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Friday, March 30, 2007 Bibliothèque nationale de France – Site François-Mitterrand Grand Auditorium, Hall Est Quai François Mauriac 75013 Paris "Antifascist activist in the 1930s, winner of the agrégation in philosophy in 1937, early Resistance fighter, …

Antoine Compagnon examines the immense powers attributed to literature - powers that seem to have been challenged by modernity. What value can literature still have in contemporary society and culture? What is literature for? "Taking the floor in these …

Pierre Rosanvallon Counter-democracy. Politics in an age of mistrust The democratic ideal now reigns supreme, but the regimes that lay claim to it are widely criticized. The erosion of trust in representatives is one of the major problems of our time. …

Every year, the Société des Neurosciences organizes Brain Week in partnership with the Dana Alliance and the Federation pour la Recherche. This nationwide event is designed to inform the general public about recent discoveries in the field of …

Raymond Birn Royal censorship of books in Enlightenment France In 18th-century France   century France, censorship was less the enemy than the ally of the Enlightenment. How did the apparatus of the monarchical state come to promote tolerance ? Bringing …

Library of the Graduate Institute of Japanese Studies Dictionary of Classical Japanese Sources The Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan. Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan has been designed to guide students, researchers and anyone interested in …

7 h - 9 h : Les matins de France culture (Ali Baddou) with : Pierre Corvol , Administrator of the Collège de France Marc Fumaroli , Professor, Collège de France, Chair of Rhetoric and Society in Europe Pierre Rosanvallon , Professor, Collège de France, …

Heritage of Europe, European Heritage Lecture by Professor Carlo Ossola on Monday, March 19 at 10 a.m. Free admission with registration Espace Pierre Cardin 3, avenue Gabriel 75008 …

Classics of human memory l'Odyssée - Monday, October 23, 2006 at 7 pm Jean-Pierre Vernant, Honorary Professor at the Collège de France Concert by students of the IIIe  specialized cycle of the Conservatoire National de Région Aubervilliers-La Courneuve …

Science and technology are under debate in society. The symposium aims to identify the conditions for rational and constructive debate between scientists, politicians, economic players and ordinary citizens. It aims to better define the role expected of …

February 10 and 11, 2007 Espace des Blancs-Manteaux 48, rue Vieille du Temple 75004 Paris Saturday February 10 from 17 h 30 to 18 h 30 Philippe Descola will give a lecture on " L' anthropologie de la nature " (followed by a discussion with Frédéric Keck …

Excerpt from the opening lecture Usually, those who study literature consider it as a cognitive target, as an object of historical or interpretative examination. This time, we're going to change our point of view and reflect on what happens when a certain …

The Collège de France has created a new chair which will be inaugurated on January 18 2007 : the Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Chair in partnership with the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation. Inauguration during which Jean-Paul Clozel, the …

The Collège de France, the Institut français de coopération and the Bibliothèque Nationale de Tunisie are pleased to invite you to the following conferences : Laser cooling of atoms. Methods and applications Claude Cohen-Tannoudji: Chair of Atomic and …

International colloquium organized by the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Section des Sciences Religieuses (Paris-Sorbonne), and the UMR 7133 Centre de recherches sur les civilisations chinoise, japonaise et tibétaine. December 14 to 16, 2006: …

Michel Zink, Chair Littératures de la France médiévale Singing, telling, storytelling in the Middle Ages : poetry as narrative november 27 2006 Michel Zink Lecture 04 April 2006 (5/8) 28 november 2006 Michel Zink Lecture from 25 april 2006 (6/8) …

Thursday, November 30 at 6 p.m Collège de France Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot 75005 Paris Go to the opening lecture page Born in Brussels in 1950, Antoine Compagnon grew up in England, Tunisia, the United States and …

Jon Elster Reason and reasons For classical moralists, reason , as opposed to passions or particular interest, is a normative idea, meant to guide us in the public arena; inculcating it is the task of the prince's tutor. For modern economists, rationality …

Pierre Rosanvallon Counter-democracy. Politics in an age of mistrust The democratic ideal now reigns unchallenged, but the regimes that lay claim to it are widely criticized. The erosion of trust in representatives is one of the major problems of our …

In the history of opera, the status of the libretto has never been completely self-evident, but the " opera crisis ", which began over half a century ago, led to a radical rethinking of the relationship between music and text, the shockwaves of which are …

November 21, 2006 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m Collège de France 3, rue d'Ulm 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot 75005 Paris The introduction of global climate policies has led to the emergence of prices for reducing emissions of the main greenhouse gas, carbon …

Broadcast of a documentary by Françoise Héritier on Thursday November 16 in the Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater at the Collège de France (Marcelin-Berthelot site). Feature-length film (52 minutes) followed by a discussion in the presence of the …

Ludwig Boltzmann Born in Vienna in 1844, Ludwig Boltzmann committed suicide in Duino a century ago, on September 5 1906. " At a time when the word "atom" falls daily before the eyes of the newspaper reader, the layman can scarcely form a correct …

On Friday 18 November 2005, Le Journal des Arts published an interview with Roland Recht on the state of art history in France. " Les musées ne sont pas à vendre ", article published in Le monde dated Wednesday December 13 2006 ( Debates section, p. 25) …