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Sandra Lavorel
Ecosystem services
Lecture
Event
Abstract This lecture will introduce the concept of nature's contributions to human populations, or ecosystem services. It will show how functional ecology approaches enable ecosystem services to be quantified on the basis of biodiversity. These …
14:00 to 15:30

Postdoctoral F/M, Chemistry of Biological Processes Laboratory (CPB) - Pr Marc Fontecave
Marc Fontecave, chair Chemistry of Biological Processes
News
Collège de France is recruiting a F/M postdoctoral fellow, Chemistry of Biological Processes Laboratory (CPB), Pr Marc Fontecave. Category A Contract 2 years Desired starting date : June 2026 Download the job description Postdoctoral …
Published on 30 April 2026

Judith Revel
Strapped to a tiger's back. Michel Foucault and truth
Seminar
Event
16:30 to 18:00

Major dates in May 2026
Collège de France
News
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 April 2026

Antoine Georges
The fractional quantum Hall effect
Lecture
Event
09:30 to 11:15

Nicolas Regnault
Fractional Chern Insulators: Toy Models, Moiré and New Mysteries
Seminar
Event
11:30 to 12:45

Filippo Ronconi
Being a copyist in the Middle Ages: between passion, profession and devotion
Seminar
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Abstract This lecture examines the figure of the medieval copyist, taking the Byzantine world as its main field of observation, without neglecting comparisons with the Latin West. It will highlight the profound diversity of copyist profiles—professionals, …
15:30 to 17:00

Frantz Grenet
The origins of medieval Khurâsân: interactions between Sassanid Iran and Central Asia (3rd-7th c. AD) (8)
Lecture
Event
15:30 to 16:30

Sophie Ramond
David in the book of Chronicles
Seminar
Event
Documents and media Download support …
15:15 to 16:45

Thomas Römer
The end of David's reign and Solomon's rise to power
Lecture
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Documents and media Download support Abstract God's promise of an eternal dynasty contrasted with David's adultery, when he sent his best general to his death to seize his wife, a behavior condemned by the same prophet Nathan who had promised David an …
14:00 to 15:00

Marc Henneaux
Algebraic Aspects, Inönü-Wigner Contraction
Lecture
Event
14:00 to 15:30

Dario Mantovani
The body of law, "Corpus Iuris". Imagining law through bodily metaphors in Roman legal literature (2) (9)
Lecture
Event
14:30 to 15:30

Akihito Suzuki
Madness at Home in Tokyo: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in Tokyo, 1920-1945
Guest lecturer
Event
Documents and media Download poster Abstract The family of a mentally ill patient was one of the most important agents in the general picture of insanity in society. Family members such as husband, wife, father, mother, and children played crucial roles …
17:00 to 18:00

Michel Boudot
Sensitive metaphor and technical metaphor in private law
Seminar
Event
16:00 to 18:00

Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
Sacrifice and oath : elements of a ritual language
Lecture
Event
Documents and media Download support Abstract Leaving Athens behind, this lesson explores the dossier of epigraphically attested oaths all around the Aegean Sea. This investigation attests to the omnipresence of commitment rituals involving animals in all …
11:00 to 12:00

Niels Obers
Non-Lorentzian Geometry in Gravity and String Theory
Seminar
Event
16:00 to 17:30

Pascale Senellart
Introduction
Symposium
Event
09:00 to 09:15

Louis Jonker
Socio-Political Transformation and Biblical Interpretation: The Case of Post-Apartheid South Africa
Guest lecturer
Event
Abstract In the first lecture the issue of changing biblical interpretation in the South African context since the 1990s when Nelson Mandela was released and the ANC party unbanned, and since 1994 when the first democratic post-apartheid elections were …
16:00 to 17:00

Les arts au défi des sciences sociales - Theory and case studies
Pierre-Michel Menger, chair Sociology of Creative Work
Symposium
Series
The Piano Lesson , Henri Matisse (1916). Public domain. Presentation Following on from the lecture given between January 16 and February 20 2026 at the Collège de France by Pr Pierre-Michel Menger, this symposium will illustrate the fruitfulness of the …

Louis Fensterbank
Introduction
Symposium
Event
09:00 to 09:05

Eglantine Heude
The Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms
Symposium
Event
09:05 to 09:50

Lea Ypi
Nationalism, socialism, cosmopolitanism
Lecture
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Abstract This session looks at the tensions and articulations between nationalism, socialism and cosmopolitanism. It examines how socialist movements have attempted to articulate the struggle for social justice with the national question, oscillating …
17:00 to 18:00

Hannah Steinicke & Michael Huemer
Object files in non-symbolic number cognition and set representation
Symposium
Event
Chair: Victor Tamburini Hannah Steinicke Hannah Steinicke is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Mind, Brain and Behavior at Justus-Liebig University Gießen in Germany. Recently, she worked on the mental representation of sets in infants in …
16:00 to 17:15

Dario Mantovani
When forgeries make sense to jurists : paretymologies between puns and metaphors
Lecture
Event
Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Ancient Rome (1754-1757) Abstract The ancients, too, were keen to research the origins of words in order to shed light on their meaning. Roman jurists, in particular, were passionate about their research. Their hypotheses sometimes …
14:30 to 15:30