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Activités de la Maison Française d'Oxford

Activités de la Maison Française d'Oxford

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Activities at the Maison Française d'Oxford

Programme Hilary Term 2011 

The following events willtake place at the Maison Française (email: reception@mfo.ac.uk), unlessotherwise indicated.

Lectures and conferenceswith English titles will be in English.

1. SINGLE LECTURES

Francis Wolff, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris,will deliver the following Lecture at 5.15 pm on Wednesday, 19 January, at theMaison Française d'Oxford.

Subject: “L'être humain ou les trois plis de lapensée”

Convener: Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO

Dominique Barbéris, author, will deliver thefollowing Lecture at 5.15 pm on Wednesday, 26 January, at the Maison Françaised'Oxford.

Subject: “Paysage et secret: Autour des derniersromans de Dominique Barbéris, Quelque chose à cacher et Beau Rivage

Convener: Michelle Szkilnik, Université de Paris III-WadhamCollege

Guillaume Leblanc, Université de Bordeaux III,will deliver the following Lecture at 5.15 pm on Monday, 31 January, 5.15pm, atthe Maison Française d'Oxford.

Subject: “Aunom des autres”

Convener and Chair: MichaelSheringham, All Souls College

Fabienne Brugère, Université de Bordeaux III,will deliver the following Lecture at 5.15pm on Wednesday, 2 February, at theMaison Française d'Oxford.

Subject: “La disparition de l'oeuvre”

Convener and Chair: MichaelSheringham, All Souls College

Sylvain Brouard, Sciences Po, Bordeaux, willdeliver the following Lecture at 5.00pm on Friday, 4 February, at theDepartment of Politics and International Relations, Manor Road.

Subject: “Constitutional (In)stability in the FifthRepublic: French Semi-Presidentialism, Divided Government and Policy Change”

Conveners: David Goldey, Lincoln College and Petra Schleiter, St Hilda's College

Guillaume Leblanc, Université de Bordeaux III,will deliver the following Lecture at 5.15pm on Friday, 4 February, at the MaisonFrançaise d'Oxford.

Subject: “Michel Foucault et l'écriture des viesordinaires”

Convener and Chair: MichaelSheringham, All Souls College

Nicole Belayche, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes,Paris, will deliver the following Lecture from 2.00pm to 6.00pmon Tuesday, 22 February, at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and ByzantineStudies, 66 St Giles.

Subject: Journée Vernant “The ‘Possible' Body of the Gods: FromImitation to Ritual Confection of their Nature”

Conveners: Robert Parker, New College and Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO

Sharon Bowles, MEP, Chair of the EuropeanParliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, will deliver thefollowing Lecture at 7.30pm on Friday, 25 February,  at the MaisonFrançaise d'Oxford.

Subject: The EuropeanMovement - Open Meeting: “FinancialLegislation: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to know?”

Chair: Alan Armitage, European Movement 

Harry Roderick Kedward, University of Sussex, willdeliver the following Lecture at 5.00pm on Thursday, 3 March, at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford.

Subject: 'Roots and routes of French Resistance'

Conveners : Laurent DOUZOU, CNRS-MFO and Louise SCOTHERN, New College

Sylvain Menant, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne,will deliver the following Lecture at 5.15pm on Wednesday, 9 March, at theMaison Française d'Oxford.

Subject: “Poétique du château dans la littératurefrançaise”

Convener: Nicholas Cronk, Voltaire Foundation

2. CONFERENCES

Muriel Le Roux, CNRS-MFO, in co-operation withPietro Corsi and Robert Fox, Faculty of History, John Perkins and Viviane Quirke, Oxford Brookes University, andwith the support of Serge Plattard,Science and Technology Counsellor, French Embassy, London, will organise thefollowing Conference from 9.00am on Friday, 14 January until Saturday, 15January, 1.15pm, at the Maison Française d'Oxford.

Subject: “Communicating Science and Technology.France and the United Kingdom: Historical Perspectives”

Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield andJulian Wright, University ofDurham, will organise the followingConference from 10.45am to 6.30pm on Monday, 24 January, at the MaisonFrançaise d'Oxford.

Subject: “Burdens: Opportunities: Expectations:Political Legacies in Post-Revolutionary France”

Emily McLaughlin,Balliol College, Kate Morris, StEdmund Hall and Jessica Goodman,Worcester College will organise a poetry evening from 5.30pm to 7.30pm onFriday, 18 February, and the Oxford University French Postgraduate Conferenceon Saturday, 19 February, from 9.00am to 6.00pm, at the Maison Françaised'Oxford.

Subject: “Words in Action”

Alexis Tadié,Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne and Alain Viala,Lady Margaret Hall, will organise the following workshop from 10.00am to 6.00pm on Friday, 25 February,at Worcester College.

Subject: “Ladispute: cas, querelles, controverses et création littéraire à l'époquemoderne”

Martine Pécharman,CNRS-MFO and Koen Vermeir,CNRS-REHSEIS, will organise the following Conference on Monday, 28 February,from 9.30am to 6.00pm, at the Maison Française d'Oxford.

Subject: “Imaginationand Knowledge in Early Modern Philosophy”

Michel Bourdeau,EHESS, Robert Fox, Faculty ofHistory, Martine Pécharman andMuriel Le Roux, CNRS-MFO, will organise the followingConference on Friday, 4 March from 2.00pm to Saturday, 5 March, at 1.00pm.

Subject: “Positivismon both sides of the Channel. Oxford and the exchanges between EnglishPositivists and French Positivists during the Victorian Era”

Toby Garfitt,Magdalen College and Katherine Davies,University of Manchester, will organise the following Conference on Friday 18 March and Saturday 19 March (Fridayat Magdalen College, Saturday at the Maison Française).

Subject: “CatholicIntellectuals in France in the mid-20th Century”

3. SEMINARS

Oxford History of Chemistry Seminar “Mastering Nature? Chemistry inHistory”

Conveners: Pietro Corsiand Robert Fox, Faculty ofHistory, John Christie, Muriel Le Roux, CNRS-MFO, John Perkins and Viviane Quirke, Oxford Brookes University.

Wednesday 9 February, 3.00pmin the Buckley Building, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane

Forensic Chemistry andMedicine in 19th-Century France and Britain

Jose Ramon Bertomeu,University of Barcelona: “Sense andSensitivity: Toxicology and Normal Arsenic in 19th-Century France”

Cassie Watson,Oxford Brookes University: “ForensicMedicine and Chemistry in 19th-Century Britain: Theory and Practice”

Wednesday 23 February,3.00pm, at the History Faculty, George Street

New Researchers: Apothecariesin Early Modern Europe

Valentina Pugliano,Oxford University: “Between Albarelli and Vipers: TheIntellectual Life of the 16th-Century Apothecary Connoisseur”

Samir Boumédiene,Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon: “Europeanizing American Remedies: ThePreparation of Drugs in Apothecaries' Back-Shops in the 17th and 18thCenturies”

Wednesday 2 March, 4.00pm, atthe Maison Française d'Oxford

The Search for NaturalProducts in the 20th Century

“Communicating around Taxoland Taxotère”,presentation by Muriel Le Roux, CNRS-MFO,followed by a film showing of

“L'if aux frontières de lavie/The Yew, Beneficial Poison”, and a discussion with the film's director, Jean-Luc Bouvret

Wednesday 9 March, 3.00pm, atthe History Faculty, George Street

Physical Chemists

Bill Brock,University of Leicester:“The Nine Livesof Sir William Crookes”

Brigitte vanTiggelen, Memosciences, Louvain: “Walterand Ida Noddack-Tacke, a Collaborative Couple in Chemistry”

Medieval French Seminar

The following seminars willbe given at 5.15pm on Tuesdays in the Maison Française d'Oxford

Conveners: Sophie Marnette,Balliol College and Helen Swift,St Hilda's College

Miranda Griffin,St Catherine's College, Cambridge

18 January: “TheNature of the Beast: Animal Origins in Perceforest

Colette VanCoolput-Storms, Université Catholique de Louvain

1 February : “Les premières paraphrases de la Genèse en vers français: pistes de recherche”

Round-table discussion workshop, chaired by Michelle Szkilnik, Université de Paris III-WadhamCollege

1 March: “Reading in the Later Middle Ages: Who ReadWhat and How?”

Early Modern French Seminar

The followingseminars will be given at 5.15pm on Thursdays in the Maison Française.

Conveners: Rowan Tomlinson,New College, Richard Parish, StCatherine's College and Caroline Warman, JesusCollege

Ian Maclean,All Souls College

20 January: “TheMaking of the Early-Modern -isms: Libertinism”

Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde,University of Cambridge

3 February: “ReportedFalsehood and Mendacious Messengers: Liars in 17th-Century FrenchComedy”

Martine Pécharman,CNRS-MFO

17 February: “Dieuou l'homme? Les ‘embarras' de la genèse dulangage”

John O'Brien,Royal Holloway, University of London

3 March: “AllThat (Almost) Fall”

Svein-Erik Fauskevaag,University of Trondheim

10 March (Place to be confirmed): “L'appel au visuel: pour une rhétoriquebaroque de “Cleveland” de Prévost”

Key Words in Early Modern France Seminar

N.B. This is a University lecture series, open to the public by prior arrangement. Will be given at 11.30am on Fridays. 

Conveners: Alain Viala,Lady Margaret Hall and Wes Williams,St Edmund Hall

Rowan Tomlinson,New College

21 January: “Whatis ‘Baroque'?”

Alain Viala,Lady Margaret Hall

28 January: “Whatis ‘Classicism'?”

Caroline Warman,Jesus College

4 February: “What is ‘Enlightenment'?”

Wes Williams,St Edmund Hall

11 February: “Whathave we learned/What now?”

Modern French Seminar

The followingseminars will be given at 5.15pm on Thursdays at the Maison Française.

Conveners: Michael Sheringham,All Souls College and Ian Maclachlan,Merton College

Jean-Pierre Martin,Université de Lyon II

27 January: “Legénie hérétique de la littérature”

Philippe Met,University of Pennsylvania

10 February: “Pourune poétique mineure: Francis Ponge et la pratique du carnet”

Roger Pearson,Queen's College

24 February: “Flaubert'sPoet: Justice and the Politics of Style”

Johanna Malt,King's College London

10 March: “LeavingTraces: Surface Contact in Francis Ponge, Giuseppe Penone and Francis Alÿs”

Digital Humanities Seminar 2011: Scholarly Editions

Convener: Paolo D'Iorio, CNRS-MFO

Cécile Meynard andThomas Lebarbé, StendhalUniversity, Grenoble

Wednesday 2 February, 3.00pm: “Stendhal's Manuscripts: From Handwriting to Digital and PaperEditions”

Radical, Utopian & Liberal Moments in the History of Citizenship inFrench & British Political Ideas Seminars

Conveners: Luc Borot,MFO and Michael Drolet, StAntony's College

Tuesday 8 February, 5.00pm, at the Maison Françaised'Oxford

Luc Borot,MFO: “Degree, Station and Place: Early ModernEngland and Representation: Who Stands for Whom? Who Stands for Where?”

Christopher Brooke,King's College, Cambridge: “StoicCitizens? Some Eighteenth-Century Reflections”

Discussant: Sarah Mortimer,Christ Church

Wednesday 16 February, 5.00pm, in the European StudiesCentre, 70 Woodstock Road

Michael Drolet,St Antony's College: “Locating Sovereignty: Competing Conceptionsof Citizenship in French Liberal Thought, 1815-1851”

Gavin Jacobson,Balliol College: “Absent Citizens: FrenchRepublican Conceptions of Citizenship in Exile, 1851-1880”

Discussant: Mark Philp,Oriel College

4. CINEMA

This term, the MaisonFrançaise will show four PoliticalThrillers of the 1970s. Films willbe in French with English subtitles. Seats are allocated on a first come, firstserved basis.

Tuesday 25 January, 8.00pm:“L'état de siège” (1972, 120 min.)

Director:Costa-Gavras

Tuesday 8 February, 8.00pm: “The Day of the Jackal” (1973, 145 min.)

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Tuesday 22 February, 8.00pm: “Nada” (1974, 110 min.)

Director: Claude Chabrol

Tuesday 8 March, 8.00pm: “Mr Klein” (1976, 123 min.)

Director: Joseph Losey