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Iggy Pop sings covers of French classic singers Gainsbourg, Piaf and Brassens

Ex-Stooges leader is releasing an album entitled “Après” ("afterwards").
On this album, Iggy Pop re-interprets some of the most great figures of “La Chanson française” including Serge Gainsbourg, Georges Brassens, Edith Piaf, Joe Dassin, Henri Salvador. Despite offering another version of French classics songs, Iggy Pop also covers Frank Sinatra and The Beatles.

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WORLD PLAYBACK WEEK 2012

Mon, 16 Apr 2012

Improvisational theatre ensembles performing in many languages. From Tuesday 15 to Sunday 20 May at…

Le Long de La Rivière Tendre

Wed, 04 Apr 2012

I thought I hated Sebastien Tellier. I thought he was lame trashy europop whose pinnacle was…

Close to me – From the Cure to M

Thu, 22 Mar 2012

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Cardinal Marie (1 hr 5 min)

Marie Cardinal discusses the meaning of being a writer in this talk that took place at the Institut Français in 1991.

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La mémoire des hommes politiques

Nora Pierre (1 hr 16 min)

In this talk he gave at the French Institute in 1977, historian and member of the Académie Française Pierre Nora analyses how the main French politicians and presidents have tried to embody the...…

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A Woman, a Muslim, an Artist

Ghata Yasmine (52 min)

It's 1923, and the young Rikkat is being brought up in the belief that her entire life will be devoted to the art of calligraphy. That same year, Ataturk's republic breaks away from the Islamic...…

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La laïcité définition, histoire, enjeux

Maison française d'Oxford

La laïcité définition, histoire, enjeux…

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Charles Dantzig à la Maison Française d'Oxford

Maison française d'Oxford

Charles Dantzig à la Maison Française d'Oxford…

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Diderot and chemistry: a model of experimental philosophy

Maison française d'Oxford

Diderot and chemistry: a model of experimental philosophy…

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Musical Scenes in the French Novel of the Eighteenth Century

Maison française d'Oxford

Musical Scenes in the French Novel of the Eighteenth Century…

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De Gaulle et la France Libre, De l'Appel du 18 Juin à la Libération

Maison française d'Oxford

De Gaulle et la France Libre, De l'Appel du 18 Juin à la Libération…

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The letters of Vincent van Gogh: book and web edition

Maison française d'Oxford

The letters of Vincent van Gogh: book and web edition…

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France's Mid-Century Crisis, 1930-1950

Maison française d'Oxford

France's Mid-Century Crisis, 1930-1950…

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Managerial Thought and Practice in France, 19th-21st Centuries: Assessment and Future Prospects

Maison française d'Oxford

Managerial Thought and Practice in France, 19th-21st Centuries: Assessment and Future Prospects…

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La disparition de l’œuvre

Maison française d'Oxford

La disparition de l’œuvre…

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Communicating Science and Technology: France and the United Kingdom, Historical Perspectives

Maison française d'Oxford

Communicating Science and Technology: France and the United Kingdom, Historical Perspectives…

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Positivism on both sides of the Channel

Oxford and the exchanges between English Positivists and French Positivists during the Victorian Era…

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Poétique du château dans la littérature française

Maison française d'Oxford

Poétique du château dans la littérature française…

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Rousseau philosophe: la question de la méthode

Maison française d'Oxford

Rousseau philosophe: la question de la méthode…

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Analytic Philosophy of Mind and Language: French-British Dialogue(s)

*Analytic Philosophy of Mind and Language: French-British Dialogue(s) *…

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Le Collège de France à Oxford: "Animating images: an anthroplogical approach"

Maison française d'Oxford

Animating images: an anthroplogical approach…

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Modern French Seminars, Hilary Term 2012

Maison française d'Oxford

Jouhandeau and Genet: Two Perverts between Abjection and Sublimation…

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Europeana: a digital library for the Humanities?

Maison française d'Oxford

Europeana. A digital library for the Humanities?…

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Medieval French Seminars, Hilary Term 2012

Maison française d'Oxford

Les chroniqueurs de croisade: de l'auteur de l'Estoire de la guerre sainte à Joinville…

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Oxford University French Postgraduate Conference “Metamorphosis”

Maison française d'Oxford

Click here to listen to the podcast…

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The analysis of the March 2010 French Regional Elections: Results and Political Consequences

Maison française d'Oxford

The analysis of the March 2010 French Regional Elections: Results and Political Consequences…

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Lévi-Strauss' Legacy and British Anthropology

Maison française d'Oxford

"Naturalism and anti-naturalism in British understandings of Lévi-Strauss"…

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Quand la France était galante

Maison française d'Oxford

The following topics were discussed:…

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Taxation, Democracy and State Formation in France, 1870-1940

Maison française d'Oxford

Taxation, Democracy and State Formation in France, 1870-1940…

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Remembering Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)

Maison française d'Oxford

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Rescuing the Jews in France during the Holocaust: Background, Networks, Characters

Maison française d'Oxford

Rescuing the Jews in France during the Holocaust: Background, Networks, Characters…

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Universities in the ‘Performance Age’

Maison française d'Oxford

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A Q&A with Daniel Cordier

Maison française d'Oxford

Q&A with Daniel Cordier, Free French, Compagnon de la Libération, secretary and biographer of Jean Moulin.…

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Michel Foucault - Psychiatric Power

Institut français du Royaume-Uni (1 hr 21 min)

From 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at the College de France. These were seminal events, offering a unique public forum for one of the great modern minds...…

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Sartre and De Beauvoir

Institut français du Royaume-Uni (46 min)

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) dominated the cultural and literary life of post-war France and remains today France's most famous twentieth-century intellectual. Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) was a...…

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Claude Lanzmann Masterclass

Institut français (1 hr 49 min)

Born in 1925, Claude Lanzmann, director of the landmark film Shoah, has played a unique role in France’s intellectual scene throughout his life. In 1943 he helped organise the Resistance at the...…

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Human beings as rational animals

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In the talk that he gave at the Maison Française d'Oxford, Francis Wolff, specialist in Ancient Greek Philosophy and in Metaphysics, focused on the special properties of the human language.…

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Michel Foucault et l’écriture des vies ordinaires

Guillaume Le Blanc (57 min)

In the talk that he gave at the Maison Française d'Oxford, Guillaume Le Blanc gave an interpretation of the text by the philosopher Michel Foucault, "La vie des hommes infâmes".…

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Paysage et secret: Autour des derniers romans de Dominique Barbéris, Quelque chose à cacher et Beau Rivage

Dominique Barbéris (49 min)

In the lecture that she gave at the Maison Française d'Oxford, Dominique Barbéris talked about her two last novels, Quelque chose à cacher and Beau Rivage.

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Stendhal’s Manuscripts: From Handwriting to Digital and Paper Editions

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In the talk that they gave at the Maison Française d'Oxford, Cécile Meynard and Thomas Lebarbé, joint leaders of the Stendhal's Manuscripts digital archive project, presented their current...…

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Autrement Dit : Amélie Nothomb

Amélie Nothomb

Amelie Nothomb has written seventeen bestsellers, and it's not just that they sell a lot (though they do), she's a landmark writer because she's a good one. Her stories are wacky, structured like...…

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Child Psychoanalysis

Françoise Dolto (1 hr 36 min)

This conference coincides with the launch of the first book published in English on the work of Françoise Dolto, Theory and Practice in Child Psychoanalysis (G.Hall, F. Hivernel, S. Morgan). The...…

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Text & the City

Eric Hazan, Iain Sinclair (1 hr 22 min)

Eric Hazan's newly translated urban history of Paris, The Invention of Paris, A History in Footsteps, maps centuries of architectural revolutions and weaves concrete development with politics and...…

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The Little Prince Revisited

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Joann Sfar (1 hr 3 min)

For over sixty-five years Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince has captured the hearts and minds of its readers. The whimsical story with a fairytale touch has sold over 80 million copies...…

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On Identity

Emmanuel Carrère, Tibor Fischer (54 min)

"Madness and horror have always been my obsessions. The books I have written are just about that. After writing The Adversary I couldn't handle it any longer. I just wanted to run away"....…

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On Expatriation

Jonathan Fenby, Christian Roudaut (1 hr 3 min)

A former political reporter in Paris, Christian Roudaut has been a UK correspondent for ten years. He works for Radio France, the TV channel Arte and the newsmagazine Marianne. His last...…

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School Blues

Daniel Pennac, Michael Rosen (52 min)

Daniel Pennac's latest book in English, School Blues, explores the many facets of schooling, including how consumerism has altered attitudes to learning. Daniel Pennac was a teacher before writing...…

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Roland Barthes : science de la littérature et plaisir du texte

Marty Eric (1 hr 18 min)

Philosopher, critic and literary theorist Roland Barthes was one of the most prominent intellectual figures to have emerged in post-war France. His work extended over many fields and influenced...…

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The Book of Proper Names

Nothomb Amélie (1 hr 5 min)

Amélie Nothomb, Goncourt Prize Nominee 2010 and one of the most successful writers in France, visited the Institut français in 2004 and discussed the Book of Proper Names with the London-based...…

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Bruno Heitz and Quentin Blake on Children's Literature

Bruno Heitz and Quentin Blake (1 hr 13 min)

Renowned illustrator, Quentin Blake, and French author-illustrator, Bruno Heitz, discuss children's literature and illustration on different sides of the channel. Blake and Heitz animate the...…

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Book Launch - No and Me by Delphine de Vigan

Delphine de Vigan (1 hr 1 min)

Goncourt 2009 nominated Delphine de Vigan (Les heures souterraines) presents the English translation of her book No et moi (No and Me). No and Me follows the path of a precocious thirteen year-old...…

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Derrida: On the Universal

Balibar Etienne (1 hr 12 min)

The political debate focusing on the uses and misuses of universalism has been reactivated by discussions about the effects of globalization and their impact on post-colonial and gender studies....…

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Proust et la loi

Deleuze Gilles (1 hr 4 min)

French philosopher Gilles Deleuze wrote many influential essays on cinema, literature and fine art. In this talk he gave at the French Institute in 1971, he argues that Proust's work is not so...…

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La mémoire des hommes politiques

Nora Pierre (1 hr 16 min)

In this talk he gave at the French Institute in 1977, historian and member of the Académie Française Pierre Nora analyses how the main French politicians and presidents have tried to embody the...…

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Joann Sfar in Conversation with Quentin Blake

Sfar Joann (54 min)

Born in 1971 in Nice, Joann Sfar read philosophy and attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He has scripted and illustrated several hundred bandes dessinées, and in 1998 received the prix...…

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The Art of Travel

de Botton Alain (59 min)

Alain de Botton discusses his book The Art of Travel with Jonathan Rée, offering a philosophical insight into the notion of travelling. Unlike other texts stating where to go, Botton explains the...…

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