Luis Liz-Marzán : Interactions of Light with Gold (and Other Metals) (4 lectures)
Third and fourth lectures in the series on June1 and 7 2022, from 11 h to 12 h 30 at the Collège de France (salle 2).
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Key dates in June 2022
Lectures at the Collège de France are open to the general public, with no conditions of access or prior registration, subject to availability and health regulations.
Guest speakers
Jörg Stolz : Secularization : European exception or global process ? (4 lectures)
June1, 15, 22 and 27 2022 from 2 pm to 3 pm at the Collège de France (salle 5).
Jörg Stolz is Professor of Sociology of Religion at the University of Lausanne. He is interested in social game theory, religious/secular competition theory and mixed methods. His themes are secularization, local religious groups, evangelicals and social representations of religion.
Eric Lauga : Hydrodynamics of cellular motion (4 lectures)
Second, third and fourth lectures in the series on June1, 15 and 17 2022, from 5 pm to 6 pm at the Collège de France (room 5).
David Ownby: China's rise to power and the response of Chinese public intellectuals (4 lectures)
June 7, 14, 21 and 28 from 17 h to 18 h at the Collège de France (room 2).
Jens Schröter : Why Did Christians Part From Judaism? A Fresh Look on the Relationship of Jews and Christians in the First Two Centuries CE? ( 1 lecture)
June 8 2022 from 17 h to 18 h at Collège de France (salle 2).
Minoru Inaba: The History of the Turkshāhs of Kabul (1 lecture)
June 22 2022 from 17 h to 18 h at the Collège de France (salle 2).
Colloques
Antoine Georges : Strange Metals, SYK Models and Beyond
This mini-workshop will focus on the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models and their generalizations, especially in connection to the physics of "strange metals" without quasiparticle excitations. Related topics will also be represented, such as the quantum dynamics of these systems, connections to quantum gravity through holography and the phenomenology and theory of transport in quantum materials.
June 2-3 2022 at Collège de France
François Déroche : Current research on Koranic manuscripts
The Koran, ipsissima verba of God for Muslims, is a text that continues to be memorized, written down (in some parts of the world) and recited. In the early days of Islam, the Qur'anic text was transmitted orally. Although the very origins of the written record, probably during Muhammad's lifetime, escape us, manuscript transmission can look back on a long history that began in the second half of the 7thcentury .
June 2 and 3 2022 at the Collège de France.
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud : More is Different
In 1972, the future Nobel Prize winner in physics Philip Anderson published an article in Science entitled "More is Different", in which he set out the concept of emergence in a remarkably clear manner: the behavior of assemblies of interacting particles cannot be understood as a simple extrapolation of the behavior of isolated particles. On the contrary, original and surprising behaviors can emerge, and understanding them requires specific concepts and new tools. The whole is not greater than the sum of its parts, it is different.
June 2 and 3 2022 at the Collège de France.
Alberto Manguel : Europa : myth as metaphor
What we call " Europe " has a fluid, inconstant identity. The Greek myth that attributes the creation of the continent to an African or Asian princess abducted by god Zeus in the form of a bull gives the European continent a troubling prehistory of " involuntary dislocation ". From this mythical foundation, Europe acquires one or more identities. To conclude our lecture, we have invited six cultural figures to a colloquium to discuss these notions of European identity.
June 7 2022 at the Collège de France.
Christian Gollier : Efficient Climate Policies in an Uncertain World
June 8 2022 at Collège de France.
Claudine Tiercelin : The metaphysics of induction
Since its formulation by Hume in his Treatise on Human Nature, the problem of induction has been at the crossroads of metaphysics and epistemology. On the epistemological level, it consists in finding a justification for inductive inferences: how can nomological and general hypotheses, which relate to unobserved facts, be legitimized on the basis of a finite number of experimental facts? On the metaphysical level, the problem is to demonstrate a principle capable of underpinning all our inductions.
June 8 2022 at the Maison de la Recherche and June 9 2022 at the Collège de France.
Tatiana Giraud : Evolution of Sex Chromosomes and Supergenes
June 9 and 10 2022 at Collège de France.
Edouard Bard : Variations of the Global Overturning Circulation of the Ocean
The aim of the colloquium is to provide an inventory of knowledge on the Global Overturning Circulation (GOC) of the ocean for the past, present and future. Its Atlantic component (AMOC: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) may be already affected by the present climate change, a notable feature of which is the "warming hole" observed in recent surface temperature of the North Atlantic.
June 10 2022 at the Collège de France.
Thomas Lecuit and Jean-François Joanny : Individual and collective cellular motility
June 13 and 14 2022 at the Collège de France.
Philippe Aghion : Conference in Honor of Emmanuel Farhi
June 13 and 14 2022 at Collège de France.
Denis Duboule : The construction of mammalian embryos in vitro
In recent years, significant progress has been made in the production and culture of mammalian embryos ex utero, in in vitro culture systems. In particular, it is now possible to obtain early embryos exclusively from stem cell cultures (i.e. without prior fertilization), and to maintain embryos in culture for considerable periods of time.
June 15 2022 at the Collège de France.
Rémy Slama : Climate Change, Biodiversity, Human Health and Societies: Threats, opportunities and research needs
The lecture will be followed by an international, multidisciplinary symposium on the theme of demonstrated and suspected links between climate change, biodiversity and human health, as well as research needs concerning the effects of climate change, strategies for adapting to it and combating climate change.
June 16 and 17 2022 at the Collège de France.
Jean-Jacques Hublin : Images of fossil man
From the outset, research into human evolution and prehistory has served a dual function. On the one hand, it has developed as a new scientific discipline, at the frontier between biology and the humanities. On the other, they provided the substance, in the West at least, for a new account of origins that could replace the one the Bible had delivered for centuries.
June 17 2022 at the Collège de France.
Anne Cheng and Henry Laurens : Political violence as seen by historians of the Middle and Far East (continued)
In June 2019, an international symposium entitled " Historians of Asia on political violence " was held at the Collège de France. It brought together eminent historians from India, Japan, Vietnam and China, who addressed and discussed various aspects and emblematic events of political violence in these Asian countries. We thought it would be interesting and desirable to extend these discussions to the so-called " Middle East ".
June 23 2022 at the Collège de France.
Samantha Besson : Consenting to International Law
To illustrate the point of this year's lecture and the difficulties of the public/private distinction in international law, this year's colloquium will focus on consent to international law. Certain representations of the role of consent in international law are in fact the fruit of analogies between relations between States (and then between international organizations, through the interplay of other analogies with what applies between States) and relations (of a contractual or promissory nature, in particular) between private individuals and institutions.
June 23 and 24 2022 at the Collège de France.
Philippe Descola : Nature as historical experience
Historical events are always intimately linked to their natural conditions. The colloquium aims to shed light on the specifically historical contribution to our knowledge of nature.
June 28 2022 at the Collège de France.
Xavier Leroy : Probabilistic Programming
Probabilistic programming provides powerful tools for statistical modeling. This symposium will bring together researchers in programming languages, statistics and learning to discuss recent advances and applications in probabilistic programming.
June 29 and 30 at the Collège de France.
