the status of the libretto has never been completely self-evident, but the " opera crisis ", which began over half a century ago, led to a radical rethinking of the relationship between music and text, the shockwaves of which are …

November 21, 2006 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m Collège de France 3, rue d'Ulm 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot 75005 Paris The introduction of global climate policies has led to the emergence of prices for reducing emissions of the main greenhouse gas, carbon …

Broadcast of a documentary by Françoise Héritier on Thursday November 16 in the Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater at the Collège de France (Marcelin-Berthelot site). Feature-length film (52 minutes) followed by a discussion in the presence of the …

Ludwig Boltzmann Born in Vienna in 1844, Ludwig Boltzmann committed suicide in Duino a century ago, on September 5 1906. " At a time when the word "atom" falls daily before the eyes of the newspaper reader, the layman can scarcely form a correct …

On Friday 18 November 2005, Le Journal des Arts published an interview with Roland Recht on the state of art history in France. " Les musées ne sont pas à vendre ", article published in Le monde dated Wednesday December 13 2006 ( Debates section, p. 25) …

André Caquot* (1923-2004) André Caquot was born on April 24, 1923 in Épinal. His high school teachers, with whom he had shown himself to be a gifted pupil, had no doubts about his success, and in fact he came first in the competitive examination for the …

Louis Chevalier (1911-2001) Mr. Director,  Dear Colleagues,  Ladies and Gentlemen, In 1958, in the Civilisation d'hier et d'aujourd'hui collection, founded by René Grousset, appeared a flamboyant book, Classes laborieuses et classes dangereuses, à Paris, …

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Our colleague Pierre Bourdieu passed away on January 23 of this year, just a few months after leaving his position as Professor in this house, so in a way, neither the tireless fighter nor the professor ever really knew …

Jacques Berque (1910-1995) Jacques Berque was born on June 4, 1910. His childhood and adolescence were linked, one might say viscerally, to Algeria and the Maghreb. Nourished by their culture, landscapes and dialects, he blended them with his classical …

Lucien Bernot (1919-1993) Lucien Bernot, Professor of Sociography of Southeast Asia at the Collège de France, was born on December 2, 1919 in Gien, Loiret. Of Burgundian peasant descent, his father, a PTT worker, had taught himself to read. Unable to …

André Bareau (1921-1993) Mr. Administrator, dear colleagues, As a student, I attended lectures by André Bareau. When I joined the CNRS, he became my research director. As a candidate for the newly-created chair in the history of Buddhism at the Collège de …

André Chastel (November 15, 1912 - July 18, 1990) André Chastel died on July 18, 1990. Until the last few months, he had remained very active and present at the Collège itself. Many of us find it hard to believe that he's gone. Knowing the affection he …

Fernand Braudel (1902-1985) Fernand Braudel was born on August 24, 1902 in Luméville, a commune in the Meuse département. Between 1913 and 1920, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Voltaire. Agrégé in 1924, he began his teaching career in Constantine, …

Robert Courrier (1895-1986) When Robert Courrier entered the Collège de France in 1938, at the age of 42 from the Faculty of Medicine in Algiers, he was known for research that had earned him an international reputation. The Collège de France had already …

Raymond Aron (March 14, 1905 - October 17, 1983) Raymond Aron's death has moved international opinion; it has saddened French opinion, and even more deeply affected the Collège, since he wished to complete and crown his academic career in our house. The …