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Maison Française d'Oxford
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Interdisciplinary Research Centre associated with the University of Oxford. We support the special link between the French & British academic worlds.
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Join us at our first Critical Digital Humanities discussion, where we will explore @goran-gaber.bsky.social's recent paper Mind the gap: On archival politics and historical theory in the digital age.

More & registration: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/critic...

#digitalhumanities
Critical Digital Humanities
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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'.

@reutersinstitute.bsky.social

Register now: www.ticketsource.co.uk/maison-franc...
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Join us as award-winning photographer and filmmaker @michaelchristbrown.bsky.social speaks with @mitalilive.bsky.social about his upcoming project The Difference Between Bullets and Stones.

🗓️ Weds 5 Nov, 16:00
📍 @mfoxford.bsky.social and Zoom

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/calendar/bey...
Beyond breaking news
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Final touches with Stéphanie Hubert, for her grand opening tomorrow at the @mfoxford.bsky.social !

Also join us for a conversation on #AI & #photography with Haley Morris-Cafiero, @michaelchristbrown.bsky.social & Stéphanie, from 15h30-18h30.

Register here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/maison-franc...
November 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Then, we head over to @mfoxford.bsky.social for a discussion of the collaboration between @michaelchristbrown.bsky.social and @mosababutoha.bsky.social, The Difference Between Bullets and Stones, hosted by @mitalilive.bsky.social

More & Registration: www.mfo.ac.uk/event/beyond...
Beyond breaking news: in conversation with Michael Christopher Brown
Organised by the Maison Française d'Oxford & The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
www.mfo.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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
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
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
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)

Register here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/maison-franc...
October 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
We’re hosting the 2025 Global Forest workshop (13–16 Oct), exploring how land-use change is reshaping forest ecosystems & the societies that depend on them

Keynotes by Catherine Parr & Timothy Coulson this afternoon
mfo.web.ox.ac.uk/event/global...

#GlobalForest #Ecology
@gipecofor.bsky.social
GLOBAL FOREST AUTUMN SCHOOL 'Ecological and Societal Impacts of Changing Forest Land Uses'
Conveners: GIP ECOFOR, Maison Française d’Oxford, Higher Education Research and Innovation Department of the French Embassy in London; In partnership with UMIFRE 'Institut Français de Pondichéry'
mfo.web.ox.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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
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
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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Why does contemporary theory of history neglect digital archival scholarship and how does this affect its understanding of the politics of history?

Read about it in my new paper for @tandfresearch.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#digitalhumanities #archives #history #politics
Mind the Gap. On archival politics and historical theory in the digital age
Modern archival scholarship and practice are strikingly absent from contemporary historical theory. Given the archive’s enduring importance for history and its long-thematized political aspects, th...
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September 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Objets initialement difficiles à identifier, les #PEPR deviennent petit à petit des objets familiers du paysage de la recherche française.

Nous vous proposons un petit panorama des principales actions en cours ou envisagées dans le dernier numéro de la #Lettre.

www.inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
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July 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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

@pse.bsky.social
@oxfordecondept.bsky.social
@nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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
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
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
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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En partenariat avec le @lest-umr-cnrs-amu.bsky.social et la @mfoxford.bsky.social International Workshop 'The Worlds of Work: Crossed Perspectives from France and England'
22–23 May: Don’t miss the Workshop 'The Worlds of Work' at MFO, led by @delfindelmar.bsky.social. Dive into key debates on work, tech, care & inequality.
🎬 Special screening of La Ferme des Bertrand (César 2025 winner) w/ dir. Gilles Perret. In French w/ EN subs
mfo.web.ox.ac.uk/event/intern...
International and Interdisciplinary Workshop: 'The Worlds of Work: Crossed Perspectives from France and England'
mfo.web.ox.ac.uk
May 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
22–23 May: Don’t miss the Workshop 'The Worlds of Work' at MFO, led by @delfindelmar.bsky.social. Dive into key debates on work, tech, care & inequality.
🎬 Special screening of La Ferme des Bertrand (César 2025 winner) w/ dir. Gilles Perret. In French w/ EN subs
mfo.web.ox.ac.uk/event/intern...
International and Interdisciplinary Workshop: 'The Worlds of Work: Crossed Perspectives from France and England'
mfo.web.ox.ac.uk
May 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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The Faculty of History and @wadhamcollege.bsky.social are excited to announce the establishment of the Koch History Centre (KHC), which will provide an institutional home in Oxford for the pursuit of world-class historical research!

Find out more:

www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...
The Koch History Centre (KHC): A new Historical Research Centre at Oxford
history.web.ox.ac.uk
February 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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...

@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
#History
May 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM