Thursday 16^th October 2008

9:00  Registration

9:30 Welcome Address (Luc Borot, Director of the Maison Française, Oxford)

Morning Session

Chair : Pietro Corsi (Linacre College, Oxford)

9:40 Jean-Pascal Daloz (CNRS/MFO, Oxford & University of Oslo)

‘Introductive Remarks: On the Concept of Elite in the Social Sciences’

10:00 Linda Mitchell (University of Missouri)

‘Powerful Rhetoric and Rhetorics of Power: Castle Building in Medieval Wales and Ireland’

10:30 Christophe Charle (University of Paris I/IHMC-CNRS-ENS)

‘Elite formation in Late Nineteenth Century France - comparisons with Britain and Germany’

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Anne Krogstad (University of Oslo) & Aagoth Storvik (Institute for Social Science Research, Oslo)

‘Political Leadership and Gender in France and Norway’

12:00 Jean-Pascal Daloz (CNRS/MFO, Oxford & University of Oslo)

12:30 Lunch

Afternoon Session

Chair: Christophe Charle (University of Paris I/IHMC-CNRS-ENS)

14:00 Eric Godelier (Ecole Polytechnique, CRG, Paris)

‘The Myth of a Management Elite and Myths on the Management Elite’

14:30 Claire Zalc (CNRS/IHMC, Paris) ‘Foreign Entrepreneurs in 20^th-Century France’

15:00 Muriel Le Roux (CNRS/MFO, Oxford)

‘The Chemist Elite: Academic versus industrial careers during the second half of the 20^th Century’

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Justine Roberts (Wolfson College, Oxford) 'Shadowing the Bar: studying an English professional elite' 

16:30-17:00 Muriel Le Roux (CNRS/MFO) Concluding Remarks

General Discussion.