To mark the panthéonisation of Marc Bloch in 2026, we are delighted to present this exhibition at the Maison Française d’Oxford this term.
Book Launch ‘Huguenot Memory, 1689-1757: Narratives of Imprisonment, Enslavement, and Exile’
09 November 2026
Nora Baker (Wiener-Anspach Foundation & Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Lecture 'Strings and Knots: Enlightened Quipus' by Roger Chartier
10 November 2026
As part of the College de France Lecture Series
Medieval French Research Seminar
10 November 2026
‘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 to 13 November 2026
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
‘Chasse et Lettres dans la Première modernité’
Olivier Guerrier (Toulouse II — Jean-Jaurès)
Documentary Film: ‘Docteur David, médecin roi’
17 November 2026
Sophie Jaubert & Guillaume Lachenal, 2026, 52min / Registration required
Modern French Research Seminar
19 November 2026
‘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 to 21 November 2026
Lecture 'Thinking Law through Metaphor: Reason and Imagination in the Language of Roman Jurists' by Dario Mantovani
20 November 2026
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
Organised in collaboration with the Embassy of the Kingdom
of Morocco in the UK
Medieval French Research Seminar
24 November 2026
‘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
‘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
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
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’
01 December 2026
Cecilia D’Ercole (EHESS)
Book launch ‘Mosquito Work: Vectors of Global Health’
03 December 2026
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.
Conference 'Across Anti-Imperial Metropolises
05 November 2026 to 06 November 2026
Register by 3 November to attend the conference in-person or online
Modern French Research Seminar
05 November 2026
‘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
Geneviève Pruvost (CNRS)
Book launch ‘Doing Things With Literature: A Toolkit’
30 October 2026
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 to 30 October 2026
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
‘Reading and Riding the Natural World: Horsemanship, Education and the Ecologies of Early Modern Learning Spaces’
Katherine Stratton (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Talk 'The agreements of the priests of Soknopaiou Nesos: new sources for the organisation and the economy of an Egyptian provincial temple in the 1st and 2nd c. CE'
28 October 2026
Sandra Lippert (CNRS, UMR 8546 AOROC, Paris) and Maren Schentuleit (AMES, Oxford University)
You can download our previous term cards as .pdf files by clicking on the links below:
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