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Maison française d'Oxford
CNRS-MAEE
Program Hilary Term 2013
HISTORY
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY SEMINAR
POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
LAW AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY
LITERATURE
MEDIEVAL FRENCH SEMINAR
KEYWORDS IN EARLY MODERN FRENCH CULTURE)
Oxford
13 January – 9 March 2013
- Tuesday 8 - Wednesday 9 January (from 9.00 am each day). - “Scientific Communication and its History (III). Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture”
Convenors: Pietro CORSI, History Faculty, Stephen JOHNSTON, Museum of History of Science, Thomas LE ROUX, MFO et al.
- Saturday 16 March, 9.30 am-5.00 pm. - Garden and Landscape History. - Seminar “Rustic Nature and Artistic Rusticity”
Convenor: Laurent CHÂTEL, Univ. Paris Sorbonne-CNRS-MFO
In collaboration with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY SEMINAR
Convenor: Thomas LE ROUX, CNRS-MFO
- Monday 14 January, 4.30 pm, History Faculty, George St. - The Climate of Moral Science (18th-19th Centuries)
- “Climate, Work and Empire: The Climate of Moral Science, 1750-1850”, Julien VINCENT, Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne
- “Something in the Air: Atmosphere and Identity in Britain’s Tropical Colonies, 1770-1830”, Mark HARRISON, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
- Monday 4 February, 4.30 pm. - Biosphere and the Environmental Sciences (20th Century)
- “Desertification and Biosphere: Soviet Earth Scientists, Internationalization of Science and Land Degradation in the Eurasian Steppes, 1968-1992”, Marc ELIE, CERCEC-CNRS-EHESS, Paris
- “Understanding of Natural Physical Systems and Natural Resources amongst Soviet Geographers, post-1945”, Jonathan OLDFIELD, University of Glasgow
- Monday 4 March, 4.30 pm. - Waste, Water and Urban Engineering (19th-early 20th C.)
- “Water and Urban Waste Treatment in France (from the 1890s to the mid-20th Century): A Comparative Approach on the Diffusion of Innovations Designed for Environmental Improvements”, Stéphane FRIOUX, Université de Lyon II
- “Managing Britain’s Waste, 1870-1950”, John CLARK, University of St Andrews
POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Wednesday 6 February, 5.15 pm. - “Stratagems, Spoils and Traps of Intra-Party Democracy: The Case of the French UMP”, Florence HAEGEL, Sciences Po, Paris
- Discussant: Andrew KNAPP, University of Reading
- Chair: Sudhir HAZAREESINGH, Balliol College
In collaboration with OXPO
LAW AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY
- Thursday 21 February, 2.00-4.00 pm. - “The Roman Economy”, Round table with Jean ANDREAU, EHESS, Paris and Alan BOWMAN, Brasenose College
- Chair: Georgy KANTOR, St John’s College
- Convenor: Soazick KERNEIS, Université Paris Ouest-MFO
LITERATURE
Friday 22 February, 3.00-6.30 pm. - Oriental Tales in Western Contexts
- “Tale Telling: A Workshop on The Arabian Nights”, Aboubakr CHRAÏBI, INALCO, Paris and Marina WARNER, University of Essex, with Geert Jan VAN GELDER and
Otared HAIDAR, Oriental Institute
Convenor: Laurent CHÂTEL, Univ. Paris Sorbonne-CNRS-MFO
MEDIEVAL FRENCH SEMINAR
Convenors: Sophie MARNETTE, Balliol College and Helen SWIFT, St Hilda’s College
- Tuesday 15 January, 5.15 pm. - “‘Vers la fin croistra la religion’: The End of the World According to the French Prose Apocalypse”, Daron BURROWS, University of Manchester
- Tuesday 29 January, 5.15 pm. - “Courtly Love: Time for a Re-Embrace?”, Round-table discussion led by Chimene BATEMAN, New College
- Tuesday 12 February, 5.15 pm. - “Guillaume de Tignonville’s Dits Moraux des philosophes: Greco-Arabica in Circulation in Late Medieval Europe”, David WRISLEY, American University of Beirut
- Tuesday 26 February, 5.15 pm. - “Imager Mélusine, le défi du texte”, Maud PEREZ-SIMON, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3
KEYWORDS IN EARLY MODERN FRENCH CULTURE
Convenors: Alain VIALA, Lady Margaret Hall and Caroline WARMAN, Jesus College
- Thursday 17 January, 3.30 pm. - “Brève histoire de l’Humanisme : de Pétrarque à Camus”, Irène SALAS, Brasenose College
- Thursday 31 January, 3.30 pm. - “Rhetoric”, Neil KENNY, All Souls College
Contacts
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