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)
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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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Conversation with Arthur H (in French)

07 June 2024
Convened and moderated by Michael Abecassis
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WORKSHOP 'Science and other different things. Variations on Deleuzian themes'

07 June 2024
Convened by Sara Franceschelli (ENS Lyon) & Adrian W. Moore (St Hugh's College)
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'CHANNELS OF DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP' WORKSHOP

06 June 2024
'Digital Editions of Early Modern Texts'
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OXFORD SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY

05 June 2024
'From Crocodiles to the Structure of the Universe: Jane Ewbank's shifting engagement with the Natural World' & 'Jane Ewbank and Experimental Philosophy Public Lectures in late Georgian Yorkshire'
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'Blind Far out at Sea': Eran Tzur in Conversation and Concert

04 June 2024
Convener: Elad Uzan (University of Oxford)
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BOOK LAUNCH: The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization (Verso Books, 2024)

03 June 2024
With author Mohamed Amer Meziane (Brown University)
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READINGS & DISCUSSION with poet Antoine Hummel ''Let it flow, mais keep it slow''

29 May 2024
Moderation: Mathieu Farizier (University of Oxford)
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SHAC SPRING MEETING 'From Antique to Early Modern Alchemy: New Approaches, New Horizons'

28 May 2024 to 29 May 2024
Convened by Jo Hedesan and John Christie (University of Oxford)