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Modern French Research Seminar

Modern French Research Seminar - Michaelmas Term 2025 

All events will take place in the McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, unless specified*, at 5:15pm. All are welcome. For all questions, please contact Ry Montgomery (rjm250@cam.ac.uk), Wilfred Skinner (wmrs3@cam.ac.uk) or Samuel Buchoul (sjmb5@cam.ac.uk).

 

Monday 20 October

Chiara Quaranta

(University of Edinburgh)

The Bright Night of Images: On the Black Screen in French Cinema

 

Monday 27 October

Stéphane Martelly

(University of Sherbrooke)

Tresser la Ligne

(Talk in French)

 

Monday 17 November

Christina Howells

(University of Oxford)

Catherine Malabou: le Défaut d'Origine and the Impossibility of Being

 

Monday 24 November

Jonathan Fardy

(Idaho State University)

A Non-Standard Arsenal: Key Concepts in Laruelle *

 

The McCrum Lecture Theatre is accessed via the cobbled yard next to the Eagle pub on Benet Street (i.e. not via the main entrance to Corpus Christi College). The auditorium is accessible by wheelchair.

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