MFO's podcasts

 Trinity term 2009

30 avril 2009 - Chemistry, pollution and the environment in the 19^th century

Laurence Lestel - Lead (mis)uses in 19th century France

Peter Reed - The "Monster Nuisance" where even the birds cough : Pollution control in Britain 1840-1874

Hilary term 2009

13 March 2009 - The pleasures of taste

Jean-Louis Labarrière - Aristote, les plaisirs du goût, ses vices et ses vertus

Jean-François Balaudé - Goût du plaisir et raffinement. Cyrénaïques et épicuriens

Giles MacDonogh - The education of a gastronome. Brillat-Savarin: the nouvelle cuisine

Ruth Cruickshank - Quels goûts au cinéma ?

12 March 2009 -  The chemical apothecary in the 18^th century

Hjalmar Fors - Fame and fortune on the periphery: C.W. Scheele's career as an apothecary-chemist

Jonathan Simon - Chemistry and pharmacy in eighteenth-century France

06 March 2009 - Cécile Laborde - Critical Republicanism: the hijab controversy and political philosophy

04 March 2009 - Heinrich Best - Europe's Political and Economic Elites: What can we say about their Europeanness?

26 February 2009 - Travelling Chymistry in the 16th-17th centuries

Bernard Joly - Cosmopolitisme et encyclopédisme dans la philosophie chimique de Pierre-Jean Fabre (1588-1658) : voyages dans l'espace, dans le temps et dans la pensée

Stephen Clucas - The European itinerary of John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica

12 February 2009 - Paul Fournel, Marcel Bénabou, Jacques Roubaud - OulipOxford : jeux formels et littéraires

06 February 2009 - What conditions favour innovation?

François Guignot - From One National System of Innovation to Another

04 February 2009 - How to deal with cancer? Research, Innovation and Politics

Dr Ilana Löwy - The Right Tool for the Job, But What is the Job?

02 February 2009 - Genetic Criticism: Editions, Principles, Practices

Daniel Ferrer - James Joyce: The "Finnegans Wake" Notebooks at Buffalo

Nathalie Ferrand - An insight into Rousseau's writing process for La Nouvelle Héloïse: collecting, editing online and interpreting Jean-Jacques Rousseau's manuscripts

Paolo D'Iorio - Towards an electronic genetic edition

Daniel Ferrer - The Principles of Genetic Criticism

Muriel Le Roux - Scientists' Notebooks

Almuth Grésillon - Critique génétique et arts de la performance: théâtre et musique

Michaelmas term 2008

05 December 2008 - Social distinction: comparative studies

Jean-Pascal Daloz - Alan Warde - Introductory Remarks - The symbolic accoutrements of power : culture and the British managerial

Jukka Gronow - Socialist Luxury. Luxuries and the promise of abundance in the Soviet Union

Stefanie Lotter - Distinctly Different Everywhere : The politics of appearance amongst Rana elites inside and outside Nepal

Jean-Pascal Daloz - Symbolic Consistency vs. Synecdochic Strategies

France Bourgouin - On Being Cosmopolitan: Identity Practices and Discourses of African Capitalist Elite in Johannesburg

Tijo Salverda - Embodied Signs of Elite Distinction: Franco-Mauritians'white skin colour in the face of change

Jean-Pascal Daloz - Closing remarks - Social distinction

04 November 2008 - Michael Edwards - Le silence et l'écho : Claudel et Milton

31 October 2008 - Journée d'études La France galante

Marine Roussillon - Noblesse domestiquée ou noblesse galante ?

Nicholas Cronk - Y a-t-il un Voltaire galant ?

Sophie Rollin - Fragonard: entre galanterie polissonne et libertinage souriant

Alain Viala - Nostalgie et jeux divers : la France galante après la France galante

16 October 2008 - Elite Symbolic Superiority: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives

Jean-Pascal Daloz - Introductive Remarks: On the Concept of Elite in the Social Sciences

Linda Mitchell - Powerful Rhetoric and Rhetorics of Power: Castle Building in Medieval Wales and Ireland

Christophe Charle - Elite formation in late 19th century France - comparisons with Britain and Germany

Anne Krogstad and Aagoth Storvik - Political Leadership and Gender in France and Norway

Jean-Pascal Daloz - Political Representatives and Legitimation: Symbolic Perspectives

Eric Godelier - The Myth of a Management Elite and Myths on the Management Elite

Muriel Le Roux - The Chemist Elite: Academic versus industrial careers during the second half of the 20th century

Trinity term 2008

05 April 2008 - Laurent Mauvignier - Conférence donnée à la MFO à l'occasion du Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival