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The Centre for Tibetan Studies at the Collège de France, founded by Professor Rolf Alfred Stein in March 1974 , celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. An afternoon of celebrations was held on Wednesday December 11 at the Institute of Civilizations, focusing …

Hervé Turlier, a CNRS researcher at the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en biologie (CIRB) at Collège de France, has been awarded a prestigious international Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) grant in collaboration with two international …

Étienne Drioton at Tod, 1934-1936 The Musée municipal Josèphe Jacquiot de Montgeron houses most of the archives of Canon Étienne Drioton (1889-1961), who held the chair of Egyptian Philology and Archaeology between 1957 and 1960. The site of Tôd, south of …

A current scientific topic is explored by a researcher from the Collège de France. Perig Pitrou Long seen as the study of human societies in their cultural and social dimensions, anthropology is expanding into a new approach, to reflect on the effects of …

Alessandro Morbidelli Determinism and stochasticity in planetary formation processes For centuries, it was thought that all planetary systems, by virtue of the universality of physical laws, resembled our own. However, the discovery of numerous extrasolar …

Aurelio Chino Dahua, President FEDIQUEP Pastaza, Peru The Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale (LAS) is organizing a study day around the Bernard Lelong legacy entitled " Indigenous Sovereignties ", on April 4, 2025 from 1pm to 7pm, at the Collège de …

At the Collège de France, lectures are open to all, with no conditions of access or prior registration, subject to availability. Major events In search of a Sustainable Common Future A lecture series organized as part of the Avenir Commun Durable …

The Roger de Spoelberch Foundation Award was presented to Pr   Sonia Garel on March 24   2025 at the Collège de France. The Roger de Spoelberch Foundation is a Geneva-based foundation whose mission is to fund and encourage research and assistance in …

For the first time   , the Collège de France is a partner of the Curieux Festival , a Strasbourg-based event promoting scientific theater. On April 7   , 2025, at 6 pm   , at the European Parliament, Claire Audhuy, a committed playwright, and Prof. Denis …

On March 14, Prof. Thomas Römer, Administrator of the Collège de France, gave a lecture in Annonay, in the amphitheatre of the Lycée Saint-Denis. The lecture, open to all, was organized by the Christian communities and the association Sciences pour tous. …

Anne Vergati, honorary research director at the CNRS and member of the Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative UMR   7535, has just donated a highly original work to the Collège de France's Indian and Central Asian Studies Library. Find out …

Prof. Dr.   Edouard Bard has been elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. This academy, founded in 1652, is dedicated to identifying and analyzing scientific issues of societal importance. The Leopoldina presents its …

Kyle Harper Climate change and social dynamics. From deep past to uncertain future Our destiny has always been inseparable from that of the environment. To understand the role the environment has played in the past, we need to consider climate and human …

The Administrator, the Board of Professors and the entire Collège de France community are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Xavier Le Pichon, Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France, who held the Chair of Geodynamics from 1986 to 2008. They pay …

Carriers Solange Pinton studied rural life in the Creuse region from 1982 to 1995. She interviewed people in and around the village of Peyrabout, leaving behind some 150 interviews documenting lifestyles, beliefs, local history and relationships with …

re-inst is a doctoral workshop organized by the   chair in International Law of Institutions at the Collège de France around its research and teaching project . The doctoral workshop aims to encourage the research of young scholars working on questions of …

A current scientific topic is explored by a researcher from the Collège de France. François Ceccaldi When it was founded, the Palestine Liberation Organization was intended to bring together the various Palestinian political forces with the common goal of …

Nathalie Bajos, invited to hold the Public Health Annual Chair , will give her opening lecture on April 3   2025. Documents and media Download the press release Lire l'article « Les inégalités de santé représentent un enjeu majeur de justice sociale …

Alain Fischer Experimental Medicine Experimental medicine, founded by Claude Bernard in the nineteenth century, decisively oriented medical research and especially modern biology. Amongst other things, it shed light on the role of the immune system, in …

Bénédicte Savoy Objects of Desire, Desire for Objects At the museum, this means seeing the objects where they are, and simultaneously seeing them where they no longer are, that is to say, in the regions from which they were taken. It means enjoying the …

87 CDF 9/9, Photo 4, Petra : Palace, tomb and imitation, 1965 The collection of Jean Starcky, archaeologist and epigraphist, has just been enriched by a donation from one of his former collaborators, Émile Puech. Among the new documents is a collection of …

Laurent Coulon Pathways to Egyptology The Civilization of Pharaonic Egypt stretched along the Nile for almost 3 500 years. The discipline that studies it, Egyptology, was born in 1822 with the deciphering of the hieroglyphs by Champollion, who taught at …

E-fuels (electro-fuels) are fuels produced from decarbonized electricity. They are alternatives to fossil fuels, for use in industry and transport, for example. They can potentially be synthesized by direct electroreduction of carbon dioxide ( CO2) , …