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ProgrammeMichaelmas Term 2013 (13 oct.-7 dec.)
Legal History Seminar: Codifying the Law - I
Oxford16 octobre, 21 et 27 novembre 2013
SEMINARSALL SOULS COLLEGE, Hovenden RoomLegal History Seminar: Codifying the Law - I

• Wednesday 16 October, 5.00pm: “Did the Mesopotamians also invent the Codes of Laws?", Sophie Demare-Lafont, Université Paris 2-EPHE

• Thursday 21 November, 5.00pm
• “Justinian and the “Delegislation” of Roman Law. A Reappraisal of leges publicæ”, Dario Mantovani, Università Pavia
• “Magisterium vitæ: Was Theodosius’ Code really a Guidance of Life?”, Boudewijn Sirks, All Souls College

• Wednesday 27 November, 5.00pm: “The Talmud and the Codification of Biblical Law”, Norman Solomon, Institute of Oriental Studies

• Convenors: Boudewijn Sirks, All Souls College and Soazick Kerneis, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre-MFO

_________________________________________________________FRENCH LITERATURE FROM THE MODERN TO THE POSTMODERNConvenors: Philippe Roussin, CNRS-MFO and Michael Sheringham, All Souls College

• Friday 1 - Saturday 2 November, 9.00am-6.00pm: “Littérature, espaces publics et démocratie”
• Convenors: Philippe Roussin, CNRS-MFO, Mike Holland, St Hugh’s College, Philippe Daros, Université Sorbonne
• Nouvelle, Sebastian Veg, EHESS-CEFC, Hong Kong and Annick Louis, Université de Reims-CRAL, EHESS
• Friday 22 November, 9.00am-6.00pm: “Proust: la pensée, l’émotion, l’écriture”
• Convenors: Anne Simon, CRAL, EHESS, Philippe Roussin, CNRS-MFO and Michael Sheringham, All Souls College

_________________________________________________________DURKHEIMIAN STUDIES

• Saturday 5 October, 10.30am-4.00pm: “Miscellany: Contributions from Bjorn Andersen, Alexander Riley and Ed Tiryakian”
• Convenor: Bill Pickering, British Centre for Durkheimian Studies-University of Oxford

__________________________________________________MFO IN OXFORDINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCESALL SOULS COLLEGE, Old Library

• Saturday 12 October, 9.30am-5.00pm: “Strategies of Imperial Control in Arid and Semi-Arid Environments: The Steppe and the Sahara”
• Convenors: Alexander Morrison, University of Liverpool-

All Souls College and Berny Sèbe, University of BirminghamFACULTY OF LAW, St Cross Building

• Monday 18 - Tuesday 19 November, from 8.30am both days: “The Theory and Philosophy of Globalisation of Law”
• Convenors: Raphaëlle Nollez-Goldbach, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre and Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Mansfield College

NUFFIELD COLLEGEThursday 12 - Saturday 14 December

• From Thursday: 2.00pm to Saturday: 12.00am: “Reconceptualizing the State: Restructuring in Europe, the American State and Empirical Trends”.
• Convenors: Des King and Patrick Le Galès, Nuffield College In collaboration with the OXPO programme

_________________________________________________________LECTURESST HUGH’S COLLEGE, Mordan Hall

• Wednesday 30 October, 5.00pm: “Does Fiction Enhance History? The Heydrich Case”, Laurent Binet, Writer
• Chair: Mike Holland, St Hugh’s College
• Convenor: Daniel Lee, Brasenose College

CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE

• Wednesday 13 November, 4.30pm: “Is there such a thing as Metaphysical Knowledge?”, Claudine Tiercelin, Collège de France
• Convenor: Anna Marmodoro, Corpus Christi College

See also: Collège de France in Oxford_________________________________________________________CINEMAThis term, the MFO will show four films by the award-winning director Jacques Audiard, all in French with English subtitles.

• Tuesday 22 October, 8.00pm: “Regarde les hommes tomber”, 1994, 90 min.
• Tuesday 5 November, 8.00pm: “Sur mes lèvres”, 2001, 115 min.
• Tuesday 19 November, 8.00pm: “Un Héros très discret”, 1996, 107 min.
• Tuesday 3 December, 8.00pm: “Le Prophète”, 2009, 155 min.

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• Anne Simonin

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