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As part of Lundis du Collège de France à Aubervilliers and in partnership with the town of Aubervilliers, the Professors of the Conservatoire d'Aubervilliers-La Courneuve will offer a concert at the Collège de France, with the following program: - …

The Collège de France recently received as a gift the collection of some 1,000 o-fuda collected by Bernard Frank (1927-1996), who was the first - and until now the only - professor of Japanese civilization at the Collège de France. His wife and children …

As part of the "Ethique et politique de la République des Lettres" cycle (Respublica literaria-Centre Littérature et Morale), Marc FUMAROLI and Jean-Charles DARMON will welcome Lucien JAUME (CEVIPOF, CNRS) for a conference-debate on the theme: …

The great English poet Geoffrey Hill will give a lecture in English in the form of an annotated reading of his poems. Professor Hill, who is also the author of major books on poetry, has taught at Cambridge and Boston universities. Among his books of …

Science and secularism Wednesday April 9th 2008 Collège de France Room 2 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot 75005 Paris Program : 9:30 - Presentation by Gérard Fussman, Professor at Collège de France , and Édouard Brézin, Professor at Université Pierre et Marie …

Collège de France lecture-debates The acetylcholine receptor: a membrane allosteric protein involved in synaptic transmission Monday, March 10, 2008 , at 5 p.m Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts Beït al-Hikma 25, avenue de la République - …

Iinstitut européen d'histoire de la république des lettres - Respublica literaria Istituto Italiano per gli studi filosofici queen's university - Kingston Marc Fumaroli de l'Académie française, de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Chairman of …

"Postmodernists have elevated literature to a kind of supreme genre, of which philosophy and science are merely species. Each of the three disciplines would have as little to do with truth as the others; each would be concerned only with inventing good …

On authority october 18 and 19, 2007 "Authority. The right or power to command, to be obeyed From antiquity to the contemporary world, in every culture, authority - sovereignty, the sacred, the book, dogma - has founded social order. But what about today? …

The Rencontres du livre de sciences humaines et sociales are back ! Following the resounding success of the first Rencontres du Livre de sciences humaines last February, the MSH Foundation, with the support of the 4th arrondissement town hall and numerous …

Program - Utopia and carnival Monday, February 4 2008 at 7 pm  Lycée Le Corbusier d'Aubervilliers 44 rue Léopold Réchossière (Métro Quatre-Chemins, Bus 249) With the Joliot-Curie school choirs Variations on carnaval  Claude Hagège, Honorary Professor at …

Jean-Pierre Changeux and Jacques Reisse (dir.) A better world for all Billions of people aspire to well-being and a better life. But the Earth's resources are finite and its ecological balance fragile. The lifestyles of the affluent classes in developed …

Opening lecture How and why the world is going digital The opening lecture took place on Thursday, January 17, 2008. Published by Fayard, available in bookshops and from the Collège de France reception desk. Watch the video of the opening lecture Download …

Symposium organized by the Collège de France and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, January 24-25, 2008. Download program …

The cult of the Cereres in Carthage according to a Lex sacra discovered in Carthage Friday 30 November 2007 at 10 h 30 Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts Beït al-Hikma 25, avenue de la République Carthage Women and men " artificial " in Greece …

Colloquium organized by CNRS, UMR 8167 orient et méditerranée, laboratoire islam médiéval, Collège de France and École Pratique des Hautes Études. Monday, December 3, 2007 Collège de France Salle 4 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot 75005 Paris Program …

Jean-Pierre Changeux Artificial Man " To compensate for our shortcomings or extend our powers, prostheses have invaded our lives. We're a bit like cyborgs, those hybrids of the living and the machine portrayed in science fiction. Should we be afraid of …

Gilbert Dagron Describing and painting. An essay on the iconic portrait Is it theological to depict Christ as both man and God ? Where should worship of the "holy images"   end? How does man, " created in the image of God ", fit into this hierarchical …

The six chairs of the Institut du Monde Contemporain will be meeting on December 13 and 14 2007 , for a symposium entitled " Figures et Problèmes de la Mondialisation ". Two dimensions of globalization will be addressed in the course of the conference: …

Program Pierre Corvol, Administrator of the Collège de France Home Alain Prochiantz, Professor, Chair of Morphogenetic Processes Brain, evolution and convolutions Antoine Compagnon , Professor, Chair of Modern and Contemporary French Literature History, …

Antoine Compagnon What is literature for ? Collège de France - Cned - Doriane Films, 2007 dorianefilms.com Pascal DUSAPIN Composer. Music, Paradox, Flow Collège de France - Cned - Doriane Films, 2007 Available from DVD …

52-minute feature film Research Jean Delumeau Holder of the Chair in the History of Religious Mentalities in the Modern West Screening followed by discussion Location: Collège de France 11, place Marcelin Berthelot 75005 Paris Schedule: 6 p.m Free …

2007-2008 program : UTOPIA AND CARNIVAL A thousand years of happiness Jean Delumeau, Honorary Professor at the Collège de France Monday, October 8, 2007, 7 p.m Lycée Le Corbusier d'Aubervilliers 44 rue Léopold Réchossière (Métro Quatre-Chemins, Bus 249) …

Stanislas Dehaene The neurons of reading The Neurons of Reading opens with an enigma : how does our primate brain learn to read? How does this cultural invention, too recent to have influenced our evolution, find its way into our cortex? A new science of …