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Discover contemporary research in the sciences, humanities and arts. Lectures, seminars and conferences are free and open to all.

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Lecture
18 Mar 2026
09:30 to 11:00
Louis Fensterbank

Reactive and intermediate species (1)

Seminar
18 Mar 2026
11:00 to 12:00
Jérôme Lacour

Stereochemical journey through carbocations and their precursors

Lecture
18 Mar 2026
11:00 to 12:00
Jean-Luc Fournet

... and letters: scribes and copyists (2)

Guest lecturer
18 Mar 2026
11:00 to 12:00
Markus Saur

" There is a time for everything. " (Ecclesiastes 3:1).…

Lecture
18 Mar 2026
14:00 to 15:00
Antoine Lilti

Charlatans! Scholars and philosophers in the public arena (11)

High turnout
Lecture
18 Mar 2026
14:30 to 15:30
Dario Mantovani

The fruit and the profit : a metaphor that may not be a metaphor at all

Lecture
18 Mar 2026
17:00 to 18:00
Lea Ypi

How capitalism threatens freedom

Lecture
19 Mar 2026
10:00 to 11:30
Samantha Besson

Sovereignty, solidarity & equity

Lecture
19 Mar 2026
11:00 to 12:00
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

In the cities: Greece as a sacrificial culture (7)

Seminar
19 Mar 2026
14:00 to 17:00
Thierry Meynard, Jia Bingwei et Haun Saussy

Around authenticity: readings, reflections, discussions (2)

Not recorded
Lecture
19 Mar 2026
14:00 to 15:00
Thomas Römer

Saul, a cursed king ? David's arrival at Saul's court (continued)

High turnout
Seminar
19 Mar 2026
15:15 to 16:45
Axel Bühler

Politics and statistics : when scribes invented numbers

Seminar
19 Mar 2026
15:30 to 17:00
Csaba A. La'da

New Texts from Old Codices: Some Recent Classical Discoveries from the Bibliothèque nationale …

Not recorded
Lecture
20 Mar 2026
10:00 to 11:30
Denis Duboule

Hox genes and tail formation ; a global approach

Lecture
20 Mar 2026
15:00 to 16:30
Edouard Bard

Climates and human societies over the past two thousand years (continued) (4)

Symposium
23 Mar 2026
Pierre-Michel Menger

Les arts au défi des sciences sociales - Theory and case studies

Lecture
24 Mar 2026
09:30 to 11:00
Yvon Maday

Non-linear approximations

Lecture
24 Mar 2026
10:00 to 11:00
Claude Grison

Conserving aquatic ecosystems : the secrets of plant species revealed

Guest lecturer
24 Mar 2026
11:00 to 12:00
Gergely Csibra

Tracking Social Relations and Evaluating Potential Partners in Infancy and Childhood

Seminar
24 Mar 2026
11:15 to 12:15
Erik Orsenna

Hydrodiplomacy

Seminar
24 Mar 2026
11:15 to 12:15
Haysam Telib

Between Physics and Data: A Critical Examination of AI's Role in Simulatio…

Lecture
24 Mar 2026
14:00 to 15:00
Patrick Boucheron

Places of power (11)

High turnout
Guest lecturer
24 Mar 2026
15:30 to 16:30
Kenichi Abe

Translations of Japanese literature during the Cold War

Lecture
24 Mar 2026
16:00 to 17:00
Isabelle Ratié

How does the self become an other for itself?

Lecture
25 Mar 2026
09:30 to 10:45
Louis Fensterbank

Reactive and intermediate species (2)

Seminar
25 Mar 2026
10:45 to 12:15
Alejandro Perez Luna & Clément Chauvier

Organo(di)metal reagents for organic synthesis.…

Lecture
25 Mar 2026
11:00 to 12:00
Jean-Luc Fournet

... and letters: scribes and copyists (3)

Guest lecturer
25 Mar 2026
11:00 to 12:00
Markus Saur

" Vanity of vanities, says Qohelet. " (Ecclesiastes 1,2).…

Seminar
25 Mar 2026
14:30 to 17:30
Gunnel Ekroth & Jake Morton

Kill, Butcher, Feast: understanding and recreating Greek animal sacrifice…

Lecture
25 Mar 2026
14:30 to 15:30
Dario Mantovani

In what sense is capital a fate ? Roman figures of the consumer loan

Lecture
25 Mar 2026
14:30 to 15:30
Antoine Lilti

Charlatans! Scholars and philosophers in the public arena (12)

High turnout
Seminar
25 Mar 2026
16:00 to 18:00
Michele Prandi

Metaphors: plurality in unity

Guest lecturer
25 Mar 2026
18:00 to 19:00
Daniel Mendelsohn

Antigone in Krakow

Symposium
26 Mar 2026 → 27 Mar 2026
Dario Mantovani

In Margine. La philologie des paratextes et ses enjeux. Law, literature, religion

Lecture
26 Mar 2026
10:00 to 11:30
Samantha Besson

European Sovereignties

Lecture
26 Mar 2026
11:00 to 12:00
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

In the cities: Greece as a sacrificial culture (8)

Guest lecturer
26 Mar 2026
11:00 to 12:00
Gergely Csibra

Non-Verbal Generics

Guest lecturer
26 Mar 2026
14:00 to 15:00
Robert F. Campany

Authenticity, Authentification and Transmutation in Late Classical and Ear…

Not recorded
Lecture
26 Mar 2026
14:00 to 15:00
Thomas Römer

Saul at the necromancer's in En-Dor

High turnout
Seminar
26 Mar 2026
14:00 to 17:00
Robert F. Campany

Around authenticity: readings, reflections, discussions (3)

Not recorded
Seminar
26 Mar 2026
15:15 to 16:45
Jan Rückl

The Davidic dynasty and the temple

Seminar
26 Mar 2026
15:30 to 17:00
Jean-Luc Fournet, Korshi Dosoo & Valérie Schram

Orpheus on the Nile: a new Orphic poem on papyrus (4)

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Opening lecture
26 Mar 2026
18:00 to 19:00
Sandra Lavorel

Functional ecology : understanding ecosystem structure to anticipate the effects of globa…

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Sandra Lavorel
Opening lecture [live] [in French]
Functional ecology : understanding ecosystem structure to anticipate the effects of global change
Sandra Lavorel
26 Mar 2026
Chef d'orchestre Esa-Pekka Salonen
Music! The Philharmonie at the Collège de France [interview]
What symphony concerts for tomorrow ?
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Christian Thompson & l'Orchestre de Paris
31 Mar 2026
Globe stylisé avec des trajets et des cercles colorés
Call for applications
Mathematical sciences for the planet
Collège de France Award for Young Researchers 2026
01 Mar 2026 → 30 Apr 2026

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Affiche de l’exposition « Préhistoire : entre utopie et réalité » avec des hommes préhistoriques fuyant un mammouth

Prehistory : between utopia and reality

Jean-Jacques Hublin, chair Paleoanthropology
Published on 11 March 2026

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march events at the Collège de France

The major events of March 2026

Collège de France
Published on 27 February 2026

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500 ans du Collège de France (1530-2030) - Docet Omnia

Major sponsorship campaign for the fifth centenary of the Collège de France

Press release
Published on 27 February 2026

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Sandra Lavorel

Modern ecology must take into account the return of ecosystems to humans

Sandra Lavorel, chair Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Published on 27 February 2026

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Stéphane Mallat et Taraneh Sayadi

Not-so-artificial intelligences

Stéphane Mallat, chair Data science
Published on 27 February 2026

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Cour intérieure de l'Institut des civilisations.

Leaving a legacy for science and knowledge

Collège de France
Published on 23 February 2026

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Un couple de la société maure de Mauritanie

From poetized Arab-Muslim courtly love to seduction in Mauritanian Moorish society

Social Anthropology Laboratory (LAS)
Published on 4 February 2026

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Exposition Du terrain au texte, prolongation

Exhibition : From field to text. Publishing ethnology and its images

Social Anthropology Laboratory (LAS)
Published on 13 January 2026

Audios and videos

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Sandra Lavorel
Functional ecology : understanding ecosystem structure to anticipate the effects of global change
26 March 2026
Opening lecture
Isabelle Ratié
Indian versions of the cogito?
17 March 2026
Statue sculptée représentant un Bouddha au visage serein, les yeux clos, entouré de nombreuses petites figures humaines, formant un décor dense et symétrique autour de sa tête et de ses épaules
Lecture
Kenichi Abe
Kenzaburô Ôé's world of manuscripts
17 March 2026
Illustration abstraite rouge et jaune avec motifs topographiques concentriques et texte japonais blanc au centre
Guest lecturer
Patrick Boucheron
Places of power (10)
17 March 2026
Frères de Limbourg, « La Tentation du Christ », Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (1411-1416), musée Condé, Ms.65, f° 161v.
Lecture
Jérôme Chave
Tropical forest ecosystems in the face of global warming
17 March 2026
Echantillons de graines et de feuilles tenus dans une main
Seminar
Dirk Hartmann
Digital Twins: From Hype to Industrial Reality... and Why Applied Mathematics Plays a Key Role
17 March 2026
Surface de l’océan vue d’en haut, avec des vagues bleu-vert sur lesquelles sont superposées des lignes blanches ondulées, parallèles, évoquant le mouvement de la mer
Seminar
Claude Grison
The exploration of life by the various scientific disciplines : a history of scale
17 March 2026
Echantillons de graines et de feuilles tenus dans une main
Lecture
Yvon Maday
Preserving structures
17 March 2026
Surface de l’océan vue d’en haut, avec des vagues bleu-vert sur lesquelles sont superposées des lignes blanches ondulées, parallèles, évoquant le mouvement de la mer
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