View all previous CFFR events here. Events are sorted in reverse chronological order.
2024
- 5 June 2024:Â Workshop: Colonial Metabolisms, African Histories
- 5 June 2024: Translating the Mélodie: Women, Poetry and Song
- 17 May 2024:Â Against Development: Med Hondo's Migrant Cinema as a Practice of Antisystemic Worldmaking
- 16 May 2024:Â An Address in Paris: Emplacement, Bureaucracy & Belonging in Hostels for West African Migrants
- 25 March 2024: Unrestitution: seeing the victims of France’s nuclear detonations in Algeria
- 6 March 2024:Â Deriving the paradoxical effects of metalepsis with Nerval, Balzac and Genette
- 4 March 2024:Â Studying in French: a conversation about French & French Canadian Higher Education
- 29 February 2024:Â Noble Lecture 2024 with French writer Marie NDiaye
- 27 February 2024:Â French but not (Q)White: Defining Frenchness for the 21st Century: Prof Mame-Fatou Niang
- 6 February 2024:Â The love of strangers: "mixed marriage", family and migration in Senegal
- 30 January 2024: Stability, Prosthesis and Collapse in Montaigne’s Experience of Landscape
- 17 January 2024:Â Inaugural Lecture: 'On Literary Taste' with Professor Patrick Bray
2023
- 5 December 2023:Â Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa - Prof Rachel Jean-Baptiste (Stanford University)
- 28 November 2023: IAS Book Launch 'The letters of the Duchesse d’Elbeuf: Hostile witness to the French Revolution'
- 16 November 2023:Â Official launch of the Centre for French and Francophone Research
- 16 November 2023:Â Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region
- 26 October 2023:Â Black History is World History: G.W.F. Hegel, C.L.R. James and the Black Enlightenment
- 13 October 2023:Â Music and Early Twentieth-Century French Thought: A Research Workshop
- 11 October 2023:Â Flaubert's (Real) Utopias
- 6 October 2023:Â Camera rolls and mixtapes
- 30 June 2023:Â Book Launch: Fowl Eulogies Translated by Daria Chernysheva
- 25-26 May 2023:Â The Critical Perspectives on Racism and Colonialism Conference
- 22 May 2023:Â Skills, Objects, Representations: Material Culture & the French Revolution
- 16 May 2023:Â In conversation with Sita Balani
- 10 May 2023:Â The Falcon as Fulcrum
- 3 May 2023:Â Gendering Racial Capitalism: British Women Investors in Transatlantic Slavery
- 17 April 2023:Â Book Launch 'On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought'
- 8 March 2023:Â Translation and colonization in the early modern Antilles
- 3 March 2023:Â Townhall meeting for anyone involved in French or Francophone Research
- 8 February 2023:Â Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France
- 18 January 2023:Â Henri Michaux and the Psychedelic Humanities
2022
- 15 December 2022:Â Truth & Reconciliation for Colonialism: Screening of 'African Apocalypse'
- 14 December 2022:Â HYBRID Book Launch: Retours proustiens
- 7 December 2022:Â The Radical in Translation: French Revolutionary Texts and Agents in Italy, 1796-1815