HISTORY OF SCIENCE
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE
POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Friday 25 April, 9.30am-7.30pm (Workshop starting on 24th April at Mansfield College) “Religion, Empire, Markets, Values: The Making of Europe?” Convenors: Paul Flather, Europaeum, Oxford, Jan Vaska, Charles University, Prague, Didier Georgakakis, Univ. Paris Panthéon Sorbonne, Joost Augusteyn, Leiden University In collaboration with the Europaeum Friday 2 May, 9.30am-5.30pm “Local Elections Compared: France/UK” Convenors: David Goldey, Lincoln College and Florent Gougou, Sciences Po-OXPO In collaboration with OXPO Tuesday 20 May, 5.15pm “Writing a Social-Historical Semantics of Diaspora” Stéphane Dufoix, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre Convenor: Will Jones, Balliol College PROGRAMME TRINITY TERM 2014 27 April - 21 June Friday 30 May, 5.15pm “Parity and Diversity in Contemporary France: Between Republicanism, Recognition and Neoliberalism, a ‘Conditional Equality’” Réjane Sénac, Sciences Po-CEVIPOF, CNRS, Paris Discussant: Lois McNay, Somerville College Chair: Rainbow Murray, Queen Mary, University of London In collaboration with OXPO Friday 6 - Saturday 7 June (6 June: 1.00-5.30pm at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College; 7 June: 9.00am-2.00pm at the MFO) “Decolonization and Welfare during ‘Les Trente Glorieuses’” Convenor: Ed Naylor, St Antony’s College-MFO With the support of the MEHRC, History Faculty and European Studies Centre, University of Oxford __________________________________________________ LE COLLEGE DE FRANCE A OXFORD Monday 19 May, 5.15pm The Language of Science “Informal and Formal Languages to Deal with Time and Events” Gérard Berry, Collège de France Chair: Pietro Corsi, Linacre College Director: Anne Simonin 2-10 Norham Road, OX2 6SE | [email protected] Library: 01865 274 224 | www.mfo.ac.uk Wednesday 30 April, 5.15pm “From Equality of Opportunity to the Society of Equals” Pierre Rosanvallon, Collège de France Chair: Sudhir Hazareesingh, Balliol College HISTORY Monday 9 June, 5.00pm “British and French America: Parallels and Divergences” Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Université Paris 8 Convenor: Laurence Whitehead, Nuffield College In collaboration with the Rothermere American Institute Friday 13 - Saturday 14 June, Institut Français du Royaume-Uni, London “The Liberation of France: Histories and Memories” Convenors: Hanna Diamond, University of Bath and Robert Gildea, Worcester College http://lfhm2014.com/conference/conference-programme/ Wednesday 25 - Friday 27 June (From 25 June at 2.00pm to 27 June at 1.00pm) “European Traditions of Revolt: The Memory of Social Conflict in Oral Culture” Convenors: Eva Guilloral, Université de Caen and David Hopkin, Hertford College In collaboration with Hertford College, the MEHRC, British Academy and CRHQ, Université de Caen HISTORY OF SCIENCE Events organised in conjunction with the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC). Convenors: John Christie, Pietro Corsi, Georgiana Hedesan, University of Oxford, Thomas Le Roux, CNRS-MFO, John Perkins, Oxford Brookes Saturday 10 May, 10.00am-4.00pm Workshop:“Sites and Networks: Creating a Database for Situating Chemistry, 1760-1840” OXFORD HISTORY OF ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY SEMINAR “Mastering Nature? Alchemy and Chemistry in History” Wednesday 7 May, 3.00pm, 18th Century Scottish Chemistry “Pedagogues and Pedagogue-ability: Cullen versus Plummer at Edinburgh University” Georgette Taylor, UCL “Professors and Students in the Age of the Chemical Revolution” John Christie, Oxford Wednesday 14 May 3.00pm, 18th Century Russian Alchemy and Chemistry “The Usefulness of Chemistry, the Uses of Science: The Place of Chemistry in Russia after Peter I” Alexander Iosad, St Edmund Hall “Alchemy and Elite Culture in Russia in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1697-1796” Robert Collis, University of Helsinki Wednesday 21 May, 3.00pm, Distillation Alchemy in the Renaissance “‘Homo alembicus’ and the Ideas of Alchemical Destillatio in Renaissance Medicine” Fabrizio Bigotti, Warburg Institute, London “Experience, Craftsmanship and Alchemical Medicine in Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Distillation Manuals” Tillmann Taape, University of Cambridge Wednesday 28 May, 3.00pm, Early Modern Alchemy “Alchemy, Images and Early Modern Cambridge” Anke Timmermann, University of Cambridge “Van Helmont on the Acquisition of the Medical Alchemical Arcana” Georgiana Hedesan, Wellcome Unit __________________________________________________ CLASSICS Friday 23 May, 9.15am-6.00pm “The Inside and the Outside (Body, Mind, Species, Territories). Anthropological Issues/Intérieur et extérieur (corps, esprit, espèces, territoires). Questions d’anthropologie” Convenor: Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, MFO-Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, Paris _________________________________________________________________ MFO IN OXFORD LAW AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY Legal History ALL SOULS COLLEGE, Wharton Room Monday 28 - Tuesday 29 April, from 9.00am each day “Words and Law: Language, Identity and Power” Convenors: Boudewijn Sirks, All Souls College, Nader Hakim, Univ. de Bordeaux and Soazick Kerneis, Univ. Paris Ouest-MFO ALL SOULS COLLEGE, Hovenden Room Tuesday 10 June, 5.00pm Presentation of the book: “L’autorité du passé – Essai anthropologique sur la common law” (Dalloz, 2011) Louis Assier-Andrieu, Sciences Po, Paris Discussant: Geneviève Helleringer, St Catherine’s College ALL SOULS COLLEGE, Hovenden Room Thursday 19 June, 5.00pm “Law and Custom in Roman, Chinese and Common Law” Round table with Jérôme Bourgon, CNRS-Institut d’Asie Orientale, Ernest Cadwell, SOAS, London, Soazick Kerneis, Univ. Paris Ouest-MFO, Paul Brand and Boudewijn Sirks, All Souls College ***** BODLEIAN LIBRARIES, Convocation House Wednesday 18 June “Discovering World War I in the Archives” Convenors: Bodleian Libraries, German Embassy, London, Institut Français du Royaume-Uni In co-operation with the Oxford German Network LADY MARGARET HALL Saturday 10 May, 9.00am-6.00pm “The Tiberian Principate: Tradition and Transition” Convenor: Christina Kuhn, Lady Margaret Hall ST ANNE’S COLLEGE Tuesday 24 June, 9.00am-7.00pm “Community, Government and Territoriality in the Political Thought of Jean Bodin” Convenor: Sophie Nicholls, St Anne’s College _________________________________________________________________ LITERATURE STUDY DAY Saturday 31 May, 9.30am-5.00pm “Exemples à l’appui : Exemplifier en sciences humaines et sociales/ Supporting Examples: Exemplifying in the Humanities” Convenors: Jean-Alexandre Perras, Lady Margaret Hall and Tiphaine Pocquet, Université Paris 3-MFO FRENCH LITERATURE FROM THE MODERN TO THE POSTMODERN Convenors: Philippe Roussin, CNRS-MFO-Wadham College and Michael Sheringham, All Souls College Friday 16 May, 2.15-6.00pm “Etats du biographique : Biographies de soi et de l’autre” Convenor: Ann Jefferson, New College In collaboration with the LABEX OBVIL Wednesday 4 June, 5.15pm “Pièces et morceaux mis bout à bout. La construction des Œuvres complètes de Marguerite Duras” Gilles Philippe, Université de Lausanne MEDIEVAL FRENCH SEMINAR Convenors: Daron Burrows, St Peter’s College, Sophie Marnette, Balliol College and Helen Swift, St Hilda’s College Tuesday 29 April, 5.15pm Presentation by Philippe Frieden Tuesday 13 May, 5.15pm “Les voix de Jehanne. Une analyse comparée des stratégies discursives entre réalité et fiction” Gabriella Parussa, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 Tuesday 27 May, 5.15pm Presentations by M.St. Students (University of Oxford) Tuesday 10 June, 5.00pm, Taylor Institution, St Giles “Terror, Horror and the ‘Fear of God’” Mary Carruthers, New York University-All Souls College 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 1 May, 5.15pm, Graduate Showcase “The First Translations and Adaptations of Molière in England” Suzanne Jones, Keble College “Can a Historian Treat Descartes’s Méditations as Exercises?” Jon Templeman, St John’s College “Education after the Jesuits: Debates about Teaching Letters after 1762” Gemma Tidman, Wolfson College Thursday 15 May, 5.00pm, Taylor Institution, Main Hall Zaharoff Lecture “Rabelais et l’art de la stéganographie” Mireille Huchon, Université Paris-Sorbonne Thursday 29 May, 5.15pm “Rabelais and the Public Voice” Emily Butterworth, King’s College London Thursday 12 June, 5.15pm “Cyrano de Bergerac: A Burlesque Writer?” Sophie Turner, St Anne’s College MODERN FRENCH SEMINAR Convenors: Nikolaj Lübecker, St John’s College, Ian Maclachlan, Merton College and Jennifer Yee, Christ Church Thursday 8 May, 5.15pm “Jews, Inverts and Snobs: A Taxonomy of Proustian Abjection” Elisabeth Ladenson, Columbia University Thursday 22 May, 5.15pm “Proust and Photography: Albertine” Suzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley Thursday 5 June, 5.15pm “After Sedgwick and Marcus: Hetero Friendship in Zola and Maupassant” Nick White, University of Cambridge Thursday 19 June, 5.15-7.15pm, Graduate Round-Table Organised by Julia Hartley and Daisy Sainsbury (Oxford Univ.) Nineteenth Century Poetry: Kate Etheridge and Natasha Ryan Life-Writing: Sara-Louise Cooper and Sam Ferguson Post-Colonial Studies: Jason Allen and Edward Still CHRONOLOGY 25 Apr. 26 Apr. 28-29 Apr. 29 April 30 April 1 May 2 May 3 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 10 May 10 May 13 May 14 May 15 May 16 May 19 May 20 May 20 May 21 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 29 May 30 May 31 May 3 June 4 June 5 June 6-7 June 9 June 10 June 10 June 12 June 13-14 June 17 June 18 June 19 June 19 June 24 June 25-27 June Workshop Study Day Conference Seminar Lecture Seminar Study Day Lecture Film Seminar Seminar Workshop Conference Seminar Seminar Lecture Study Day Lecture Lecture Film Seminar Seminar Study Day Seminar Seminar Seminar Lecture Study Day Film Lecture Seminar Workshop Lecture Lecture Seminar Seminar Conference Film Conference Seminar Round Table Study Day Conference The Making of Europe Durkheim: Myth, Symbols, Reality Words and Law Medieval French Seminar The Society of Equals Early Modern French Seminar Local Elections Compared Watercolours of Paul Cézanne Les Amants de Montparnasse History of Alchemy & Chemistry Modern French Seminar Situating Chemistry, 1760-1840 The Tiberian Principate Medieval French Seminar History of Alchemy & Chemistry Zaharoff Lecture Etats du biographique Informal & Formal Languages Semantics of Diaspora La Belle Noiseuse History of Alchemy & Chemistry Modern French Seminar The Inside and the Outside Medieval French Seminar History of Alchemy & Chemistry Early Modern French Seminar Parity and Diversity Exemples à l’appui Van Gogh Marguerite Duras Modern French Seminar Decolonization & Welfare British and French America L’autorité du passé Medieval French Seminar Early Modern French Seminar The Liberation of France Renoir World War I in the Archives Modern French Seminar Law and Custom Political Thought of Jean Bodin European Traditions of Revolt DURKHEIMIAN STUDIES Saturday 26 April, 10.30am-4.00pm “Durkheim: Myth, Symbols and Reality” Convenor: Bill Pickering, British Centre for Durkheimian Studies-University of Oxford __________________________________________________ FRENCH ART & CULTURE Saturday 3 May, 10.30am “The Watercolours of Paul Cézanne” Colin Harrison, Ashmolean Museum A lecture to coincide with the Cézanne exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (13 March-22 June 2014) _________________________________________________________ CINEMA This term, inspired by the Cézanne exhibition, the MFO will show four films on the subject of artists. All films will be in French with English subtitles. Tuesday 6 May, 8.00pm “Les Amants de Montparnasse”, Jacques Becker, 1958, 108 min. Tuesday 20 May, 8.00pm “La Belle Noiseuse”, Jacques Rivette, 1991, 125 min. Tuesday 3 June, 8.00pm “Van Gogh”, Maurice Pialat, 1991, 158 min. Tuesday 17 June, 8.00pm “Renoir”, Gilles Bourdos, 2012, 111 min. __________________________________________________