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.
Lyndal Roper (Emeritus Regius Professor of History at Oxford University): "The German Peasants' War as a Moment of Rupture"
15 April 2026
Keynote of the 20th GRACEH (Graduate Conference of European History)
SHAC Spring meeting - Remembering Bill Brock: Chemistry and Culture
10 April 2026
Convened by Frank A.J.L. James (UCL)
'Michel Serres, historian of science despite himself'
09 April 2026
'War, Black Markets and Price indices, 19th and 20th centuries'
06 April 2026
Online Seminar - Bimonthly - First Monday of the Month 10.00 AM (C.E.T.)
Spring School Les Fabriques de l'antique 'Making Antiquity: Constructions and Representations of Times Past'
23 March 2026 to 27 March 2026
Convened by Olivier Delouis (MFO)
'The Renaissance on Board, Really? Revisiting Jean and Raoul Parmentier's Mythified Voyage to Sumatra in 1529'
20 March 2026
Romain Bertrand (Sciences Po/CERi)
Rencontre avec le cinéaste Radu Mihăileanu
13 March 2026
Présenté par Michaël Abecassis
Children's Week
09 March 2026 to 12 March 2026
A week exploring new frontiers, infant cognition, emotions, and care, including the history of children's health, while rethinking classic themes such as work, children's art and literature, and naturalist approaches to learning.
You can download our previous term cards as .pdf files by clicking on the links below:
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