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.
International conference Island and Empire: Revolts, Repressions, Memories From the Mediterranean to the Caribbean (18th-21st Centuries)
15 December 2025 to 16 December 2025
Convened by Marcandria Peraut & Christine Chivallon
WORKSHOP 'Thinking society in categories in the Middle Ages'
11 December 2025 to 12 December 2025
As part of the ANR SocioMA Project
Workshop 'Diversifying Perestroika'
10 December 2025 to 12 December 2025
In collaboration with OxPo
SERIES OF EVENTS 'Press the Shutter, Type the Prompt: Photography & Truth in Times of AI'
25 October 2025 to 05 December 2025
Three exhibits and a talk with works by Michael Christopher Brown, Haley Morris Cafiero, and Stéphanie Hubert
'Water as a morphogen for landscape forms, some examples in France'
04 December 2025
Sandrine Robert (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris - Aubervilliers, France), with consortium Project Time Machine, CNRS, IR* HumaNum and The Water Factory)
Free Film Screening 'Paris qui dort' (The Crazy Ray)
02 December 2025
Directed by René Clair, 1923, 59min
The EUROPAEUM History Seminar
27 November 2025 to 28 November 2025
'The Future of the European Past'
Talk 'French in London and the Brexit Question: Did Anything Change?'
27 November 2025
Patrick Le Galès (SciencesPo/OxPo)
You can download our previous term cards as .pdf files by clicking on the links below:
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