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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research
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A showcase for the diversity of French and Francophone studies in a global context across many disciplines at UCL. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/centre-french-and-francophone-research
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How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends
TODAY! 4pm
Using serial novels, vaudeville plays & newspapers of the Second Empire, Andrea Goulet proposes fictional Quaker as a screen on which the French projected their ambivalence about liberté, égalité, fraternité
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Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends
The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania) to give this talk.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Community Cinema: Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (+Q&A)
19 Nov 6:30–10pm
This historical rollercoaster rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln & Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.
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Community Cinema: Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (+ Director Q&A)
Jazz and decolonisation are entwined in this Oscar nominated historical rollercoaster.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends
19 Nov 4pm
Using novels, plays & newspaper columns, Andrea Goulet proposes the fictional Quaker as a screen onto which the French projected their own ambivalence about “liberté, égalité et fraternité"
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends
The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania) to give this talk.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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⏰Happening tomorrow!
Ludic Literature
29 October 2025, 4pm-6pm
We welcome Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL), Aubrey Gabel (Columbia University), and Dennis Duncan (UCL) to discuss ludic literature.
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Ludic Literature
The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL), Aubrey Gabel (Columbia University), and Dennis Duncan (UCL).
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Ludic Literature
29 October 2025, 4pm-6pm
We welcomes Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL), Aubrey Gabel (Columbia University) and Dennis Duncan (UCL).
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Ludic Literature
The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL), Aubrey Gabel (Columbia University), and Dennis Duncan (UCL).
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Is Metafiction still Post-Modern?
29 Oct 3–4:30pm
We welcome Prof Anne Duprat (U. Picardy Jules Verne) to give this seminar. We are pleased to co-host this event with UCL Comparative Literature & UCL French .@uclselcs.bsky.social
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Is Metafiction still Post-Modern?
We welcome Prof Anne Duprat (U. Picardy Jules Verne) to give this seminar. The Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to co-host this event with UCL Comparative Literature and UCL Fren...
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October 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting
9 Oct 5:30-7:30pm
In early modern France, “oeconomie” referred to the art of managing material resources, particularly within a household. @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social welcome Dr Sarah Grandin (Courtauld Institute) for this seminar
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Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting
For this Research Seminar, we welcome Dr Sarah Grandin (The Courtauld Institute of Art) for a talk on ‘Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting’.
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September 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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IAS Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream'
2 Oct, 5-7pm
'Émile Zola: A Determined Life' by Robert Lethbridge
'Zola's Dream: Idealism on Trial' by Claire White
'Émile Zola: Writing Modern Life' by Rachel Bowlby
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IAS Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream'
The IAS and the Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.
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September 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends
19 November 2025, 4pm-6pm
We welcome Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania) to give this talk.
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Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends
The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania) to give this talk.
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Émile Zola: Life and Dream
2 October 5-7pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social
We are pleased to host this triple book launch:
'Émile Zola: A Determined Life' by Robert Lethbridge
'Zola's Dream: Idealism on Trial' by Claire White
'Émile Zola: Writing Modern Life' by Rachel Bowlby
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IAS Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream'
The IAS and the Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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IAS Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream'
2 October 2025, 5pm-7pm
Along with @ucl-ias.bsky.social, we are pleased to host this triple book launch, with authors Robert Lethbridge, Claire White and Rachel Bowlby.
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IAS Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream'
The IAS and the Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.
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July 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream'
2 October 5-7pm
Along with @ucl-ias.bsky.social, we are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.
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IAS Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream'
The IAS and the Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Next Thursday I get to hear about something I know truly nothing about.

Tiéphaine Thomason will be giving a talk on 'Mobilising the Francophone Speechscape in Eighteenth-Century Urban Martinique'.

What a great topic - come along!
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Listing of talks: 22 May 2025: Tiephaine Thomason (Cambridge), ‘Mobilising the Francophone Speechscape in Eighteenth-Century Urban Martinique’, IHR room N304 5 June 2025: Alex Barber (Durham), ‘Anglo-Romani Identity in the Eighteenth Century’, IHR room N304. 19 June 2025: Will Tullett (York), title to be confirmed
May 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Displacement & the French Revolution
29 May 9:45am–6:30pm @uclhistory.bsky.social
This interdisciplinary workshop gathers historians, historical geographers, literary scholars & art historians working on the theme of "displacement" in and around the French Revolution.
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Displacement and the French Revolution
This interdisciplinary workshop brings together historians, historical geographers, literary scholars and art historians working on the theme of "displacement" in and around the French Revolution.
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May 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Book launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream'
2 Oct 5–7pm, UCL
We and @ucl-ias.bsky.social are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.
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IAS book launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream'
The IAS and the Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Rope-Dancing and Female Performance
14 May 5-7pm UCL
Including "Voltigeuses: Female Rope-dancers in Seventeenth-century Paris" with Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL)
Join us for this interesting discussion, and a glass of wine.
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Rope-Dancing and Female Performance
An Early Modern Exchanges event with Prof Clare McManus (Northumbria) and Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL)
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May 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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'Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies' with @jean23bean.bsky.social

📆20 May 2025
🕠5:30 pm–7:00 pm

➡️Sign up here: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
May 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging & Non-belonging in Plural Societies
20 May 5:30pm @uclei.bsky.social
From ethnographic research on France’s antiracist movement & mobilization against state violence, Dr Beaman will introduce a framework of “suspect citizenship”
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Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies
Join us for a discussion with Dr Jean Beaman, Associate Professor of Sociology in the Ph.D. Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), on "suspect citizenship", a framew...
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May 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Including Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley's paper on
"Voltigeuses: Female Rope-dancers in Seventeenth-century Paris"
uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Apr 30
📝 Please register so we order enough wine! 🍷

Rope-Dancing and Female Performance
14 May 2025, 5-7pm
With Prof Clare McManus (Northumbria) and Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL)

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Rope-Dancing and Female Performance
An Early Modern Exchanges event with Prof Clare McManus (Northumbria) and Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL)
www.ucl.ac.uk
April 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Cities of Banal Warfare: Affective Geographies in Violent Times
29 Apr 17:00 @thebartlettucl.bsky.social
Sunčana Laketa's book analyses the impact of framing public emergencies & violence in Paris & Brussels as acts of war, normalizing militarism within urban contexts
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Cities of Banal Warfare: Affective Geographies in Violent Times
Join UCL Urban Lab to launch Sunčana Laketa's new book Cities of Banal Warfare: Affective Geographies in Violent Times. This event is part of the Urban Lab's 20th anniversary event series.
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April 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Colonial Biopolitics: A Politics of Health Which Kills & Cures
7 May 5:30-8pm
Azzedine Haddour examines the interconnections between the development of modern France’s republican and democratic institutions, the rise of the Second Empire, and the colonisation of Algeria
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Colonial Biopolitics: A Politics of Health Which Kills and Cures
This lecture examines the interconnections between the development of modern France’s republican and democratic institutions, the rise of the Second Empire, and the colonisation of Algeria.
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April 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders
26 March 2025, 5-7pm
We're pleased to present this conversation with Frances Clemente (Oxford), Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford) and Christina Parte (UCL).
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Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders
The Centre for French and Francophone Research is pleased to present this conversation with Frances Clemente (Oxford), Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford) and Christina Parte (UCL).
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March 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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📣Provincialising the Anthropocene Research Labs Grants - deadline extended 🎉!

UCL Anthropocene & @ucl-ias.bsky.social are offering grants of up to £2,000-£3,000💰for researchers to work on cross-disciplinary themes related to the September 2025 Conference.

Apply by 4 April!
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March 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders
26 March 2025, 5pm-7pm
The Centre for French and Francophone Research is pleased to present this conversation with Frances Clemente (Oxford), Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford) and Christina Parte (UCL).
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders
The Centre for French and Francophone Research is pleased to present this conversation with Frances Clemente (Oxford), Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford) and Christina Parte (UCL).
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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📢 Calling all UCL SHAPE ECRs (arts, humanities or social sciences)
Want some advice on Getting Published? 📑📚
Join our interactive workshop on 5th March, 2-4pm at the IAS, UCL
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IAS Early Career Network Workshop: Getting Published
This interactive workshop will cover all aspects of building a strong publication record as an ECR.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM