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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 …

Luigi Rizzi Complexity of Linguistic Structures, Simplicity of Language Mechanisms For over sixty years, researchers from across the world have been collaborating in a vast endeavour within what is known as "generative linguistics", to describe human …

Philippe Sansonetti Microbes sans frontières This book is a unique compendium of knowledge on microbes. It provides an insight into public health, the world of microbes and the complex relationships that play out at their interface in times of extreme …

Alain Supiot A Justiça no Trabalho. Algumas lições da História A justiça social, que remonta às reformas realizadas por Sólon (legislador e poeta grego do século v a. C.), organiza a sociedade segundo o princípio de equidade entre ricos e pobres. Nesta …

Interview with Stéphanie Lacour Stéphanie Lacour is a specialist in neurotechnologies and heads the Neuro-X interdisciplinary institute at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Trained as an engineer, she conceives a science based …

The Library of Indian and Central Asian Studies holds a statue depicting the birth of the Buddha, donated in 1929 by the Mahârâja and Prime Minister of Nepal Chandra Jang Bahadur Shumsher. Made of gilded bronze, inlaid with semi-precious stones and …

Stone tools from the Ranis LRJ 1) Jerzmanowice point, characteristic of the LRJ; 2) Large, spectacular bifacial points have also been discovered at Ranis. The arrival of Homo sapiens in the cold northern latitudes took place several thousand years before …

The Collège de France 2024 Prize will be awarded in the natural sciences, chemistry, physics, mathematics and computer sciences . The theme of the year's prize 2024 is : "   Water on our planet   ". The habitable conditions of our planet depend to a large …

At the Collège de France, lectures are open to all, with no conditions of access or prior registration, subject to availability. Opening lectures Kyle Harper - Climate change and social dynamics : historical perspectives on the great challenge February 1 …

Kyle Harper, invited to occupy the annual Avenir Commun Durable chair , will deliver his opening lecture on February 1  2024. This chair is supported by the Fondation du Collège de France and its major sponsors, the Covéa Foundation and TotalEnergies. …

On February 6 2024, Prof. Dr. Thomas Römer, Administrator of the Collège de France, inaugurated the new Institut des Civilisations du Collège de France, in the presence of Mrs.  Sylvie Retailleau, Minister of Higher Education and Research. Find out more …

On the occasion of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games 2024, the Collège de France, in partnership with France Culture, is organizing a major series of roundtable discussions to accompany the arrival of the Games. Seven dialogues between science and …

Today, mathematics is the focus of attention in education and research, in technological innovation and in economic competition. More and more research is revealing the penalties inflicted on societies where the handling of mathematical knowledge and …

Interview with Kyle Harper Kyle Harper is a historian. He is interested in the complex relationship between humans and nature over the centuries. Initially a specialist in the Roman Empire, his latest work focuses on the history of climate change and …

Vincent Van Gogh, "Wheat field under a stormy sky", early July 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)). On the occasion of the exhibition "   Van Gogh à Auvers-sur-Oise   " presented from 3   october 2023 to …

The Collège de France, with the Royal Society, will bring together on January 24 and 25 eminent scientists dedicated to promoting scientific excellence in the service of humanity, as well as representatives of government, industry and civil society …

Pierre-Michel Menger, Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France, was elected on November 27 2023 afternoon as a full member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. He joins chair no. 1 of the Moral and Sociology Section, vacated by the …

Alessandro Morbidelli, Chair  Planetary Formation: from Earth to Exoplanets , will give his opening lecture on January 25 2024. Documents and media Download the press release Read his interview "Observing exoplanets debanalizes our Solar …

Organized by Odile Chatirichvili of Prof. Menger's Sociology of Creative Work Chair , Laurence Dahan-Gaida and Cindy Gervolino of CRIT (Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et Transculturelles), the " Les mathématiques à l'œuvre " symposium, held over …