22 October
Ann Jefferson (New College, Oxford)
‘Fiction, failure and female genius: some thoughts on Mme de Staël's Corinne’

12 November
John Lyons (Virginia)
‘From Probability to Prediction in Pascal: Making Use of Wonder’

19 November
Mark Darlow (Christ’s College, Cambridge)
‘Cultural policy in the French Revolution: The case of the Académie Royale de Musique’

10 December
Gabrielle Parker (Middlesex)
‘Transgression and liminality: exploring the spaces betwixt and between in Ying Chen’s fiction’

28 January
Richard Scholar (Oriel College, Oxford)
‘An education in free-thinking: Montaigne, Essais, I.26’

11 February
Pierre Larrivée (Aston)
‘The representation of French in Britain: the case of the film Atonement’

11 March
Robert Chandler (Queen Mary)
‘Translating Lafontaine’

All seminars will be in English and take place from 5.30-7pm in room 1.16 of the Arts Building (building 9 on map of campus). Drinks and discussion follow the papers.

For further information or if you would like to offer a paper, please contact the convenor of the seminar series, Dr Kiera Vaclavik.