2025-26 Faire collection Seminar

Photo:  Michèle Chabert at the EPHE - PSL's pharmacology and cell biology laboratory,
Cordeliers Research Center: a lost collection of instruments © Collection Michèle Chabert, EPHE-PSL, 2018

This seminar is organised into three half-days (2pm-5pm) during the 2025-2026 academic year.

Each session will be organised in three parts: a lecture; a review of ongoing research funded by the Faire Collection Major research Program; and a group discussion on a thesis that cuts across our research.

  • Opening session: Friday, November 28, 2025

Stéphane Verger (EPHE - PSL), Archaeology between collections and contexts
Alice Lebreton (ENS - PSL), Living collections and research at the ENS Institute of Biology

The session will continue with a roundtable discussion of the team members' projects, with a view to identifying common areas of research and opening up opportunities for collaboration.

Location: Salle Lettres 1 (2nd floor, CD corridor), ENS-PSL, 45 rue d'Ulm, Paris 5th. Free admission, no registration required

  • Session 2: Friday, March 27, 2026

Bruno Strasser (University of Geneva): Collecting experiment
Léa Saint-Raymond (PSL University), Alain Arrault, Valérie Gillet, Katia Juhel, Sovannara Mey (EFEO): The EFEO, cultural mediator for South, Southeast, and East Asia

Location to be determined

  • Session 3: Friday, June 12, 2026

Valérie Kobi (University of Neuchâtel), Alice Thomine-Berrada (Beaux-Arts de Paris), Émilie d’Orgeix (EPHE - PSL)

Location to be confirmed