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The notion of using … 19 Feb 2026 18:00 to 19:00 Event Valérie Matoïan The use of dynastic seals in the northern Levant Seminar The seminar is cancelled. … 19 Feb 2026 15:15 to 16:45 Event Jean-Luc Fournet, Korshi Dosoo & Valérie Schram Orpheus on the Nile: a new Orphic poem on papyrus (1) Seminar Abstract Five seminar sessions will be devoted entirely to an exceptional unpublished Greek text spanning 255 verses and preserved in the first six columns of the recto of a large roll of Greek magic papyrus (III rd -IV th century AD), unearthed in … 19 Feb 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Event Frantz Grenet The origins of medieval Khurâsân: interactions between Sassanid Iran and Central Asia (3rd-7th c. AD) (5) Lecture 19 Feb 2026 15:30 to 16:30 Event Petra Sijpesteijn From petitions to letters: an integrated appeal system Guest lecturer Abstract Arab petitions have been studied as a distinct genre, combining diplomatic elements (formulas, layout, medium, writing) and a moral framework ("circle of justice"). Yet letters of request on papyrus show that polite petitions, even outside the … 2 Jun 2026 15:00 to 16:00 Event Thomas Römer Saul and the origin of monarchy Lecture Documents and media Download support Abstract The 1 st book of Samuel contains various accounts of the origins of kingship, in which the prophet Samuel and Saul play an important role. Some of these stories present kingship in a positive light, while … 19 Feb 2026 14:00 to 15:00 Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Sacrifice and Athenian citizenship Lecture Documents and media Download support Abstract The core of citizen status in Greece is belonging to a polis , a city, and the citizen's name derives from this: he is a politēs . Being a politēs implies both the conditions that make this status possible and … 19 Feb 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Series Living with a changing climate: adaptation issues and prospects Marc Fontecave, chair Chemistry of Biological Processes Symposium Image generated with Midjourney. … 14 Jan 2026 News The Ark of the Covenant, a political symbol in Ethiopia Research A topical scientific subject is explored by a researcher from the Collège de France. Matteo Bächtold In biblical texts, the Ark of the Covenant represents the presence of Israel's god among his people. A mysterious and elusive object, it has been … Published on 13 March 2026 News Overview of acquisitions by the Japanese Studies Library Libraries and archives Collège de France. Japanese Studies Library. Fonds Kreitmann, Tayatsu album, Tome III, volume 2, call number LK_B8album2_015. The Japanese Studies Library offers you a detailed list of the books that have joined its collections, by purchase or donation, … Published on 13 March 2026 Event Lea Ypi The critical method Lecture Abstract The relevance of the critical method to the critique of capitalism lies in its ability to articulate reason and history to analyze contemporary social structures. Drawing on Kant and Marx, this approach examines the foundations of modern … 18 Feb 2026 16:30 to 17:30 Event Isabelle Ratié Reading Sanskrit philosophical texts (3) Seminar Knowledge of Sanskrit essential. … 18 Feb 2026 16:00 to 18:00 Event Antoine Lilti Healthcare policy and advertising Lecture Abstract The fight against medical quackery in the XVIIIᵉ century inherited an ancient critical tradition, but it was part of a new context, that of the rise of a health policy at the crossroads of " noso-politics " (Michel Foucault) and the medical … 18 Feb 2026 14:30 to 15:30 Event Touraj Daryaee History and Memory: In Search of Lost Time Guest lecturer Abstract Memory of past does not reveal itself to all people in the same manner. For the Sasanians in Late Antiquity (200-651 CE), what they came to profess was their ancient past and for the people they were ruling over, was drastically different from … 12 May 2026 17:00 to 18:30 Event Jean-Luc Fournet A documentation blind spot (1) Lecture 18 Feb 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Event Markus Aspelmeyer How Does a Quantum Object Gravitate? Seminar Abstract No experiment today provides evidence that gravity requires a quantum description. The quantum optical control of solid-state mechanical devices, quantum optomechanics, may change that situation -- by enabling experiments that directly probe the … 17 Feb 2026 15:45 to 16:45 Event Isabelle Ratié The Buddhist principle of non-self Lecture 17 Feb 2026 16:00 to 17:00 Event Patrick Boucheron Governing from elsewhere Lecture Abstract Since Plutarch, political literature has been teaching princes how to choose between offering and withdrawing, between public exposure and the shadow of secrecy. Places of power, in their very architecture, put these dilemmas to the test. Such is … 17 Feb 2026 14:00 to 15:00 Event Pascale Senellart Vibration and quantum technologies Lecture Documents and media Download support Abstract The vibrations of a single atom, or of a multitude of atoms in a solid, are both a source of decoherence that must be overcome, and a fully-fledged quantum system that can be manipulated. This lecture will … 17 Feb 2026 14:00 to 15:30 Event Jean-Jacques Hublin Sapiens replaces Neandertal (6) Lecture Exceptionally, the lecture will take place on Monday from 5pm to 6.30pm. … 16 Feb 2026 17:00 to 18:30 Event Sonia Garel Cleaning up sleep and other biological rhythms Lecture Abstract This final lecture will explore the role of sleep as a privileged state of dialogue between body and brain. It will show how sleep modifies the activity of cerebral and systemic immune cells, with consequences for the stabilization of neural … 16 Feb 2026 16:00 to 18:00 Event Pierre Sens Modelling Self-Organisation and Transport in Cellular Organelles with Non-Equilibrium Dynamics Seminar 16 Feb 2026 15:45 to 16:45 Series World histories of nations Patrick Boucheron, chair History of power in Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth century Symposium 11 Jun 2026 → 12 Jun 2026 Event Petra Sijpesteijn Getting your message across: practical aspects of letter writing Guest lecturer Abstract For a petition letter to be effective, it must present the action needed to solve the problem to the right person, in the most convincing way possible. This is precisely what the second and third conferences will cover. This lecture examines … 10 Jun 2026 15:00 to 16:00 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Yvon Maday Reducing Complexity to Master the Resolution of Mathematical Models Opening lecture Documents and media Download support Abstract The aim of this opening lecture is to raise awareness of the mathematical modeling of complex phenomena, to explain why we try to simulate them and what we can expect from them. The notion of using … 19 Feb 2026 18:00 to 19:00
Event Valérie Matoïan The use of dynastic seals in the northern Levant Seminar The seminar is cancelled. … 19 Feb 2026 15:15 to 16:45
Event Jean-Luc Fournet, Korshi Dosoo & Valérie Schram Orpheus on the Nile: a new Orphic poem on papyrus (1) Seminar Abstract Five seminar sessions will be devoted entirely to an exceptional unpublished Greek text spanning 255 verses and preserved in the first six columns of the recto of a large roll of Greek magic papyrus (III rd -IV th century AD), unearthed in … 19 Feb 2026 15:30 to 17:00
Event Frantz Grenet The origins of medieval Khurâsân: interactions between Sassanid Iran and Central Asia (3rd-7th c. AD) (5) Lecture 19 Feb 2026 15:30 to 16:30
Event Petra Sijpesteijn From petitions to letters: an integrated appeal system Guest lecturer Abstract Arab petitions have been studied as a distinct genre, combining diplomatic elements (formulas, layout, medium, writing) and a moral framework ("circle of justice"). Yet letters of request on papyrus show that polite petitions, even outside the … 2 Jun 2026 15:00 to 16:00
Event Thomas Römer Saul and the origin of monarchy Lecture Documents and media Download support Abstract The 1 st book of Samuel contains various accounts of the origins of kingship, in which the prophet Samuel and Saul play an important role. Some of these stories present kingship in a positive light, while … 19 Feb 2026 14:00 to 15:00
Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Sacrifice and Athenian citizenship Lecture Documents and media Download support Abstract The core of citizen status in Greece is belonging to a polis , a city, and the citizen's name derives from this: he is a politēs . Being a politēs implies both the conditions that make this status possible and … 19 Feb 2026 11:00 to 12:00
Series Living with a changing climate: adaptation issues and prospects Marc Fontecave, chair Chemistry of Biological Processes Symposium Image generated with Midjourney. … 14 Jan 2026
News The Ark of the Covenant, a political symbol in Ethiopia Research A topical scientific subject is explored by a researcher from the Collège de France. Matteo Bächtold In biblical texts, the Ark of the Covenant represents the presence of Israel's god among his people. A mysterious and elusive object, it has been … Published on 13 March 2026
News Overview of acquisitions by the Japanese Studies Library Libraries and archives Collège de France. Japanese Studies Library. Fonds Kreitmann, Tayatsu album, Tome III, volume 2, call number LK_B8album2_015. The Japanese Studies Library offers you a detailed list of the books that have joined its collections, by purchase or donation, … Published on 13 March 2026
Event Lea Ypi The critical method Lecture Abstract The relevance of the critical method to the critique of capitalism lies in its ability to articulate reason and history to analyze contemporary social structures. Drawing on Kant and Marx, this approach examines the foundations of modern … 18 Feb 2026 16:30 to 17:30
Event Isabelle Ratié Reading Sanskrit philosophical texts (3) Seminar Knowledge of Sanskrit essential. … 18 Feb 2026 16:00 to 18:00
Event Antoine Lilti Healthcare policy and advertising Lecture Abstract The fight against medical quackery in the XVIIIᵉ century inherited an ancient critical tradition, but it was part of a new context, that of the rise of a health policy at the crossroads of " noso-politics " (Michel Foucault) and the medical … 18 Feb 2026 14:30 to 15:30
Event Touraj Daryaee History and Memory: In Search of Lost Time Guest lecturer Abstract Memory of past does not reveal itself to all people in the same manner. For the Sasanians in Late Antiquity (200-651 CE), what they came to profess was their ancient past and for the people they were ruling over, was drastically different from … 12 May 2026 17:00 to 18:30
Event Markus Aspelmeyer How Does a Quantum Object Gravitate? Seminar Abstract No experiment today provides evidence that gravity requires a quantum description. The quantum optical control of solid-state mechanical devices, quantum optomechanics, may change that situation -- by enabling experiments that directly probe the … 17 Feb 2026 15:45 to 16:45
Event Patrick Boucheron Governing from elsewhere Lecture Abstract Since Plutarch, political literature has been teaching princes how to choose between offering and withdrawing, between public exposure and the shadow of secrecy. Places of power, in their very architecture, put these dilemmas to the test. Such is … 17 Feb 2026 14:00 to 15:00
Event Pascale Senellart Vibration and quantum technologies Lecture Documents and media Download support Abstract The vibrations of a single atom, or of a multitude of atoms in a solid, are both a source of decoherence that must be overcome, and a fully-fledged quantum system that can be manipulated. This lecture will … 17 Feb 2026 14:00 to 15:30
Event Jean-Jacques Hublin Sapiens replaces Neandertal (6) Lecture Exceptionally, the lecture will take place on Monday from 5pm to 6.30pm. … 16 Feb 2026 17:00 to 18:30
Event Sonia Garel Cleaning up sleep and other biological rhythms Lecture Abstract This final lecture will explore the role of sleep as a privileged state of dialogue between body and brain. It will show how sleep modifies the activity of cerebral and systemic immune cells, with consequences for the stabilization of neural … 16 Feb 2026 16:00 to 18:00
Event Pierre Sens Modelling Self-Organisation and Transport in Cellular Organelles with Non-Equilibrium Dynamics Seminar 16 Feb 2026 15:45 to 16:45
Series World histories of nations Patrick Boucheron, chair History of power in Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth century Symposium 11 Jun 2026 → 12 Jun 2026
Event Petra Sijpesteijn Getting your message across: practical aspects of letter writing Guest lecturer Abstract For a petition letter to be effective, it must present the action needed to solve the problem to the right person, in the most convincing way possible. This is precisely what the second and third conferences will cover. This lecture examines … 10 Jun 2026 15:00 to 16:00
