Five public lectures were given on the occasion of the exhibition "Le papyrus dans tous ses États, de Cléopâtre à Clovis" at the Collège de France from September 18, 2021 to October 26, 2021:
- Tuesday, September 21, 5 p.m. - 6 p.m.: Jean-Luc Fournet (Collège de France), "Les papyrus, une fenêtre ouverte sur l'Antiquité".
- Tuesday, September 28, 5 pm - 6 pm: Valérie Schram (CNRS), " On the Nile rises a branchless forest... From green marshes to white leaves: papyrus in all its states".
- Tuesday, October 5, 5 pm - 6 pm: Daniel Delattre (CNRS), "Discovering the Villa of the Pisons and the mysterious charred library of Herculaneum: Herculaneum Papyri from Paris".
- Tuesday, October 12, 5 pm - 6 pm: Laurent Morelle (EPHE), "Une royauté par éclats et lambeaux : les papyrus mérovingiens des Archives nationales".
- Tuesday, October 26, 5 pm - 6 pm: Julien Auber de Lapierre (Collège de France), "La collection de papyrus grecs et coptes de la Bibliothèque nationale de France : deux siècles d'histoire".