Events

BOOK LAUNCH

AT THE MAISON FRANCAISE D'OXFORD

Monday 25 January, 5:00pm

 
Jean-Pascal Daloz, CNRS-MFO

 
‘The Sociology of Elite Distinction:

From Theoretical to Comparative Perspectives'

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

During Hilary Term 2010, the MFO will show four films featuring French actress Jeanne Moreau.

Each film will be shown in French with English subtitles unless specified.

No need to book in advance, but seats will be allocated

on a first come/first served basis.

detailed programme in pdf file

detailed programme in pdf file

Modern French Seminar

Thursday 28 January, 5.15pm

"Y a-t-il un "hors-sexe"? La question du genre chez Rozier et Garréta"

Marie-Chantal Killen, Lady Margaret Hall

Conveners:

Jane Hiddleston, Exeter College

and Ian Maclachlan, Merton College

detailed programme in pdf file

Key Words in French Culture

(16^th-18^th centuries)

Conveners: Richard Scholar, Oriel College

and Alain Viala, Lady Margaret Hall

Friday 29 January, 11.30am to 1.00pm

"Belief"

Richard Parish, St Catherine's College

Medieval French Seminar

Tuesday 2 February, 5.15pm

Conveners:

Wednesday 3 February, 5.15pm

"Prophet Muhammad in French literature:

from the nineteenth century to the present"

Ahmad Gunny

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

Early Modern French Seminar

Thursday 4 February, 5.15pm

Jacques Berchtold, Université de Paris IV

Conveners:

Key Words in French Culture

(16^th-18^th centuries)

Conveners: Richard Scholar, Oriel College

and Alain Viala, Lady Margaret Hall

Friday 5 February, 11.30am to 1.00pm

"The ‘Renaissance' in Italy and France"

During Hilary Term 2010, the MFO will show four films featuring French actress Jeanne Moreau.

Each film will be shown in French with English subtitles unless specified.

No need to book in advance, but seats will be allocated

on a first come/first served basis.

Modern French Seminar

Thursday 11 February, 5.15pm

"The Eternal Returns of Michel Houellebecq"

Gerald Moore, Wadham College

Conveners:

Jane Hiddleston, Exeter College

and Ian Maclachlan, Merton College

Key Words in French Culture

(16^th-18^th centuries)

Conveners: Richard Scholar, Oriel College

and Alain Viala, Lady Margaret Hall

Friday 12 February, 11.30am to 1.00pm

"The European ‘Enlightenment'"

Conférence

Vendredi 12 février, 5.15pm, à la Maison Française d'Oxford

 
"La laïcité: définition, histoire, enjeux"

Luc BOROT, Maison Française d'Oxford

Medieval French Seminar

Tuesday 16 February, 5.15pm

Conveners:

Sophie MARNETTE, Balliol College and Helen SWIFT,

Early Modern French Seminar

Thursday 18 February, 5.15pm

"La Rochefoucauld et le laboratoire moraliste"

Alain Brunn, GRIHL-EHESS-Paris III

Conveners:

Richard Parish, St Catherine's; Rowan Tomlinson, St John's College

CONFERENCE - WORKSHOP

Monday 22 February, 2.00 to 5.30 pm

This event replaces the conference announced for March 2^nd 2010

"Lévi-Strauss' Legacy and British Anthropology"

2.00 pm: Welcome

During Hilary Term 2010, the MFO will show four films featuring French actress Jeanne Moreau.

Each film will be shown in French with English subtitles unless specified.

No need to book in advance, but seats will be allocated

on a first come/first served basis.

Charles Dantzig à la Maison Française d'Oxford

Mercredi 24 février, 17h15

à la Maison Française d'Oxford

Organisateur: Prof. Patrick McGuinness, St Anne's College

Oxford History of Chemistry Seminar

Conveners: Pietro Corsi and Robert Fox, Linacre College,

John Perkins and Viviane Quirke, Oxford Brookes University, Muriel Le Roux, CNRS-MFO and John Christie

Seminars by New Researchers

Thursday 25 February, 3.00 to 5.00pm, History Faculty,

Modern French Seminar

Thursday 25 February, 5.15pm

"Identité, sexualité et Mémoires : Alias Caracalla de Daniel Cordier"

Jean-Louis Jeannelle, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne

Conveners:

2. 00 p.m. Introduction

2. 05 p.m Iwo Slobodzianek (Toulouse), ‘The me in Sumer and the timai in Greece: a comparative survey of divine powers and their transmission'

Medieval French Seminar

Tuesday 2 March, 5.15pm

"The construct of the Saracen Other and Genre in Anglo-Norman Literature"

Marianne Ailes, University of Bristol

Conveners:

Sophie MARNETTE, Balliol College and Helen SWIFT,

St Hilda's College

Early Modern French Seminar

Thursday 4 March, 5.15pm

"L'affaire Camargo"

Alain Viala, Lady Margaret Hall

Conveners:

Richard Parish, St Catherine's; Rowan Tomlinson, St John's College

Tuesday 9 March, 5.15pm

During Hilary Term 2010, the MFO will show four films featuring French actress Jeanne Moreau.

Each film will be shown in French with English subtitles unless specified.

No need to book in advance, but seats will be allocated

on a first come/first served basis.

Tuesday 9 March, 8.00pm

Modern French Seminar

Thursday 11 March, 5.15pm

"The intertextual temptation: Flaubert's science of being artful"

Mary Orr, University of Southampton

Conveners:

Jane Hiddleston, Exeter College

and Ian Maclachlan, Merton College

ANR in partnership with the research project "PNEUMA: L'espace de l'esprit" (ANR-09-SSOC-056)
& MAISON FRANÇAISE D'OXFORD

are pleased to announce the following study day:

Friday 12 March 9.30am-4.00pm

Lecture Room, MFO, 2-10 Norham Road

THE PHILOSOPHY OF HENRY MORE: SPACE, LIFE, SPIRIT

Chair : Philip Beeley, Linacre College