12 October 2026, 9:00am to 7 December 2026, 5:00pm
To mark the panthéonisation of Marc Bloch in 2026, we are delighted to present this exhibition at the Maison Française d’Oxford this term.
Lecture 'Strings and Knots: Enlightened Quipus' by Roger Chartier
10 November 2026, 5:00pm to 5:00pm
As part of the College de France Lecture Series
Medieval French Research Seminar
10 November 2026, 5:15pm to 6:45pm
‘Scribal abbreviation in French manuscripts and its role as a source of data for quantitative palaeography’
Sebastian Dows-Miller (University College London)
Workshop 'Balzac: Les Illusions Perdues & Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes'
12 November 2026, 9:00am to 13 November 2026, 5:00pm
Convened by Gaëtan Cliquennois (CNRS, IODE, Université de Rennes), Caroline Julliot (Université de Lyon), & Laurent Rousvoal (CNRS, IODE, Université de Rennes)
Early Modern French Seminar
12 November 2026, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
‘Chasse et Lettres dans la Première modernité’
Olivier Guerrier (Toulouse II — Jean-Jaurès)
Documentary Film: ‘Docteur David, médecin roi’
17 November 2026, 8:00pm to 9:30pm
Sophie Jaubert & Guillaume Lachenal, 2026, 52min / Registration required
Modern French Research Seminar
19 November 2026, 5:15pm to 6:45pm
‘Making an Impression: Nineteenth-Century French Audio Description’
Hannah Thompson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Workshop 'Lalande’s Legacy: from Fame to Posterity'/'Présence de Lalande : de la gloire à la postérité'
20 November 2026, 9:00am to 21 November 2026, 7:00pm
Lecture 'Thinking Law through Metaphor: Reason and Imagination in the Language of Roman Jurists' by Dario Mantovani
20 November 2026, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
As part of the Collège de France - Maison Française d’Oxford - Pembroke College Lecture Series
In conversation with Rachid Benzine 'Espérer malgré tout. Pour une espérance à Hauteur d’Homme'
23 November 2026, 5:15pm to 6:45pm
Organised in collaboration with the Embassy of the Kingdom
of Morocco in the UK
Medieval French Research Seminar
24 November 2026, 5:15pm to 6:45pm
‘The Nature and Culture of Wood:
Toward an Ecocritical Reflection on the Bible historiale’
Jake Abell (Baylor University)
Early Modern French Seminar
26 November 2026, 12:30am to 2:00pm
‘Rabelais σχολιαστής : la folie des mots’
Olivier Séguin-Brault (Magdalen College, Oxford)
Talk ‘Eléments pour une sociologie de l’éthique. Du progressisme au prudentialisme’
Leverhulme Lecture 'The Life of Rocks: An Anthropological Approach to Research in Astrobiology'
27 November 2026, 3:15pm to 4:45pm
Perig Pitrou (CNRS – Maison Française d’Oxford – University College London, Leverhulme Visiting Professor)
Workshop 'Before and Beyond Political Economy: Economic Ideas and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe'
30 November 2026, 10:00am to 6:00pm
Before and Beyond Political Economy: Economic Ideas and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe
Talk ‘Fraudsters. The schemes and tricks of merchants in the Greek city-state’
1 December 2026, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Cecilia D’Ercole (EHESS)
Book launch ‘Mosquito Work: Vectors of Global Health’
3 December 2026, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
With authors Ann Kelly & Javier Lezaun (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford)
Discussant: Guillaume Lachenal (SciencesPo Paris)
Download our term card for Michaelmas Term 2026here.
Book Launch ‘Huguenot Memory, 1689-1757: Narratives of Imprisonment, Enslavement, and Exile’
9 November 2026, 5:15am to 7:00pm
Nora Baker (Wiener-Anspach Foundation & Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Conference 'Across Anti-Imperial Metropolises
5 November 2026, 9:30am to 6 November 2026, 3:00pm
Register by 3 November to attend the conference in-person or online
Modern French Research Seminar
5 November 2026, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
‘Poetry and Production Lines’
Patrick McGuinness (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
Talk ‘Telling/counting everyday life in a subsistence perspective. Ethnography of the household of radical ecologists’
30 October 2026, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Geneviève Pruvost (CNRS)
Book launch ‘Doing Things With Literature: A Toolkit’
30 October 2026, 5:30pm to 7:00pm
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)
Workshop 'Contesting Constitutionalism: The Counter-mobilizations'
29 October 2026, 9:15am to 30 October 2026, 5:00pm
Convened by Gaëtan Cliquennois & Cristina E. Parau (CNRS / IODE–Université de Rennes)
Exploring the History, Legacy, and Future of the Maison Française
Early Modern French Seminar
29 October 2026, 12:15pm to 2:00pm
‘Reading and Riding the Natural World: Horsemanship, Education and the Ecologies of Early Modern Learning Spaces’
Katherine Stratton (Lincoln College, Oxford)
You can download our previous term cards as .pdf files by clicking on the links below:
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