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Ancient Near East Library The Collège de France libraries will be closed during the summer on the following dates: The five libraries in the Asian Worlds Department will be closed from August 3 to 21, then will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from August …
Published on 23 July 2026
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There will be no seminar on Wednesday June 10, as Professor Henneaux will give two lectures back-to-back: from 2 pm to 3:30 pm and then from 4 pm to 5:30 …
14:00 to 15:30
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The 2026–2027 public lectures program is available as a PDF or online via our e-reader! The printed version will soon be available at the Collège de France reception desk. The courses, which are open to everyone free of charge and without …
Published on 23 July 2026
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The Collège de France is hiring an Electrical Workshop Manager (F/M) for the Real Estate Management Department (DPI). Category A – Assistant Engineer / B+ – Senior Technician Fixed-term contract (1 year, renewable ) Desired start date: December 1 st , …
Published on 23 July 2026
Anneliese Depoux & Franck Ramus
Communicating science
Anneliese Depoux & Franck Ramus
Communicating science
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Abstract Hardly a day goes by without hearing about climate change in the media. Alarmist rhetoric, even if based on factual elements, paradoxically provokes doubts and challenges to scientific messages. The political world, for its part, has no …
18:30 to 20:00
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Abstract In his famous and difficult essay "On the Concept of History," Walter Benjamin introduces the idea of revolutionary redemption. Through their actions, revolutionaries of the present can redeem those whose struggles for liberation failed in the …
16:30 to 17:30
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Documents and Media Download the support material Abstract Recently, political philosophy has seen a resurgence of debates regarding the wrongs of capitalism and the purpose of socialism. Some argue that capitalism is unjustly exploitative, but only …
15:30 to 16:30
Martin O'Neill
The Climate Emergency, State Power, and the Expansion of Democratic Control
Martin O'Neill
The Climate Emergency, State Power, and the Expansion of Democratic Control
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Documents and media Download support Abstract The global climate emergency has presented a deep challenge to the capacities of states throughout the world, and this challenge has been one to which thus far most states have failed adequately to respond. At …
14:00 to 15:00
Anca Gheaus
Socialist Childhood
Anca Gheaus
Socialist Childhood
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Anca Gheaus is a political philosopher interested in justice and the normative significance of personal relationships. Before joining CEU, she worked at various universities in Europe. In 2023 she published a co-authored book on Debating Surrogacy (with …
13:00 to 14:00
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Nicholas Vrousalis Nicholas Vrousalis is an associate professor in Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and an associate professor in Political Philosophy at the University of …
11:00 to 12:00
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In collaboration with Philip Huyse, EPHE 4 th section. …
16:30 to 18:00
Kenichi Abe
William Marx, chair Comparative Literatures
Kenichi Abe
William Marx, chair Comparative Literatures
Guest lecturer
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Cover of Kenzaburô Ôe, Manen Gannen no Futobôl (The Game of the Century), Tokyo, Kodansha, 1967. Kenichi Abe is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Prof. William Marx. Kenichi …
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Exceptionally, the seminar will be held on a Monday. Documents and media Download support …
11:00 to 12:15
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Abstract The human brain contains an immense number of neuronal types. How is this diversity established during development ? The spatial origin of neural stem cells and their temporal evolution during division contribute to this diversity. Using simpler …
16:00 to 17:00
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Abstract The Zoroastrian texts supply kind of division of the world and the reason for it which is important for understanding the Persian view of the world in Late Antiquity. In the Middle Persian texts, we come across a story which is not present in the …
17:00 to 18:30
Nothing new ? Four lessons on the book of Qohelet
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
Nothing new ? Four lessons on the book of Qohelet
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
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Color Study: Squares with Concentric Circles, Vassily Kandinsky, 1913 Markus Saur is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Thomas Römer. Markus Saur Presentation The book of Qohelet is one of the sapiential writings of …
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Tomislav Rovis
Redshifting Photoredox Catalysis
Tomislav Rovis
Redshifting Photoredox Catalysis
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Abstract The use of visible light to drive organic reactions has revolutionized synthetic chemistry. The field is dominated by catalysts that absorb in the 400-450 nm range, wavelengths that correspond to 63- 70 kcal/mol. Such high energy light is not …
11:00 to 12:00
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Abstract The phenomenon of superfluidity is characterized by the frictionless flow of a fluid below a critical velocity. Initially observed in liquid helium at low temperatures, and later in ultracold atomic gases, superfluidity has also been demonstrated …
11:15 to 12:30
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Cette vidéo est proposée dans une version doublée en français. La version originale en anglais est également accessible ci-dessous. Documents and Media Watch the video in English (original …
09:00 to 09:15
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A lecture in English titled “Reading, Writing, Philosophizing in Medieval India ,” delivered on June 9, 2026, by Professor Isabelle Ratié at the Center for Research on Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg. It has often been pointed out—and …
Published on 20 July 2026
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Session 4: Cosmopolitan sciences …
09:30 to 10:00