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19/11/2025

Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends
TODAY! 19 November 2025, 4pm-6pm
Taking as her material the serial novels, vaudeville plays, fashion magazines and newspaper columns of the Second Empire, Andrea Goulet proposes the fictional Quaker as a screen onto which the French projected their own ambivalence about “liberté, égalité, and fraternité.

The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania) to give this talk.

31/10/2025

Community Cinema: Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (+ Director Q&A)
19 November 2025, 6:30 pm–10:00 pm
Jazz and decolonisation are entwined in this Oscar nominated historical rollercoaster. Soundtrack to a Coup d’État rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.

Jazz and decolonisation are entwined in this Oscar nominated historical rollercoaster.

31/10/2025

Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends
19 November 2025, 4pm-6pm
Taking as its material the serial novels, vaudeville plays, fashion magazines, and newspaper columns of the Second Empire, Andrea Goulet (U. Pennsylvania) proposes the fictional Quaker as a screen onto which the French projected their own ambivalence about “liberté, égalité, and fraternité.

The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania) to give this talk.

28/10/2025

⏰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.

The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL), Aubrey Gabel (Columbia University), and Dennis Duncan (UCL).

06/10/2025

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

The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL), Aubrey Gabel (Columbia University), and Dennis Duncan (UCL).

02/10/2025

**Note change of location**
Is Metafiction still Post-Modern?
29 Oct 3–4:30pm
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 French.

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 French.

26/09/2025

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.
UCL History of Art welcome Dr Sarah Grandin (Courtauld Institute) for this seminar.

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

19/09/2025

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

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

12/09/2025

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.

The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania) to give this talk.

05/09/2025

IAS Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream'
2 October 2025, 5pm-7pm
The IAS and the Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.

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

11/07/2025

IAS Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream'
2 October 2025, 5pm-7pm
Along with -ias.bsky.social, we are pleased to host this triple book launch, with authors Robert Lethbridge, Claire White and Rachel Bowlby.

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

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