Maison Française d'Oxford Events

The Maison Française d’Oxford (MFO) was founded at the end of the Second World War on the joint initiative of the Universities of Paris and Oxford. With the support of the Chancery of the Universities of Paris, it maintains close links with French universities and the other French institutes of higher education. Associated with the University of Oxford, it is a hub of Franco-British academic collaborations.

As a member of the network of research institutes established abroad by the French Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs (www.ifre.fr) and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the MFO has become a research centre of the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS) of the CNRS. It develops research programmes with academic institutions of the University of Oxford and other British universities.

The MFO hosts a team of senior researchers from the INSHS who conduct their own research at the University of Oxford but, more importantly, organise interdisciplinary programmes, conferences, seminars and other events in collaboration with members of the University. The MFO organises and/or hosts events ranging from single-speaker lectures or seminars, day workshops on specialist topics, through to two or three-day conferences.

Find out more on our website: mfo.web.ox.ac.uk
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Web Address: https://mfo.web.ox.ac.uk/

Talks:

Monday 27 October 2025

Book Launch ‘Otherwhere Ethnography. An Introduction to Outer Space Studies’ (OUP, 2025)
Date: 27 October 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Perig Pitrou (CNRS/Collège de France), Istvan Praet (Durham University)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 November 2025

Workshop ‘Re-discovering Natural History'
Date: 3 November 2025, 9:30 - 16:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organiser: Maison Française d'Oxford
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 November 2025

Workshop ‘Idols, Methods and the Organisation of knowledge: A Seminar on the De augmentis scientiarum’
Date: 6 November 2025, 11:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: Alan Stewart (Columbia University), Dana Jalobeanu (Technische Universität Nürnberg), Daniel Garber (Princeton), Mogens Laerke (CNRS)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 November 2025

'Women and the magic of silence in the Roman Gaul'
Date: 12 November 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Soazick Kerneis (Maison Française d'Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 November 2025

Symposium ‘Exercises in Early Modern Thought: Philosophy, Arts, Science, Theology, Politics’
Date: 19 November 2025, 13:30 - 12:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford & All Souls College
Organisers: Dr Nuno Castel-Branco (All Souls College, Oxford), Mogens Laerke (CNRS)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Workshop ‘The Spinoza Clan: An Afternoon with Spinoza’s Friends and Followers’
Date: 25 November 2025, 14:00 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organiser: Mogens Laerke (MFO)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 December 2025

Book presentation ‘Réflexions sur le despotisme impérial de la Russie/Reflections on the Imperial Despotism of Russia’ (Payot, 2025)
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker : Sabine Dullin (SciencesPo, Paris)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organiser: Maison Française d'Oxford
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 December 2025

2-Day International conference - 15-16 December: Island and Empire: Revolts, Repressions, Memories From the Mediterranean to the Caribbean (18th–21st Centuries)
Date: 15 December 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: 2-10 Norham Road, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford
Organisers: Christine Chivallon, Marcandria Peraut
Hosts: TBA

Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark, Anne-Sophie Gabillas