Events

Family archives, Marc Bloch, 1919

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

12 October 2026 to 07 December 2026
To mark the panthéonisation of Marc Bloch in 2026, we are delighted to present this exhibition at the Maison Française d’Oxford this term.
Huguenot Memory

Book Launch ‘Huguenot Memory, 1689-1757: Narratives of Imprisonment, Enslavement, and Exile’

09 November 2026
Nora Baker (Wiener-Anspach Foundation & Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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Lecture 'Strings and Knots: Enlightened Quipus' by Roger Chartier

10 November 2026
As part of the College de France Lecture Series
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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)
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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)
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Early Modern French Seminar

12 November 2026
‘Chasse et Lettres dans la Première modernité’ Olivier Guerrier (Toulouse II — Jean-Jaurès)
Docteur David

Documentary Film: ‘Docteur David, médecin roi’

17 November 2026
Sophie Jaubert & Guillaume Lachenal, 2026, 52min / Registration required
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Modern French Research Seminar

19 November 2026
‘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 to 21 November 2026
Dario Mantovani

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
Rachid Benzine

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
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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)
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Early Modern French Seminar

26 November 2026
‘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
Emmanuel Didier (CNRS, ENS) & Luc Boltanski (EHESS)
Rocky roads through Lanzarote (EASA)

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)
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
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’

01 December 2026
Cecilia D’Ercole (EHESS)
Mosquito Work

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 2026 here.

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'Is medieval biblical exegesis a form of totemism? An examination of analogical-social thinking in Moralised Bibles'

18 February 2026
Antoine Destemberg (MFO), as part of the 'Perspectives from the MFO' Lecture Series
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'Legal humanism across nationalisms and transnational history' Presentation of the ISTHisFrench project (ERC-2024-COG 101170233)

16 February 2026
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Film Screening and Roundtable on New Book

11 February 2026
Stephen Leach and Stephen Hilyard (University of Wisconsin Madison)
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Book Launch 'Judges before history/Les juges devant l'histoire' Jean-Paul Jean (Président de chambre honoraire à la Cour de cassation)

09 February 2026
With Lise Jaulin (Liaison Judge, French Embassy in London) I Chair: Anne Simonin (EHESS-CESPRA)
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Book Presentation: 'Venice Requiem' by Khalid Lyamlahy, translated by Ros Schwartz

06 February 2026
With author Khalid Lyamlahy (University of Chicago) and translator Ros Schwartz I Chaired by: Jane Hiddleston (Exeter)
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'Astrology before the courts: legal debates and contested knowledge in modern France (1560-1628)'

06 February 2026
As part of the 'Céleste. Savoirs et cultures du ciel' Seminar
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'How the space of the brain shapes the mind'

05 February 2026
Daniel Margulies (MFO) I Chair: William James (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
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Workshop 'Tschirnhaus: Invention, Logic, and Medicine of the Mind'

04 February 2026
Convened by Mogens Laerke and Michael Jaworzyn (CNRS, IHRIM/MFO) As part of the NOTCOM ERC Project