Thursday 19 April 2012

TRINITY TERM CARD
French Graduate Seminar
Wednesday Even Weeks 5-6.30

*Balliol College, Massey Room* (note change of venue)

Wednesday 2nd May (2nd week)
Jessica Goodman (Worcester College, Oxford) 
Mapping theatrical Paris in the 1760s: an author's-eye view

Rosalind Holmes Duffy (Merton College, Oxford)
The Polemical Optics and Optical Polemics of 1740

Wednesday 16th May (4th week)
Huw Grange (St John’s College, Cambridge & University of Oxford)
Monstrous doubles: warning and showing in medieval French hagiography
Respondent: Pauline Souleau (Merton College, Oxford)

Wednesday 30th May (6th week)
Ruth Bush (Wolfson College, Oxford) 
L’aventure ambiguë: Publishing African literature in the world republic of letters 1945–1970
Respondent: Sarah Puello (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Wednesday 13th June (8th week)
Mara van der Lugt (Corpus Christi, Oxford)
Of faux savants and faux Philosophes: quarrels and morals in Bayle’s Dictionnaire Historique et Critique

Helena Taylor (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
Narratives of the disgraced poet: Ovid, Exile and the Court of Louis XIV