MFO IN OXFORD
CLASSICS
IOANNOU CENTRE, 66 St Giles
Journée Jean-Pierre Vernant
Tuesday 25 February, 2.00pm
Presentations by French and British Doctoral Students
5.00pm: Keynote Lecture by François de Polignac, EPHE, Paris:
“Anthropology and the ‘Mediterranean Paradigm’: Which Connections?”
Convenors: Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, CNRS-MFO and
Robert Parker, New College
IOANNOU CENTRE, 66 St Giles, Lecture Theatre
Ancient History Tuesday Seminar
Tuesday 11 March, 5.00pm
“The Inside and the Outside of the Body (Medical Treatises from
Hippocrates to Galen)”
Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, CNRS-MFO
LAW AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY
PROGRAMME
HILARY TERM 2014
19 January - 15 March
ALL SOULS COLLEGE
Legal History Seminar: Codifying the Law - II
Convenors: Boudewijn Sirks, All Souls College and
Soazick Kerneis, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre-MFO
Wednesday 5 February, 3.00-5.00pm, Seminar Room
“Why did Louis XIV First and Foremost Codify Civil Procedure?”
Serge Dauchy, CNRS-Univ. Lille II-Univ. Saint-Louis, Bruxelles
Monday 17 February, 5.00-7.00pm, Wharton Room
“The Historiography on Roman Legal Thought from Fritz Schulz
until our time”
Aldo Schiavone, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane
Wednesday 5 March, 5.00-7.00pm, Hovenden Room
“The Great Codes (end of the 18th Century-19th Century) and
the Law Consolidation Movement”
Jean-Louis Halpérin, ENS, Paris
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, Rainolds Room
Friday 14 March, 2.30pm
“From Self-Reliance to Disobedience: The Question of Voice”
Sandra Laugier, CNRS
Chair: Anna Marmodoro, Corpus Christi College
Director: Anne Simonin
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INSTITUTE OF EUROPEAN AND COMPARATIVE LAW,
St Cross Building
Tuesday 11 March, 1.00pm
“The Role of the Judiciary in Contemporary Democracies: Principle,
Politics and Accountability”
Roger Errera, Former Member of the Conseil d’Etat
Convenor: Stefan Vogenauer, IECL
HISTORY
ST HUGH’S COLLEGE, Mordan Hall
Wednesday 12 March, 5.00pm
“Social Encounters in the French Trenches”
Nicolas Mariot, CNRS-CESSP
Chair: Adrian Gregory, Pembroke College
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
CONGRESS
Tuesday 19 - Wednesday 20 March, 9.30am-6.00pm
“Franco-British Exchanges in the Life Sciences during the 19th
and 20th Centuries”
20th International Congress of the Société d’Histoire et
d’Épistémologie des Sciences de la Vie (Shesvie)
Convenor: Stéphane Tirard, Université de Nantes
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY SEMINAR
Convenor: Thomas Le Roux, CNRS-MFO
Monday 24 February, 4.30pm, History Faculty, George St.
Toxicants and Agriculture (20th Century)
“Insecti-, Pesti-, Homi- cides? Public Health and Agricultural Pesticides
in France in the 1950s and 1960s”, Nathalie Jas, INRA-RITME
“Beyond Toxic: Britain and the Challenges of Agricultural Antibiotic
Regulation since 1953”, Claas Kirchhelle, University College
Monday 3 March, 4.30pm
Toxicants and Transnational Policies (20th Century)
“Powerless Science? Science and Politics in a Toxic World”
Soraya Boudia, Université Paris-Est-LATTS
“Dangerous Trades: A Transnational Perspective”
Joseph Melling, University of Exeter
OXFORD GARDEN AND LANDSCAPE HISTORY SEMINAR
Convenor: Laurent Châtel, Univ. Paris-Sorbonne-CNRS-MFO
Saturday 8 March, 10.30am-4.30pm
“Rustic Nature and Artistic Rusticity in China”
Yolaine Escande, CNRS-EHESS, Alison Hardie, University of
Leeds and Stephen McDowall, University of Edinburgh
Chair: Craig Clunas, Trinity College
Supported by The Oxford Centre for Research in the Humanities
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DURKHEIMIAN STUDIES
Saturday 15 February, 10.30am-4.00pm
“Thinking about Religion in France around 1900”
Convenors: Bill Pickering, British Centre for Durkheimian
Studies-Oxford and Sondra Hausner, St Peter’s College
In conjunction with Orientophilia of the Faculty of Theology
and Religion, University of Oxford
POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Wednesday 26 February, 5.15pm
“Rescaling Light Rail Policies in Europe”
Charlotte Halpern, CEE-Sciences Po, Paris (OXPO programme)
Chair: Malek Al-Chalabi, Transport Studies Unit, Oxford Univ.
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LITERATURE
CONFERENCE
Monday 31 March - Wednesday 2 April
(31 March: from 3.30pm at All Souls College,
1 and 2 April: from 9.00am at MFO)
“Transforming the Early Modern Republic of Letters: Literature, Learning,
Logic, Books. A Conference in Honour of Ian Maclean”
Convenors: Neil Kenny, All Souls College, Richard Scholar,
Oriel College and Wes Williams, St Edmund Hall
MEDIEVAL FRENCH SEMINAR
Convenors: Daron Burrows, St Peter’s College, Sophie Marnette,
Balliol College and Helen Swift, St Hilda’s College
Tuesday 21 January, 5.15pm
“The Kings of Britain and England in a Medieval Occitan Text:
Questions of Translation and Context”
Catherine Léglu, University of Reading
Tuesday 4 February, 5.15pm
“Performativity in Verse Romances and the dits: Thinking Subjectivity
Back in Time from Christine de Pizan’s Le Livre du Duc des Vrais
Amans”
Charles L. Samuelson, Princeton University
Tuesday 18 February, 5.15pm
“Language Myths and the Historiography of French”
Anthony Lodge, University of St Andrews
Followed by a drinks reception and presentation of “On Linguistic
Change in French: Socio-Historical Approaches; Studies in Honour of
R. Anthony Lodge”
Monday 3 March, 5.00pm, Venue to be confirmed
“Forgery in the Middle Ages”
Julia Crick, King’s College London
An interdisciplinary event sponsored by Oxford Medieval
Studies, a network supported and funded by The Oxford
Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
PHD STUDY DAY
Friday 28 February, 9.30am-6.45pm
“Formes et pratiques des querelles/Quarrels: Forms and Practices”
Convenors: Kate Tunstall, Worcester College and Alain Viala,
Lady Margaret Hall, in collaboration with University of Fribourg
KEYWORDS IN EARLY MODERN FRENCH CULTURE
Convenors: Richard Scholar, Oriel College
and Alain Viala, Lady Margaret Hall
Thursday 13 February, 5.15pm
“Marie NDiaye: Inhospitable Fictions”
Shirley Jordan, Queen Mary, University of London
Thursday 23 January, 3.30pm
“How to be a Miser”
Jonathan Patterson, St Hugh’s College
Thursday 27 February, 5.15pm
“Catherine Breillat and L’Origine du monde”
Emma Wilson, University of Cambridge
Thursday 6 February, 3.30pm
“How to be a Monster”
Wes Williams, St Edmund Hall
Thursday 13 March, 5.15pm
“French Lessons: Literature and the Mission civilisatrice”
Nick Harrison, King’s College London
Thursday 20 February, 3.30pm
“How to be a Person of Polite Manners, honnête, galant and so on”
Alain Viala, Lady Margaret Hall
Thursday 6 March, 3.30pm
“How to be an Early Modern Quarreler”
Alain Viala, Lady Margaret Hall
EARLY MODERN FRENCH SEMINAR
Convenors: Emma Claussen, St John’s College,
Richard Scholar, Oriel College, Caroline Warman,
Jesus College and Wes Williams, St Edmund Hall
Thursday 23 January, 5.15pm
“‘Nos ancêtres les Gaulois’: Inventing Gallic Antiquities in Renaissance
France”
Richard Cooper, Brasenose College
Followed by a book launch and drinks reception
Thursday 6 February, 5.15pm
“‘Corps infect et defaict, ame fausse et traitresse’: The Plague of Vieilles
in the Recueils satyriques”
Victoria Harvey, University of Cambridge
Thursday 20 February, 5.15pm
“‘Ma délicieuse île’: Picturing Other Spaces with Rousseau”
Daniel Brewer, University of Minnesota
Thursday 6 March, 5.15pm
“Performing, Picturing and Singing Racine’s Esther: A Round Table
following the Performances of Esther in the Chapel of St John’s College,
Oxford, from Thursday 27th February to Saturday 1st March at 8pm”
Matthew Cheung Salisbury, Julia Hartley, Michael Hawcroft
and David Maskell, University of Oxford
MODERN FRENCH SEMINAR
Convenors: Nikolaj Lübecker, St John’s College,
Ian Maclachlan, Merton College and Jennifer Yee, Christ Church
Thursday 30 January, 5.15pm
“Blanchot (1938-1939) : les années insoupçonnables”
David Uhrig, New York University, Paris
FRENCH LITERATURE FROM THE MODERN
TO THE POSTMODERN
Convenors: Philippe Roussin, CNRS-MFO and
Michael Sheringham, All Souls College
Friday 7 February, 2.00-5.00pm
“Pourquoi écrire une vie ? Usages, valeurs et fonctions de la biographie
littéraire”
Convenors: Didier Alexandre, Université Paris-Sorbonne,
Alexandre Gefen, CNRS and Ann Jefferson, New College
In collaboration with the LABEX OBVIL
Friday 7 March, 2.15-4.00pm
Title to be confirmed
Philippe Roger, EHESS, Paris
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READING
Wednesday 12 February, 8.00pm
Nicole Gore will read extracts from “A la recherche du temps perdu”
by Marcel Proust, with musical interludes by Bruno Guastalla
(cello) and Sarah Verney Caird (piano)
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CINEMA
This term, the MFO will show four films on the subject of
World War I. All films will be in French with English subtitles.
Tuesday 28 January, 8.00pm
“La Grande Illusion”, Jean Renoir, 1937, 117 min.
Tuesday 11 February, 8.00pm
“La Vie et rien d’autre”, Bertrand Tavernier, 1989, 135 min.
Tuesday 25 February, 8.00pm
“La Chambre des officiers”, François Dupeyron, 2001, 135 min.
Tuesday 11 March, 8.00pm
“Joyeux Noël”, Christian Carion, 2005, 116 min.
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11 Mar.
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13 Mar.
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19-20 Mar.
31 Mar.-2 Apr.
Seminar
Lecture
Congress
Conference
Medieval French Seminar
Keywords Seminar
Early Modern French Seminar
La Grande Illusion
Modern French Seminar
Medieval French Seminar
Legal History Seminar
Keywords Seminar
Early Modern French Seminar
Pourquoi écrire une vie?
La Vie et rien d’autre
A la recherche du temps perdu
Modern French Seminar
Religion in France around 1900
Legal History Seminar
Medieval French Seminar
Keywords Seminar
Early Modern French Seminar
Environmental History
Journée Jean-Pierre Vernant
La Chambre des officiers
Rescaling Light Rail Policies
Modern French Seminar
Quarrels: Forms and Practices
Environmental History
Medieval French Seminar
Legal History Seminar
Keywords Seminar
Early Modern French Seminar
Philippe Roger
Garden and Landscape History
The Role of the Judiciary
The Inside and the Outside of
the Body
Joyeux Noël
Social Encounters in the
French Trenches
Modern French Seminar
The Question of Voice
Franco-British Exchanges
Transforming the Early
Modern Republic of Letters