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Identifying human fossils by their proteins ! Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, a doctoral student at the Collège de France, is working on this project. Your thesis focuses on protein-based methods for identifying ancient human fossils. What are the links between …

Colloquium organized by Professor François Recanati, on October 12 and 13   2023 in Salle 2 of the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site). Frontispiece to Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (1651). The Social World: Foundational Issues This colloquium is a …

For the eighth consecutive year, the young researchers of the Collège de France, grouped together in the ChADoC (chercheurs associés et doctorants du Collège de France) open the doors of the Marcelin-Berthelot site of the Collège de France to celebrate …

Sibyle Veil, President and CEO of Radio France, and Thomas Römer, Director and President of the Collège de France Assembly, signed a new agreement on September 21 2023 to extend free access to lectures at the Collège de France to all. In an age of …

Ten new professors will be inaugurating their professorships (statutory or annual) in the   2023-2024 academic year. Discover them below, listed chronologically, according to the date of their opening lecture. Find out more Download the press release …

On September 22 1822, Jean-François Champollion, in a state of extreme excitement, completed his famous Lettre à M. Dacier, secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres. In it, he explains how he unlocked the mystery of …

Interview with Sonia Garel Sonia Garel is a neurobiologist. Her work focuses on the interactions between the immune system and neural circuits, in a disciplinary field that has been booming in recent years, at the interface between neuroscience and …

At the Collège de France, lectures are open to all, with no conditions of access or prior registration, subject to availability. Big event Opening symposium : Learning and teaching, from prehistory to tomorrow The invention of education The mechanisms of …

As part of its Avenir Commun Durable program, the Collège de France, in partnership with the Université Clermont-Auvergne and on its campus, is organizing a meeting with several professors on October 6 2023, as part of the university's official opening …

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 …

The Nuclear Organization and Post-Translational Control in Pathophysiology team , headed by Pr Hugues de Thé and Dr Valérie Lallemand-Breitenbach, based at Collège de France (CIRB) and Hôpital Saint-Louis, studies the biology of PML nuclear bodies. These …

The Collège de France is not only a multi-disciplinary venue for lectures, but also a major player in French research, with more than twenty laboratories and numerous research teams affiliated to it. As part of its mission, the Collège de France is …

The Collège de France's 2023 prize for young researchers has been awarded to Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy , Senior Lecturer at EHESS, where he holds the chair   Pour une histoire institutionnelle de l'Empire moghol  : Droit, pouvoir et économie politique en …

On September 28 2023, the " Workshop Ergaleion 3 : D'un sens à l'autre Polysémie et emprunts dans le lexique de la vie matérielle en Égypte " will be held at the Institut des civilisations of the Collège de France, organized by Jean-Luc Fournet (Collège …

Didier Fassin On the Inequality of Lives There is, on the one hand, life that flows from a beginning to an end, and, on the other hand, life that constitutes human singularity because it can be recounted. We may term them "biological life" and …

On September 22, 2023, chemists Profs Marc Fontecave and Jean-Marie Tarascon will take part in the second edition of the " Sur les Épaules des Géants " festival. The Collège de France is a founding partner of this festival, dedicated to the sciences. It …

Interview with Luigi Rizzi Luigi Rizzi is a linguist. His work focuses on the invariance and variation of natural languages, the mapping of syntactic structures, and the mechanisms of language acquisition. Since 2020, Luigi Rizzi has held the General …

Interview with Thomas Lecuit Thomas Lecuit is a biologist. He is interested in the notion of biological information and morphogenesis, i.e. the processes that govern the development of living structures. His work, like his lectures, is a fertile ground of …

Investigate the Collège de France and collect the clues you need to find the mystery word. Can you decipher the messages in invisible ink and be observant enough to solve the riddles ? The Collège de France is offering you a treasure hunt to discover this …

After seven years of closure for renovations, the Institut des Civilisations du Collège de France, located at 52, rue du Cardinal-Lemoine, will reopen to researchers and specialists on September 1st   2023. Covering more than 7 000 square meters, the …

David Ownby The rise of China and Chinese public intellectuals A panorama of intellectual life in contemporary China, through a unique historical approach. Coupled with the relative decline of the West from 2008 onwards, China's rise as a result of the …

A selection of lectures and courses will take you on a journey through the many meanings of the word landscape. It provides examples of the special relationship that sometimes develops between an individual and a place, the way in which a landscape …

The Human Evolutionary Genetics unit at the Institut Pasteur, headed by Prof.   Lluis Quintana-Murci , is interested in differences between populations in the face of infections. These differences may be due to the environment or to distinct histories …

The administrator, the faculty assembly and the entire Collège de France community are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Jean-Louis Cohen, architect and historian, visiting professor at the international Architecture and Urban Form chair …