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Teaching Research in the Making

The Collège de France supports and disseminates groundbreaking research in the sciences, arts and humanities. Lectures, seminars and symposia are open to all and free of charge.

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Lecture
12 May 2025
10:00 - 11:00
Thierry Coquand

Eilenberg-MacLane spaces and cohomology

Lecture
12 May 2025
10:00 - 11:00
Franck Courchamp

From ecological impacts to the economic costs of biological invasions

Guest lecturer
12 May 2025
11:00 - 12:00
Hervé Reculeau

Hydraulics and societies : water control in Mesopotamia and its social implications

Seminar
12 May 2025
11:15 - 12:15
Anne-Charlotte Vaissière

The science of invasions and economics

Lecture
12 May 2025
14:00 - 16:00
Edith Heard

Discovery of X –Chromosome Inactivation– Lyonisation

Guest lecturer
12 May 2025
14:00 - 15:00
Mark Bowick

Facets of Order

Guest lecturer
12 May 2025
17:00 - 18:00
Stephen Quake

Understanding the Mysteries of the Cell: How Do Many Cell Types Arise From One Genome?

Guest lecturer
12 May 2025
17:30 - 18:30
Liam Murphy

Legal Practice and the Responsibility of Individuals

Lecture
13 May 2025
10:00 - 11:00
Nathalie Bajos

Cardiovascular diseases: does myocardial infarction have a genus?

Seminar
13 May 2025
11:15 - 12:15
Muriel Darmon

Social plasticity and repair in brains after stroke

Lecture
13 May 2025
14:00 - 15:00
Didier Fassin

Definitions

Lecture
13 May 2025
15:15 - 16:15
Didier Fassin

Origins

Seminar
13 May 2025
16:30 - 18:00
Stéphanie Latte Abdallah

An endless prison web. Palestine/Israel

Not recorded
Guest lecturer
13 May 2025
17:00 - 18:00
Hilary Charlesworth

The International Court of Justice and its critics

Special events
13 May 2025
18:00 - 19:00
Patrick Boucheron, Louise Gentil & Salomé Tissolong

For an epistemology of inquiry into pre-industrial socio-agrosystems

Symposium
14 May 2025
Louis Fensterbank

Electronic transfer

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Lecture
14 May 2025
09:30 - 11:15
Antoine Georges

Cold fermions and quantum simulation (3)

Guest lecturer
14 May 2025
10:00 - 12:00
Cyril Letrouit

Quantitative stability of optimal transport (1)

Seminar
14 May 2025
11:30 - 12:45
Tarik Yefsah

Quantum Gas Microscopy of Fermions in the Continuum

Lecture
14 May 2025
14:00 - 15:30
Marc Henneaux

Hamiltonian formalism of Einsteinian gravitation, Dirac constraints and…

Seminar
14 May 2025
14:00 - 15:00
Shiwei Zhang

Ushering a New Era of Synergy Between Computational Quantum Physics and Cold Atoms E…

Lecture
14 May 2025
16:00 - 17:30
Marc Henneaux

Wheeler-DeWitt equation

Guest lecturer
14 May 2025
17:00 - 18:00
Hourig Sourouzian

Egyptian statuary in temples

Special events
14 May 2025
19:00 - 20:30
Éric Ruf, Antoine Lilti & Isabelle Nanty

Play: in theaters, cinemas and elsewhere

Symposium
15 May 2025
Jean-Marie Tarascon

Electrolyte materials and interfaces for the Na-ion battery, the eco-responsible little sister to the Li-ion battery

Canceled
Symposium
15 May 2025 → 16 May 2025
François Déroche

The book in the Muslim world. History and techniques

Symposium
15 May 2025
François-Marie Bréon

Geoengineering at a glance

Closing lecture
15 May 2025
17:00 - 18:30
François Héran

Faced with immigration, the scientist and the politician

Symposium
16 May 2025
Thomas Lecuit

Information Processing in Biological Systems

Lecture
16 May 2025
10:00 - 11:30
Luigi Rizzi

The atoms of the language: basic elements and operations…

Seminar
16 May 2025
11:30 - 13:00
Ian Roberts

Comparative syntax (1)

Lecture
19 May 2025
10:00 - 11:00
Thierry Coquand

Solution of the Voevodsky conjecture

Lecture
19 May 2025
10:00 - 11:00
Franck Courchamp

Skepticism and denial : the specific difficulties of biological invasions

Guest lecturer
19 May 2025
11:00 - 12:00
Hervé Reculeau

Mesopotamians and climate : the " climate paradigm " and its critics

Seminar
19 May 2025
11:15 - 12:15
Yves Meinard

Biological invasions: facts and values

Lecture
19 May 2025
14:00 - 16:00
Edith Heard

The Genetics and Epigenetics of X Inactivation and Other Examples of Monoallelic Gene Expressi…

Lecture
20 May 2025
10:00 - 11:00
Nathalie Bajos

Mental health: the gender of depression

Seminar
20 May 2025
11:15 - 12:15
Camille Lancelevée

Prison for asylum?

Guest lecturer
20 May 2025
14:00 - 15:00
Mark Bowick

Membranes - Control by Geometry in Graphene Statistical Mechanics

Lecture
20 May 2025
14:00 - 15:00
Didier Fassin

Genealogies

Lecture
20 May 2025
15:15 - 16:15
Didier Fassin

Write to

Seminar
20 May 2025
16:30 - 18:00
Fabien Truong

From terrorist violence to structural violence. An ethnographic perspective

Not recorded
Guest lecturer
20 May 2025
17:00 - 18:30
Kyle Harper

The origins of the Justinian plague: From Central Asia to the Mediterranean

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François Héran
Closing lecture
Faced with immigration, the scientist and the politician
François Héran
15 May 2025
The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France: a series of meetings
The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France
Play : in theaters, cinemas and elsewhere
Éric Ruf, Antoine Lilti & Isabelle Nanty
14 May 2025
"Pastoral landscape", painting by Giuseppe Zais
In search of an Avenir Commun Durable
For an epistemology of inquiry into pre-industrial socio-agrosystems
Patrick Boucheron, Louise Gentil & Salomé Tissolong
13 May 2025

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Visuel du Festival 2025 des passeurs de livres à Alès

The Collège de France Publishing Department at the Festival des passeurs de livres

Publications
Published on 7 May 2025

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"Pastoral landscape", painting by Giuseppe Zais

From agriculture in medieval Lombardy to environmental humanities 

Patrick Boucheron, chair History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th to 16th century
Published on 6 May 2025

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Visuel du festival toulousain d’histoire et de sciences sociales "L’Histoire à venir"

College in Toulouse

Patrick Boucheron, chair History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th to 16th century
Published on 5 May 2025

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Mireille Fournier

Doctoral seminar organized by the chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome

Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome
Published on 5 May 2025
Claude Levi-Strauss Library

Closure of the Collège de France libraries and archives during the May 2025 bridging period

Libraries and archives
Published on 30 April 2025
Bandeau décoratif en calligraphie arabe blanche sur fond bleu et or, ornée de motifs végétaux et encadrée de motifs géométriques dorés

Arabic Codicology Week in Paris, May 13-16, 2025

François Déroche, chair History of the Koran. Text and transmission
Published on 30 April 2025

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May events at Collège de France

Major dates in May 2025

Collège de France
Published on 28 April 2025

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"Collège de France : Faire connaissance" Emmanuelle Porcher

Collège de France : get to know... Emmanuelle Porcher !

Emmanuelle Porcher, chair Biodiversity and ecosystems
Published on 23 April 2025

Audios and videos

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Jean-Philippe Brantut
Ultra-Cold Fermi Gases with All-to-All Interactions
7 May 2025
Graphique : Atomes (représentés par des sphères rouges) représentés dans un potentiel de réseau optique 2D (représenté par la surface bleue)
Seminar
Antoine Georges
Cold fermions and quantum simulation (2)
7 May 2025
Graphique : Atomes (représentés par des sphères rouges) représentés dans un potentiel de réseau optique 2D (représenté par la surface bleue)
Lecture
Didier Fassin
The birth of a question
6 May 2025
tableau de Goya représentant une scène de fusillade
Lecture
Didier Fassin
Epistemology of ignorance
6 May 2025
tableau de Goya représentant une scène de fusillade
Lecture
Jérémy Ward
Covid-19: Social inequalities and vaccine decisions in the context of controversy
6 May 2025
Seminar
Nathalie Bajos
Covid-19: the social logic of prevention
6 May 2025
Lecture
Marc Bocquet
Artificial intelligence for geophysical data assimilation
5 May 2025
Special events
Claire Monteleoni
Confronting climate change with generative and self-supervised machine learning
5 May 2025
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