Share Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Copy url Search results Search 28187 results Filters Content type Content type Lessons (24036) News (1761) People (1391) Chair (360) Editions (352) Page (228) Research (27) Library (14) Annual Chair (12) Award (6) Series International regional law Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions Seminar Echoing the title of this year's lecture , the title of the seminar is a double-entry : it will deal both with the international law that regions help to adopt, interpret and/or apply (e.g. regional customs and exceptions), and with the international law … 06 Mar 2025 → 11 Apr 2025 Series International regional law Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions Lecture O caput elleboro dignum (The World in a Madman's Head), 1590. Taking note of the numerous processes of regionalization of international law and, since the end of the Cold War, of their generalization and deepening, and in particular of the multiplication … 06 Mar 2025 → 10 Apr 2025 Series Photochemical activation Louis Fensterbank, chair Activations in Molecular Chemistry Seminar 05 Mar 2025 → 09 Apr 2025 Series Photochemical activation Louis Fensterbank, chair Activations in Molecular Chemistry Lecture Photochemistry is a branch of chemistry that studies light-induced chemical reactions. It plays an increasingly important role in organic synthesis, offering alternative and often gentler routes to chemical bond formation, echoing Giacomo Ciamician's 1912 … 05 Mar 2025 → 09 Apr 2025 Publication Martial Gueroult L’évolution et la structure de la philosophie pratique kantienne Martial Gueroult avait le projet de publier un grand livre sur Kant issu de son enseignement. Cet ouvrage, qui aurait eu pour titre L’Évolution et la structure de la philosophie kantienne , n’a jamais vu le jour : retravaillés pendant près de quarante … 29 September 2025 Series Human nature Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Seminar On human nature, or how to reconcile Philosophy of nature and Philosophy of the intellect À travers champs (lithograph) … 04 Mar 2025 → 08 Apr 2025 Series Human nature Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Lecture On human nature, or how to reconcile Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of the Intellect À travers champs (lithograph) … 04 Mar 2025 → 08 Apr 2025 Event Kyle Harper The origins of the Justinian plague: From Central Asia to the Mediterranean Guest lecturer Left: Mihirakula (r. 515-540), probable victim of the plague; right: Justinian (r. 527-565), who escaped. Kyle Harper has been invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Pr Frantz Grenet. Lecture followed by discussion with Pr Frantz … 20 May 2025 17:00 to 18:30 News A look back at the Fête de la Science 2025 Collège de France On Saturday, October 11 2025, the ChADoCs (associate researchers and doctoral students at the Collège de France) and the teams at the Collège de France welcomed many of you to the Fête de la Science. There were over a thousand visitors ! The free … Published on 17 October 2025 Event François Déroche Conclusions Symposium 16 May 2025 16:30 to 17:00 Event Henning Sievert Traces of Lost Books. What Did High-Level Bureaucrats Read Before 1840? Symposium Abstract The Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Europe underwent profound changes during the late 18 th and early 19 th centuries, before the Ottoman Empire reinvented and rebuilt itself between 1840 and 1880. Contrary to earlier assumptions, this … 16 May 2025 16:00 to 16:30 Event Lucia Raggetti Abū al-ʿAlā ibn Zuhr, His Library, and the 'Galenic Book Club': Bibliophilia, Indirect Tradition, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Islamicate Scholarship Symposium Abstract The Andalusian family of the Banū Zuhr astounded the Mediaeval world with a lineage of physicians spanning several generations. The family library served as the foundation for erudite medical research, and the manuscript tradition of the Kitāb … 16 May 2025 15:30 to 16:00 Event Boris Liebrenz The Manṭiq al-waḥš and the Early Arabic Illustrated Book Symposium Abstract An illustrated page preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has equally attracted and puzzled a number of art historical attempts at interpreting the texts and images found on them. It has been identified as the fragment of an … 16 May 2025 14:30 to 15:00 Event Annabel Gallop Qur'anic art in Southeast Asia: Localising the Sulawesi Diaspora Geometric Style Symposium Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and … 16 May 2025 14:00 to 14:30 Event Serpil Bağcı Revising the Iskendernāme: Akkoyunlu and Safavid Turkmen Manuscripts of Ottoman Legendary History Symposium Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and … 16 May 2025 11:30 to 12:00 Event Christoph Rauch Data-Supported Collection History – Provenance Information in the Qalamos Portal Using the Example of the Berlin Collection Symposium Abstract With the launch of the Qalamos portal, the descriptions of more than 40,000 Islamic manuscripts from around 45 institutions in Germany have been made accessible. Supported by the systematic integration of accession data, manuscript annotations … 16 May 2025 11:00 to 11:30 Event Sara Fani Strategies of the Early Modern International Book Trade: Acquisition and Sales by Diplomats, Scholars, and Booksellers in the Islamicate World Symposium Abstract The early modern period was a pivotal moment in European engagement with the diverse literary traditions of the Islamicate world, and the languages transmitting them. Scholars, collectors, and printers actively sought after manuscripts from these … 16 May 2025 09:30 to 10:00 Series The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France Special events In 1530, François I founded the Collège des lecteurs royaux, now the Collège de France, to provide the nation with the knowledge it needed. One hundred and fifty years later, in 1680, Louis XIV founded the Comédie-Française, entrusting it with the … 29 Jan 2025 → 11 Jun 2025 Event Jawdath Jabbour Avicenna at Topkapı. The Avicennian collections in ʿAṭūfī's catalog (1502-1504) Symposium Abstract The inventory of books in the library of Bāyazīd II compiled by ʿAṭūfī at the request of the sultan is a major witness to Ottoman cultural history in the sixteenth century. By crossing codicological and textual perspectives, the paper will seek … 15 May 2025 14:30 to 15:00 Event Lbachir Tahali A Wandering Library: an Attempt to Restore the Manuscripts of Mulāy Zaydān Scattered Outside the Escurial Symposium Abstract Taking into consideration the trials that Mulay Zaydān’s library housed at El Escorial went through in the course of its history, we realise that it does not include all the manuscripts that belonged to the Saʿdian sultan. It should be remembered … 15 May 2025 14:00 to 14:30 Event Michele Bernardini The Donation of a Safavid Shāhnāme to the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in 1093/1682-3 by the Ḳapūdan-i deryā Mușṭafā Muṣāḥib, from Documents in the Florence State Archive Symposium Abstract MS Or.5, preserved at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, contains a Safavid Shāhnāme dated Shavvāl 990/ September-October 1582. Included in Angelo Michele Piemontese’s catalogue of Persian manuscripts in Italian libraries (1989), the manuscript, … 15 May 2025 11:30 to 12:00 Event Mahdi Sahragard A Newly Discovered Manuscript from the Ghaznavid Court Scriptorium: A Codicological Study of a Fragmentary Qurʼan dated 434 AH/1042 CE Symposium Abstract This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of a significant Qurʼanic manuscript discovered in the Geniza of the Imām Riḍā shrine in Mashhad, comprising 244 fire-damaged folios. The manuscript's colophon identifies its scribe as Abū ʿAlī … 15 May 2025 11:00 to 11:30 Event François Déroche Medieval Moroccan Bookbinding in the Light of the Escorial Collection Symposium Abstract The study of Medieval bookbinding in the Muslim world has come up against major methodological problems, but faces also (and perhaps because of these problems) a certain scepticism on the part of specialists in manuscript studies. The Escorial … 15 May 2025 10:00 to 10:30 Event Claudia Colini The Booklet and the Multivolume Set in the History of the Qur’anic book Symposium Abstract If we consider the role of the book as a communication tool, an analysis of its different materials and forms can reveal aspects of its use and function. For example, its dimensions and form can influence its mobility, its materials can affect … 15 May 2025 09:30 to 10:00 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 119 Page 120 Page 121 Page 122 Page 123 Page 124 Page 125 Page 126 Page 127 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Series International regional law Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions Seminar Echoing the title of this year's lecture , the title of the seminar is a double-entry : it will deal both with the international law that regions help to adopt, interpret and/or apply (e.g. regional customs and exceptions), and with the international law … 06 Mar 2025 → 11 Apr 2025
Series International regional law Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions Lecture O caput elleboro dignum (The World in a Madman's Head), 1590. Taking note of the numerous processes of regionalization of international law and, since the end of the Cold War, of their generalization and deepening, and in particular of the multiplication … 06 Mar 2025 → 10 Apr 2025
Series Photochemical activation Louis Fensterbank, chair Activations in Molecular Chemistry Seminar 05 Mar 2025 → 09 Apr 2025
Series Photochemical activation Louis Fensterbank, chair Activations in Molecular Chemistry Lecture Photochemistry is a branch of chemistry that studies light-induced chemical reactions. It plays an increasingly important role in organic synthesis, offering alternative and often gentler routes to chemical bond formation, echoing Giacomo Ciamician's 1912 … 05 Mar 2025 → 09 Apr 2025
Publication Martial Gueroult L’évolution et la structure de la philosophie pratique kantienne Martial Gueroult avait le projet de publier un grand livre sur Kant issu de son enseignement. Cet ouvrage, qui aurait eu pour titre L’Évolution et la structure de la philosophie kantienne , n’a jamais vu le jour : retravaillés pendant près de quarante … 29 September 2025
Series Human nature Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Seminar On human nature, or how to reconcile Philosophy of nature and Philosophy of the intellect À travers champs (lithograph) … 04 Mar 2025 → 08 Apr 2025
Series Human nature Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Lecture On human nature, or how to reconcile Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of the Intellect À travers champs (lithograph) … 04 Mar 2025 → 08 Apr 2025
Event Kyle Harper The origins of the Justinian plague: From Central Asia to the Mediterranean Guest lecturer Left: Mihirakula (r. 515-540), probable victim of the plague; right: Justinian (r. 527-565), who escaped. Kyle Harper has been invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Pr Frantz Grenet. Lecture followed by discussion with Pr Frantz … 20 May 2025 17:00 to 18:30
News A look back at the Fête de la Science 2025 Collège de France On Saturday, October 11 2025, the ChADoCs (associate researchers and doctoral students at the Collège de France) and the teams at the Collège de France welcomed many of you to the Fête de la Science. There were over a thousand visitors ! The free … Published on 17 October 2025
Event Henning Sievert Traces of Lost Books. What Did High-Level Bureaucrats Read Before 1840? Symposium Abstract The Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Europe underwent profound changes during the late 18 th and early 19 th centuries, before the Ottoman Empire reinvented and rebuilt itself between 1840 and 1880. Contrary to earlier assumptions, this … 16 May 2025 16:00 to 16:30
Event Lucia Raggetti Abū al-ʿAlā ibn Zuhr, His Library, and the 'Galenic Book Club': Bibliophilia, Indirect Tradition, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Islamicate Scholarship Symposium Abstract The Andalusian family of the Banū Zuhr astounded the Mediaeval world with a lineage of physicians spanning several generations. The family library served as the foundation for erudite medical research, and the manuscript tradition of the Kitāb … 16 May 2025 15:30 to 16:00
Event Boris Liebrenz The Manṭiq al-waḥš and the Early Arabic Illustrated Book Symposium Abstract An illustrated page preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has equally attracted and puzzled a number of art historical attempts at interpreting the texts and images found on them. It has been identified as the fragment of an … 16 May 2025 14:30 to 15:00
Event Annabel Gallop Qur'anic art in Southeast Asia: Localising the Sulawesi Diaspora Geometric Style Symposium Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and … 16 May 2025 14:00 to 14:30
Event Serpil Bağcı Revising the Iskendernāme: Akkoyunlu and Safavid Turkmen Manuscripts of Ottoman Legendary History Symposium Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and … 16 May 2025 11:30 to 12:00
Event Christoph Rauch Data-Supported Collection History – Provenance Information in the Qalamos Portal Using the Example of the Berlin Collection Symposium Abstract With the launch of the Qalamos portal, the descriptions of more than 40,000 Islamic manuscripts from around 45 institutions in Germany have been made accessible. Supported by the systematic integration of accession data, manuscript annotations … 16 May 2025 11:00 to 11:30
Event Sara Fani Strategies of the Early Modern International Book Trade: Acquisition and Sales by Diplomats, Scholars, and Booksellers in the Islamicate World Symposium Abstract The early modern period was a pivotal moment in European engagement with the diverse literary traditions of the Islamicate world, and the languages transmitting them. Scholars, collectors, and printers actively sought after manuscripts from these … 16 May 2025 09:30 to 10:00
Series The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France Special events In 1530, François I founded the Collège des lecteurs royaux, now the Collège de France, to provide the nation with the knowledge it needed. One hundred and fifty years later, in 1680, Louis XIV founded the Comédie-Française, entrusting it with the … 29 Jan 2025 → 11 Jun 2025
Event Jawdath Jabbour Avicenna at Topkapı. The Avicennian collections in ʿAṭūfī's catalog (1502-1504) Symposium Abstract The inventory of books in the library of Bāyazīd II compiled by ʿAṭūfī at the request of the sultan is a major witness to Ottoman cultural history in the sixteenth century. By crossing codicological and textual perspectives, the paper will seek … 15 May 2025 14:30 to 15:00
Event Lbachir Tahali A Wandering Library: an Attempt to Restore the Manuscripts of Mulāy Zaydān Scattered Outside the Escurial Symposium Abstract Taking into consideration the trials that Mulay Zaydān’s library housed at El Escorial went through in the course of its history, we realise that it does not include all the manuscripts that belonged to the Saʿdian sultan. It should be remembered … 15 May 2025 14:00 to 14:30
Event Michele Bernardini The Donation of a Safavid Shāhnāme to the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in 1093/1682-3 by the Ḳapūdan-i deryā Mușṭafā Muṣāḥib, from Documents in the Florence State Archive Symposium Abstract MS Or.5, preserved at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, contains a Safavid Shāhnāme dated Shavvāl 990/ September-October 1582. Included in Angelo Michele Piemontese’s catalogue of Persian manuscripts in Italian libraries (1989), the manuscript, … 15 May 2025 11:30 to 12:00
Event Mahdi Sahragard A Newly Discovered Manuscript from the Ghaznavid Court Scriptorium: A Codicological Study of a Fragmentary Qurʼan dated 434 AH/1042 CE Symposium Abstract This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of a significant Qurʼanic manuscript discovered in the Geniza of the Imām Riḍā shrine in Mashhad, comprising 244 fire-damaged folios. The manuscript's colophon identifies its scribe as Abū ʿAlī … 15 May 2025 11:00 to 11:30
Event François Déroche Medieval Moroccan Bookbinding in the Light of the Escorial Collection Symposium Abstract The study of Medieval bookbinding in the Muslim world has come up against major methodological problems, but faces also (and perhaps because of these problems) a certain scepticism on the part of specialists in manuscript studies. The Escorial … 15 May 2025 10:00 to 10:30
Event Claudia Colini The Booklet and the Multivolume Set in the History of the Qur’anic book Symposium Abstract If we consider the role of the book as a communication tool, an analysis of its different materials and forms can reveal aspects of its use and function. For example, its dimensions and form can influence its mobility, its materials can affect … 15 May 2025 09:30 to 10:00
