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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 …

DVD of Pascal Dusapin's opening lecture at the Collège de France on February 1, 2007. Coproduction: Collège de France - Cned - Doriane Films 2007 The complete film of Pascal DUSAPIN's opening lecture is available on DVD (Collège de France/ CNED/ Doriane …

The Sacrifice of Isaac, Caravaggio, 1603. " Authority. Right or power to command, to be obeyed "From ancient times to the present day, in every culture, authority - sovereignty, the sacred, the book, dogma - has been the foundation of social order. But …

First raised in the 19th  century, the question of Palestine became particularly acute after the Second World War. Despite appearances and preconceived ideas, it was not the Shoah that accelerated the Jews' plan to found a " national home ", but rather …

Jon Elster Acting against yourself. Weakness of will " I see the good, I approve of it, and I do the evil," says Medea in Ovid. "I don't do the good I want to do, while I do the evil I don't want to do", laments St. Paul in his Epistle to the Romans. Two …

Deuxième colloque du Collège de France à l'étranger en coopération avec la Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Zweites Auslandssymposium des Collège de France in Kooperation mit der Charité -   …

France Culture and the Collège de France in an Aubervilliers high school France Culture accompanies a crazy gamble born of a dream by Collège de France professor Carlo Ossola and Seine-Saint-Denis senator Jack Ralite : confront the final year pupils of an …

Conferences in the form of a colloquium, organized in conjunction with EPHE and CNRS, UMR 8584. Wednesday, June 13, 2007 from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m Collège de France Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot 75005 …

Pascal Dusapin Composer. Music, Paradox, Flow " To compose is not to demonstrate. To compose is to invent impulses and flows. It's like the water in a river. To compose is to invent crossroads, distances and distances. It's like running away and always …

Colloquium organized by Professor Pierre Rosanvallon at the Collège de France. June 7 and 8, 2007 Collège de France Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot, 75005 Paris Go to the symposium page Pierre Rosanvallon, chair Modern and …

Symposium organized by Alain Berthoz and Serge Laroche. June 11 and 12, 2007 Collège de France Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot 75005 Paris Download program Alain Berthoz, chair Physiology of perception and …

The seminar will address three major challenges facing the biotech industry. Firstly, the difficulties of setting up a biotech company, particularly in Europe. Secondly, the relationship between biotech companies and universities, which are the main …