Tuesday, 22 February

Nicole Belayche, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, will deliver the following Lecture from 2.00pm to 6.00pm on Tuesday, 22 February, at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles.

Subject: Journée Vernant “The ‘Possible’ Body of the Gods: From Imitation to Ritual Confection of their Nature”

Conveners: Robert Parker, New College and Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO

Friday, 25 February

Sharon Bowles, MEP, Chair of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, will deliver the following Lecture at 7.30pm on Friday, 25 February, at the Maison Française d'Oxford.

Subject: The European Movement - Open Meeting: “Financial Legislation: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to know?” 

Chair: Alan Armitage, European Movement

Thursday, 3 March

Harry Roderick Kedward, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Sussex, will deliver the following Lecture at 5.00pm on Thursday, 3 March, at at Mordan Hall, St Hugh’s College.

One of the most prominent Anglophone historians of France, Harry Roderick Kedward is a specialist on the Resistance in France during WWII. He has published several influential books on 20th century French history and is the author of two major books on the history of the French Resistance, Resistance in Vichy France (1978) and In Search of the Maquis (1993).

Subject: 'Roots and routes of French Resistance'

Chair: Robert GILDEA, Worcester College

Conveners : Laurent Douzou, CNRS-MFO and Louise Scothern, New College

Wednesday, 9 March

Sylvain Menant, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, will deliver the following Lecture at 5.15pm on Wednesday, 9 March, at the Maison Française d'Oxford.

Subject: “Poétique du château dans la littérature française”

Convener: Nicholas Cronk, Voltaire Foundation

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