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Abstract The good health of living organisms, both human and non-human, is first and foremost a synthesis of the environmental conditions to which they are exposed. However, many health threats are looming on the horizon : accelerated transmission of …
6:30 - 8:00pm
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Ancient Near East Library The Collège de France libraries will be closed during the summer on the following dates: The five libraries in the Asian Worlds Department will be closed from August 3 to 21, then will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from August …
Published on 23 July 2026
Claude Desplan
From the visual system to the cortex: Stochastic lineages in invertebrates and mammals
Claude Desplan
From the visual system to the cortex: Stochastic lineages in invertebrates and mammals
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Abstract The mammalian cortex develops from stem cells that divide to sequentially produce the six cortical layers, starting with the deepest layers. However, each layer contains numerous neuronal types. Using a simple model (the Drosophila visual …
4:00 - 5:00pm
Tomislav Rovis
Amine Feedstocks as Cross-Coupling Partners
Tomislav Rovis
Amine Feedstocks as Cross-Coupling Partners
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Abstract The most common reaction conducted in medicinal chemistry is an amide bond formation. As a consequence, carboxylic acids and amines are among the most prevalent commercially available functional groups. We have developed several strategies to …
11:00am - 12:00pm
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The 2026–2027 public lectures program is available as a PDF or online via our e-reader! The printed version will soon be available at the Collège de France reception desk. The courses, which are open to everyone free of charge and without …
Published on 23 July 2026
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The Collège de France is hiring an Electrical Workshop Manager (F/M) for the Real Estate Management Department (DPI). Category A – Assistant Engineer / B+ – Senior Technician Fixed-term contract (1 year, renewable ) Desired start date: December 1 st , …
Published on 23 July 2026
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11:15am - 12:30pm
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Session 3: The social uses of the world history of nations Moderated by: Chloé Leprince (France Culture) …
9:30 - 10:45am
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Quentin Blake, The art of Conversation . Editions The QB papers, 2019. This interdisciplinary colloquium, in English, is part of the ERC project Mental Files: New Foundations , hosted by the Philosophy of Language and Mind chair at the Collège de France. …
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The aim of functional ecology is to shed light on the links between the structure of organisms and their functions, from the scale of the individual to the ecosystem and planet Earth. The aim of this lecture is to present the main facets and stages of …
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Patrick Boucheron
Introduction
Patrick Boucheron
Introduction
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Session 1: A Look Back at a Moment in Historiography …
9:30 - 9:45am
Louis Jonker
Socio-Political Transformation and Biblical Interpretation: The Case of Post-Apartheid South Africa
Louis Jonker
Socio-Political Transformation and Biblical Interpretation: The Case of Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Abstract In the first lecture the issue of changing biblical interpretation in the South African context since the 1990s when Nelson Mandela was released and the ANC party unbanned, and since 1994 when the first democratic post-apartheid elections were …
4:00 - 5:00pm
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Abstract In this first talk we give an introduction of the theory of p-adic modular forms and to the completed cohomology groups of the modular curve. We recall the theory of Lue Pan of locally analytic vectors in completed cohomology and the relevance of …
10:00am - 12:00pm
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There will be no seminar on Wednesday June 10, as Professor Henneaux will give two lectures back-to-back: from 2 pm to 3:30 pm and then from 4 pm to 5:30 …
4:00 - 5:30pm
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There will be no seminar on Wednesday June 10, as Professor Henneaux will give two lectures back-to-back: from 2 pm to 3:30 pm and then from 4 pm to 5:30 …
2:00 - 3:30pm
Anneliese Depoux & Franck Ramus
Communicating science
Anneliese Depoux & Franck Ramus
Communicating science
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Abstract Hardly a day goes by without hearing about climate change in the media. Alarmist rhetoric, even if based on factual elements, paradoxically provokes doubts and challenges to scientific messages. The political world, for its part, has no …
6:30 - 8:00pm
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In collaboration with Philip Huyse, EPHE 4 th section. …
4:30 - 6:00pm
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Abstract In his famous and difficult essay "On the Concept of History," Walter Benjamin introduces the idea of revolutionary redemption. Through their actions, revolutionaries of the present can redeem those whose struggles for liberation failed in the …
4:30 - 5:30pm
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Documents and Media Download the support material Abstract Recently, political philosophy has seen a resurgence of debates regarding the wrongs of capitalism and the purpose of socialism. Some argue that capitalism is unjustly exploitative, but only …
3:30 - 4:30pm
Martin O'Neill
The Climate Emergency, State Power, and the Expansion of Democratic Control
Martin O'Neill
The Climate Emergency, State Power, and the Expansion of Democratic Control
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Documents and media Download support Abstract The global climate emergency has presented a deep challenge to the capacities of states throughout the world, and this challenge has been one to which thus far most states have failed adequately to respond. At …
2:00 - 3:00pm
Anca Gheaus
Socialist Childhood
Anca Gheaus
Socialist Childhood
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Anca Gheaus is a political philosopher interested in justice and the normative significance of personal relationships. Before joining CEU, she worked at various universities in Europe. In 2023 she published a co-authored book on Debating Surrogacy (with …
1:00 - 2:00pm