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Lectures by Omar Mohsen, winner of the Cours Peccot for 2024-2025, proposed by Pr Nalini Anantharaman. Omar Mohsen …
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Apotheosis of Voltaire, ca 1791, Carl de Vinck. stanford University. David Bell is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Prof. Antoine Lilti. David …
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Abstract One of the most important medical innovations to arise from the genome revolution is the development of liquid biopsies: simple blood tests which replace the need for invasive sampling in fields as diverse as pregnancy, transplant medicine, …
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Slim Laghmani is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Prof. Samantha Besson. Slim Laghmani …
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The international colloquium Living sciences : Indigenous Perspectives in the World of Research and the Arts opens up a reflection on the epistemological stakes of indigenous presences in science, society and the arts. Through the diversity of …
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At the Collège de France, lectures are open to all, with no conditions of access or prior registration, subject to availability. Exhibition Prehistory: between utopia and reality The Collège de France's major exhibition "Prehistory: Between Utopia and …
Published on 30 March 2026
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Like an ecosystem, knowledge is never an immutable, balanced sum of knowledge. It is constantly changing, nourished by research, its advances and its contradictions. This is all the more true in the face of contemporary challenges, where scientific …
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Abstract The nature of the immune system's antibody repertoire has been a subject of fascination for more than a century. This repertoire is highly plastic and can be directed to create antibodies with broad chemical diversity and high selectivity. There …
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The Great Wave of Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, 1830-31. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain. Solitons are peculiar wave structures that can propagate at constant speed without deforming. They are found in many fields of physics, from hydrodynamics …
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The Great Wave of Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, 1830-31. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain. Presentation Solitons are peculiar wave structures that can propagate at constant speed without deforming. They are found in many fields of physics, from …
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To mark the publication of the book Face à l'immigration, le savant et le politique , the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (FMSH) is organizing a discussion with François Héran on April 16 2026 at 6 pm   30 as part of an evening of " Livres en …
Published on 27 March 2026
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François Héran Faced with immigration, the scientist and the politician " Scholars not only have the right to intervene in the public debate on the migration issue, they also have a duty to do so. " Can the scholar stand above the fray to tackle an issue …
Published on 27 March 2026
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Type theory was introduced by Bertrand Russell to avoid the paradoxes that arise in mathematics when the notion of a collection of objects is used too naively. This notion of types was refined by the notion of dependent types, with the aim of representing …
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Arthur Dreyfus and Léa Louis, with Jean-Jacques Hublin I dreamt of Prehistory To coincide with the exhibition " Prehistory : between utopia and reality ", the Collège de France is co-publishing a children's documentary with Editions courtes et longues. …
Published on 25 March 2026
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Jean-Jacques Hublin (ed.) Prehistory : between utopia and reality A book that invites us to come face-to-face with our most distant ancestors, at the crossroads of science and the imaginary. The discovery of prehistory aroused an extraordinary …
Published on 25 March 2026
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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 …