Inaugural Lecture by Philippe DESCOLA

>To mark the start of the new academic year at the School of Research, Thursday 25 August 2022 , Philippe DESCOLA will give the school’s inaugural lecture on the theme of “Worlds to Come”.

DESCOLA is a Professor of the Anthropology of Nature at the Collège de France and the director of the Social Anthropology Laboratory (ENS/EHESS). He studied philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud and ethnology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (6th section), where he defended a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Claude Lévi-Strauss.

After several years spent conducting ethnographic research in the Amazon, he was appointed as a lecturer and then as director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He holds the Chair of the Anthropology of Nature at the Collège de France and is director of the Social Anthropology Laboratory (ENS/EHESS).

The inaugural lecture will be held in French with English translation and will be followed by a questions and answers session.

Watch the replay - (in French - English translation coming soon)