The 2018-2019 calendar of lectures is now online.
You can now consult the public lectures program by browsing theCollège de France agenda.
For this new academic year, Collège de France will be welcoming three new professors and six new visiting professors.
A former doctoral student at the Collège de France alongside Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Jean-François Joanny was professor at the Université Louis Pasteur and deputy director of the Charles Sadron Institute in Strasbourg, then after 2003, professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and director of the Institut Curie Physics Laboratory. In 2014, he became Director of the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris.
The newly created Soft Matter and Biophysics chair will be awarded to him from the start of the 2018 academic year.
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Xavier Leroy is a computer scientist specializing in programming languages and software safety and security. He is best known for co-developing the OCaml language, one of the two most widely used typed functional languages in research and industry alongside Haskell, and the CompCert C compiler, the first realistic compiler to be formally verified.
Xavier Leroy has been appointed holder of the new Software Science chair from the start of the 2018 academic year.
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A specialist in Roman law, offering a legal, philological and historical approach to Antiquity and its modern reception, Dario Mantovani founded the CEDANT (Centre des études et de la recherche sur les droits antiques, Pavia), training young researchers at European level, and directs an interdisciplinary ERC on legal thought in Late Antiquity. A foreign correspondent at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, he will take up the new chair of Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome at the start of the 2018 academic year.
Born in Paris in 1961, Arnaud Fontanet has been Head of the Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit at the Institut Pasteur since 2001, where he has also been Director of the Center for Global Health since 2014 and Professor since 2015. In 2011, he was appointed head of the Health and Development Chair at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers in Paris.
In 2018-2019, Arnaud Fontanet will be giving lectures on epidemiology and pandemics as part of the annual Santé publique chair.
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A specialist in algorithms and artificial intelligence, Rachid Guerraoui has worked at Silicon Valley and MIT in Boston. He now teaches at the Computer Science and Communication Systems Faculty of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he is also Director of the Distributed Algorithms Laboratory.
He has been awarded the annual Computer Sciences and Digital Sciences Chair for the 2018/2019 academic year, and his lecture will focus on distributed algorithms.
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A leading figure in Haitian literature, Yanick Lahens has written novels, short stories and critical works relating to Haitian literature and society. After teaching literature at the State University of Haiti, she joined the cabinet of the Haitian Minister of Culture Raoul Peck between 1996 and 1997, then directed the Slave Route project. For the past ten years, she has devoted herself to writing, leading literary seminars and assisting youth associations with cultural initiatives.
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Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Systems Biology at Columbia University, Molly Przeworski has established herself in the research world as a specialist in genetics. Since 2015, she has also served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics at Oxford University and on the Scientific Steering Committee of the New York Genome Center.
Molly Przeworski will occupy the annual Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Chair to hold a lecture on population genetics in vertebrates.
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Professor of Economics at London Business School, Lucrezia Reichlin co-founded and chairs Now-Casting Economics limited, an online service providing subscribers with international economic forecasts. She was also a member of the Scientific Council of the Bruegel think tank from 2013 to 2016, and a member of the Commission économique de la Nation from 2014 to 2016, a committee of experts attached to the French Ministry of Economy and Finance.
Lucrezia Reichlin's lectures will focus on the European Central Bank and the euro crisis as part of the annual European Chair.
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Amos Gitaï was born in 1950 in Haifa, Israel. He is one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, whose powerful and multifaceted oeuvre spans a career spanning more than 40 years, with a dense output of nearly 90 films - fiction and documentary, feature-length and short - as well as theatrical performances and installations, combining a wide variety of forms and media.
During his lectures, the filmmaker will use images to examine the formal and thematic issues that his cinematographic work seeks to address, both from an ethical, political and artistic point of view
