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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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.
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