Appointed professor to the Chair in Anthropology of Nature at the Collège de France in 2000, Philippe Descola also began directing the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale (Laboratory of Social Anthropology) (UMR 7130), a joint project between the Collège de France, the EHESS, and the CNRS, while still continuing as director of studies at the EHESS. He has repeatedly been invited as guest professor by the Universities of Göteborg, São Paulo, Vienna, Rio de Janeiro, Chicago, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Louvain, Beijing, Montreal, Saint Petersburg, Uppsala and the London School of Economics. He also served as a fellow at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung in Munich from 2007 to 2008. He has given lectures in over forty universities and academic institutions abroad, including the Beatrice Blackwood Lecture at Oxford, the George Lurcy Lecture at Chicago, the Munro Lecture at Edinburgh, the Radcliffe-Brown Lecture at the British Academy, the Clifford Geertz Memorial Lecture at Princeton, the Jensen Lecture at Frankfurt and the Victor Goldschmidt Lecture at Heidelberg. He has chaired the Société des Américanistes since 2002 and the scientific committee of the Fondation Fyssen from 2001 to 2009, as well as holding memberships in many other scientific committees.