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The seminar will continue with a reading of Ulpian's On the Duties of the Proconsul , a kind of guide that allows us to virtually see the Roman provincial governor in action, and to understand how his actions were bound by the bonds of law. The seminar …

The lecture explores how Roman jurists, who were also writers, used metaphors to express and even forge their concepts, some of which are still ours today. Metaphors are a cognitive matrix, a way of thinking, not just speaking. Body, head, ears, hands, …

Le Rêve , Henri Rousseau, 1910, MoMA. The lecture will focus on epigenetic mechanisms at the interface between organisms and their environment. We will see how these mechanisms play a fundamental role in the adjustment of organisms to environmental …

Ferrofluid under the influence of an intense magnetic field, Gregory F. Maxwell. Laser cooling and trapping techniques have recently been extended to species with large magnetic moments. This spectacular breakthrough has led to the observation of new …

Elastic microstructures etched into a multilayer of poylimide and platinum films. …

The 2023-2024 lecture by Prof. Lluis Quintana-Murci aims to show how genetic studies shed light on how humans have adapted to the diversity of environmental conditions encountered during their dispersal across the planet. The physiological characteristics …

Ferrofluid under the influence of an intense magnetic field, Gregory F. Maxwell. Laser cooling and trapping techniques have recently been extended to species with large magnetic moments. This spectacular breakthrough has led to the observation of new …

Concluding a two-year series of lectures on the energy transition, this colloquium aims to shed further light on this perspective through, on the one hand, discussion of topical political and economic issues that cannot be ignored and, on the other, …

With " Agir pour l'éducation ", the aim of the professors at the Collège de France is to understand, advise and act in all their areas of expertise, in a scientific approach open to dialogue between disciplines, in contact with those involved in education …

Painting by Henri Testelin depicting Colbert presenting the members of the Académie des Sciences to Louis XIV. Echoing the title of this year's lecture , the title of the seminar is a double-entendre  : it will address both " droit en science " and …

Can there be scientific and technological practice and progress without a public international law of science and technology, and without corresponding international institutions  ? What, for example, should a public international law on artificial …

Russian Bible engraved by Vassili Koren (1696). The legend in Russian reads : " On the seventh day he rested from all the work he had done. And God blessed the seventh day, sanctifying it, for on it he rested from all the work of creation that he had …

Peccot Lecture Series Since 1885, thanks to an endowment from the family of mathematician Claude-Antoine Peccot, the Collège de France has awarded annual prizes to young mathematicians under the age of 30 who have distinguished themselves in theoretical …