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Alain Prochiantz
Sapiens in the History of Life: To Be or Not to Be an Animal
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Session 3: Animal Intelligence  Moderator: Nalini Anantharaman (Collège de France) …
9:30 - 10:10am

Adrien Meguerditchian
The Origins of Language: What Can Our Primate Cousins Teach Us?
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Session 3: Animal Intelligence Moderator: Nalini Anantharaman (Collège de France) Abstract Since nonhuman primates are our closest relatives in evolutionary history, studying their communication systems can help us identify traits shared with speech in …
10:10 - 10:50am

Martin Giurfa
Cognition in Bees
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Session 3: Animal Intelligence Moderator: Nalini Anantharaman (Collège de France) …
11:10 - 11:50am

Anti-slavery : a cosmopolitan ideal ?
Antoine Lilti, chair History of the Enlightenment, 18th-21st century
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Execrable Human Traffick, or The Affectionate Slaves , oil on canvas by George Morland, c. 1788. Colloquium organized in partnership with the BnF as part of the postdoctoral contract co-funded by the Collège de France and the Bibliothèque nationale de …
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Clément Sire
Collective Movements in Animal Groups: When a School of Fish Encounters AI, Virtual Reality, Robots, and Drones
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Session 3: Animal Intelligence Moderator: Nalini Anantharaman (Collège de France) Abstract This talk will first demonstrate how collaborative research between behavioral biologists and physicists makes it possible to quantify social interactions …
11:50am - 12:30pm

Isabelle Ratié
Conceiving of Animal Thought? Some Attempts in Ancient and Medieval India
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Session 4: To Kill or Not to Kill? Moderator: Antoine Lilti (Collège de France) Abstract Philosophers of ancient and medieval India agree that animals perceive and are capable of experiencing pleasure and pain: in the Indian debate over the legitimacy of …
2:00 - 2:40pm

Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greece
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Session 4: To Kill or Not to Kill? Moderator: Antoine Lilti (Collège de France) …
2:40 - 3:20pm

Charles Stépanoff
Hunting Practices and Empathy
Symposium
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Session 4: To Kill or Not to Kill? Moderator: Antoine Lilti (Collège de France) …
3:30 - 4:10pm

Dominique Lestel
Animality and Humanity
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Session 4: To Kill or Not to Kill? Moderator: Antoine Lilti (Collège de France) …
4:10 - 5:00pm

Laurent Coulon
"The 'Wives of the God' in Ancient Egypt": Recent Research and Comparative Perspectives
Seminar
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2:00 - 3:30pm

Philippe Aghion
Are new ideas harder to come by? (2)
Lecture
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2:00 - 4:00pm

Claire Denis
Opening lecture
Event
6:00 - 7:00pm

Chaos and Universal Phenomena in Spectral Theory
Nalini Anantharaman, chair Spectral Geometry
Lecture
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Introduction This year’s lecture by Nalini Anantharaman will focus on the universal behaviors of spectra studied in physics and mathematics. Faced with the difficulty of explicitly calculating spectra, physicist E. Wigner proposed a statistical approach: …
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Literary Criticism from the Far West
William Marx, chair Comparative Literatures
Guest lecturer
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Christopher Domínguez Michael has been invited by the Assembly of the Collège de France at the recommendation of Professor William Marx. Christopher Domínguez …

Peccot International course 2025-2026
Pierre-Louis Lions, chair Partial Differential Equations and Applications
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Peccot International Course Created in 2023, the Peccot International course specifically rewards young European women mathematicians, who are invited to give a series of lectures at the Collège de France. Vera Traub is the winner of the Peccot …
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The Plague and the End of the Ancient World: It’s Not That Simple. A view from Egypt
Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology
Guest lecturer
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Gilles Bransbourg has been invited by the College of France on the recommendation of Professors Jean-Luc Fournet and Frantz Grenet. …

Objectif centenaire
Tintin's Cultures: Aiming for the Centennial (October 12, 2026)
Symposium
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Schedule for the Day 9:00 a.m. – 9:25 a.m. Welcome and coffee (11 Place Marcelin-Berthelot, 75005 Paris, Marguerite de Navarre Auditorium) 9:25 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Introductory remarks by Thomas RÖMER (Chairman of the Collège de France, subject to …
9:00am - 5:00pm

Vincent Martenet
Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions
Guest lecturer
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Vincent Martenet has been invited by the College of France’s assembly at the recommendation of Professor Samantha Besson. Vincent …

Claire Denis
To leave this room of mine, to stagger, to lose my balance (1)
Lecture
Event
3:00 - 4:00pm

To leave this room of mine, to stagger, to lose my balance (1)
Seminar
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4:15 - 5:15pm

Information Flow and Computation in Living Systems
Thomas Lecuit, chair Dynamics of Living Systems
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Drosophila embryo dendritic neuron. iBDM, Marseille. Les systèmes biologiques traitent de l’information à toutes les échelles et présentent des propriétés computationnelles associées remarquables. Par exemple une cellule isolée comme une bactérie détecte …

Objectif centenaire
Tintin's Cultures: Aiming for the Centennial (October 13, 2026)
Symposium
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Schedule for the Day 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Opening Lecture by Pierre FRESNAULT-DERUELLE (University of Paris 1): Hergé’s Dupondts: Figurines from a Cabinet of Curiosities Economics and Collecting Session Chair: Michel PORRET 9:30–9:35 a.m. Introduction …
9:00am - 5:00pm

Laurent Coulon
The “Wives of the God” in Thebes.
Lecture
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11:00am - 12:30pm

Mathematical and Applied Aspects of Complexity Reduction Methods
Yvon Maday, chair Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies
Symposium
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Presentation This international symposium concludes the annual chair by broadening the perspective developed throughout the lectures and seminars devoted to complexity reduction methods. The lectures provided a mathematical overview of reduced basis and …
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