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Salikoko S. Mufwene, invited to occupy the annual Francophone Worlds Chair , will deliver his opening lecture on March 28  2024. This chair is created in partnership with the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie. Documents and media Download the press …

From April 25 to July 12 2024, the exhibition " À bras-le-corps ! Savants et instruments au Collège de France au XIXe    " focuses on the great figures of researchers and professors at the Collège de France, whose pioneering work explored the human and …

To mark International Women's Rights Day, the Collège de France has released a video recording from its archives of Françoise Héritier's opening lecture, delivered on February 25 1983. The second woman to be appointed professor at the Collège de France, …

The Molecules, Interactions, Materials (MIM) group is recruiting a PhD student to work on the synthesis of a family of hybrid POMs based on vacant polyoxomolybdates, transition metal ions and photosensitive ligands, and to study their photocatalytic …

Denis Duboule The times of the embryo At the intersection of evolutionary biology, developmental biology, embryogenesis, genetics and genomics, this opening lecture examines the different temporalities of the embryo. It also discusses recent technological …

Mathilde Touvier The role of nutrition in chronic disease prevention. A public health issue Over the course of a lifetime, we ingest around 30   tonnes of food and 50   000   liters of beverages. Epidemiological, experimental and clinical studies …

Anticipation under the Human Right to Science Publication of the proceedings of the symposium held at the Brocher Foundation in December 2022. Besson S. (guest editor), Perruso C. (assistant editor), "Anticipation under the Human Right to Science", in The …

The City of Paris library network, in partnership with the Collège de France, invites you to a new event focusing on the major intellectual and scientific issues of our time at the Marguerite Duras media library ( 20th arrondissement). The "   Collège de …

You can now find all Collège de France podcasts on the Radio France app, as part of the partnership between the two institutions. More than 150 podcast streams are available, organized by professor and chair, and enriched as new episodes are produced. …

Interview with Salikoko S. Mufwene Salikoko S. Mufwene is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago, and Professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the same university . He …

When we think of the brain, we immediately think of neurons... But have you ever heard of astrocytes  ? Or microglia  ? The brain is teeming with hundreds of billions of other cells, called   glial cells   , which support and participate in neuronal …

Do you use the Collège de France's digital resources ? Take part in our online survey from February 21 to June 30 2024 ! The teachers and staff at Collège de France are keen to find out more about your use of the digital services offered by the Collège de …

Louis Fensterbank, holder of the Activations in Molecular Chemistry Chair , will give his opening lecture on March 7    2024. Documents and media Download the press release Read his interview "The green chemistry project is vast and …

At the Collège de France, lectures are open to all, with no conditions of access or prior registration, subject to availability. Opening lectures Louis Fensterbank - Activations in Molecular Chemistry, an introduction March 7 2024 at 6 pm at Collège de …

National Cancer Institute Director Harold E. Varmus / Matthew Septimus (Photographer). Harold Elliot Varmus is an American oncologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1989 for his discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. A …

Interview with Louis Fensterbank As a specialist in molecular chemistry, Louis Fensterbank is working to develop new synthesis methods that are in line with the greening of his discipline, in the face of the challenges of sustainable development and the …

Phượng Bùi Trân Women in the history of Vietnam. A historian's view As in the rest of the world, including the West, the cultural and social history of Việt Nam is not exempt from masculine writing. Despite the age-old persistence of the myth of the …

Edith Heard Epigenetics and Cellular Memory How is the information contained in our genes read, memorized and interpreted? What mechanisms control gene expression in an individual or across generations? The understanding of these mechanisms is crucial to …

Laurence Boisson de Chazournes Water in International Law: Between Singularity and Plurality Essential to human life and activity, freshwater is increasingly becoming a concern of international law. Its regulation, initially focused on rivers shared by …

Juliette Mathieu is a research associate at the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en biologie (CIRB), studying the final stage of cell division in Drosophila. In 2023, she was awarded the "  Les grandes avancées françaises en biologie  " prize by the …

The Collège de France has just published its new institutional brochure, presenting the establishment, its major missions and its organization. Today, the Collège de France is : 50 chairs in mathematical, physical and natural sciences, and in the …

Stéphanie Lacour, invited to hold the annual Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Chair , will give her opening lecture on February 29   2024. This chair is supported by the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation. Documents and media Download the press …

François-Xavier Fauvelle Lecciones de la historia africana Si nunca está de más señalar que las sociedades africanas están constituidas por el mismo tejido histórico que todas las demás sociedades, el pasado de África ha permanecido desconocido durante …