HISTORY & HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

CLASSICS AND BYZANTINE STUDIES

Monday 21 January, 4.00pm Judith Rainhorn, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne/ Senior Visiting Fellow MFO

Friday 15 February, 9.30am-6.00pm Conference ‘Cult transfer and literary transformation in hagiographic legends during the first millenium’Convenors: Anna Lampadaridi, Newton International Fellow /Trinity College, Efthymios Rizos, Faculty of Classics, Oxford and Vivien Prigent, MFO

Tuesday 26 February, 2.00-6.30pm Ioannou Centre Journée Jean-Pierre Vernant Keynote by Christophe Pébarthe, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne ‘Demystifying the French Touch. Are classical studies still possible with the French Theory?’Convenors: Nino Luraghi, New College and Vivien Prigent, MFO

Friday 8 March, 1.30-4.00pm Conference ‘Insular Monasticism in Early Medieval Croatia: the case of Saint Peter of Osor’ Convenor: Vivien Prigent, MFO

Tuesday 12 February, 1.30-5.00pm Conference ‘The Kievian Church and the Ukrainian Nation-State’ Convenors: Vera Tchentsova, MFO and Vivien Prigent, MFO

Friday 22 March, 4.00-7.00pm ‘Encyclopédie Nouvelle’ Seminar ‘Turks’, Ragip Ege, Université de Strasbourg ‘Diderot’, Kate Tunstall, Worcester College ‘Bazard, Saint-Amand’, Michel Bellet, Université de St-Etienne

Thursday 4-Saturday 6 April Closed Workshop ‘Technologies in use’ International Research Network Convened by Lissa Roberts, Twente University

Thursday 12 - Friday 13 April, 9.30am-5.00pm Wadham College ‘Standards and their Containers – the global history of pathogen and vector standardisation’ Organized by Aro Velmet, Wadham College and Claas Kirchhelle, Wolfson College

Monday 18 February, 4.00pm ‘Charlatan epistemology’ Koen Vermeir, CNRS/SPHERE

Wednesday 13 February, 11.15-12.45am Exeter College, Turl St IBERIAN HISTORY SEMINAR Convenors: Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College) and Cecilia Tarruell (Oriel College) ‘Gobernar compartiendo el poder con los demás : virreyes en México y en Lima, ¿ dos casos diferentes ?’ Pierre Ragon, Université Paris Nanterre

Thursday 14 February, 10.00am-4.45pm Workshop ‘Bodies at stake: Occupational and Environmental Poisons in industrial societies (late 18th-21st c.)’ Convened by Judith Rainhorn, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

Wednesday 20 February, 11.00am-5.00pm Workshop ‘Fires and communities in the Early Modern & Modern periods’ Convenors: Shane Ewen, Leeds Beckett, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, MFO

Thursday 21 February, 4.00-6.00pm Warwick University EARLY MODERN AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SEMINAR Title tbc David Garrioch, Monash University

Tuesday 19 February, 12.00-4.00pm Working meeting ‘Writing Technology/Technology of Writing’ Convenors: Jennifer Oliver, St John’s and Marie Thébaud-Sorger, MFO

Monday 4-Tuesday 5 March Conference ‘Biographies of Materials at the crossroads between natural sciences and humanities’ Convenors: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, John Christie, Oxford, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, MFO, Viviane Quirke, Oxford Brookes University, Matt Paskins, LSE, Stephen Johnston, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford Support by the SHAC

HISTORY OF SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR History Faculty, George Street

Monday 11 March, 11.00am-5.00pm Study day ‘Writing Technology/Technology of Writing’ Convenors: Jennifer Oliver, St John’s and Marie Thébaud-Sorger, MFO

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HILARY TERM 2019

13 January - 9 March

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13 January - 9 March

MEDIEVAL FRENCH RESEARCH SEMINAR Convenors: Daron Burrows, St Peter’s College,

Sophie Marnette, Balliol College and Helen Swift, St Hilda’s College

Tuesday 15 January, 5.15pm‘Entre latin et français, l’émergence d’une terminologie scienti-fique dans les textes français (XIIe-XVe siècle)’ Joëlle Ducos, Université Paris 4

Thursday 24 January, 5.15pm ‘Projections et incarnations de la jalousie (Annie Ernaux, Dominique Blanc)’Elise Hugueny-Léger, University of St Andrews

Thursday 7 February, 5.15pm‘Blanchot’s Bestiary: On the Suspending of Sacrifice’ Holly Langstaff, University of Warwick / Queen’s College, Oxford

Tuesday 29 January, 5.15pm“Lectures médiévales de la légende de Troie en langue romane” Catherine Croizy-Naquet, Université Paris 3

Tuesday 12 February, 5.15pm‘Pourquoi Nithard (843) fut le premier écrivain de langue française’ Bernard Cerquiglini, Université Paris Diderot

Tuesday 26 February, 5.15pm ‘The Landscape of the Chanson de Roland (what I learned about Roland on the Camino de Santiago)’ Charlotte Cooper, St Hilda’s College

Thursday 14 - Saturday 16 March Conference ‘The British, American and French Photobook:Commitment, Memory, Materiality and the Art Market (1900-2019)’ Convenor: Paul Edwards, MFO, CNRS/LARCA, Université Paris Diderot

Friday 25 January, 9.15-6.00pm FribOx Workshop ‘Life and Literature / La vie en lettres’ Convenors: Kate Tunstall, Worcester College, Simon Park, St Anne’s College, Emma Claussen, New College

Saturday 16 March, 9.00am - 7.00pm St John’s College Conference ‘Trees and Townscapes: Past, Present and Future’ (A programme of walks has been arranged for Sunday morning, 17th March) Organised by Oxfordshire Gardens Trust www.ogt.org.uk

MODERN FRENCH RESEARCH SEMINAR Convenors: Andrew Counter, New College

Ève Morisi, St Hugh’s College, Seth Whidden, Queen’s College and Emily McLaughlin, Wadham College

Thursday 14 February, 5.15 ‘La journée cosmopolite de Théophile de Viau’ Dorine Rouiller, University of Geneva/Oxford

Thursday 28 February, 5.15 ‘Authors of Catastrophe: narrative and periodisation in eighteenth-century France’ Jess Stacey, The Queen’s College

Thursday 31 January, 5.15 ‘Essaying affect with Montaigne’ Todd Reeser, Pittsburgh University

LITERATURE AND ARTS

EARLY MODERN FRENCH SEMINAR Convenors: Catriona Seth, All Souls College,

Wes Williams, St Edmund Hall and Katherine Ibbett, Trinity College

Thursday 17 January, 5.15 ‘Transforming Dystopia, Performing Utopia in the Island of Hermaphrodites’ Kathleen Perry Long, Cornell University

Thursday 21 February, 5.15pm‘Autobiography at the End of the World: Louis-René des Forêts’s Pas à pas jusqu’au dernier’ Ian Maclachlan, Merton College

Thursday 7 March, 5.15pm ‘Irigaray’s Breath, or Poetry after Poetics’ Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, Université Paris 8 / Cornell University

PHILOSOPHYThursday 28 March, 5.30-7.30pm Keynote and discussion open to the public, by Emmanuel Falque, Université catholique de Paris ‘Spread Body and Exposed Body’This event is part of the closed conference ‘Thinking with Jean-Luc Nancy’

POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Wednesday 30 January, 2.00pm ‘Embedding integration: How European integration splits mainstream parties’Stephen Whitefield, Pembroke College Chair: Tim Vlandas, St Antony’s College

Wednesday 13 February, 5.15pm ‘Brexit: what happened, and what may happen next?’Anand Menon, Director of UK in a Changing Europe Chair: Robert Saunders, Queen Mary London

Wednesday 27 February, 2.00pm European Studies Centre, Woodstock Road‘Populism, Politics and Unpolitics in Contemporary Europe’Paul Taggart, Sussex University Chair: Kalypso Nicolaidis, St Antony’s College

Wednesday 6 March, 2.00pm ‘Where to for the Rassemblement National on Europe? Frexit, Brexit and the EU’Nick Startin, University of Bath Chair: Anja Thomas, OxPo Visiting Research Fellow

Friday 1 March, 9.30am-1.00pm Location tbc ‘BREXIT - A pluridisciplinary point of view’ Lecture by Eric Albert, UK Correspondent for Le Monde Discussion panels with local MPs, academics and diplomats on issues relating to politics, economics, higher education and researchOrganised by the Ecole Normande de Management with the help of the French Chamber of Commerce in London

SEMINAR ‘BREXIT, POPULISM AND MAINSTREAM POLITICS’ Convenor: Agnès Alexandre-Collier, MFO

Wednesday 23 January, 2.00pm ‘Welfare chauvinism from Enoch Powell to Brexit’Olivier Esteves, Université de Lille Chair: Jane Gingrich, Magdalen College

Thursday 31 January, 7.55-8.55pm Institut Français London, La Médiathèque ‘Debating Europe: The State of Our Politics’ Conversation with Tom Tugendhat, MP, Agnès Alexandre Collier, MFO, Marc Roche, London correspondent for Le Monde, Philippe Marlière, UCL, Sophie Pedder, Paris Bureau Chief, The Economist This event is part of the Night of Ideas, Thursday 31 January, IFRU, London http://nightofideas.co.uk

Saturday 9 March, 4.00pmA Play for Children ‘Pitou l’enfant-roi’ Performed by La Compagnie des 3 Chardons A Book Fair will be held on the same afternoon

Saturday 30 March, 2.00-4.00pmWorkshop ‘À la découverte de l’archéologie’ Registration required

EVENTS FOR CHILDREN In collaboration with the Petit Club Français d’Oxfordshire

Tuesday 19 February, 8.00pm ‘La douleur’, Emmanuel Finkiel, 2017, 2h06min

Tuesday 5 March, 8.00pm ‘Paris nous appartient’, Jacques Rivette, 1961, 2h21min

Tuesday 5 February, 8.00pm ‘Party Girl’, Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Samuel Theis, Claire Burger, 2013, 1h36

Tuesday 22 January, 8.00pm ‘Conte d’été’, Eric Rohmer, 1995, 1h53min

CINEMA CHRONOLOGY

15 Jan. Seminar Medieval French Research 17 Jan. Seminar Early Modern French21 Jan. Seminar History of Science, Medicine and Technology 22 Jan. Cinema ‘Conte d’été’ 23 Jan. Seminar Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics24 Jan. Seminar Modern French Research 25 Jan. Workshop ‘Life and Literature / La vie en lettres’ 29 Jan. Seminar Medieval French Research 30 Jan. Seminar Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics 31 Jan. Seminar Early Modern French 31 Jan. Conversation ‘Debating Europe: The State of Our Politics’ 5 Feb. Cinema ‘Party Girl’ 7 Feb. Seminar Modern French Research 12 Feb. Conference ‘Kievian Church and Ukrainian Nation-State’ 12 Feb. Seminar Medieval French Research13 Feb. Seminar Iberian History 13 Feb. Seminar Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics 14 Feb. Workshop ‘History of poisons’ 14 Feb. Seminar Early Modern French 15 Feb. Conference ‘Cult transfer and literary transformation’ 18 Feb. Seminar History of Science, Medicine and Technology19 Feb. Working meeting ‘Writing Technology / Technology of Writing’ 19 Feb. Cinema ‘La douleur’ 20 Feb. Workshop ‘Fires and communities’ 21 Feb. Seminar Early Modern and Eighteenth Century 21 Feb. Seminar Modern French Research 26 Feb. Conference ‘Journée Jean-Pierre Vernant’ 26 Feb. Seminar Medieval French Research27 Feb. Seminar Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics 28 Feb. Seminar Early Modern French 1 Mar. Panel discussions ‘Brexit’ 4-5 Mar. Conference ‘Biographies of Materials’ 5 Mar. Cinema ‘Paris nous appartient’ 6 Mar. Seminar Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics7 Mar. Seminar Modern French Research8 Mar. Conference ‘Insular Monasticism in Early Medieval Croatia’ 9 Mar. Theatre ‘Pitou l’enfant-roi’ (for children) 11 Mar. Study day ‘Writing technology / Technology of Writing’ 14-16 Mar. Conference ‘The British, American and French Photobook’ 16 Mar. Conference ‘Trees and Townscapes’ 22 Mar. Seminar Encyclopédie Nouvelle 28 Mar. Keynote ‘Jean-Luc Nancy’ 30 Mar. Workshop ‘À la découverte de l’archéologie’ (for children) 4-6 Apr. Workshop ‘Technologies in use’ 12 Apr. Workshop ‘Standards and their containers’