Created in 1992 to host, for one academic year, leading scientists from Eastern European countries and other continents, this chair has held :
- Bronislaw Geremek, Professor at the Warsaw Academy of Sciences: "Social History: Exclusion and Solidarity" (1992-1993)
- Zhang Guangda, Professor at Peking University : "China and the civilizations of Central Asia from the 7thto the 11thcenturies " (1993-1994)
- Orest Ranum, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore : "La France des années 1650; histoire et historiographie" (1994-1995)
- Harris Memel-Fotê, professor at the University of Abidjan : "L'esclavage lignager africain et l'anthropologie des droits de l'Homme" (1995-1996)
- Igor Mel'čuk, professor at the University of Montreal : "Linguistics "Sense-Text"" (1996-1997)
- Brian Stock, professor at the University of Toronto : "Self-knowledge and autobiographical literature in the Middle Ages" (1997-1998)
- Patrice Higonnet, Professor, Harvard University : "Mythes de Paris, des Lumières au surréalismes" (1998-1999)
- James Watson Cronin, professor at the University of Chicago : "Development of particle physics and large-scale experiments" (1999-2000)
- Miklós Szabó, Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest : "History of the Danube Celts and their Romanization" (2000-2001)
- Paul Farmer, Professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston : "Structural violence and the materiality of the social" (2001-2002)
- Stuart Edelstein, Professor at the University of Geneva : "Mechanisms of signal transduction in biology" (2002-2003)
- Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, Professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Pune (India) : "Cosmology: Theory and observations" (2003-2004)
- A.M. Celâl Şengör, Professor at Istanbul Technical University : "The history of tectonics from the earliest times to the appearance of plate tectonics: an epistemological study" (2004-2005)
- Thomas Pavel: "How to listen to literature" (2005-2006)
- Daniele Vitali: "The Celts of Italy" (2006-2007)
- Pierre Magistretti: "Glial cells, neuroenergetics and neuropsychiatric diseases" (2007-2008)
