Events Archive
2012
January
18 January
Research seminar - part of the 2011-12 research seminar series
Professor Alison Fell (University of Leeds): ‘Models or Misfits? Interwar representations of French First World War heroines’.
2011
November
2 November
Research Seminar - part of the 2011-12 research seminar series
Philippe Frieden (Fonds national suisse de Recherche) and Jessica Stoll (King’s College London): ‘Two Perspectives on Translation in Medieval French Literature’.
October
19 October
Research seminar - part of the 2011-12 research seminar series
Hector Kollias, (King’s College London): ‘What Perverts Know’.
April
27 April
Research seminar - part of the 2010-11 research seminar series
Dr Kevin Inston (University College London): '''Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the first thinker of community": a critique of Jean-Luc Nancy's La communauté désoeuvrée'.
March
23 March
Research seminar - part of the 2010-11 research seminar series
Dr Jane Gilbert (University College London): 'French sans frontières: Translation and Translatio in the Fifteenth Century'.
2 March
Research seminar - part of the 2010-11 research seminar series
Dr Shirley Jordan (Queen Mary, University of London): 'Without the Canon: Accessing New Women's Writing'.
Professor Susan Harrow (University of Bristol): 'Dirt, Debris, Disgust: Towards a Postcolonial Rimbaud'.
February
9 February
Research seminar - part of the 2010-11 research seminar series
Dr Katherine Ibbett (University College London): ‘Compassionate Conservatism’.
January
19 January
Research seminar - part of the 2010-11 research seminar series
Professor Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool): ‘Disciplinarity, canonicity and the cracking of coherence: the case of French studies'.
2010
December
8 December
Research seminar - part of the 2010-11 research seminar series
Ewa Szypula (King's College London)'Literature as communication: Balzac and his writings to the Etrangere'.
Anna Orhanen (King's College London): ‘Pas [la] Sévigné de tout le monde’: Mme de Sévigné’s letters and aspects of literary communication in À la Recherche du temps perdu’.
November
17 November
Research seminar - part of the 2010-11 research seminar series
Dr Ruth Cruickshank (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‘Reading and Feeding for the Plot in Post-War Fiction’.
12 November
Research seminar - part of the 2010-11 research seminar series; organised jointly with the Postcolonial Studies Network
Professor Mildred Mortimer (University of Colorado at Boulder): Tortured Bodies, Resilient Souls: Algerian women combatants depicted by Djamila Amrane-Minne, Louisette Ighilahriz, and Assia Djebar.
April
28 April
Research seminar - part of the 2009-10 research seminar series
Ros Murray: ‘Ces raclures de l’âme que l’homme normal n'accueille pas’: Artaud, Anzieu and the material surface.
March
17 March
Research seminar - part of the 2009-10 research seminar series
Ann Jefferson: 'Genius as Pathology in Nineteenth-Century France'.
February
24 February
Research seminar - part of the 2009-10 research seminar series
Cecile Bishop: 'Looking for Africa: Literature and Knowledge in the Age of Postcolonial Dictatorships'.
January
20 January
Research seminar - part of the 2009-10 research seminar series
Lea Vuong: 'Pascal Quignard, Knowledge at Play'.
2009
December
9 December
Research seminar - part of the 2009-10 research seminar series
Karen Pratt: 'The nature and dynamics of knowledge in late-medieval French anthology manuscripts'.
November
25 November
Research seminar - part of the 2009-10 research seminar series
Michael Moriarty: 'Rochefoucauld and the discourses of moral philosophy'.
October
21 October
Research seminar - part of the 2009-10 research seminar series
Emily Butterworth and Clare Qualmann gave a presentation linked to their research project, 'Spinning Stories'.
April
29 April
Research seminar - part of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series in French Studies 2008-09
Sarah Cooper (Film Studies): Devilish Movement: Jean Epstein's Late Film Theory.
March
11 March
Research seminar - part of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series in French Studies 2008-09
Richard Vinen (History): Poujadism since 1953.
February
25 February
Research seminar - part of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series in French Studies 2008-09
Sophie Fuggle (French): Sifting through bodies or slipping through the net? Foucault's notion of 'sécurité' as secular reading of the Pauline remnant.
4 February
Research seminar - part of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series in French Studies 2008-09
Ginette Vincendeau (Film Studies): From The French Connection to multi-cultural ‘dustbin city’ – Marseille in crime cinema.
January
21 January
Research seminar - part of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series in French Studies 2008-09
Barney Norman (French): A Step on the Moon: Heidegger, Sollers and Derrida, and the Question Concerning Technology.
2008
November
26 November
Research seminar - part of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series in French Studies 2008-09
Alan Read (English/Theatre Studies): The Theatre and its Poor: Performance and the Distribution of the Sensible.
12 November
Research seminar - part of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series in French Studies 2008-09
Adam Sutcliffe (History): Friendship and Materialist Philosophy in the French Enlightenment.
October
8 October
Research seminar - part of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series in French Studies 2008-09
Kate Averis (French): Exile writing and politics: Denunciation and social critique in Malika Mokeddem and Laura Restrepo.
June
4-7 June
French play: New Wave Gone Wilde (pdf, 60KB)
Salomé by Oscar Wilde
2007
May
30 May- 1 June
French play
(pdf, 110KB)
Leocadia by Jean Anouilh
February
28 February
Research seminar - part of the 2006-07 research seminar series
Dr Anne Green: 'From Train to Text; or how Second Empire steam transport became literary.
January
24 January
Research seminar - part of the 2006-07 research seminar series
Simon Gaunt: ‘Marco Polo’s Literary Frontiers’.
2006
November
29 November
Research seminar - part of the 2006-07 research seminar series
Francesco Manzini: ‘Medicine and the Limits of the Literary: Stendhal's Curious Case Histories’.
15 November
Research seminar - part of the 2006-07 research seminar series
Neil Kenny (Cambridge): 'Genres and their limits: contradiction in Montaigne, Léry, and Colletet'.
October
11 October
Research seminar - part of the 2006-07 research seminar series
Luke Sunderland: ‘An Ethics of Comedy? The Old French Roman de Renart’.
June
7 June
Research seminar - part of the 2005-06 research seminar series
Dr Hector Kollias (King’s College London).
May
24 May
Research seminar - part of the 2005-06 research seminar series
Dr Tom Baldwin (University of Kent at Canterbury): ‘Proust, Anzieu, Freud and touching the object’.
April
26 April
Research seminar - part of the 2005-06 research seminar series
Professor Naomi Segal (Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London): ‘Is the lost object an imaginary friend or a phantom limb?’
February
22 February
Research seminar - part of the 2005-06 research seminar series
Dr Martin Crowley (Christ’s College, University of Cambridge): ‘Catherine Breillat: Touch/Cut’.
1 February
Research seminar - part of the 2005-06 research seminar series
Dr Jo Malt (KCL): ‘The Object and the Trace’
2005
November
30 November
Research seminar - part of the 2005-06 research seminar series
Dr Patrick ffrench (KCL): ‘The Freudian Object’.
March
22-25 March
French play (pdf, 114KB)
Les Mouches by Jean-Paul Sartre
2004
March
3-5 March
French play (pdf, 155KB)
Les Justes by Albert Camus