Events

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.

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)

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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

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’

26 November 2026

Emmanuel Didier (CNRS, ENS) & Luc Boltanski (EHESS)

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)

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.

Deakin Fellow seminar: 'Organising across the imperial and global space. Women's organizations and networks at the end of the French Empire'

03 February 2026

Anna Nasser (St Antony's College, Oxford), Natalya Vince (University College, Oxford)

Book Launch 'Every Monument Will Fall' (Penguin, 2025)

29 January 2026

With author Dan Hicks (Pitt Rivers Museum/St Cross College)

'AI in Quebec Newsrooms: Prudence Over Hype' by Colette Brin (Université Laval/Reuters Institute for Journalism)

28 January 2026

Moderation: Felix Simon (Oxford Internet Institute (OII))

Theatre, Society, Wellbeing: In Conversation with Jennifer Ruimi

26 January 2026

Chaired by Jessica Goodman (St Catherine's College, Oxford) & Nicholas Cronk (Voltaire Foundation)

International workshop 'Between Techniques, Politics, and Memory: The Identification of Dead Bodies of Violence (19th-21th Century)'

22 January 2026 to 23 January 2026

Convened by Taline Garibian (University of Geneva) & Benoît Pouget (Sciences Po Aix, Mesopolhis)

'Satisficing equilibrium'

22 January 2026

Bary Pradelski (MFO) - As part of the 'Perspectives from the MFO' Lecture Series

BOOK PRESENTATION 'Réflexions sur le despotisme impérial de la Russie/Reflections on the Imperial Despotism of Russia' (Payot, 2025)

21 January 2026

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED

Das Schwazer Bergbuch. Der Bochumen Entwurf von 1554 Faksimile, Christoph Bartels, Andreas Bingener, Rainer Slotta (ed.), Band I, Bochum

'Sovereignty, Spirituality, and the Subsoil in the Duchy of Savoy'

20 January 2026

Caroline Callard (EHESS)

You can download our previous term cards as .pdf files by clicking on the links below:

Events

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

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

Lecture 'Strings and Knots: Enlightened Quipus' by Roger Chartier

Medieval French Research Seminar

Workshop 'Balzac: Les Illusions Perdues & Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes'

Early Modern French Seminar

Documentary Film: ‘Docteur David, médecin roi’

Modern French Research Seminar

Workshop 'Lalande’s Legacy: from Fame to Posterity'/'Présence de Lalande : de la gloire à la postérité'

Lecture 'Thinking Law through Metaphor: Reason and Imagination in the Language of Roman Jurists' by Dario Mantovani

In conversation with Rachid Benzine 'Espérer malgré tout. Pour une espérance à Hauteur d’Homme'

Medieval French Research Seminar

Early Modern French Seminar

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'

Workshop '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’

Book launch ‘Mosquito Work: Vectors of Global Health’

Download our term card for Michaelmas Term 2026 here.

Previous Events

Deakin Fellow seminar: 'Organising across the imperial and global space. Women's organizations and networks at the end of the French Empire'

Book Launch 'Every Monument Will Fall' (Penguin, 2025)

'AI in Quebec Newsrooms: Prudence Over Hype' by Colette Brin (Université Laval/Reuters Institute for Journalism)

Theatre, Society, Wellbeing: In Conversation with Jennifer Ruimi

International workshop 'Between Techniques, Politics, and Memory: The Identification of Dead Bodies of Violence (19th-21th Century)'

'Satisficing equilibrium'

BOOK PRESENTATION 'Réflexions sur le despotisme impérial de la Russie/Reflections on the Imperial Despotism of Russia' (Payot, 2025)

'Sovereignty, Spirituality, and the Subsoil in the Duchy of Savoy'

Term cards (since 2017)

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