ACTIVITIES AT THE MAISON FRANÇAISE D’OXFORD
PROGRAMME MICHAELMAS TERM 2012 (7 October- 1 December)
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 LECTURE
Johann Chapoutot, Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, will deliver the following lecture at 5.00 pm on 31 October at St Hugh’s College.
Convener: Guillaume Piketty, Sciences Po, Paris-MFO.
Subject: ‘Natural Law and Racial Order: the Normativity of Nazi Crime’
CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/STUDY DAYS
Peter Hamilton, Bardwell Press, will organise the following conference and book launch from 5.00pm on 2 October to 3.30pm on 3 October.
Subject: ‘Sexuality in France: Practices, Gender and Sexual Health’
The Maison Française d'Oxford, the CERC (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), the UNIL (Lausanne), the CRAL (CNRS-EHESS) and the Centre Français sur la Chine contemporaine (Hong Kong), will organise the following conference on 24 and 25 October, in the salle Bourjac, at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3.
For further information, please contact: roussin@ehess.fr
Subject: ‘Processus de démocratisation et moment vernaculaire des littératures’
Luc Foisneau, CNRS-EHESS, CESPRA and Martine Pécharman, CRAL, CNRS-EHESS, in collaboration with the ANR-AGON Research Project, will organise the following conference from 10.00am to 6.00pm on 26 October.
Subject: ‘Querelles de philosophes, ou querelles de philosophie? Les débats de philosophie morale et politique au XVIIe siècle français’
John Perkins, Oxford Brookes University, Thomas Le Roux, CNRS-MFO and John Christie, will lead the following workshop from 10.00am to 3.30pm on Saturday 10 November.
Subject: ‘Academic Chemistry, Industrial Innovation and Artisanal Practices
in 18th-Century Europe’
Richard Parish and Martine Pécharman, CRAL, CNRS-EHESS, will organise the following conference from 10.00am on 16 November to 1.00pm on 17 November
Subject: ‘Les Ecrits sur la grâce de Pascal’
Lucie Campos, Collège de France and Alain Viala, will organise the following conference from 2.30pm to 6.00pm on 30 November
Subject: ‘Publier les humanités françaises en France et en Grande-Bretagne’
Bill Pickering, British Centre for Durkheimian Studies-University of Oxford, will organise the following study day from 10.30am to 4.30pm on 1 December
Subject: ‘Durkheim and Folk Religion’
Laura Rival will lead the following workshop on 6 and 7 December
Subject: ‘Ecological and Anthropological Approaches to Agrobiodiversity and Food Systems’
SEMINARS
MEDIEVAL FRENCH SEMINAR
The following seminars will be given at 5.15 pm on alternate Tuesdays. Conveners: Sophie Marnette and Helen Swift.
A Workshop led by Current Graduate Students
9 Oct.: New Research Showcase
Emma Campbell, University of Warwick
23 Oct.: ‘”Living On” in Chrétien de Troyes’ Cligès’
Tom Rainsford
6 Nov.: ‘Orality and Rhythm in the Medieval French Octosyllable’
Jessica Stoll, King’s College London
20 Nov.: ‘Translation and Recognition in the Roman de Perceforest’
EARLY MODERN FRENCH SEMINAR
The following seminars will be given at 5.15 pm on alternate Thursdays. Conveners: Jessica Goodman, Richard Parish, Caroline Warman and Wes Williams, in collaboration with the ANR-AGON Research Project.
Alain Cantillon, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-GRIHL-Wadham College
11 Oct.: ‘Blaise Pascal : querelles, exhibitions et vérité (physique, anthropologie, géométrie, religion)’
Jörn Steigerwald, Université de la Ruhr, Bochum
25 Oct.: ‘De la maison de ville à la maison royale : Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme de Molière’
THE BESTERMAN LECTURE:
Nathalie Ferrand, ITEM, ENS-CNRS, Paris
8 Nov : ‘Rousseau : archive et invention’
At the Divinity School, Bodleian Library
Georges Forestier, Université Paris-Sorbonne
22 Nov. ‘L’Ecole des femmes, ou comment un buzz dégénéra en querelle’
KEYWORDS IN EARLY MODERN FRENCH CULTURE
The following seminars will be given at 3.30pm on alternate Thursdays. Conveners: Richard Scholar and Caroline Warman.
Richard Scholar
8 Nov.: ‘What is the ‘Early Modern’ anyway?’
Caroline Warman
22 Nov.: ‘And was there ever an Enlightenment?’
MODERN FRENCH SEMINAR
The following seminars will be given at 5.15 pm on alternate Thursdays. Conveners: Ian Maclachlan and Michael Sheringham.
Anne-Gaëlle Saliot, Duke University
18 Oct.: ‘Godard et le dix-neuvième siècle’
Michael Lucey, Berkeley, University of California
1 Nov.: ‘Proust and Literature as Language-in-use’
Kate Rees
15 Nov.: ‘The Duel between Newspapers and Novels at the Fin de siècle: Maupassant’s Bel-Ami and its echoes’
Patrick Née, Université de Poitiers
29 Nov.: ‘Un cas exceptionnel dans le panorama français contemporain : Yves Bonnefoy et l’essai’
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY SEMINAR
The following Environmental History seminars will be given at 4.30 pm on Mondays. Convener: Thomas Le Roux, CNRS-MFO
15 Oct.
Air Pollution (19th Century)
Thomas Le Roux
Subject: ‘Between Public Health and Technology: Regulating Industrial Smoke, France, 1750-1850’
Stephen Mosley, University of Leeds
Subject: ‘A Process of Compromise: Regulating Smoke in Urban-Industrial Britain’
19 Nov, History Faculty, George Street
Consumption and Needs (19th-20th Centuries)
Frédéric Graber, CRH-EHESS-CNRS, Paris
Subject: ‘Natural Satisfaction or Race for Consumption: The Definition of Water Needs, Paris, 1750-1900’
CINEMA
This term, the Maison Française will show four films celebrating the career of the award-winning actress Catherine Deneuve. Films will be at 8.00 pm on alternate Tuesdays, in French with English subtitles.
16 Oct.: 7.45pm: Introduction to the film series by Nikolaj Lübecker
8.00 pm: Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964, 91 min.)
30 Oct.: Belle de Jour (1967, 101 min.)
13 Nov.: Le dernier métro (1980, 131 min.)
27 Nov.: Potiche (2010, 103 min.)