WORLD PLAYBACK WEEK 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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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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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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Maison française d'Oxford
La laïcité définition, histoire, enjeux…
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Charles Dantzig à la Maison Française d'Oxford…
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Diderot and chemistry: a model of experimental philosophy…
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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…
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The letters of Vincent van Gogh: book and web edition…
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France's Mid-Century Crisis, 1930-1950…
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Managerial Thought and Practice in France, 19th-21st Centuries: Assessment and Future Prospects…
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Communicating Science and Technology: France and the United Kingdom, Historical Perspectives…
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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…
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Rousseau philosophe: la question de la méthode…
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*Analytic Philosophy of Mind and Language: French-British Dialogue(s) *…
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Animating images: an anthroplogical approach…
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Jouhandeau and Genet: Two Perverts between Abjection and Sublimation…
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Europeana. A digital library for the Humanities?…
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Les chroniqueurs de croisade: de l'auteur de l'Estoire de la guerre sainte à Joinville…
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The analysis of the March 2010 French Regional Elections: Results and Political Consequences…
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"Naturalism and anti-naturalism in British understandings of Lévi-Strauss"…
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Taxation, Democracy and State Formation in France, 1870-1940…
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Rescuing the Jews in France during the Holocaust: Background, Networks, Characters…
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Q&A with Daniel Cordier, Free French, Compagnon de la Libération, secretary and biographer of Jean Moulin.…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 (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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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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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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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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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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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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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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