Key dates in April 2025

In search of a Sustainable Common Future

A lecture series organized as part of the Avenir Commun Durable initiative , in the form of a round-table discussion moderated by a journalist and featuring researchers from projects supported by the initiative.

In keeping with the values of the Collège de France, Avenir Commun Durable aims to contribute to public debate by providing reliable information and data, based on rigorous and demanding research. Since its launch, the initiative has already supported five ambitious research projects in the humanities, social sciences and experimental sciences.
The aim of these roundtables is to give everyone a better understanding of the ambitions, approaches and expectations shaping this research.

"Green innovation and energy transition: the role of economic and social players" 
Conference on April 1, 2025 from 6pm to 7pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Maurice Halbwachs amphitheater).

Agir pour l'éducation - Reenchanting maths at school

A series of conferences on mathematicsorganized by Stanislas Dehaene, Stéphane Mallat and Pierre-Michel Menger as part of the Acting for education initiative .

Notoriously difficult, but also a source of beauty, mystery and enthusiasm, mathematics is losing interest among many students. What's even more worrying is that, over the past thirty years, surveys have shown a steady decline in student performance, particularly in numeracy and problem-solving, which, according to the TIMSS survey, now places France at the bottom of the European league table.

"What changes in the brain when learning mathematics?" by Marie Amalric
Conference on April 2, 2025 from 5:30 to 7pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater) and live on the Collège de France Foundation channel.

The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France

The Collège de France and the Comédie-Française are organizing a series of seven meetings during which professors and actors will discuss the science of theater, what it means to act, to direct, to say verse and prose, to embody life and society, to take to the stage to speak of the world and to the world.

"Actors and actresses, roles and jobs" by Éric Ruf, Pierre-Michel Menger & Béline Dolat
Conference on April 9, 2025 from 7pm to 8:30pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater).

"New challenges for metaphysics" - Claudine Tiercelin

April 9, 2025 from 4pm to 5:30pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Mireille Delmas-Marty amphitheater).

"On maximal hypoellipticity and sub-Riemannian geometry" - Omar Mohsen

Cycle of lectures organized as part of the Cours Peccot. Since 1885, thanks to an endowment from the family of mathematician Claude-Antoine Peccot, the Collège de France has awarded annual prizes to young mathematicians under the age of 30, who are invited to give a series of lectures at the Collège de France.

April 3, 2025 from 10am to 12pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Mireille Delmas-Marty amphitheater).

"Towards a new history of the Enlightenment" - David Bell

April 7, 2025 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin-Berthelot site, Maurice Halbwachs amphitheater).

"For a florescidade and a florestania: inhabiting the Earth in the Anthropocene" - Ailton Krenak

April 29, 2025 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm at Collège de France (Marcelin-Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater).