Seminars and Lectures
Upcoming events are listed below. You can also browse the full list of future events, which are organised by subject: History Enlightenment Workshop, English, French, German, History, History of Science and History of Art. See also the annual Besterman Lecture.
Upcoming Events
Scroll down for events under their appropriate subject headings.
History Enlightenment Workshop
Besterman Lecture 2012
Thursday 7 June 2012, 5:15pm
Maison Française d’Oxford
Ourida Mostefai (Boston College) will speak on ‘Celebrating Rousseau’s Tricentenary’. All welcome.
English Literature
French Literature
Friday 8 June, 10:00am–6:30pm
Maison Française d’Oxford
‘Rousseau et les querelles de son temps’.
Conveners: Nathalie Ferrand, ITEM, Paris-CNRS, and Nicholas Cronk, Voltaire Foundation.
In collaboration with the ANR-AGON research project.
German Literature
History
Thursday 3 May, 11:15am – Friday 4 May, 4:00pm
Maison Française d’Oxford
‘Louis XIV: Outside In’.
Conveners: Charles-Edouard Levillain, IEP Lille, Tony Claydon, University of Bangor, and Luc Borot, MFO.
Thursday 24 May, 9:00am –Friday 25 May, 5:00pm
Maison Française d’Oxford
‘“Thinking Matter”: Representations of the Mind-Body Problem in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800’.
Conveners: Isabelle Moreau, University College London, Kate Tunstall, Worcester College, and Caroline Warman, Jesus College.
Programme (pdf).
Wednesday 27 June, 10:00am–6:00pm
Maison Française d’Oxford
‘Across the Channel: Intellectual Relations between England and France in the Early Modern Period, Part Three’.
Conveners: Philip Beeley, Linacre College, and Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO.
In collaboration with the ‘Cultures of Knowledge’ research project.
History of Art
History of Science
Monday 21 May, 4:00pm
History Faculty, George Street
The Climate Question (18th-19th Centuries)
‘Climate and “Government” (France, 18th-19th Centuries)’, Fabien Locher, CNRS-EHESS, Paris; and ‘Climate as Agency’, Vladimir Jankovic, University of Manchester.
Monday 18 June, 9:30am–5:00pm
Maison Française d’Oxford
‘For a Comparative History of Industrial Risks Regulation, 18th-19th centuries’.
Conveners: Thomas Le Roux, CNRS-MFO, and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Imperial College, London.
