Bringing great minds together
Thurs 28th March - Oxford and Cambridge Talk :Â The Menace of Monolinguism Is Monolingualism harming us? Does the study of language benefit the individual and society? Can multilingualism contribute towards our health and well-being, social cohesion and diplomacy? Who better to answer these questions than Wendy Ayers-Bennett, Professor of French Philology and Linguistics at the …
Tue 2nd April 19:00 – Meet with the Vice Chancellor, Stephen Toope Professor Stephen Toope, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, is coming to Paris and we have set up an opportunity for our members to meet him and get first hand information on how he sees the future of the University and what is being …
Wed 3th April 19:00 - Monthly Drinks Come and join us from 7pm to meet up for an informal evening. All Oxford and Cambridge Alumni and their friends are warmly welcome. This month we have invited alumni from UCL to join us. We have renegotiated the deal with Murphy’s and you will need to present …
The President and Committee of the Oxford University Society of Paris are pleased to invite our members and guests to a dinner which will be addressed by: Dr. Paul Roberts,  Sackler Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum and governing body Fellow of Wolfson Oxford, MA Cantab (Downing 1980) on the subject of the exhibition he is curating: "Last Supper …
Thurs 16th May - The first Glory Days of Paris lecture Artists of Montmartre; the Pilgrims of Babylon : Douglas Lyndon-Skeggs There is no name more evocative of Bohemian life, of high spirits, decadence, poverty and revolutionary art in Paris than Montmartre, home to some of France’s greatest artists. Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso would paint …
Fri 17th May 19:30 to Sunday 19th May 16:00 – A weekend in the Aude, at a Château and Winery Graham Nutter (Fitzwilliam 1996) runs the Château St Jacques d’Albas, a wine chateau in the Minervois region of France, approximately 20 minutes from Carcassonne and 90 minutes from Toulouse. He proposes that Cambridge Alumni come …
Thursday 23rd May at 6:30pm (sharp) The Oxford & Cambridge Garden Party at the British Ambassador's Residence The British Ambassador, Lord Llewellyn, has again agreed to welcome us at his Residence for our annual Garden Party. This year, in addition to members of the Oxford Society and their guests, members of the Cercle Franco-Britannique of Sciences …
THE ARTISTS OF MONTMARTRE -  Guided walk in Montmartre on Tuesday 28th May at 2:30pm There is no name more evocative of Bohemian life, of high spirits, decadence, poverty and revolutionary art in Paris than Montmartre, home to some of France’s greatest artists. Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso would paint canvases that would shake the very …
Tue 4th June - Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Garden, Bois de Boulogne (Pré Catalan) The Merry Wives of Windsor by the Tower Theatre Company The Women of Windsor take on Sir John Falstaff and his cronies, in a garden party extravaganza of Shakespeare's classic comedy. Laundry baskets at the ready! Ford and Page have a problem. Sir …
Annual General Meeting Presentation by David Klemperer, a 2018 Trevor Brown Bursary student, on: “The Development of Neo-Socialism in 1930’s France†Our AGM will be held on Monday, June 17th 2019 at 19:00 at the Maison de la Vie Associative et Citoyenne du VIIe/VIIIe, 4 rue Amélie, 75007 Paris (nearest Metros Invalides et Tour Maubourg). …
Glory Days of Paris is a series of six lectures delivered over two years, 2019 and 2020, focusing on the Parisian literary and artistic world of the 1920s and ‘30s, with an introductory lecture to precede this period and a concluding lecture set in the ‘50s and ‘60s. The lectures will be held in iconic …
We are delighted to announce that an event has been added related to the second Glory Days of Paris lecture, on Dadaism and Surrealism. Christie's has agreed to give us a private guided tour of the outstanding Destribats collection, at Christie's Paris, at 9am on Tuesday 2nd July. The Books Department of Christie's, in partnership with experts …