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On June 2 2025 the Byzantine Library of the Collège de France received a donation from the Ukrainian Catholic University (Український Католицький Університет ) of one of the most important series produced by the latter and not yet present in any French …

To mark the publication of the collective work Genre et sciences in the " Colloques de rentrée " collection (co-published by Collège de France and Odile Jacob), Françoise Combes was a guest on the literary magazine " La Grande Librairie " on France 5 on …

At the Collège de France, lectures are open to all, with no conditions of access or prior registration, subject to availability. Opening lectures Mental health and addictions: from the intimate to the population-based Opening lecture by Maria Melchior , …

Reading of the Roman d'Alexandre at the Byzantine Library by Émilie Yili Kang and Séram Borgel on the occasion of the European Heritage Days Discover the Libraries, Archives and Collections Department's 2024 activity report. Documents and media Download …

Pascale Senellart Pascale Senellart, invited to hold the Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Annual Chair , will give her opening lecture on December 11  2025. Documents and media Download the press release Read the interview "We're at the heart …

How do you know whether a policy to combat poverty is really effective? Learn how to use economics as a tool to assess the impact of public policies and understand why some succeed... and why others fail. Whether you plan to advise governments one day, …

To mark the publication of her book La Production sociale des inégalités de santé in the " Leçons inaugurales " collection, Nathalie Bajos will be the guest of the Nouvel Équipage bookshop on Wednesday November 26 at 19  h  30. The discussion between the …

Since 2021-2022, opening lectures at the Collège de France have been subtitled in four languages (French, English, Spanish and Arabic) thanks to our partnership with TV5MONDEplus. Six new subtitled opening lectures are now available and freely accessible …

Nathalie Bajos The Social Production of Health Inequalities This book analyzes the production of health inequalities from a sociological perspective. Health inequalities represent a major challenge for social justice. While a number of social determinants …

François-Marie Bréon The disrupted carbon cycle This book describes the carbon cycle, its disruption by human activities, and the issues involved in quantifying it in the context of ongoing climate change. Carbon is one of the major elements of life on …

Maria Melchior Maria Melchior, invited to hold the Public Health Annual Chair , will deliver her opening lecture on December 4  2025. Documents and media Download the press release Read the interview "Young people's mental health has been deteriorating …

Pascale Senellart Documents and media Discover this interview with our online reader Download the interview Passionate about quantum physics, Pascale Senellart wants to put light at the service of tomorrow's technologies. Her research into semiconductor …

On December 3, 2025, the Collège de France is hosting the Journée François Jacob "The Living Clock: Biology in the Flow of Time", organized by the Institut de biologie du Collège de France . Every year, the Journées François Jacob, organized by the …

For the third year in a row, the City of Paris library network, in partnership with the Collège de France, is hosting a bimonthly event focusing on the major intellectual and scientific issues of our time at the Marguerite Duras mediatheque ( 20 th ). The …

In 2024, visual artist Caroline Delétoille, philosopher of emotions, aesthetics and cognitive sciences Céline Boisserie-Lacroix, and physics doctoral student Aurore Young set out to make quantum physics more comprehensible to the layman, by combining each …

Maria Melchior Documents and media Discover this interview with our online reader Download the interview Maria Melchior is a specialist in the study of mental health, particularly that of young people. She explains how the epidemiological approach can …

To mark the centenary of the founding of the Tibetan newspaper Mélong or Tibet Mirror (1925-1963), the Centre d'études tibétaines of the Collège de France is co-organizing the following event with the University of Leipzig and SOAS: A Mirror to History: …

Exhibition on file at the Institute of Civilizations (salle Françoise Héritier). From November 17 2025 to January 9 2026. To mark the centenary of the founding of the Tibetan newspaper Mélong , or Tibet Mirror , of which the Collège de France houses the …

Jacques Livage It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of French chemist Jacques Livage, who held the Chemistry of Condensed Matter chair at the Collège de France from 2001 to 2009, on Sunday 9 November 2025, aged 87 . A great name in …

In response to the controversy surrounding the symposium entitled "Palestine et Europe: poids du passé et dynamiques contemporaines" (Palestine and Europe: the weight of the past and contemporary dynamics) to be held at the Collège de France on November …

In 2015, the conclusion of the Paris Agreement was seen as a milestone in the fight against climate disruption. Ten years later, the Collège de France, through its Avenir Commun Durable initiative , Le Mans Université and the city of Le Mans are …

Interview with Chloé Santoro, winner of the Collège de France Award 2025 for young researchers. Chloé Santoro Documents and media Discover this article with our online reader Download the interview Can citizens make important decisions without …

A topical scientific subject is explored by a researcher from the Collège de France. François Waquet How did European monarchs legitimize their power over the centuries ? At the heart of this question lies an often overlooked but decisive heritage: Roman …

Institute of Civilizations The Institute of Civilizations of the Collège de France adopts a new publishing policy focused on open access. With the support of the Documentation and Publications research support unit of the Institute of Civilizations of the …