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Exhibition 'Marc Bloch: Lives, Struggles, Legacies' / 'Marc Bloch : vies, combats, héritages'

Date: 12 October - 7 December 2026

Location: Maison Française d'Oxford

ERC Project 'NOTCOM'

The Common Notion. Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century

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ANR Project 'SOCIOMA'

write a history of sociological knowledge in Latin Europe from the 12th to the 15th centuries

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ANR EnDansant-InterChor

A Choreographic International? Circulations, Networks and Dance Communities (17th–21st Centuries)

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K-Peritia: Building Capacity in Cultural Expertise

K-Peritia is an international, interdisciplinary research network advancing the use of cultural expertise in legal and institutional decision-making.

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CIFAR Future Flourishing

A research programme which explores the boundaries between humans and non-humans

News

Arjun Sabharwal and historian Antoine Destemberg in front of the new exhibition on Marc Bloch displayed at the MFO.

Work Experience at the Maison Française

22 October 2026

by Arjun Sabharwal (Year 11, Cherwell School)

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Queen’s College Translation Exchange (QTE)

14 October 2026

Upcoming events at the Translation Exchange

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'Canicule : les villes à la reconquête de leurs fleuves pour la baignade'

21 August 2026

Une intervention de Martine Drozdz dans Le Nouvel Obs

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Les humanités environnementales à la Maison Française d'Oxford : Stéphane Van Damme dans 'Les Temps qui restent'

20 July 2026

Deux chroniques de la série « Environnement profond »

Forthcoming Events

Family archives, Marc Bloch, 1919

Exhibition 'Marc Bloch: Lives, Struggles, Legacies' / 'Marc Bloch : vies, combats, héritages'

12 October 2026 to 07 December 2026

To mark the panthéonisation of Marc Bloch in 2026, we are delighted to present this exhibition at the Maison Française d’Oxford this term.

European Human Rights Justice and Privatisation, G. Cliquenois

Workshop 'Contesting Constitutionalism: The Counter-mobilizations'

29 October 2026 to 30 October 2026

Convened by Gaëtan Cliquennois & Cristina E. Parau (CNRS / IODE–Université de Rennes)

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Talk ‘Telling/counting everyday life in a subsistence perspective. Ethnography of the household of radical ecologists’

30 October 2026

Geneviève Pruvost (CNRS)

Doing Things With Literature

Book launch ‘Doing Things With Literature: A Toolkit’

30 October 2026

Translations of the work of Alain Viala, edited by Jessica Goodman (St Catherine’s College, Oxford) Emma Herdman (St Andrews University), Marine Roussillon (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Gemma Tidman (Queen Mary University of London)

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Conference 'Across Anti-Imperial Metropolises

05 November 2026 to 06 November 2026

Register by 3 November to attend the conference in-person or online

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Modern French Research Seminar

05 November 2026

‘Poetry and Production Lines’ Patrick McGuinness (St Anne’s College, Oxford)

Huguenot Memory

Book Launch ‘Huguenot Memory, 1689-1757: Narratives of Imprisonment, Enslavement, and Exile’

09 November 2026

Nora Baker (Wiener-Anspach Foundation & Université Libre de Bruxelles)

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Lecture 'Strings and Knots: Enlightened Quipus' by Roger Chartier

10 November 2026

As part of the College de France Lecture Series

Download our term card for Michaelmas Term 2026 here.

1946-2026 - MFO's 80th Anniversary Heritage Fund.