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
Laura Lee Downs, European University Institute, Florence, will deliver the following lecture at St Hugh’s College at 5.00 pm on 4 February. Convenor: Jane Caplan
Subject: ‘Children at war: civilian evacuation and the politics of childhood in France and Great Britain, 1939-45’
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Florence Haegel, Sciences Po, Paris, will deliver the following lecture at 5.15 pm on 6 February with discussant Andrew Knapp, University of Reading. Chair: Sudhir Hazareesingh
Subject: ‘Stratagems, spoils and traps of intra-party democracy: the case of the french UMP’
CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/STUDY DAYS
Pietro Corsi, History Faculty, Stephen Johnston, Museum of the History of Science, Thomas Le Roux, CNRS-MFO, will organise the following conference from 9.00am on 8 January to 1.00pm on 9 January.
Subject: ‘Scientific communication and its history (III). Climate and weather: science as public culture’
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Doctoral study day ‘Journée jeunes chercheurs MFO’ from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm on 9 February
Subject: Doctoral and post-doctoral studies: multi-disciplinary papers
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Soazick Kerneis, Université Paris Ouest-MFO, will organise the following round table from 2.00pm to 4.00pm on 21 February with Jean Andreau, EHESS, Paris and Alan Bowman. Chair: Georgy Kantor.
Subject: ‘The roman economy’
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Laurent Châtel, Université Paris Sorbonne-CNRS-MFO, will organise the following workshop from 3.00pm to 6.30pm on 22 February with the speakers: Aboubakr Chraïbi, INALCO, Paris, Marina Warner, University of Essex, Geert Jan Van Gelder and Otared Haidar.
Subject: Oriental tales in western contexts ‘Tale telling: a workshop on The Arabian Nights’
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Journée Jean-Pierre Vernant, from 2.00 pm to 6.30 pm, Lecture Theatre, Ioannou School, St Giles on 5 March
Presentations by doctoral students, followed by the keynote lecture at 5.00pm with Pascal Arnaud, Université de Lyon II. Convenor: Nicholas Purcell
Subject: ‘Tradition or progress? Imperial geography and representations of imperialism in an expanding world’
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Laurent Châtel, Université Paris Sorbonne-CNRS-MFO, in collaboration with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, will organise the following Garden and Landscape History Seminar from 9.30am-5.00pm on 16 March.
Subject: ‘Rustic nature and artistic rusticity’
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SEMINARS
MEDIEVAL FRENCH SEMINAR
The following seminars will be given at 5.15 pm on alternate Tuesdays. Conveners: Sophie Marnette and Helen Swift.
Daron Burrows, University of Manchester
15 Jan: ‘Vers la fin croistra la religion’: the end of the world according to the french prose Apocalypse’
Round-table discussion workshop led by Chimene Bateman
29 Jan: ‘Courtly love: time for a re-embrace?’
David Wrisley, American University of Beirut
12 Feb: ‘Guillaume de Tignonville’s Dits Moraux des philosophes: Greco-Arabica in circulation in late medieval Europe’
Maud Pérez-Simon, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3
26 Feb: ‘Imager Mélusine, le défi du texte’
EARLY MODERN FRENCH SEMINAR
The following seminars will be given at 5.15pm on alternate Thursdays. Conveners: Jessica Goodman, Richard Parish, Caroline Warman and Wes Williams
Françoise Rubellin, CETHEFI, Université de Nantes
17 Jan: ‘Les Théâtres de la foire au XVIIIe siècle à Paris : attraction, invention et subversion’
Michael Moriarty, University of Cambridge
31 Jan: ‘La Bruyère: virtue and disinterestedness’
Jessica Goodman, Worcester College
14 Feb: ‘La Gloire et le malentendu : Goldoni in Paris’
Jenny Oliver, St John’s College
28 Feb: ‘Travellers and cabbage-planters: shipwreck narratives in Erasmus, Rabelais and Léry’
KEYWORDS IN EARLY MODERN FRENCH CULTURE
The following seminars will be given at 3.30pm on alternate Thursdays. Conveners: Alain Viala and Caroline Warman.
Irène Salas
17 Jan.: ‘Brève histoire de l’humanisme : de Pétrarque à Camus’
Neil Kenny
31 Jan: ‘Rhetoric’
Alain Viala
14 Feb: ‘Galanterie et classicisme’
Kate Tunstall
28 Feb: ‘Conchyliologie: dictionaries, encyclopedias and cabinets de curiosités’
MODERN FRENCH SEMINAR
The following seminars will be given at 5.15 pm on alternate Thursdays. Conveners: Nikolaj Lübecker and Michael Sheringham
Michel Murat, ENS-Université Paris Sorbonne
24 Jan: ‘Rimbaud prosateur : Quelques effets de La main à plume‘
Alain Schaffner, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3
7 Feb: “Le Romanesque dans Les Faux-Monnayeurs d’André Gide”
Patrick ffrench, King’s College London
21 Feb: ‘Modes of address: Powers and limits of the acousmatic’
Philippe Roussin, CNRS-MFO
7 March: ‘La Littérature et la question de la démocratie en France : de Valéry à Queneau’
FRENCH LITERATURE FROM THE MODERN TO THE POSTMODERN
Conveners: Philippe Roussin, CNRS-MFO and Michael Sheringham.
Luc Boltanski, EHESS, Paris
19 Feb, 5.15 pm : ‘Les figures de l’énigme et du complot dans les métaphysiques politiques du XXe siècle’
Jacques Réda, poet, in discussion with Jennie Feldman, translator
5 March, 5.15 pm: ‘Jacques Réda : Aller aux mirabelles/The Mirabelle pickers (Anvil Press Poetry, 2012)’
6 March, 5.00 pm, All Souls College: ‘Jacques Réda and the poetry of Paris’. The poet will read from Les Ruines de Paris, La Liberté des rues, and other works.
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