Oxford French Graduate Seminar

Hilary Term 2017

Tuesdays 5.15 – 6.30 pm

All Souls’ College, Hovenden Room

January 24^th (2^nd Week)

Marie Chabbert (Wolfson College)‘Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité? Thinking Ontology, Community and Extremism with Jean-Luc Nancy’

Roundtable Discussion: ‘Graduates Anonymous’(A chance for current graduate students to share their thoughts, experiences and advice about graduate research)

February 7^th (4^th Week)

Jess Allen (University of Durham)‘When water was thicker than blood: the development of Marie de Gournay's famille d'alliance in the seventeenth century.' 

Vittoria Fallanca (Pembroke College)'Cet autre moy': Poetic Selves and Other Friends in Selected French Writings of the Sixteenth Century’

February 21^st (6^th Week)

Natalie Pangburn (Lincoln College)'Foudroiement: Wajdi Mouawad and the philosophy of Jan Patočka'. 

Robert Pruett (St Cross College)'The figure of the demon in the work of Remy de Gourmont: mythic structures of sexual pessimism'