UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research

Community Cinema: Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (+ Director Q&A) Jazz and decolonisation are entwined in this Oscar nominated historical rollercoaster.

Community Cinema: Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (+Q&A)
19 Nov 6:30–10pm
This historical rollercoaster rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln & Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.
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Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania) to give this talk.

Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends
19 Nov 4pm
Using novels, plays & newspaper columns, Andrea Goulet proposes the fictional Quaker as a screen onto which the French projected their own ambivalence about “liberté, égalité et fraternité"
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Ludic Literature The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL), Aubrey Gabel (Columbia University), and Dennis Duncan (UCL).

⏰Happening tomorrow!
Ludic Literature
29 October 2025, 4pm-6pm
We welcome Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL), Aubrey Gabel (Columbia University), and Dennis Duncan (UCL) to discuss ludic literature.
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Ludic Literature The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL), Aubrey Gabel (Columbia University), and Dennis Duncan (UCL).

Ludic Literature
29 October 2025, 4pm-6pm
We welcomes Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL), Aubrey Gabel (Columbia University) and Dennis Duncan (UCL).
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Is Metafiction still Post-Modern? 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...

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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 .@uclselcs.bsky.social
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Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting For this Research Seminar, we welcome Dr Sarah Grandin (The Courtauld Institute of Art) for a talk on ‘Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting’.

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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IAS Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream' The IAS and the Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.

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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Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania) to give this talk.

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

IAS Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream' The IAS and the Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.

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
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IAS Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream' The IAS and the Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.

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.
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IAS Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream' The IAS and the Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.

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...

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

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...

Displacement and the French Revolution 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.

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...

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

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...

Rope-Dancing and Female Performance An Early Modern Exchanges event with Prof Clare McManus (Northumbria) and Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL)

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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'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...

Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies 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 & 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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Including Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley's paper on
"Voltigeuses: Female Rope-dancers in Seventeenth-century Paris"

Cities of Banal Warfare: Affective Geographies in Violent Times 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.

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...

Colonial Biopolitics: A Politics of Health Which Kills and Cures 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.

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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Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders 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
26 March 2025, 5-7pm
We're pleased to present this conversation with Frances Clemente (Oxford), Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford) and Christina Parte (UCL).
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📣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

Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders 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
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...

IAS Early Career Network Workshop: Getting Published This interactive workshop will cover all aspects of building a strong publication record as an ECR.

📢 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
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The Convoy: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse in Conversation 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, ...

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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The Convoy: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse in Conversation 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
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...

Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders 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
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
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The Convoy: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse in Conversation 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
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...

IAS Octagon Fund open for applications The Octagon Small Grants Fund supports UCL-based early-career researchers, including research students, from Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences. Apply by 24th February.

📢Calling all UCL ECRs & PhDs in A&H and SHS 📢
(if you are not in A&H or SHS you just need to find a suitable collaborator who is!)
The IAS Octagon Grant is open for applications 🎉🙌🏽
Apply by 24 Feb - get writing!
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Medieval Twitter Join us for the launch of Medieval Twitter by Alicia Spencer-Hall.

IAS Book Launch: Medieval Twitter
29 Jan 6-8pm
Chapters include brand-new readings of The Owl and the Nightingale, the Chastelaine de Vergi, and Marie de France’s Laüstic, and arresting insights into troubadour style. #MedievalTwitter.
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