Maison Française d'Oxford
Description: The MFO is a hub for research collaborations between French and British universities, first and foremost with the University of Oxford. It helps French scholars of all levels to access the wealth of resources provided by Oxford, and it also helps Oxford academics to start joint projects with French researchers.
Talks:

Monday 20 January 2025

Vaccine Hesitancy: The History of an Idea
Date: 20 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Katie Attwell (University of Western Australia and Visiting Scholar, Uehiro Oxford Institute)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 January 2025

Of Herbs and Pharmaceuticals: Rethinking the Rise of the Pharmaceutical Industry after the Plant Turn
Date: 27 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Matti Leprêtre (Sciences Po Paris/EHESS)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 February 2025

Fabricating Facts in Behavior Genetics
Date: 3 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Emily Merchant (UC Davis)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 February 2025

Darkest before Dawn? Medicine in the English Universities in the Later Middle Ages
Date: 10 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Peregrine Horden (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 February 2025

Beautifying the City, Poisoning the Lady. About an Odd Victorian Scientific Conversation (1869)
Date: 17 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Judith Rainhorn (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 February 2025

Reconsidering HMS Challenger at 150: Race science, anatomy, and scientific seafaring
Date: 24 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Becky Martin (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 March 2025

Eugenics and Religion; Eugenics as a Religion
Date: 3 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Andrew Moeller (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 March 2025

Mapping Animal Motion in the Time of Galileo
Date: 10 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Nuno Castel-Branco (Oxford)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
Early Modern French Research Seminar
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
Medieval French Research Seminar
Modern French Research Seminar
NOTCOM Research Hub (The Common Notion: Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events