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
Philippe Descola, Collège de France, will deliver the following lecture at 5.15 pm on 18 January. Convener: Luc Borot, MFO.
Subject: “Animating images: An Anthropological Approach”
Nicolas Delalande, IEP, Paris-Nuffield College, will deliver the following lecture at 5.15 pm on 7 February. Convener: Thomas Le Roux, CNRS-MFO.
Subject: “Taxation, Democracy and State Formation in France, 1870-1940”
Jacob Rogozinski, Université de Strasbourg, will deliver the following lecture at 5.15 pm on 21 February. Convener and Chair: Christina Howells
Subject: “La marque du diable: la chasse aux sorcières aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles”
Patrick Cabanel, Université de Toulouse, will deliver the following lecture at 5.00 pm on 22 February, at St Hugh’s College. Chair: Ruth Harris, New College. Conveners: Laurent Douzou, IEP Lyon-MFO and Anna-Magdalena Elsner.
Subject: “Rescuing the Jews in France during the Holocaust: Background, Networks, Characters”
Sabine Rommevaux, CNRS-SPHERE, Paris-All Souls College, will deliver the following lecture at 5.15 pm on 24 February. Chair: Ian Maclean. Convener: Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO
Subject: “La réception des Calculatores d’Oxford en France et en Italie: quelques exemples”
Conferences and study days
Anne Deighton and Gwendolyn Sasse will organise the following workshop from 9.30 am to 5.30 pm, on 11 January, at Wolfson College.
Subject: “The Evolution of International Norms and ‘Norm Entrepreneurship’: The Council of Europe in Comparative Perspective”
Jean-Philippe Genet, Université de Paris I and Ann Thomson, Université de Paris VIII, for the CNRS research group “Iles Britanniques” will organise the following workshop from 2.00 pm on 11 January until 6.30 pm on 12 January.
Subject: “Translation and Culture in the British Isles: A Historical Approach”
Garance Auboyneau, Helena Taylor and Sophie Turner will organise the Oxford University French Postgraduate Conference from 2.00 pm on 27 January until 5.30 pm on 28 January.
Subject: “Metamorphosis”
Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO, Daniel Garber, Princeton University and Noel Malcolm, will organise the following conference on 3 February from 9.00 am at the Maison Française d'Oxford, continuing on 4 February at All Souls College.
Subject: “The Natural Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: Its Context and Development”
Soazick Kerneis, Université de Paris X-MFO will organise the following conference from 9.30 am to 5.00 pm on 8 February.
Subject: “‘La maison et le monde’: La romanisation et ses variations juridiques”
There will be a study day "Journée Jean-Pierre Vernant", from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm on 14 February, at the Ioannou Centre, St Giles. Four doctoral students will present their research before the keynote lecture by Vincent Azoulay, Université de Paris Est-Marne-la-Vallée-IUF: “The Statues of Theogenes of Thasos: Glory and Outrage”.
Corine Eyraud, Université de Provence-MFO and Luc Borot, MFO, will organise the following conference from 2.00 pm on 17 February until 4.00 pm on 18 February.
Subject: “Universities in the ‘Performance Age’: Issues and Changes in Higher Education in France and the United Kingdom”.
Nathalie Ferrand, ITEM, Paris-CNRS and Nicholas Cronk, Voltaire Foundation, will organise the following conference at 4.00 pm on 22 February: "Autour des Liaisons dangereuses de Laclos" with Michel Delon, Université de Paris IV: “Pourquoi Laclos?” and Michèle Sajous d’Oria, Université de Bari: “Illustrer les Liaisons dangereuses”.
Bill Pickering, British Centre for Durkheimian Studies-University of Oxford, will organise a study day from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm on 25 February
Subject: “A Further Look at Effervescence”
Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO and Philip Beeley will organise the following conference from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm on 28 February.
Subject: “Across the Channel: Intellectual Relations between England and France in the Early Modern Period. Part Two”
Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO will co-organise with Christiane Chauviré, Université de Paris I, a round table at 3.00 pm on 9 March.
Subject: "Remembering Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)"
Chair: Michael Sheringham
Seminars
Medieval French Seminar
The following seminars will be given at 5.15 pm on alternate Tuesdays. Conveners: Sophie Marnette and Helen Swift.
Michelle Szkilnik, Université de Paris III-Wadham College, will chair a round-table discussion workshop
17 Jan.: “Is there such a thing as a European Romance of Chivalry in the Late Middle Ages?”
Catherine Croizy-Naquet, Université de Paris III
31 Jan.: “Les chroniqueurs de croisade: de l’auteur de l’Estoire de la Guerre sainte à Joinville”
Ruth Harvey, Royal Holloway, University of London
14 Feb.: “Representation, Performance and Troubadour Manuscript Illumination: A Marginal Case?”
Thomas Hinton, Jesus College
28 Feb.: “‘A man may write of love and not be in love’: Authenticity in Thirteenth-Century French and Occitan Literature”
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.
Alexandre Wenger, Université de Genève
19 Jan.: “Qu’est-ce qu’un personnage? Le médecin Bordeu dans Le Rêve de d’Alembert de Diderot”
Michael Moriarty, University of Cambridge
2 Feb.: “La Bruyère, Virtue, Friendship, Disinterestedness”
Guillaume Pigeard de Gurbert, Fort-de-France, Martinique. In association with the Caribbean Globalizations Research Network
16 Feb.: “Le tabac: Voyage aux sources de la mondialisation”
Carine Barbafieri, Université de Valenciennes-Keble College
1 March: “Persistance et renouveau de la veine gauloise dans le XVIIe siècle classique (1630-1715)”
Key Words in Early Modern France Seminar
The following seminars will be given at 11.30 am on Fridays. Conveners: Alain Viala and Richard Scholar.
Thibaut Maus de Rolley
20 Jan.: “Arms and Letters in Renaissance Italy and France”
Richard Cooper
27 Jan.: “Lettres et Savoirs au XVIe siècle”
Marine Roussillon
3 Feb.:“Lettres et Pouvoir de Molière à Voltaire”
Frédérique Aït-Touati
10 Feb.: “Sciences et Lettres au XVIIe siècle”
Modern French Seminar
The following seminars will be given at 5.15 pm on alternate Thursdays. Conveners: Ian Maclachlan and Michael Sheringham.
Hector Kollias, King’s College London
26 Jan. “Jouhandeau and Genet: Two Perverts between Abjection and Sublimation”
Pierre Schoentjes, University of Ghent
9 Feb.: “Quelle poétique pour l’écriture de la nature? Perspectives contemporaines”
Jacob Rogozinski, Université de Strasbourg
23 Feb.: “Déporté loin de soi-même - routes et déroutes d’Antonin Artaud”
Kate Conley, Dartmouth College
8 March: “Pierre Alechinsky’s Ghostly Palimpsests”
History of Science Seminar
The following Environmental History seminars will be given at 4.00 pm on alternate Mondays. Convener: Thomas Le Roux, CNRS-MFO
23 Jan.: Grégory Quenet, Université de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines: “Building the Palace of Versailles: Environmental Consequences” and Richard Oram, University of Stirling: “Castles and Resources, from 12th to 17th Centuries"
13 Feb. at Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Imperial College, London: “Chemistry and the Transformation of the Environment, 1750-1850” and John Perkins, Oxford Brookes University: “Chemical Expertise and Industrial Pollution in Rouen, 1770-1810”
5 March at the History Faculty, George Street: Charles-François Mathis, University de Paris-Sorbonne: “Landscape and Preservation in England in the 19th Centuries” and Jeremy Burchardt, University of Reading: “Landscape, Preservationism and Local Interests: The Example of Berkshire, Early 20th Century”
Cinema
This term, the Maison Française will show four films celebrating the career of the film director Alain Resnais, in collaboration with Nikolaj Lűbecker, Lecturer in French, St John’s College. Films will be at 8.00 pm on alternate Tuesdays, in French with English subtitles.
24 Jan.: “Muriel ou le temps d’un retour” (1963, 117 min.)
7 Feb.: “Mon Oncle d’Amérique” (1980, 125 min.)
21 Feb.: “Mélo” (1986, 112 min.)
6 March: “On connaît la chanson” (1997, 120 min.)