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For the second year running , the City of Paris library network, in partnership with the Collège de France, is hosting a bimonthly   event at the Marguerite Yourcenar media library ( 15th arrondissement) to discuss the major intellectual and scientific …

To mark International Women's Rights Day 2025, the Collège de France has decided to name one of its main lecture halls after Prof.   Mireille Delmas-Marty, who held the Chair in Comparative Legal Studies and the Internationalization of Law from 2002 to …

Could you briefly introduce yourself and tell us about your career  ? I'm a geneticist specializing in epigenetics. I began my university studies at Cambridge University in the UK with a degree in physics, and then decided to focus on biology. Driven by …

Could you briefly introduce yourself and tell us about your career  ? In November   1979, after graduating from law school, I had the opportunity to spend two   months as a temporary employee at the Collège de France, replacing someone on sick leave. At …

Could you briefly introduce yourself and tell us about your career  ? I'm a PhD student in quantum physics at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, a joint research unit (UMR) of the École normale supérieure, Sorbonne University, the Collège de France and the …

Could you briefly introduce yourself and tell us about your career  ? My career path began with an observation course in 4th grade, when we spent a day in a company. It was this internship that was decisive for the rest of my professional career. I chose …

Thierry Coquand, invited to hold the Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Annual Chair , will give his opening lecture on March 13   2025. Documents and media Download the press release Read the article "Building mathematical …

On the occasion of the 2025 edition of the Brussels Book Fair, Justine Lacroix will take part in a debate organized by the festival and the European Parliament Liaison Office in Belgium, on the theme of " L'Europe face à ses défis : comment renforcer la …

The Tibetan Studies Library invites you to discover the list of works it has acquired and made available to the public during the year 2024. Download the list of new acquisitions Tibetan Studies …

At the Collège de France, lectures are open to all, with no conditions of access or prior registration, subject to availability. Major events The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France The Collège de France and the Comédie-Française are organizing a …

The Collège de France Foundation, an essential support for scientific research at the Collège de France, was created in 2008 on the initiative of the Board of Professors. Encouraging young researchers, supporting new professors, assisting the development …

On March 26   2025, a reading of Roman d'Alexandre by Emilie Yili Kang & Séram Borgel from the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique - PSL as part of the Nocturnes de l'Histoire program. Alexander the Great, mosaic detail, 2nd century BC, …

Évangile selon Saint Matthieu (codex sinopensis), detail of folio 15 : the second multiplication of the loaves, BnF, département des Manuscrits, supplément grec 1286, fol. 28v-29r. The Byzantine Library invites you to consult the list of new items …

Salikoko S. Mufwene Human migration and linguistic evolution. The paths of Creole and French What if the study of Creole languages could also tell us something about the history of the formation of Romance languages  ? Far from being immutable, languages …

Every two weeks, a current scientific topic is explored by a researcher from the Collège de France. Toutes les deux semaines, un sujet d'actualité scientifique éclairé par une chercheuse ou un chercheur du Collège de France. Mathematics is often perceived …

Kaiko hanashigai no den: Jindai goshu [Free rearing of the five ancient silkworm species], 1874 The Collège de France's Japanese Studies Library holds a fine collection of works, archives and manuscripts by botanist Hippolyte de Castillon (1830-1898), …

Documents and media Discover this article with our online reader Download article Mathematician and professor of computer science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Thierry Coquand is a proponent of constructivist philosophy in mathematics. He …

Valéry at the Collège de France Edited by William Marx and Matilde Manara The first   synthesis and historical, philosophical and critical reflection on the readings given by Paul Valéry at the Collège de France from 1937 to 1945. Following the …

Documents and media Discover this article with our online reader Download article Franck Courchamp is Director of Research at the CNRS. At the University of Paris-Saclay, he heads a research team focusing on biodiversity dynamics and the impact of human …

The functioning of the brain relies on the establishment of very precise connections between neurons  : synapses. A recent study, published in Nature Neuroscience by a team from the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en biologie du Collège de France …

Documents and media Discover this article with our online reader Download article Nathalie Bajos is Director of Research at Inserm and Director of Studies at EHESS. Her research focuses on the social production of health inequalities in the field of …

On February 3 and 4, 2025, the international symposium " SCIENCES VIVANTES : Indigenous perspectives in the world of research and the arts " will be held at the Collège de France, organized by the Anthropologie Linguistique team of the Laboratoire …

Professors William Marx (Chair of Comparative Literatures) and Jean-Luc Fournet (Chair of Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology) join the Agir pour l'Education initiative, launched by the professors of the Collège de France to promote …