• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Catriona Seth (University of Oxford) , Wes Williams (University of Oxford) , Jennifer Oliver (St John’s College) , Cédrix Ploix (St Hugh’s College)
• Timing: Thursdays at 5.15pm
• Organising department: Maison Française d'Oxford

Thursday 13 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - “Ethics and Obscenity: Translating Sade’s 120 journées de Sodome”
  Tom Wynn (University of Durham)

Thursday 27 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - “Ecrire l’histoire de la Révolution française. De l’anecdote historique à l’écriture biographique chez Madame d’Arconville (1720-1805)”
  Marc André Bernier (Université du Québec à Trois Rivières)

Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - “De la servitude volontaire : Variations on a theme”
  Wes Williams (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - “Playing the Game of History Painting: François Boucher’s Billiard Room Brilliance”
  Mark Ledbury (University of Sydney)

Thursday 16 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - “The Making of Diderot-philosophe, 1765-82”
  Kate Tunstall (University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - On the Practices of Memory: The Case of Jeanne d’Albret and Catherine de Médicis
  David LaGuardia (Dartmouth College)

Thursday 27 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Graduate Showcase
  Various Speakers

Thursday 11 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Créole Imitations: The Politics of Dance in pre-Revolutionary Saint-Domingue
  Julia Prest (St Andrew’s)

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - La Volupté à table, ou Des Petits Soupers dans la France et la littérature du XVIIIe siècle
  Marine Ganofsky (St Andrew’s)

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - ‘Authors of Catastrophe: narrative and periodisation in eighteenth-century France’
  Jess Stacey (The Queen's College)