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.

OXFORD SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY

29 May 2024

'Chymistry and Art at the Cusp of the 17th and 18th centuries' & 'Distillation in the Philippines in the 18th century'

FILM SCREENING 'Chien de la casse' (Junkyard Dogs)

28 May 2024

Directed by Jean-Baptiste Durand (2022, 1h33min)

IN CONVERSATION with Benjamin Hoffmann

28 May 2024

With Ève Morisi (St Hugh's College), as part of the 'Contemporains' Series

CONFERENCE 'Michel Serres and Bruno Latour in conversation'

23 May 2024 to 24 May 2024

Convened by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Henriette Korthals Altes

SYMPOSIUM 'Curating and Exhibiting Geology: Past Practices and Future Challenges'

21 May 2024 to 23 May 2024

Convened by Charlotte Bigg (Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS), John Holmes (University of Birmingham), and Pierre Sans-Jofre (IMPMC, MNHN)

'Creating the Louvre's New Department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art: Issues and Challenges in a Turbulent World'

22 May 2024

by Maximilien Durand (Director of the Department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art at the Louvre Museum) & Jannic Durand (Emeritus Director of the Department of Works of Art at the Louvre Museum)

BOOK LAUNCH CELEBRATION for the publication of Robert Fox's book, 'Thomas Garnett: Science, Medicine, Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Britain' (Bloomsbury Academic Press), & for 'Carbon: A Biography' (Polity) by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Sacha Loeve

22 May 2024

OXFORD SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY

22 May 2024

'A salt sui generis: Chemical Analyses of Scarborough Waters, 1734' & 'Why a Biography of Carbon?'

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

OXFORD SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY

FILM SCREENING 'Chien de la casse' (Junkyard Dogs)

IN CONVERSATION with Benjamin Hoffmann

CONFERENCE 'Michel Serres and Bruno Latour in conversation'

SYMPOSIUM 'Curating and Exhibiting Geology: Past Practices and Future Challenges'

'Creating the Louvre's New Department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art: ​​​​​​​Issues and Challenges in a Turbulent World'

BOOK LAUNCH CELEBRATION for the publication of Robert Fox's book, 'Thomas Garnett: Science, Medicine, Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Britain' (Bloomsbury Academic Press), & for 'Carbon: A Biography' (Polity) by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Sacha Loeve

OXFORD SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY

Term cards (since 2017)

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

'Creating the Louvre's New Department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art: Issues and Challenges in a Turbulent World'