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The Palestine question from the October 1973 war onwards
Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World
Lecture
Series
The 2010-2011 lecture covered the question of Palestine from 1973 to 1981, i.e. from the October 1973 war to the Washington Treaty. It is available as an audio broadcast on the Collège de France website, and an enlarged publication is planned by Éditions …
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The great litany of Répit and the sarcophagus of Panéhemisé
Nicolas Grimal, chair Pharaonic civilization : Archaeology, Philology, History
Guest lecturer
Series
The first two lectures were devoted to the temple of the goddess Repit at Athribis in Upper Egypt. This edifice is located some 10 km west of Sohag, in the foothills of the Libyan desert, where the plateau rises to over 200 m above the Nile valley. It was …
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Work, identities, profession : what metamorphoses ?
Alain Berthoz, chair Physiology of perception and action
Symposium
Series
The aim of this multidisciplinary colloquium is to bring together experts from the academic world and social actors from the world of work, in an attempt to understand and describe the new forms that work is taking today. The aim is to shed light on …
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Jean-Louis Cohen
Modernization programs
Lecture
Event
In the early 1950s, the Ministry of Reconstruction and Urban Planning led by Eugène Claudius-Petit, with the help of Pierre Dalloz and Paul Herbé, succeeded in forcing the transition of housing production to the industrial age, through contracts …
5:00 - 6:00pm

Administrator's wishes to the Collège de France community for 2021
Collège de France
News
january 8, 2021 View of the garden at the Institut des Civilisations, 52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 75005 Paris. …
Published on 8 January 2021

Reading texts related to the course topic
Jean Kellens, chair Indo-Iranian languages and religions
Seminar
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Out of sacrifice
Jean Kellens, chair Indo-Iranian languages and religions
Lecture
Series
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Jean-Louis Cohen
High-growth languages and techniques
Lecture
Event
After 1945, France's leading figures in modern architecture infiltrated the École des Beaux-Arts, but the system remained unchanged. They paid little attention to developing a theoretical or critical discourse, as their Italian counterparts were doing at …
5:00 - 6:00pm

RS2E wins INPI 2020 awards
Jean-Marie Tarascon, chair Chemistry of Materials and Energy
News
The Réseau sur le stockage électrochimique de l'énergie (RS2E), headed by Prof. Jean-Marie Tarascon of the Collège de France, has won the 2020 Trophies of the Institut national de la propriété industrielle (INPI) in the Research category. Since their …
Published on 6 January 2021

Opening lecture by Prof. Timothy Gowers
Timothy Gowers, chair Combinatorics
News
Timothy Gowers, Professor of Combinatorics, will give his opening lecture on January 21, 2021, at 6 pm. This event will take place behind closed doors at the Collège de France, and will therefore not be open to the public, but will be broadcast live on …
Published on 6 January 2021

Excerpts from a commentary on the Book of Judges : four readings on biblical narrative art and techniques
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
Guest lecturer
Series
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What is a book?
Roger Chartier, chair Writing and cultures in modern Europe
Lecture
Series
The first two lectures given as part of this Chair, inaugurated in 2007, were devoted to the study of an exemplary case of textual mobility between languages, genres and historical situations, namely, the theatrical appropriations of Don Quixote in 17th- …
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Publication of the newsletter
Collège de France
News
january 5, 2021 Find out all the latest news from the Collège de France in the "1530, la lettre" newsletter. Read our latest issue of 1530, la lettre (January 5, 2021) …
Published on 5 January 2021

Peter de Menocal
Marine Records of North African Paleoclimate
Symposium
Event
2:00 - 2:45pm

Yannick Garcin
Lake Shorelines and Leaf Waxes: Tools to Reconstruct past African Climates
Symposium
Event
2:45 - 3:30pm

Paul Sereno
The Gobero Complex: Lakeside Subsistence, Culture and Climate Change in the Southern Sahara
Symposium
Event
5:30 - 6:15pm

Martin Claussen
Abrupt or Not Abrupt? Challenges in Reconciling Paleo Records and Model Simulations of the End of the African Humid Period
Symposium
Event
3:30 - 4:15pm

Laura Botigué
North Africans during the Holocene: The Lineage of the First Occupants or Newly Arrived Agriculturalists? Evidences from Genetic Data
Symposium
Event
4:45 - 5:30pm

Human Rights: A Useful but Insufficient Tool for Protecting the Environment
Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions
News
Justice Samantha Besson, a professor at the Collège de France and holder of the Chair in International Law of Institutions , conducts research at the intersection of international law, European law, and the philosophy of law. She explores for us the …
Published on 5 January 2021

Jessica Tierney
Biomarker Evidence for Abrupt Shifts in Northeast African Climate during the Holocene
Symposium
Event
11:15am - 12:00pm

Stefan Kroepelin
Geoarchaeological and Lake Yoa Data Sets from the Eastern Sahara vs. Abrupt Onset and Termination of the so-Called "African Humid Period"
Symposium
Event
9:45 - 10:30am

Edouard Bard
An Introduction on North African Climate Viewed from Geological Archives
Symposium
Event
9:00 - 9:45am

Florence Sylvestre
Northern Tropics Monsoonal Changes during the African Humid Period Revealed by Lake Chad Sedimentary Archives
Symposium
Event
10:30 - 11:15am

Jean-Louis Cohen
War and reconstruction
Lecture
Event
While France was still healing the wounds inflicted by the First World War in the north and east, bombing campaigns by the Germans in 1940 and the Allies between 1944 and 1945 ravaged much of the country. Despite political differences, there was …
5:00 - 6:00pm