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- 2018-19
Departmental Research Seminars Spring Term
Research Seminars take place in Foster Court, Rm 133 starting at 5pm.
17 January: Dr Jennifer Rushworth (Dept. of French, UCL) 'New Life in Barthes and Michelet'
7 February: Dr Clare Finburgh (Dept. of Theatre and Performance, Goldsmiths University of London) “To broaden the non-mediocre part of life”: The Situationist International and Contemporary Performance Please note the later start time of 5.30pm for this research seminar
21 February: Dr Sanja Perovic (Dept. of French, King’s College London) 'Mise-en-abîme: Performing Context in History and Art'
Departmental Research Seminars Autumn Term
Research Seminars take place in Foster Court, Rm 133 starting at 5pm.
25 October: Professor Andy Leak (Dept. of French, UCL) "Lost and Found: uses of the labyrinth in some works by Georges Perec"
15 November: Dr Roland-François Lack (Dept. of French, UCL) 'Mélièsian Topographies: a map of the world in the films of Georges Méliès, 1896-1912'
- 2018-17
The David Nicholls Memorial Trust Annual Lecture
‘New’ Governors of the Dew - Professor Andrew Leak, University College London
5.00pm, Monday 16th October, 2017
Regent’s Park College, Oxford
The Trustees of the David Nicholls Memorial Trust are delighted to invite you to the 18th Annual David Nicholls Memorial Lecture to be held on Monday 16th October, 2017, at Regent’s Park College, Oxford.
The lecture will be delivered by Professor Andrew Leak, who will address contemporary challenges facing the Haitian peasantry in the light of Roumain’s novel and the work of David Nicholls.
The lecture starts at 5.00pm, with tea and refreshments available from 4.00pm.
A drinks’ reception will be held following the lecture at 6.30pm, with an informal dinner also at Regent's Park College at 7.00pm. The cost of the dinner will be £10 - advance booking is not required.
For further details, please contact david.howard@kellogg.ox.ac.uk
David Howard
Chair, The David Nicholls Memorial Trust
In Search of Proust's Music
Matthew Sweet, in conversation with Jennifer Rushworth (UCL, French Department), unpicks the musical thread running through Marcel Proust’s life and his great novel of memory, ‘In Search of Lost Time’.
Including readings from Proust by Simon Russell Beale, and the music of Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, Reynaldo Hahn, Debussy, Fauré and Saint-Saëns, performed by soprano Ailish Tynan, violinist Jack Liebeck and pianists Iain Burnside and Katya Apekisheva.
Saturday 14 October 2017
19:55-22:00
Wellcome Collection
N.B. This programme will also be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
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The French Department Noble Lecture took place on Wednesday March 8th 2017.
Didier Eribon: L’idée européenne, la démocratie, les réfugiés
Des images fortes ont récemment donné à voir la nouvelle physionomie de l’Europe : avec d’un côté des colonnes de migrants et de réfugiés cherchant à échapper à la guerre ou à la misère qui sévit dans leurs pays d’origine et, de l’autre, des frontières où l’on construit des barrières, des grilles, des murs, des camps, gardées par des armées de policiers Les discours politiques aussi ont changé, accompagnant la montée des nationalismes et les scores électoraux des partis d’extrême-droite. Il est nécessaire et urgent de relever le défi, en réaffirmant l’idéal d’une Europe démocratique, qui soit ouverte et accueillante, mais qui ne pourra l’être que si elle est une Europe sociale protectrice des plus démunis de ses habitants comme elle doit l’être des exilés qui la rejoignent, en même temps qu’une Europe culturelle, tournée vers l’avenir et attachée à dépasser ses frontières intérieures et extérieures. Ce qui implique évidemment de repenser les catégories théoriques et pratiques de la politique.
Didier Eribon is a leading French intellectual who is currently a professor at the School of Philosophy and Social Science at the University of Amiens. He has previously held visiting professorships at the University of Berkley and the School of Advanced Studies, Princeton.
The Noble lecture is made possible through the generous support of UCL French alumnus, Peter Noble.