ACTIVITIES AT THE MAISON FRANÇAISE D’OXFORD
PROGRAMME MICHAELMAS TERM 2011
The following events will take place at the Maison Française, unless otherwise indicated. Email: reception@mfo.ac.uk. Lectures and conferences with English titles will be in English.
SINGLE LECTURES
Jon Whiteley, Curator of the exhibition “Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape”, Ashmolean Museum, will deliver the following lecture at 5.15 p.m. on Tuesday, 4 Oct. Convener and Chair: Luc Borot, MFO.
Subject: “The Frenchness of Claude Lorrain”
Gisèle Sapiro, Director of Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique, EHESS, will deliver the following lecture at 5.15 p.m. on Wednesday, 12 Oct. Convener and Chair: Michael Sheringham
Subject: “Authorship and Responsibility: Literary Trials and the Ethics of Writing, France, 19th to 21st Centuries”
Gisèle Sapiro, Director of Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique, EHESS, will deliver the following seminar at 2.00 p.m. on Thursday, 13 Oct. Convener and Chair: Michael Sheringham
Subject: “The Circulation of Literary Works between Cultures: Social Conditions and Obstacles”
Gérard Lahouati, Université de Pau, will deliver the following lecture at 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday, 18 Oct., followed by a round table. Conveners: Nathalie Ferrand and Nicholas Cronk
Subject: “Le long travail: Casanova autographe”
Thomas Römer, Collège de France, will deliver the following lecture at 5.15 p.m. on Friday, 21 Oct.
Subject: “Abraham’s Righteousness and Sacrifice. How to Understand and Translate Genesis 15 and 22”
Jean-Benoît Puech, Université d’Orléans, will deliver the following lecture at 5.15 p.m. on Wednesday, 26 Oct.
Convener and Chair: Michael Sheringham
Subject: “Benjamin Jordane: De la supposition d’auteur à l’autobiographie”
Jean-Benoît Puech, Université d’Orléans, will deliver the following lecture at 5.15 p.m. on Friday, 28 Oct. Convener and Chair: Michael Sheringham
Subject: “Petite fabrique d’écrivains plus ou moins imaginaires”
André Charrak, Université de Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, will deliver the following lecture at 5.15 p.m. on Tuesday, 15 Nov. Chair: Nicholas Cronk. Convener: Martine Pécharman
Subject: “Rousseau philosophe: la question de la méthode”
Julian Jackson, Queen Mary, University of London, will deliver the following lecture at 3.00 p.m. on Thursday, 24 Nov. followed by a presentation: “The Secret First Steps towards the Creation of the Maison Française” by Laurent Douzou, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lyon-Maison Française d’Oxford. Conveners: Laurent Douzou and Luc Borot, MFO
Subject: “De Gaulle Before Oxford, 25 November 1941”
CONFERENCES
Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO and Dana Jalobeanu, Warburg Institute, London-New Europe College, Bucharest, will organise the following conference from 9.30 a.m. on Friday, 11 Nov. until Saturday, 12 Nov., 4.00 p.m.
Subject: “Francis Bacon’s Arts of Discovery and the Cultivation of the Mind”
Laurent Douzou, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lyon-MFO and Anne-Marie Granet, Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, will organise the following conference from 10.00 a.m. on Monday, 21 Nov., until Tuesday, 22 Nov., 1.00 p.m.
Subject: “Fear(s), Silence(s): Subjects or Obstacles for History?”
Julian Jackson, Queen Mary, University of London, Robert Gildea, Sudhir Hazareesingh and Laurent Douzou will deliver the following conference from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. on Friday, 25 Nov.
Subject : “De Gaulle in 1941: The Oxford Moment”
Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO and Philip Beeley will organise the following conference from 9.30 a.m. on Monday, 28 Nov. until Tuesday, 29 Nov., 4.00 p.m.
Subject: “Across the Channel. Intellectual Relations between England and France in the Early Modern Period”
Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO and François Récanati, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris-University of St Andrews, will organise the following conference from 9.30 a.m. on Friday, 2 Dec. until Saturday, 3 Dec., 4.00 p.m.
Subject: “Analytic Philosophy of Mind and Language: French-British Dialogue(s)”
SEMINARS
Medieval French Seminar
The following seminars will be given at 5.15 p.m. on alternate Tuesdays. Conveners: Sophie Marnette and Helen Swift.
Leah Tether, University of East Anglia
11 Oct.: “Reading Digitised Medieval French Manuscripts as Paratexts”
Philip Bennett, University of Edinburgh
25 Oct.: “Rainouart, Mahomet and the Crucifix: Art, Life and Religion in the Moniage Rainouart”
Michelle Szkilnik, Wadham College-Université de Paris III will chair a round-table discussion workshop
8 Nov.: “Christine de Pizan Revisited: On Editing the Jouvencel”
Jane Bliss, Independent Scholar
22 Nov.: “Translators Note! Puzzles in the Twelfth-Century Nun’s Life of Edward”
Early Modern French Seminar
The following seminars will be given at 5.15 p.m. on alternate Thursdays. Conveners: Jessica Goodman, Richard Parish, Caroline Warman and Wes Williams.
Dorothée Lintner, Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle
13 Oct.: “Avatars de l’épopée dans la geste rabelaisienne et les histoires comiques du XVIIe siècle”
Marine Roussillon
27 Oct.: “Plaisir et pouvoir. Usages des récits chevaleresques à l’âge classique”
Richard Scholar
10 Nov.: “Utopian Marginals in More, Rabelais and Montaigne”
Katie Scott, Courtauld Institute, London. The Besterman Lecture will take place at the Taylorian Institute, St Giles
24 Nov.: “Emulation: Anxieties of Influence and the Progress of Plagiarism in Eighteenth-Century French Art”
Key Words in Early Modern France Seminar
The following seminars will be given at 11.30 a.m. on Fridays. Conveners: Alain Viala and Richard Scholar.
Alain Viala
18 Nov.: “La première modernité: éléments d’histore et d’histoire culturelle”
Richard Scholar
2 Dec.: “Two Forays into Early Modern Language and Culture”
Modern French Seminar
The following seminars will be given at 5.15 p.m. on alternate Thursdays. Conveners: Ian Maclachlan and Michael Sheringham.
Peter Read, University of Kent
19 Oct. (Please note this seminar is on Wednesday): “‘Au rendez-vous des poètes’: Picasso’s Art and Literary Contacts during his Early Years in Paris”
Timothy Adès, Translator-Poet
3 Nov.: “Translating the Poetry of Desnos, Cassou and Hugo”
Nikolaj Lübecker
17 Nov.: “Saints and Idiots in Contemporary French Film”
Andrew Counter, University of Cambridge
1 Dec.: “Sentimentalism and child-abuse in the later Zola”
History of Science Seminar
Thomas Le Roux, CNRS-MFO
7 Nov., 4.00 p.m.: “Environmental History in France and Great Britain: Methodology, New Perspectives, Common Ground”
CINEMA
Homage to the French actress Simone Signoret (1921-1985). Films will be at 8.00 p.m. on alternate Tuesdays, in French with English subtitles. Seats are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
18 Oct.: “La Ronde” (1950, 97 min.). Director : Max Ophüls
1 Nov.: “Casque d’Or” (1951, 96 min.). Director : Jacques Becker
15 Nov.: “Les Diaboliques” (1955, 114 min.). Director : Henri-Georges Clouzot
29 Nov.: “L’Armée des ombres” (1969, 140 min.). Director : Jean-Pierre Melville