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The formidable diversity of African societies is nothing other than historical. The variety of languages spoken across the continent, the proximity of multiple systems of political organization, types of economy, religious forms, techniques and arts tell …

Created in 2019, the   International Law of Institutions Chair continues a long tradition of teaching and research in international law at the Collège de France. The new Chair is both more specific in its focus on the institutional dimension of …

"   Symmetry is one of the thematic melodies of twentieth-century physics    " It is in these colorful terms that Nobel Prize-winning physicist C.N. Yang highlights the invasion of modern physics by ideas of symmetry, which have played an essential …

The   Chair in Philosophy of Language and Mind hosts the teaching of the incumbent, Prof.   Recanati, as well as the Chair's own colloquia, seminars and study days, and guest lectures. The fields covered by these lectures and events are analytical …

Automorphic forms were discovered at the beginning of the 20th  century by Henri Poincaré as a non-commutative generalization of periodic functions. Modular forms, which are special cases, were intensively studied in Germany before and after Poincaré's …

Created in partnership with Inria, the Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Annual Chair reflects a shared determination to highlight the importance of this scientific discipline, and the need to give it its rightful …

Since 2019, Lluis Quintana-Murci has held the   Chair in Human Genomics and Evolution. His research focuses on the study of human genome diversity, both from a fundamental perspective and as applied to the understanding of certain pathologies. His work …

Created in partnership with the national agency Santé publique France, the Public Health Annual Chair is designed to encourage excellence in research and intellectual debate at the highest level on public health …

The Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Annual Chair , created in 2006, marks the joint determination of the Collège de France and the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation to highlight the importance of work devoted to technological …

Literature is a universal fact, worldwide in scope and transhistorical in scope, albeit in extremely diverse forms  : the study of its variations is the object of this Chair, in line with the comparative literature lectures that appeared in Europe and …

The annual Liliane Bettencourt Chair in Technological Innovation , created in 2006, marks the joint determination of the Collège de France and the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation to highlight the importance of work devoted to technological …

Prof.   Mantovani 's lectures present Roman law as a technique of thought, a tool for governing social relations, and also as an expression of Roman society, whose cultural imprint the law preserves. His method is to invite the public to read the …

Soft matter physics studies complex fluids : polymers, amphiphilic molecules, liquid crystals... This is a new and highly relevant approach to studying the physical properties of many living systems : cells, tissues, bacterial suspensions, cancer tumor …

Created in 2016, the annual European Chair is dedicated to Europe. …

Created in partnership with the national agency Santé Publique France, the annual Santé Publique Chair is designed to encourage excellence in research and intellectual debate at the highest level on public health …

Created in partnership with Inria, the Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Annual Chair reflects a shared determination to highlight the importance of this scientific discipline, and the need to give it its rightful …

Writing a small computer program is easy. Designing and producing a complete software program that is reliable, durable and resistant to attack remains extraordinarily difficult. It is the aim of Software Science to design and develop the principles, …

The Mondes francophones annual chair was created in partnership with the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie. …

The annual Artistic Creation Chair is dedicated to all forms of artistic creation. For one academic year, it hosts a leading figure in contemporary artistic …

Created in 2016, the annual European Chair is dedicated to Europe. …

Processing data to validate a hypothesis or estimate parameters has long been the exclusive domain of statistics. However, as the dimensions of data have increased, the Combinatorics of possibilities has exploded. This curse of dimensionality is a central …

Created in partnership with Inria, the Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Annual Chair reflects a shared determination to highlight the importance of this scientific discipline, and the need to give it its rightful …

The Turkish past is not only Ottoman, and Ottoman history is not only Turkish. In other words, the title of this Chair covers a vast, complex and even ambiguous field. This is why we have chosen a more focused context which, while reducing the scope of …

Since 2017, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge has held the   Chair in Religion, History and Society in the Ancient Greek World. The various terms in this title designate the constituent elements of the chair's teaching and the research on which it is based. Using …