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 26 January 2025

Debunking three myths concerning Albert Einstein
Date: 26 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dennis Lehmkuhl (Bonn)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 January 2025

'AI in Quebec Newsrooms: Prudence Over Hype' by Colette Brin (Université Laval/Reuters Institute for Journalism)
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
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Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 January 2025

Book Launch ‘Every Monument Will Fall’ (Penguin, 2025)
Date: 29 January 2026, 16:00 - 18:00
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Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 February 2025

Lithic New York: Scientific Groundings of the Metropolis in the Age of Revolutions (Soils, Surfaces, Depths)
Date: 2 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Stéphane van Damme (MFO)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 February 2025

Workshop - Tschirnhaus: Invention, Logic, and Medicine of the Mind
Date: 4 February 2026, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Michael Jaworzyn (CNRS-MFO, Oxford), Mogens Laerke (CNRS-IHRIM/MFO, Lyon/Oxford), Pablo Montosa Molinero (Barcelona)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: Mogens Laerke (CNRS-IHRIM/MFO, Lyon/Oxford), Michael Jaworzyn (CNRS-MFO, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Workshop 'Tschirnhaus: Invention, Logic, and Medicine of the Mind'
Date: 4 February 2026, 14:00 - 17:00
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Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 February 2025

The Enlightenment and the History of Deep Time (NOTCOM/All Souls Joint Session)
Date: 5 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Ivano Dal Prete (Yale)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘How the space of the brain shapes the mind’
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
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Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 February 2025

Book Presentation: 'Venice Requiem' by Khalid Lyamlahy, translated by Ros Schwartz
Date: 6 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:30
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Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 February 2025

Disease and the Dead Body in Britain in the Long-Eighteenth Century
Date: 9 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Eleanor Kerfoot (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Launch ‘Judges before history/Les juges devant l’histoire’ Jean-Paul Jean (Président de chambre honoraire à la Cour de cassation)
Date: 9 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
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Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 February 2025

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Film Screening and Roundtable on New Book (Enlightenment Workshop, convenors Nicholas Cronk and Jacob Chatterjee)
Date: 11 February 2026, 15:30 - 18:00
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Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 February 2025

Chronic Constitutions: Experts, Disease Risks and Remaking Indian Bodies in Post Colonial India (1940-70s)
Date: 16 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Columbia)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Legal humanism across nationalisms and transnational history' Presentation of the ISTHisFrench project (ERC-2024-COG 101170233)
Date: 16 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:15
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Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 February 2025

Workshop ‘Beyond the Body of the Church: Formalisations of Social Ideas in Medieval Christianity’
Date: 23 February 2026, 9:30 - 17:00
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Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Mental After-Care Association, Recovery and Psychotherapy
Date: 23 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Hannah Blythe (Leeds)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 February 2025

‘What’s on a Vase? When French Feminism Meets Chinese Art’
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
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Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 March 2025

Popular Science Writing: Literary Approaches
Date: 2 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Michael Whitworth (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 March 2025

Book presentation ‘Cultural expertise. Theories, Laws and Practices’ (Routledge, 2025)
Date: 3 March 2026, 16:00 - 18:00
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Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Special Film Screening 'Le dernier Canadien français'
Date: 3 March 2026, 19:00 - 22:00
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Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 March 2025

The quantification of famine in the British Empire, 1770-1801
Date: 9 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : John Lidwell-Durnin (Exeter)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Children’s Week - 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.
Date: 9 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
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Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 March 2025

‘The Renaissance on Board, Really? Revisiting Jean and Raoul Parmentier’s Mythified Voyage to Sumatra in 1529’
Date: 20 March 2026, 12:30 - 14:00
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Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 April 2025

‘Michel Serres, historian of science despite himself’
Date: 9 April 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 10 April 2025

SHAC Spring meeting - Remembering Bill Brock: Chemistry and Culture
Date: 10 April 2026, 9:30 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 12 May 2025

Mitigating Dimensionality and Uncertainty in Systems: A Transition from Classical Control to AI
Date: 12 May 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
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Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
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