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Programme 9 h 15 – Accueil des participants 9 h 30 – Anne Cheng (Collège de France) et Pei Cheng (BnF) : Introduction 9 h 50 – Susan Naquin (Princeton University), invitée d’honneur : « Édouard Chavannes and Mount Tai » 10 h 30 – Pei Cheng (BnF) : …
09:15 to 18:00
Epigenetics at the organism-environment interface
Edith Heard, chair Epigenetics and Cellular Memory
Epigenetics at the organism-environment interface
Edith Heard, chair Epigenetics and Cellular Memory
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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 …
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Wajdi Mouawad As part of the " Faire connaissance... " cycle , organized by the Collège de France and the City of Paris municipal library network, Wajdi Mouawad, visiting professor at the Collège de France's annual Chair for The Invention of Europe …
Published on 8 September 2025
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Letarouilly courtyard The Collège de France offers a rich program of 1 000 annual events (lectures, conferences, seminars and colloquia), entirely free of charge and accessible to all in the heart of Paris and online. It also offers the public exceptional …
Published on 8 September 2025
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Abstract The process of chemical synthesis involves a sequence of reactions that systematically elevate the complexity of a starting material until it ultimately morphs into the desired end product. While the specific reactions - or tactics - employed for …
11:00 to 12:00
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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 …
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Elastic microstructures etched into a multilayer of poylimide and platinum films. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
Experimental approaches to education
Acting for education
Experimental approaches to education
Acting for education
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Biblical discourses on origins (Genesis 1-11)
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
Biblical discourses on origins (Genesis 1-11)
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
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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 …
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Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition at critical point
Collège de France prize-winners
Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition at critical point
Collège de France prize-winners
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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 …
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Abstract Two cathedrals burned at the same time on April 15 2019 : the one founded in 1163 by Bishop Maurice de Sully, and the one that has been constantly reconstructed by the imagination since the 18 th century. In a well-known archaeological …
16:00 to 19:00
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flora i Fauna de magrove , (detail) 2021, Miquel Barceló. …
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From the cover of Time Europe, January 15, 1979, drawing by Douglas Johnson. On December 2 1978, in a weekly report to President Carter, his National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzeziński spoke of a " arc of crisis " stretching from Bangladesh to …
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View from a Minot village street (pho_minot_1968_11_1231) Yvonne Verdier (1941-1989) is a major figure in French anthropology, as much for her research, which contributed to the renewal of rural ethnology and studies of traditional societies, as for her …
Published on 5 September 2025
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To mark the publication of Leçons de ténèbres. Ce que la violence dit du monde , Didier Fassin will be the guest of the Compagnie bookshop on Wednesday, September 17 2025 at 7 pm . Event address : librairie Compagnie, 58 rue des Écoles, 75005 Paris. Find …
Published on 4 September 2025
