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 6 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

WORKSHOP 'Evaluating Citizens' Assemblies: Facing challenges and exploring new perspectives'
Date: 6 May 2024, 15:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: European Studies Centre, St Antony's College
Organiser: Aliénor Ballangé (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Journée Vernant / Vernant Day
Date: 6 May 2024, 17:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

‘Channels of Digital Scholarship’ Workshop: 'Press the shutter, type the prompt. Photography in times of artificial intelligence'
Date: 9 May 2024, 10:00 - 16:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX26SE
Organisers: Anne-Sophie Gabillas (Maison Française d'Oxford), Goran Gaber (European University Institute/MFO), Andrew Cusworth (Digital Scholarship, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Red Squirrels, Big Data, and the Birth of Behavioral Ecology
Date: 9 May 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Erika L Milam (Princeton)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

SYMPOSIUM ‘Ordinary Language Philosophy Today’
Date: 10 May 2024, 10:00 - 18:00 (Friday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Alice Crary (University of Oxford), Sandra Laugier (Paris 1), Jocelyn Benoist (Paris 1), Stephen Mulhall (University of Oxford), Andrew Klevan (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organiser: Sandra Laugier (Paris 1)
Hosts: TBA

Publishing in the History of Science: a Conversation
Date: 10 May 2024, 10:00 - 11:15 (Friday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Professor Erika Lorraine Milam (Princeton), Dr Joseph D Martin (Durham)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Workshop: Eugenics in the Academy
Date: 10 May 2024, 11:20 - 18:00 (Friday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organiser: Dr Alex Aylward
Hosts: TBA

MFO / OxPo SYMPOSIUM ‘Contemporary research on environmental movements’
Date: 10 May 2024, 14:00 - 16:30 (Friday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Department of Politics and International Relations, Seminar Room D
Organisers: Joost de Moor (Sciences Po Paris), Nathalie Berny (MFO)
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 11 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Moral Progress: A Colloquium with Rahel Jaeggi
Date: 11 May 2024, 9:30 - 18:00 (Saturday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Prof Benjamin Morgan (University of Oxford), Lois McNay (University of Oxford), Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt), Alice Crary (University of Oxford)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Nash Seminar Room
Organiser: Prof Benjamin Morgan (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Benjamin Morgan (University of Oxford)

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

WORKSHOP ‘Universities face up to their past. The example of the University of Strasbourg’
Date: 13 May 2024, 14:00 - 16:30 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX26SE
Organiser: Professor Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University)
Hosts: TBA

Austerity, Experimentation and Opposition: The Global and Local Politics of Biomedical Contraception in Uganda
Date: 13 May 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Doreen Kembabazi (Warwick)
Venue Details: Maison Francaise d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

2024 ZERNOV LECTURE 'The Ecumenical Journey of the Writings of St Isaac the Syrian’
Date: 14 May 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX26SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

CONFERENCE 'Franco-British relations and Europe, from membership of the EEC to Brexit. Around the Pompidou / Heath archives ’
Date: 17 May 2024, 9:00 - 16:45 (Friday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX26SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL): a “République des lettres” in the twentieth century
Date: 20 May 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Agustí Nieto-Galan (Barcelona/Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Francaise d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

PRESENTATION ‘Creating the Louvre’s New Department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art: ​​​​​​​Issues and Challenges in a Turbulent World'
Date: 22 May 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organiser: Olivier Delouis (Maison Française d’Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

BOOK LAUNCH CELEBRATION for the publication of Robert Fox’s book, ‘Thomas Garnett: Science, Medicine, Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Britain’ (Bloomsbury Academic Press), & for ‘Carbon: A Biography’ (Polity) by B.Bensaude-Vincent and S. Loeve
Date: 22 May 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Robert Fox (University of Oxford), Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX26SE
Organiser: John Christie (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

CONFERENCE 'Michel Serres and Bruno Latour in conversation'
Date: 23 May 2024, 13:30 - 16:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), Henriette Korthals Altes (Maison française d'Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

IN CONVERSATION with Benjamin Hoffmann
Date: 28 May 2024, 17:15 - 18:45 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX26SE
Organiser: Eve Morisi (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

FILM SCREENING ‘Chien de la casse’ (Junkyard Dogs)
Date: 28 May 2024, 20:00 - 21:35 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX26SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

READINGS & DISCUSSION with poet Antoine Hummel '‘Let it flow, mais keep it slow’'
Date: 29 May 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Antoine Hummel
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX26SE
Organiser: Mathieu Farizier (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Langue Française et Révolution
Date: 30 May 2024, 16:30 - 18:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Benjamin Hoffman (Ohio State University), Olivier Ritz (Universite de Paris)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Lodge Seminar Room AB2
Organiser: Jessica Goodman (St Catherine’s College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

The Soundscapes of Herb Women: Mapping Community Healthcare in Early Modern London
Date: 3 June 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Kat Lecky (LUC)
Venue Details: Maison Francaise d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Launch: The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization
Date: 3 June 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Mohamed Amer Meziane (Brown University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organiser: Faisal Devji (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Victorian Women and Algology: The Case of Margaret Scott Gatty (1809–1873)
Date: 10 June 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Laurence Talairach (University of Toulouse/CAK/MFO)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

MFO / OxPo WORKSHOP ‘2024 European election results: Change and continuity’
Date: 13 June 2024, 14:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: SCR
Organisers: Steve Fisher (University of Oxford), Nathalie Berny (MFO)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
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)