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Teaching Research in the Making

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

The Collège de France in 10 questions

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Symposium
10 Apr 2026
09:00 to 18:00
Sonia Garel

Neuroimmune Crosstalk in Brain/Body interactions: from Physiology to Patho…

Not recorded
Guest lecturer
10 Apr 2026
17:00 to 18:00
Akihito Suzuki

Madness at Home in Tokyo: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in…

Symposium
13 Apr 2026
Laurent Coulon

At the court of the god. Religious organization and court mechanisms in Egypt in the 1st millennium BC.

Lecture
14 Apr 2026
09:30 to 11:00
Yvon Maday

Heuristic approaches and learning

Lecture
14 Apr 2026
10:00 to 11:00
Claude Grison

Vector-borne disease prevention and public health : what sustainable solutions ?…

Seminar
14 Apr 2026
11:15 to 12:15
Serge Morand

Biodiversity crisis, One Health and Planetary Health

Seminar
14 Apr 2026
11:15 to 12:15
Joël Mouterde

Physically Informed Machine Learning for Modeling Dynamic Systems: The Case of an Axial Active…

Lecture
14 Apr 2026
14:00 to 15:30
Sandra Lavorel

Effects of environmental change on ecosystem functioning

Lecture
15 Apr 2026
09:30 to 11:00
Louis Fensterbank

Reactive and intermediate species (5)

Seminar
15 Apr 2026
11:00 to 12:00
Jean-Philippe Goddard

Reactive and intermediate species (5)

Lecture
15 Apr 2026
11:00 to 12:00
Jean-Luc Fournet

School and professional training

Guest lecturer
15 Apr 2026
14:00 to 15:00
Jens Beckert

How We Sold Our Future. The Failure to Fight Climate Change

Lecture
15 Apr 2026
14:30 to 15:30
Dario Mantovani

The body of law, "Corpus Iuris".…

Lecture
15 Apr 2026
17:00 to 18:00
Lea Ypi

Nationalism, socialism, cosmopolitanism

Symposium
16 Apr 2026
Pascale Senellart

Light-based Quantum Technologies

Lecture
16 Apr 2026
11:00 to 12:00
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

In the cities: Greece as a sacrificial culture (11)

Lecture
16 Apr 2026
14:00 to 15:00
Thomas Römer

The end of David's reign and Solomon's rise to power

High turnout
Seminar
16 Apr 2026
15:15 to 16:45
Sophie Ramond

David in the book of Chronicles

Lecture
16 Apr 2026
15:30 to 16:30
Frantz Grenet

The origins of medieval Khurâsân: interactions between Sassanid Iran and Central Asia (3rd-7th…

Seminar
16 Apr 2026
15:30 to 17:00
Filippo Ronconi

Being a copyist in the Middle Ages: between passion, profession and devotion

Not recorded
Guest lecturer
4 May 2026
17:30 to 18:30
Joel Mokyr

Innovation and the British Industrial Revolution: a New Look

Lecture
5 May 2026
10:00 to 11:00
Claude Grison

Ecological restoration of polluted and degraded soils : inspiring plant adaptability…

Seminar
5 May 2026
10:00 to 11:30
Frantz Grenet, Touraj Daryaee, Nina Mazhjoo

1) Documents relating to the Sassanid presence in Central Asia; 2) The historiographical myth of und…

Seminar
5 May 2026
11:15 to 12:15
Martine Hossaert

Nature-based solutions (SfN) and soil : an essential p…

Lecture
5 May 2026
14:00 to 15:00
Didier Fassin

Presences

High turnout
Lecture
5 May 2026
15:15 to 16:15
Didier Fassin

Review

High turnout
Seminar
5 May 2026
16:30 to 18:00
Didier Fassin

Thinking with Foucault (1)

Not recorded
Special events
5 May 2026
18:30 to 20:00
Avenir Commun Durable

Communicating science

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Captation par un régisseur du Collège de France
Disseminating knowledge
Collège de France podcasts turn twenty !
Podcasts
06 Feb 2006 → 06 Feb 2026
Hommes préhistoriques fuyant un mammouth
Exhibition
Prehistory: between utopia and reality
Collège de France
29 Apr 2026 → 19 Jul 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

News

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April events at Collège de France

Key dates in April 2026

Collège de France
Published on 30 March 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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Les jeudis du Cnam – Dialogues avec le Collège de France (entrée principale du Collège de France)

Les jeudis du Cnam - Dialogues with the Collège de France

Collège de France
Published on 15 December 2025

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Musique ! La Philharmonie au Collège de France 2025-2026

Music ! The Philharmonie at the Collège de France

William Marx, chair Comparative Literatures
Published on 26 September 2025
Juliette Henrion

Teeth as prehistoric archives

Research
Published on 8 April 2026
Couverture de l'édition imprimée de la leçon inaugurale de la Pr Pascale Senellart-Mardon

Publication of the opening lecture by Pr Pascale Senellart-Mardon

Pascale Senellart, chair Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt
Published on 8 April 2026
Xavier Le Pichon

Tribute to Xavier Le Pichon

Xavier Le Pichon, chair Geodynamics
Published on 7 April 2026

Audios and videos

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Lea Ypi
Democracy and capitalism : are they compatible ?
8 April 2026
"Un seul coup et tout s’écroule", extrait du livre "Histoire des deux carrés : conte suprématiste en six figures",  El Lissitzky, 1922. Domaine public.
Lecture
Micaela Rossi
The life and career of metaphors in specialized discourse: a diachronic approach
8 April 2026
Gros plan du profil d'une sculpture antique en terre cuite, montrant un visage féminin orné d’une boucle d'oreille en forme de rosette
Seminar
Dario Mantovani
The will as a pledge : reasoning through metaphorical lines of force
8 April 2026
Gros plan du profil d'une sculpture antique en terre cuite, montrant un visage féminin orné d’une boucle d'oreille en forme de rosette
Lecture
Vincent Goossaert & Sylvie Peperstraete
Animal sacrifice, between Mesoamerica and China
8 April 2026
Vase grec antique à figures noires représentant une scène de sacrifice
Seminar
Jean-Luc Fournet
... and formulas: notaries
8 April 2026
Deux fragments anciens présentés côte à côte : à gauche, un morceau de parchemin brun portant des motifs décoratifs entrelacés d’inspiration médiévale ; à droite, un fragment de papier jauni avec des inscriptions imprimées partiellement lisibles
Lecture
Philippe Dauban & Guillaume Prestat
" Rhodium Nitrene " and selective C(sp3)-H bond amination. Iron and hydroxylamine : a long-lasting couple for amination reactions
8 April 2026
Paysage montagnard avec symboles chimiques
Seminar
Louis Fensterbank
Reactive and intermediate species (4)
8 April 2026
Paysage montagnard avec symboles chimiques
Lecture
Sandra Lavorel
Ecosystem diversity and functioning
7 April 2026
Onde audio sur photo de la porte d'entrée du Collège de France
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