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Interdisciplinary Research Centre associated with the University of Oxford. We support the special link between the French & British academic worlds.
#CNRS #lab UAR 3129

Picture: Maison Française by Bing Ye, 2023
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Today, from 4pm, join us for a conversation hosted by Mitali Mukherjee on @michaelchristbrown.bsky.social’s current collaboration with Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha, 'The Difference Between Bullets and Stones'.

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November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Workshop 'Idols, Methods and the Organisation of Knowledge.
A Seminar on De augmentis scientiarum'
Maison Française d’Oxford
6–7 November 2025

Join us at the MFO for two days of stimulating discussions!
www.mfo.ac.uk/event/worksh...
October 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Book Presentation ‘Nazım Hikmet: The Portrait of the Poet as a Scoundrel’/‘Portrait du poète en salaud’ (Les Argonautes, 2025),
tonight 31 October at 5.15pm, at @mfoxford.bsky.social

With author Nicolas Élias & Laurent Mignon (St Antony’s College)

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October 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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From 25.10 to 5.12, 'Press The Shutter, Type The Prompt' will be on display at @mfoxford.bsky.social, as part of the Photo Oxford Festival
It will showcase 3 artistic projects that explore the intersections of #Truth & #AI

Works by Michael Christopher Brown, Haley Morris Cafiero, & Stéphanie Hubert
October 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Book Launch 'Otherwhere Ethnography. An Introduction to Outer Space Studies' (Oxford University Press, 2025)
27 October, 16:00, MFO

With editors Istvan Praet (Durham University) & Perig Pitrou (Maison Française d’Oxford)

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October 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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6 & 7 October 2025, Workshop 'A Choreographic International (16th-21st centuries)' at @mfoxford.bsky.social

Find out how dance communities take shape across borders — in institutions, networks, and shared imaginations mfo.web.ox.ac.uk/event/worksh...

As part of the ANR 'En Dansant'
September 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Thank you to all who made the 4th MFO DPhil Prize on 25 Sept a success! Congratulations to winner Adrien Causse (Medical Sciences), runner-ups Josephine Durant des Aulnois (Social Sciences) & Louise Rosset (MPLS), and to all participants for their outstanding presentations.
September 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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The Maison Française d’Oxford is excited to share its Michaelmas Term 2025 programme: seminars, workshops, conferences, film screenings, and a new exhibition.
Browse our full programme of events:
www.mfo.ac.uk/sitefiles/pr...
September 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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2–4 July 2025: 3 days of #NashEquilibrium at @mfoxford.bsky.social featuring leading researchers presenting work inspired by, or building upon, Nash equilibrium & its wide-ranging applications
sites.google.com/view/nash75

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July 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Nash75 @Oxford – 2–4 July 2025, Maison Française d'Oxford
This major international symposium will mark the 75th anniversary of the Nash equilibrium and bring together leading researchers for a series of plenary talks.
sites.google.com/view/nash75
June 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Yesterday was a special day at the Maison Française d'Oxford!
François Hollande met with researchers, students & Oxford leaders, saluting MFO’s unique role in Franco-British academic life since 1946.
Merci et au revoir, Monsieur le Président!

#Oxford #FrancoBritish #FrançoisHollande #MFO
June 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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6th June, 18:00: Make sure to attend the lecture-recital "Henri Tomasi, a committed and humanist musician"!

Explore the vivid musical creations of this French-Corsican composer who used music to free humanity from war and oppression www.ticketsource.co.uk/maison-franc...
June 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Great opening of 'Breathing', an exhibit exploring the political, historical, & sensory dimensions of breath, curated by @judithrainhorn.bsky.social & Charles-Antoine Wanecq, featuring Filomena Borecka’s work.

It runs until 26 June, Mo to Fr, 9am–5pm at Maison Française d’Oxford.
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May 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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On 15 May, 5:15pm, Laura Mason (Johns Hopkins) explores how Atlantic slavery shaped revolutionary violence in Nantes during the Terror. Jean-Baptiste Carrier in a Slave-Trading City, at the MFO. Register: www.ticketsource.co.uk/maison-franc...

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#History
May 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Join us for the launch of 'Ce que les humains font à la vie' (What Humans Do to Life, Paris, @editions-puf.bsky.social , 2024) with author Perig Pitrou on 28 April at 4:00 PM.

Find out more and register: www.ticketsource.co.uk/maison-franc...

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April 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Tomorrow, we will welcome Clara Dupont-Monod for a talk with Catriona Seth about her book 'S'adapter' (Adapting), which won the Prix Femina in 2021, the Prix Landerneau, and the Goncourt des Lycéens.

Register here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/maison-franc...

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March 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The MFO and @catrionaseth.bsky.social reunited the four finalists of the Choix Goncourt UK for a series of interviews, enriched by Anne de Peufeilhoux’s readings. Watch the series on our YouTube channel with Sandrine Colette, Gaël Faye, Hélène Gaudy, & Kamel Daoud!
www.youtube.com/@maisonfranc...
February 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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This month, we're teaming up w/ the Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages @ox.ac.uk, for a series of literary events

Kamel Daoud on 20.02

Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse on 04.03 (photograph by C. Nieszawer © Flammarion)

Clara Dupont-Monod on 06.03

👉https://mfo.web.ox.ac.uk/
February 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Book Presentation 'The Colonate in the Roman Empire’ at 5.15pm on Wednesday 29 January 2025 at
@MFOxford

With author Boudewijn Sirks (All Souls College)
Discussants: Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity College Oxford) and Yann Rivière (EHESS, Paris)

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January 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Our programme for Hilary Term 2025 is now available. Academics, undergraduates, graduate students and members of the public are welcome to attend our #seminars, #workshops, #conferences & Free Film Screenings!

👉https://mfo.web.ox.ac.uk
January 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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On Monday, we hosted our final event of the term, the 'Questioning Human Technogenesis" Workshop, organised by Daniele Cavalli & Océane Gustave from ENS-PSL.
mfo.web.ox.ac.uk/event/worksh...

Thank you to everyone involved in making this event a success!
December 13, 2024 at 10:12 AM
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Workshop 'Mediating Belongings, Constructing Identities: Belgian Modernism in Transfer (1870-1940)'
22-23 April 2025, @MFOxford

Interested in contributing? The call for papers is available here: mfo.web.ox.ac.uk/article/work...
December 2, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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The NOTCOM podcast seeks to promote the research undertaken by the Notcom researchers, associated collaborators and fellows, through a different medium.

Episode 2: Faire parler un cadavre (Make a dead man talk) – with Louis Rouquayrol
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November 29, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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Exciting news! The Big Warehouse ANR project unveils the 'Le Grand Entrepôt Collection', published by Éditions du Croquant under the scientific direction of Delphine Mercier & Michel Peraldi.🚛📦

Stay tuned: mfo.web.ox.ac.uk/article/new-...
November 25, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Yesterday, we hosted a private view of 'Pain & the Physician: 16th-18th centuries' at the MFO w/ curators Raphaële Andrault & Ariane Bayle joined by French Ambassador Hélène Duchêne & Oxford University Vice-Chancellor Irene Tracey, who renewed our partnership with @universityofoxford.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 10:57 AM