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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) …

André Caquot* (1923-2004) André Caquot was born on April 24, 1923 in Épinal. His high school teachers, with whom he had shown himself to be a gifted pupil, had no doubts about his success, and in fact he came first in the competitive examination for the …

Louis Chevalier (1911-2001) Mr. Director,  Dear Colleagues,  Ladies and Gentlemen, In 1958, in the Civilisation d'hier et d'aujourd'hui collection, founded by René Grousset, appeared a flamboyant book, Classes laborieuses et classes dangereuses, à Paris, …

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Our colleague Pierre Bourdieu passed away on January 23 of this year, just a few months after leaving his position as Professor in this house, so in a way, neither the tireless fighter nor the professor ever really knew …

Jacques Berque (1910-1995) Jacques Berque was born on June 4, 1910. His childhood and adolescence were linked, one might say viscerally, to Algeria and the Maghreb. Nourished by their culture, landscapes and dialects, he blended them with his classical …

Lucien Bernot (1919-1993) Lucien Bernot, Professor of Sociography of Southeast Asia at the Collège de France, was born on December 2, 1919 in Gien, Loiret. Of Burgundian peasant descent, his father, a PTT worker, had taught himself to read. Unable to …