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From human rights to humanitarian action, from truth and reconciliation commissions to international conventions on refugees, from the integrity of governments to the regulation of finance, from the recognition of gender relations to the legitimization of …

The Enlightenment is at once a historical moment, a philosophical ideal and an intellectual legacy. This polysemy is what makes them so complex and interesting. As a period, they correspond to a long eighteenth   century, marked by profound …

Denis Duboule's scientific contributions concern the molecular genetics of vertebrate development, with interfaces in medical genetics, evolutionary biology and transcription regulation. Since 1985, he has published several discoveries linked to the …

The Mondes francophones annual chair was created in partnership with the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie. Vietnamese women : Powers, cultures and plural identities As a witness to the contemporary history of Việt Nam and a historian, I invite you …

Created in partnership with the national agency Santé publique France, the annual Public Health Chair is designed to encourage excellence in research and intellectual debate at the highest level on public health issues. Environment and Health in the …

The annual Biodiversity and Ecosystems Chair is supported by the Jean-François and Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Foundation. Biodiversity dynamics and evolution : species formation, domestication and adaptation Today's threats to biodiversity are …

The  Paleoanthropology Chair , created in 2021, follows on from those offered by Jean-Jacques Hublin, since 2014, as part of a guest chair and then an international chair at the Collège de France. They take a resolutely bio-cultural perspective and …

The annual L'invention de l'Europe par les langues et les cultures chair was created in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture (Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de …

Created in partnership with Inria, the Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Annual Chair reflects a shared determination to highlight the importance of this scientific discipline, and the need to give it its rightful …

The annual Liliane Bettencourt Chair in Technological Innovation , created in 2006, marks the joint determination of the Collège de France and the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation to highlight the importance of work devoted to technological …

The annual Avenir Commun Durable chair is supported by the Fondation du Collège de France and its major sponsors the Covéa Foundation and TotalEnergies. End of the month and end of the world : How to reconcile economy and ecology ? While there is a strong …

The nervous and immune systems govern the interactions between living organisms and the world around them  : they regulate the various aspects of these interactions, from sensory perception to the response to viral infections, right through to the …

The Biodiversity and Ecosystems Annual Chair is supported by the Jean-François and Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Foundation. …

Combinatorics is a somewhat paradoxical area of mathematics, being both simple and complex, poor and rich, easy and difficult, pure and applied. To be more precise, there are problems that are simple to state, but have complex solutions ; we use weak …

Created in partnership with Inria, the Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Annual Chair is the fruit of a shared desire to highlight the importance of this scientific discipline and the need to give it its rightful …

Lectures and seminars at   General Linguistics focus on theoretical models of language, as well as on the comparative analysis of linguistic structures. Following a long tradition of studies in General Linguistics, the current research presented in the …

"   Symmetry is one of the thematic melodies of twentieth-century physics    " It is in these colorful terms that Nobel Prize-winning physicist C.N. Yang highlights the invasion of modern physics by ideas of symmetry, which have played an essential …

Since 2019, Lluis Quintana-Murci has held the   Chair in Human Genomics and Evolution. His research focuses on the study of human genome diversity, both from a fundamental perspective and as applied to the understanding of certain pathologies. His work …

Created in partnership with Inria, the Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Annual Chair reflects a shared determination to highlight the importance of this scientific discipline, and the need to give it its rightful …

Automorphic forms were discovered at the beginning of the 20th  century by Henri Poincaré as a non-commutative generalization of periodic functions. Modular forms, which are special cases, were intensively studied in Germany before and after Poincaré's …

Literature is a universal fact, worldwide in scope and transhistorical in scope, albeit in extremely diverse forms  : the study of its variations is the object of this Chair, in line with the comparative literature lectures that appeared in Europe and …

Created in partnership with the national agency Santé publique France, the Public Health Annual Chair is designed to encourage excellence in research and intellectual debate at the highest level on public health …

The formidable diversity of African societies is nothing other than historical. The variety of languages spoken across the continent, the proximity of multiple systems of political organization, types of economy, religious forms, techniques and arts tell …

Created in 2019, the   International Law of Institutions Chair continues a long tradition of teaching and research in international law at the Collège de France. The new Chair is both more specific in its focus on the institutional dimension of …