Events

Family archives, Marc Bloch, 1919

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

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.
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Documentary Film: ‘Docteur David, médecin roi’

17 November 2026, 8:00pm to 9:30pm
Sophie Jaubert & Guillaume Lachenal, 2026, 52min / Registration required
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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Early Modern French Seminar

26 November 2026, 12:30am to 2:00pm
‘Rabelais σχολιαστής : la folie des mots’ Olivier Séguin-Brault (Magdalen College, Oxford)
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Talk ‘Eléments pour une sociologie de l’éthique. Du progressisme au prudentialisme’

26 November 2026, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Emmanuel Didier (CNRS, ENS) & Luc Boltanski (EHESS)
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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)
The Ambassadors (1533) by Hans Holbein the Younger, National Gallery, London

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
Detail of the "Cup of Arkesilas", Painter of Arkesilas, around 560 BCE, from Vulci (Etruria), BNF, Paris

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)
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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 2026 here.

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'Channels of Digital Scholarship' Seminar

17 November 2022, 2:00pm to 2:00pm
'Early Modern French Theatre on the virtual stage'
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'Channels of Digital Scholarship' Seminar

27 October 2022, 2:00pm to 2:00pm
'Pathways to professionalisation: Graduate training in digital scholarship and its methods (a UK-France conversation)'
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CONFERENCE 'Michel Serres: Thinking beyond boundaries'

16 June 2022, 9:00am to 17 June 2022, 6:00pm