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Daniele Ferrari: "Religious minorities: international and European law" Jocelyne Cesari: "Islam and democracy in immigration countries" …
10:00 to 12:00
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Abstract While his assimilation of repudiation to divorce aroused the displeasure of his disciples, Christ used a parable about the eunuchs to make himself understood, or rather obeyed ( " comprenne qui pourra ") ( Matthew, 1, 10-12). Those who are " …
14:00 to 15:00
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Abstract The assumptive attitudes theorized by Meinong are mental attitudes about states of affairs, factual or otherwise, which they qualify positively or negatively, but without implying, with regard to them, the kind of conviction characteristic of …
11:30 to 13:00
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Abstract What makes a concept what it is? What distinguishes, for example, my concept of a tiger from my concept of a cat? Is it what the concept refers to, or is it the subject's conception of it? According to the referentialist thesis, the first answer …
10:00 to 11:30
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Abstract The portraits to be drawn in the lecture are those of people who lived during the reign of Zimri-Lim : we will therefore begin by studying this king, who occupied the throne of Mari from 1775 to 1761. Little is known about his life before his …
11:00 to 12:00
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The birth of Dionysus on a mosaic panel from the House of Aiôn in Paphos, Cyprus. Gianfranco Agosti is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Pr Jean-Luc Fournet. Gianfranco Agosti These four lectures will offer a new vision of …
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Abstract The cutoff phenomenon is an abrupt transition from the non-equilibrium state to the equilibrium state undergone by certain Markov processes in the limit where the number of states tends to infinity. Discovered forty years ago in the context of …
11:15 to 12:30
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Round table discussion with Emmanuel Macron , President of the French Republic, and Prof. Mario Draghi , former Italian Prime Minister and President of the European Central Bank, moderated by Philippe Aghion …
15:30 to 16:30
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Speakers Introduction by Thomas Römer , Administrator of Collège de France Presentation by Philippe Aghion (Collège de France, INSEAD, London School of Economics) Presentation by Antonin Bergeaud (HEC Paris, Collège de France Innovation Lab) Presentation …
14:00 to 15:30
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Abstract For students and course participants, the website challengedata.ens.fr offers new supervised learning data processing challenges for the 2025 season. These challenges are proposed by companies or scientists and stem from real-world problems they …
11:15 to 12:30
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Abstract The impact of AI on science is illustrated this year by two Nobel Prizes: one awarded to Hinton in Physics for deep learning, and another awarded to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper in Chemistry for the AlphaFold2 algorithm, which predicts the …
09:30 to 11:00
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Quentin Blake, The art of Conversation . Editions The QB papers, 2019. The Discourse Files colloquium will take place at the Collège de France, in Salle 2, on March 30 and 31, 2026. This interdisciplinary colloquium, in English, is part of the ERC project …
Published on 19 December 2025
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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. Opening lecture The din of scripture. Thinking, believing and philosophizing in premodern India Opening lecture by Isabelle …
Published on 19 December 2025
Sébastien Lecommandoux
Biomaterials of tomorrow : biomimetic polymers and biohybrids
Sébastien Lecommandoux
Biomaterials of tomorrow : biomimetic polymers and biohybrids
Opening lecture
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Abstract This lesson explores recent advances in the field of biopolymers, in particular biomimetic and biohybrid polymers. Since ancient times, with materials such as rubber and silk, scientists have been striving to understand and imitate natural …
18:00 to 19:00
Frantz Grenet
Introduction (continued). The recent rediscovery of Parthian and Sogdian versification
Frantz Grenet
Introduction (continued). The recent rediscovery of Parthian and Sogdian versification
Lecture
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15:30 to 16:30
Simon Gascoin
The contribution of space observations to monitoring snow cover and its impacts
Simon Gascoin
The contribution of space observations to monitoring snow cover and its impacts
Seminar
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Abstract The snowpack that accumulates in the mountains every year is a precious natural water reservoir for humans, retaining winter precipitation and releasing it in spring at the right time to irrigate crops. What's more, the snowpack is a powerful …
11:00 to 12:00
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Abstract Satellite Earth observation began a few years after the launch of the first artificial satellites. The first instruments aboard these satellites were designed for imaging purposes, and were mainly used to visualize cloud systems. Soon, more …
10:00 to 11:00