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ACTIVITIES AT THE MAISONFRANCAISE D'OXFORD
Michaelmas Term 2010
The followingevents will take place at the Maison Française (email: reception@mfo.ac.uk),unless otherwise indicated. Lectures and conferences with English titles willbe in English.
1. SEMINARS
MEDIEVAL FRENCH SEMINAR
The following seminars will be held at 5.15pm on alternateTuesdays in the Maison Française.
Conveners: Sophie Marnette,Balliol College and Helen Swift,St Hilda's College
- Tuesday 26October:“The Abbey of Gellone and Guillaume d'Orange:Historical Elements in the Cycle de Guillaume”, StephanieHathaway, Sub-Faculty of German
- Tuesday 9November:“Who is I? A New Look at Poetic Identityin Medieval Narrative Poetry", Helen Swift, StHilda's College
- Tuesday 23November: “Whose Life Is It Anyway? Premodern Biography Writing: A RoundTable”, Open discussionseminar introduced by Michelle Szkilnik, Université de Paris III-Wadham College
EARLY MODERN FRENCH SEMINAR
The following seminars will be held at 5.15pm on alternateThursdays in the Maison Française.
Conveners: NicholasCronk, Voltaire Foundation-St Edmund Hall; Richard Parish, St Catherine'sCollege, and Rowan Tomlinson, St John's College
- Thursday 28 October: “Bougainville before Tahiti: TheJournal de l'Expédition d'Amérique (1756-58)”, Ursula Haskins Gonthier, University ofBirmingham
- Thursday 11 November, 5.15pm: Besterman Lecture 2010: “Le théâtre de Voltaire: dramaturgie etpolitique”, Pierre Frantz, Université deParis IV-Sorbonne
- Thursday 25 November : “From Commentary to Encyclopaedia: The English Fate of SimonGoulart's Commentaires et Annotations sur La Sepmaine de la Création du Monde, par G. De Salluste, SeigneurDu Bartas (1586)”, Raphaële Garrod, University of Cambridge
MODERNFRENCH SEMINAR
The following seminars will be held at 5.15pm on alternateThursdays in the Maison Française.
CONVENER: IAN MACLACHLAN, MERTON COLLEGE
- Thursday 21October: “Metaphorsof Mastery in Victor Hugo's Poetry of Progress”, Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe, Hertford College
- Thursday 4November: “L'ancestrale foi conique'. Jazz, Gender and Négritude in LéonGontran Damas's Pigments (1937)”, Jeremy Lane, University of Nottingham
- Thursday 18November:“Proust:The Dynamics of Perception”, Adam Watt, Royal Holloway, University ofLondon
- Thursday 2December:“Couleursdu Moi: Rimbaud, Réda and Roubaud”, Susan Harrow, University of Bristol
DIGITAL HUMANITIES SEMINAR 2010: Scholarly Editions
Convener: PaoloD'Iorio, CNRS-MFO
- Wednesday 3 November, 4.30pm:“The Works of Jean le Rond D'Alembert,Printed and Digital Editions”, Olivier Ferret, Université deLyon and Alexandre Guilbaud,Université de Paris 6
- Wednesday 17 November, 4.30pm:“Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts: ADigital Edition”, Kathryn Sutherland,St Anne's College and Elena Pierazzo,King's College London
2. CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS
The following conferences will be held inthe Maison Française unless indicated otherwise.
- Saturday 27 November, 9.45am-4.30pm:“France's Mid-Century Crisis, 1930-1950”, Study day organised by Laurent Douzou, CNRS-MFOand Daniel Lee, St Hugh's College
- Saturday 4 December, 9.30am-6.30pm:“Leibniz's Theodicy. A Celebration of the 300th Anniversary of the Publication of G. W.Leibniz's Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man, andthe Origin of Evil”, Conference organised by Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO and Paul Lodge, Mansfield College
3. OTHER LECTURES AND EVENTS
The following workshop, lectures and roundtable will be held in the Maison Française unless indicated otherwise.
- Tuesday 19 October, 9.30am-5.00pm: “Power of Spirit and Imagination in the 17th Century” , Workshop organised byMartine Pécharman, CNRS-MFOand Koen Vermeir, CNRS-REHSEIS
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Lectures at the Ioannou Centre for Classical andByzantine Studies, 66 St Giles:
- Wednesday 3 November, 5.00pm: “Artemidorus' Dreambook: New Readings for Historians of theGraeco-Roman World”, ChristopheChandezon, Université deMontpellier 3
- Thursday 4 November, 5.00pm: “Figures in a Classical Landscape. DoIndividuals Offer a New Way of understanding Greek Agrarian History?”, Christophe Chandezon,Université de Montpellier 3
Convened by Robert Parker, New College
Co-organised by the Faculty ofClassics and the MFO
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- Friday 19 November, 4.30pm: “Cognition and Pleasure in Aesthetics”, Jean-Marie Schaeffer, CNRS-EHESS
Round table organised by Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO, Ann Jefferson, New College and Luc Borot, MFO
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- Friday 3 December, 2.00-5.00pm: “Une science certaine est-elle possible pour les empiristes du XVIIIesiècle? La voiefranco-berlinoise”, André Charrak, Universitéde Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne
Lecture convened by Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO,Kate Tunstall,Worcester College-Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment and Caroline Warman, Jesus College
A round table will follow the lecture.