Maison Française d'Oxford - Events

Youth Work Camps : an Original Initiative of the Vichy Regime (1940-1944)

Webmaster — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:15:43 +0000

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 17:15

Place: Maison Française d'Oxford

Nation and Globalization

Speaker: Olivier Faron, ENS Lyon

A former fellow of the Ecole Française de Rome and a member of the Triangle research unit (UMR CNRS 5206), Olivier FARON is President of the Collegium de Lyon (Institute for Advanced Studies) and Director General of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He is a specialist of the demography of Mediterranean societies in the 19th and 20th centuries, the historical anthropology of the First World War and the history of youth camps in the Second World War. He just published Les chantiers de jeunesse : avoir 20 ans sous Pétain (Grasset, 2011).

Chair: Mike HOLLAND, St Hugh’s College

The Curse of the Commission: Christine de Pizan and the Dilemma of Literary Obligation

Webmaster — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:28:40 +0000

Tue, 06/05/2012 - 17:15

Place: Russell Room, Balliol College

Medieval French Seminar

Speaker: Deborah MCGRADY, University of Virginia

Besterman Lecture: “Celebrating Rousseau’s Tricentenary”

Webmaster — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:40:51 +0000

Thu, 06/07/2012 - 17:15

Place: Maison Française d'Oxford

Early Modern French Seminar

Speaker: Ourida MOSTEFAI, Boston College

Rousseau et les querelles de son temps

Webmaster — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:19:25 +0000

Fri, 06/08/2012 - 10:00

Place: Voltaire Foundation and Maison Française d'Oxford

Literature

Matinée à la Voltaire Foundation
Séance présidée par Ourida Mostefai (Boston College)

9h30 : Présentation par les organisateurs

9h45 : Yannick Séité (Université Paris VII) : "Rousseau, Voltaire et la querelle du livre"

10h25 : Nathalie Ferrand (ITEM, CNRS-ENS) : "Querelles entre soi: Rousseau en marge de Rousseau (à propos de la Lettre à d'Alembert)"

11h05 : Pause café

11h20 : Mladen Kozul (Université du Montana) : "La Lettre à d'Alembert et la critique augustinienne du théâtre"

12h : Apéritif autour d’un tableau

Nicholas Cronk (Université d’Oxford, Voltaire Foundation) : "Faire le portrait de Rousseau en Angleterre"

Après-midi à la Maison Française d’Oxford
Séance présidée par Russell Goulbourne (Université de Leeds)

14h30 : Colas Duflo (Université d’Amiens) : "Rousseau dans la querelle du matérialisme"

15h10 : Anne-Marie Mercier-Faivre (Université de Lyon I) : "La stratégie polémique des Lettres de la montagne"

15h50 : Pause café

16h00 : Glenn Roe (OeRC, University of Oxford) : "Présentation de la correspondance de J.-J. Rousseau dans Electronic Enlightenment"

16h40 : Rudy Le Menthéour (Bryn Mawr College) : "De l'intrusion polémique : Rousseau et les querelles médicales de son temps"

17h20 : Mots de conclusion par Alain Viala (Université d’Oxford)

Environmental History Seminar: History of biodiversity (20th century)

Webmaster — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:29:11 +0000

Mon, 06/11/2012 - 16:00

Place: tbc

History of Science

Environmental History Seminar

The aims of this seminar are to help bring together British and French researchers working on the same topics or problematics, and to discuss recent research on environmental history. Therefore, the principle is to invite a French and a British colleague to each seminar, to present their own research and then discuss it.

“An Environmental History of Genes: Plant Breeding and Crop Biodiversity in France, 20th century”
Christophe Bonneuil, EHESS, Paris

“Plant Transfers, Bio-invasions, and Biodiversity: An African Historical Perspective”
William Beinart, University of Oxford

"Vendredi Soir" by Claire Denis

Webmaster — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:00:34 +0000

Tue, 06/12/2012 - 20:00

Place: Maison Française d'Oxford

Cinéma

This term, the Maison Française will show four films celebrating the career of the film director Claire Denis.

8.00pm: "Vendredi Soir", by Claire Denis (2002, 90 min)

Trailer:

Les justices alternatives, hier et aujourd’hui

Webmaster — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:31:30 +0000

Wed, 06/13/2012 - 09:30

Place: Maison Française d'Oxford

Classics

“If your subject is law, the roads are plain to anthropology”. This advice of the American judge Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. sounds quite convenient for the study of a famous legal topic, Alternative Dispute Resolution.

The concept of “restorative justice” was promoted by anthropologists: in the “small worlds” they were observing, - the face-to-face groups of exotic societies -, it was indeed the main way of resolving conflicts and it had been so for centuries. But transferring and spreading ADR as a model for the present day is no simple matter and that explains the uneven acceptance of alternative justice in modern societies. Because it relies on mediation and consensus, alternative justice involves a group. That means that this kind of justice can exist if strong solidarity is there to ensure a fair resolution of the dispute. Therefore, the question may be asked: is it possible to enforce alternative justice in societies where communities are weak and where the State has long claimed to be sole guardian of citizens’ rights?

Some elements for an answer may be found in legal history. But the lessons that it teaches depend on the sources we use. For a long time, legal historians on the continent were much influenced by the culture of Statute Law and were inclined to view ancient laws in a rather narrow-minded fashion. Today, the time may have come to cast a new glance at our past and to consider the many ways to resolve conflicts. Is it possible that our ancient European societies do share elements with the exotic world ? Shall we follow Marcel Détienne and “venture to compare the incomparable” ?

Focusing on legal practice and considering the ancient methods of handling disputes induces us to reconsider the birth of the two great European legal systems, namely the Common Law and the Continental Law systems.

Programme

9h30 Introduction

Chair: Soazick Kerneis (Université Paris Ouest-MFO)

9h45-10h15 Boudewijn Sirks (University of Oxford, All Souls College),
“The episcopalis audientia in Late Antiquity”

Chair: Chris Wickham, (University of Oxford, All Souls College)

10h30-11h Thomas Charles-Edwards (University of Oxford, Jesus College),
“The Three columns of law”

11h30-12h00 Emanuele Conte (Roma III),
“Karissimo amico domino Aymerico. The turn to Roman procedure and the beginning of legal doctrines”

Chair: Laurent Douzou (Visiting Professor MFO)

14h-14h30 Louis Assier-Andrieu (Ecole de Droit – Science Po)
“Alternative dispute settlement institutions: historical processes or timeless structures?”

14h30-15h Emmanuel Dockès (Université Paris Ouest)
“ Power struggle as an alternative justice? The example of the right to strike”

15h30-16h30 Raymond VERDIER, Directeur de recherches C.N.R.S.
“Les ordalies, un phénomène transculturel: l’épreuve rituelle du feu chez les Kabyè du Togo” (film de 2011 commenté)

Is it already all over? Thoughts on Digital Practice and Literary and Artistic Experimentation in France

Webmaster — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:51:48 +0000

Thu, 06/14/2012 - 17:15

Place: Maison Française d'Oxford

Modern French Seminar

Speaker: Nina PARISH, University of Bath

For a Comparative History of Industrial Risks Regulation, 18th-19th Centuries

Webmaster — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:28:32 +0000

Mon, 06/18/2012 - 09:30

Place: Maison Française d'Oxford

History of Science

If comparison between national or regional contexts has been a driving force for the historiography of the « industrial revolution », and if environmental history has been immediately written on a global scale, the evolution of environmental and risk regulation is often studied according to the national, regional or local scales of the institutions producing the regulations.

The aim of this workshop is to invite historians to consider how comparison could advance our understanding of the different ways of regulating risk and environment.

9h30. Welcoming and Introduction

9h40. Thomas Le Roux (CNRS/MFO), Regulating the environments in Paris and London 18^th century

10h20. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Imperial College), The safety norm: legalising risk and producing responsibility, 1800-1900

11h. Coffee break

11h20 Cornel Zwierlein (Ruhr-Universität), British and German fire insurances and proto-industrial companies from the end of the 18^th century to the beginning of the 19^th century

Commentators: Liliane Hilaire-Perez (University of Paris Diderot, EHESS) and Marie-Thébaud-Sorger (EHESS)

13h. Lunch

14h30. Jean-Louis Escudier (CNRS/University of Montpellier), The management of mining accidents in Western Europe 1810-1914

15h10. Isabelle Lespinet (University of Paris X), A transnational reading of the ‘Congrès des Accidents du travail’, 1889-1911

15h50. Julia Moses (University of Sheffield), The discovery of occupational risk, 1850-1920

16h30. Discussion.

Commentators: François Jarrige (University of Burgundy) and Philippe Minard (University of Paris 8-IDHE, EHESS).

This workshop is part of the research programme “History of industrial accidents and risks, France/Great Britain, end 17^th – end 19^th c.” funded by the City of Paris, and based at the Centre de Recherches Historiques (EHESS/CNRS) with the Groupe de Recherche en histoire environnementale (GRHEn).

Website : http://risks.hypotheses.org/

Public Policy Changes in Times of Crisis

Webmaster — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:17:15 +0000

Tue, 06/19/2012 - 14:00

Place: Maison Française d'Oxford

Nation and Globalization

Across the Channel: Intellectual Relations between England and France in the Early Modern Period. Part Three

Webmaster — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:45:22 +0000

Wed, 06/27/2012 - 10:00

Place: Maison Française d'Oxford

Modernities