2011-2012 

Séminaire « Histoire et poétique des querelles »
Programme AGON, en collaboration avec le CELLF et le GRIHL

Organisation  : Lise Andries (CNRS-CELLF), Alain Viala (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford), Alexis Tadié (Paris-Sorbonne).

Programme Automne 2011

2008-2009  
Early Modern French Seminar

Conveners: Kate Tunstall (Worcester College and the Voltaire Foundation) and Alain Viala (Lady Margaret Hall)

5.15pm on alternate Thursdays in the Maison Française, Norham Road, Oxford
Tel. (2)74220 - Email : maison@herald.ox.ac.uk

Week 1 (October 16th)
"Les Dégoûts de Voltaire: Impressions et expression'' (Voltaire Foundation Besterman Lecture)
Marie-Hélène Cotoni, Université de Nice

Week 3 (October 30th)
"Women Writing Women: Female Characters as Portrayed by Female Dramatists"
Ruth Vorstman, New College, Oxford

Week 5 (November 13th)
'Quarrelling and Book History'
Olivier Ferret, Lyon-II

Week 7 (November 27th)
'Flaubert as Reader of Montaigne: Some New Evidence'
Tim Chesters, Royal Holloway, London


Tea will be served from 5.

All welcome.

2007-2008
Trinity Term

Conveners: Kate Tunstall (Worcester College and the Voltaire Foundation), Alain Viala (Lady Margaret Hall) and James Ambrose (Exeter College)

Week 1 (24 th April)
Jonathan Mallinson ( Trinity College , Oxford )
‘Textual liaisons: Voltaire, Paméla and Don Quixote '

Week 3 (8th May)
Tim Hampton ( University of California at Berkeley )
‘ The Useful and the Honorable: Literature, Diplomacy and the Ethics of Mediation in the Late Renaissance'

Week 5 (22nd May)
Jean-Paul Sermain (Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle)
‘Les Lumières hors jeu : l'éviction du débat sur la scène du 18e siècle (Voltaire, Marivaux, Diderot, Beaumarchais)'

Week 7 (5th June)
James Ambrose ( Exeter College )
Ancient theatre and the early modern: the images of Seneca's tragedies

2007-2008
Hilary Term  

Convenors: Kate Tunstall (Worcester College and the Voltaire Foundation), Alain Viala (Lady Margaret Hall) and James Ambrose (Exeter College)

17 th January (week 1)
‘Le roman au dix-huitième siècle, relève de la philosophie des passions'
Colas Duflo, Université d'Amiens

31 st January (week 3)
‘Postures d'écrivains: autour du cas Rousseau'
Jérôme Meizoz, Université de Lausanne

14 th February (week 5)
‘Descartes et l'autobiographie intellectuelle'
Christian Belin, Université de Montpellier/ St. Catherine's College, Oxford

28 th February (week 7)
‘ Ecce qui tollit peccata mundi : la Somme des péchés du Père Bauny et la campagne des Provinciales '
Richard Parish, St. Catherine's College, Oxford

For more information, please contact kate.tunstall@worc.ox.ac.uk

2006-2007
Hilary Term

Thursday 18th January:  “A rebours du pacte.  Quelques réflexions sur le tabou autobiographique”
Jan Herman, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven

Thursday 1st February: “Pascal's monster: angels, beasts and being in between”
Wes Williams, St Edmund Hall

Thursday 15th February: “How do you study Eighteenth-Century mime?”
Edward Nye, Lincoln College

Thursday 1st March: “Les utopies de Cythère”
Kirsten Dickhaut, Universität Giessen

Trinity Term

Thursday 26 avril : Etat actuel d'un recherche renaissante ., Rowan Tomlinson ( St John's College Oxford ).

Thursday 10 mai : “ Make Yourself at Home": Adoption, hospitality and sexual predation in the Enlightenment' Judith Still ( Univ. of Nottingham ),

Thursday 24 mai : The Threat ofsameness: Explaining the albino in Eighteenth-Century Thought. Andrew Curran (Wesleyan University).

Thursday 7 juin : Le théâtre réflexif aux origins de la Comédie Francaise , Jeanne - Marie Hostiou (MFO-Paris III-GRIHL), .

2005-2006

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MICHAEL HAWCROFT, Keble College, Oxford
13 October: 'Declaiming Racine'

PIERRE RONZEAUD, Université de Provence
27 October : 'Prismes culturels et littéraires : l'exemple du Télémaque de
Fénelon'

IAN MACLEAN, All Souls College, Oxford
10 November : 'Médecins et mirabilia au XVIe siècle'

NATHALIE FERRAND, CNRS
24 November : 'Livres vus, livres lus : une traversée illustrée du roman au
XVIIIe siècle'

ANNA HOLLAND, St John's College
19 January : “Montaigne, the Passions and the many Deaths of Cato the Younger”.

RICHARD SCHOLAR, Oriel College
2 February : “ On theory and the Early Modern”.

FRANK LESTRINGANT, Paris 4
16 February : L'ecriture de soi comme écriture de l'instant, des Essais au Journal de Gide”.

MARCO DI PALMA
2 March : “Rousseau, Derrida and the reserve of Nature”

2004-2005

Thursday 20th January, 5:15pm
The Ladies of Paris, Lyon, Rouen, Milan and Toulouse; Women at War ?
Richard COOPER, Brasenose College

* Thursday 3rd February, 5:15pm
Le dialogue au XVIIe siècle en France: un genre français moderne?
Claire CAZANAVE, Université de Paris III-GRIHL

* Thursday 17th February, 5:15pm Diderot vu d'Oxford
Olivier TONNEAU, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne

* Thursday 3rd March, 5:15pm
L'invention d'une politique linguistique française; histoire, politique et cultures linguistiques en France aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles
Paul COHEN, Université De Paris VIII
In association with the Romance Linguistics Seminar

- All welcome -
Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford, OX2 6SE
Tel: (01865) 274 220, Fax: (01865) 274 225
E-mail: maison@herald.ox.ac.uk
Website: www.mfo.ac.uk

Alain Viala Alain.viala@lmh.ox.ac.uk

2003-2004
Thursday 16th October, 5.15pm
"Romans versus Gauls: a Renaissance quarrel"
Richard Cooper, Brasenose College, Oxford

Thursday 30th October, 5.15pm
"Autour de Descartes à Paris: de l'histoire intellectuelle à l'histoire
culturelle dune capitale philosophique"
Stéphane Van Damme, CNRS-MFO

Thursday 13th November, 5.15pm
"Racine and the Jews: Cross-cultural readings of Esther and Athalie"
David Maskell, Oriel College, Oxford

Thursday 27th November, 5.15pm
"Les paradoxes de la publication des textes de Fontenelle: discrétion,
dissimulation, affirmation de soi"
Claudine Poulouin, Université de Rouen

Thursday 29 April, 5.15pm
"Corneille's theory and the theatricality of the sublime"
Emma Gilby, Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Tuesday 05 May
special Lecture by Jean Céard. 

Thursday 27 May, 5.15pm
"Voltaire's Socrates"
Russell Goulbourne, University of Leeds

Thursday 10 June, 5.15pm
"Cartouche sur scène à Paris et à Londres au XVIIIe siècle"
Christian Biet, Université de Paris X-Nanterre

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