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Vincent Van Gogh, "Wheat field under a stormy sky", early July 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)). On the occasion of the exhibition "   Van Gogh à Auvers-sur-Oise   " presented from 3   october 2023 to …

The Collège de France, with the Royal Society, will bring together on January 24 and 25 eminent scientists dedicated to promoting scientific excellence in the service of humanity, as well as representatives of government, industry and civil society …

Pierre-Michel Menger, Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France, was elected on November 27 2023 afternoon as a full member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. He joins chair no. 1 of the Moral and Sociology Section, vacated by the …

Alessandro Morbidelli, Chair  Planetary Formation: from Earth to Exoplanets , will give his opening lecture on January 25 2024. Documents and media Download the press release Read his interview "Observing exoplanets debanalizes our Solar …

Organized by Odile Chatirichvili of Prof. Menger's Sociology of Creative Work Chair , Laurence Dahan-Gaida and Cindy Gervolino of CRIT (Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et Transculturelles), the " Les mathématiques à l'œuvre " symposium, held over …

On the occasion of the inauguration of the new Institut des Civilisations at the Collège de France, on February 6 2024, in the presence of Mrs.  Sylvie Retailleau, Minister of Higher Education and Research, Prs. Thomas Römer and Dominique Charpin look …

On January 16 , 2024, from 5 pm to 6 pm , Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Chair of Religion, History and Society in the Ancient Greek World, will give a masterclass in the form of a webinar as part of the partnership between ARTE Campus and the Collège de …

On December 14 2023, Didier Fassin was awarded a doctorate by the Free University of Brussels in the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences for his " unprecedented blend of life sciences and humanities, concrete commitments to civic life and scientific …

Today, mathematics is the focus of attention in education and research, in technological innovation and in international economic competition. More and more studies and comparisons are revealing the penalties inflicted on societies where the handling of …

Emmanuelle Porcher, invited to hold the annual Biodiversity and Ecosystems Chair , will deliver her opening lecture on January 18 2024. This chair is supported by the Jean-François and Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Foundation. Documents and media …

The administrator, professors and entire Collège de France community wish you an excellent year 2024. Caption for image : Man running, pulling a wheel , Etienne-Jules Marey Download the greetings card in PDF format Download the greeting card in JPEG …

Lydéric Bocquet Molecular fluid mechanics: a field of innovation for water and energy Water and energy are two profoundly interconnected issues that demand the invention of extraordinary solutions. Faced with the environmental challenge, scientists are …

At the Collège de France, all lectures are open to the general public, with no admission requirements or prior registration required, subject to availability. Opening Lectures Emmanuelle Porcher – Plant-Pollinator Interactions: A Window into the …

100 000 As the year 2023 draws to a close, you are now more than 100 000 subscribers to the Collège de France YouTube channel : students, teachers, researchers and fans of all sciences, loyal to our exceptional video library, with 14 000 documents. To …

 Cheyenne Olivier With " Agir pour l'éducation ", the aim of Collège de France professors is to understand, advise and act in all their areas of expertise, in a scientific approach open to dialogue between disciplines, in contact with those involved in …

As of December 14 2023, Jean-François Joanny , holder of the Soft Matter and Biophysics Chair at the Collège de France, is the new President of the Fondation du Collège de France. He succeeds Marc Fontecave , who chaired the Foundation for almost …

Matron at her toilet, Sidi Ghrib baths, Musée national de Carthage. Following on from the projects set up over the last two years, the Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome chair is once again organizing its doctoral seminar. It will focus on the …

One of the two Mid-Career Achievement in Mentoring 2023 awards has been presented to Marie-Émilie Terret, research director at Inserm and group leader at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CIRB - Collège de France). Marie-Émilie Terret …

From 1973 to 1982, Prof. Nathan Wachtel (Chair  History and Anthropology of Meso and South American Societies , 1995-2005) studied the last community of Urus, a Bolivian society living on the shores of Lake Coipasa. In the course of this ethnographic …

Interview with Emmanuelle Porcher Emmanuelle Porcher has been Director of the Centre d'écologie et des sciences de la conservation since 2020. Winner in 2020 of the Recherche prize from the French Society of Ecology and Evolution, she has been invited to …

Laurence Boisson de Chazournes Water in international law   : between singularity and plurality Essential to human life and activity, freshwater has become a concern of international law. Its regulation, initially devoted to rivers shared by several …

Poster for the " Objectif Mer : l'océan filmé " exhibition The Collège de France is lending the Musée de la Marine a recently restored chronophotograph by Étienne-Jules Marey, for the exhibition " Objectif Mer : l'océan filmé " (13 December 2023 - 5 May …

Antoine Lilti Actuality of the Enlightenment : a plural history The Enlightenment refers not only to an intellectual movement rooted in the 18th  century of Europe, or to a historical period that is no longer with us. They also refer to a philosophical …

Alessandro Morbidelli An astronomer and planetologist with a passion for celestial mechanics, Alessandro Morbidelli is world-renowned for having formulated the Nice model, which shows that the current structure of the Solar System is the result of a phase …