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Is Metafiction still Post-Modern?

UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · 6d

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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 [email protected]
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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...

Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting

UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · 12d

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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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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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · 19d

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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The IAS and the Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.

Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends

UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · 26d

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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The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania) to give this talk.

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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · Sep 5

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
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · Jul 11

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.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · May 23

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.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The IAS and the Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.

Displacement and the French Revolution

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · May 16

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!
www.history.ac.uk/seminars/soc...

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

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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · May 16

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.
www.ucl.ac.uk/history/even...

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.

IAS book launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream'

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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · May 14

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.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The IAS and the Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.

Rope-Dancing and Female Performance

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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · May 12

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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An Early Modern Exchanges event with Prof Clare McManus (Northumbria) and Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL)

Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies

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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · May 10

'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...

UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · May 9

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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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...

Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies

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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · May 9

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”
www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...

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...

Rope-Dancing and Female Performance

UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · Apr 30

Including Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley's paper on
"Voltigeuses: Female Rope-dancers in Seventeenth-century Paris"

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)

www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

An Early Modern Exchanges event with Prof Clare McManus (Northumbria) and Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL)

Cities of Banal Warfare: Affective Geographies in Violent Times

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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · Apr 23

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
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

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.

Colonial Biopolitics: A Politics of Health Which Kills and Cures

UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · Apr 4

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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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.

Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders

UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · Mar 21

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).
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Centre for French and Francophone Research is pleased to present this conversation with Frances Clemente (Oxford), Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford) and Christina Parte (UCL).

Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders

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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · Mar 20

📣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!
🔗 shorturl.at/VrGRn

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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · Mar 7

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...

The Centre for French and Francophone Research is pleased to present this conversation with Frances Clemente (Oxford), Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford) and Christina Parte (UCL).

IAS Early Career Network Workshop: Getting Published

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · Feb 28

📢 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
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

This interactive workshop will cover all aspects of building a strong publication record as an ECR.

The Convoy: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse in Conversation

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · Feb 27

We are delighted to welcome prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse to discuss her book 'The Convoy', which documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
📅 6 March 4pm UCL
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We are delighted to welcome prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse to discuss her book 'The Convoy', which documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, ...

The Convoy: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse in Conversation

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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · Feb 19

The Convoy: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse in Conversation
6 March 4pm, UCL
We welcome novelist Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse to discuss her book 'The Convoy', which documents & reconstructs her escape, at the age of 15, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

We are delighted to welcome prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse to discuss her book 'The Convoy', which documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, ...

Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders

UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · Feb 14

Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders
26 March 5-7pm UCL
'Lady Oscar' is a Japanese manga series, set in the French Revolution. It focuses on the lives of two women: Marie Antoinette & Oscar François de Jarjayes, commander of the Royal Guard. #queerdesire #feministicon
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Centre for French and Francophone Research is pleased to present this conversation with Frances Clemente (Oxford), Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford) and Christina Parte (UCL).

The Convoy: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse in Conversation

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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · Feb 10

The Convoy: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse in Conversation
6 March 4-5pm
We welcome novelist Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse to discuss her book 'The Convoy', which documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of 15, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

We are delighted to welcome prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse to discuss her book 'The Convoy', which documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, ...