Maison Française d'Oxford
Description: The MFO is a hub for research collaborations between French and British universities, first and foremost with the University of Oxford. It helps French scholars of all levels to access the wealth of resources provided by Oxford, and it also helps Oxford academics to start joint projects with French researchers.
Talks:

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

From Teatime to TV: 200 Years of Science Communication at the Royal Institution
Date: 3 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Katy Duncan (Royal Institution)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

For the sake of history alone: Queer adaptations of Greek Tragedy in Greece
Date: 3 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Giorgos Sampatakakis
Venue: Taylor Institution Library, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Main Hall
Organiser: APGRD (University of 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

Friday 7 November 2025

How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka's New Science
Date: 7 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Aaron Schuster (Cornell University)
Venue: Taylor Institution Library, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Room 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 November 2025

Multispecies Interactions in bridging Folk and Biomedical Knowledge: hookworm, roundworm and wormweed in Jamaica, 1913-1936
Date: 10 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Jonathan David Roberts (Leeds)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
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

Monday 17 November 2025

Baconian Alchemy: Making Gold in the Novum organum and the Sylva (Co-organised with the research project NOTCOM, at the Maison Française d’Oxford)
Date: 17 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Daniel Garber (Princeton)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Phoebe Giannisi in conversation with Brian Sneeden and A. E. Stallings
Date: 17 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden, A. E. Stallings
Venue: Taylor Institution, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Main Hall
Organiser: APGRD (University of Oxford)
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

Monday 24 November 2025

Marie Curie and public histories of science
Date: 24 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Sarah Dry (Oxford), Stéphane van Damme (CNRS/MFO)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
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

Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Gregory Jusdanis
Venue: Taylor Institution, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Main Hall
Organiser: APGRD (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 December 2025

Anxious nurses and forgotten patients: psychoanalysing the hospital in mid-century Britain
Date: 1 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Grace Whorrall-Campbell (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
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

This list contains talks from the following series:
Early Modern French Research Seminar
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
Medieval French Research Seminar
Modern French Research Seminar
NOTCOM Research Hub (The Common Notion: Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events