Cambridge Society of Paris

Casual Debate while Dining in Paris
2022-11-23 19:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Paris) | Carmine Café, 73 Avenue Suffren, Paris, 75007, France
On Wednesday 23rd of November we invite you to join our first “Casual debate while dining in Paris” event. For 35€ you can enjoy a lovely two-course dinner + wine in the company of fellow Cambridge Alumni from 7pm onwards at the Carmine Café. A casual debate will be organised with details provided closer to the date, it will be designed for fun and open to all!
3 options will be proposed for the main dish:

Filet de bar, tian de legumes et purée maison
Bavette à l’échalotte, frites maison
Risotto de légumes à la crème de cèpe (vegetarian)

2 options for dessert:

Crème brûlée vanille de Madagascar
Mi-cuit chocolat et glace vanille

To register and select your menu, go to the ticket section below.
Casual debate organisation
At the start of the evening, following a quick “ice breaker”, we will vote and select one of the following topics:

Democracy is dead
Decarbonisation should be top priority for all companies and all people
One global cryptocurrency should replace all traditional currencies

After 5-10min to mingle and reflect on the selected topic all those with arguments in favour of the statement will be invited to share their thoughts. Then the main dish will be served and all those with arguments against the selected statement will be invited to share their thoughts just prior to deserts being served. At the end of the evening, we will wrap up and elect the winning side.
Please note that the last registration for this event will be on November 16th as final numbers have to be communicated to the restaurant the following day.

Monthly Entrepreneur Mixer
2022-11-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Frog & British Library, 114 Avenue de France, Paris, 75013, France
CAMentrepreneurs in Paris
Get involved!

Dear Entrepreneurs,
Following the launch of CAMentrepreneurs in Paris on Tuesday 18th October at La Felicita, we are delighted to announce that we will be henceforth running a monthly entrepreneur mixer. The launch was a brilliant success, drawing together both aspiring entrepreneurs as well as those deeply embedded within the ecosystem already. There was an even split of Cambridge alumni and guests (with some in attendance from the other place).
Our November CAMentrepreneurs Paris Pub Mixer will take place on Monday 21st November at the Frog & British Library, 114 Avenue de France, 75013 Paris.
Please scan the QR code on the poster which will take you directly to Eventbrite – or click on this link – where you can sign up (spaces are limited). Any questions, just ping me! –
Olivia A. Halsall
CAMentrepreneurs
Paris Chapter Lead

INVITATION FROM THE ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION
2022-11-14 18:30 - 22:00 | Senat, 15ter rue de Vaugirard, Paris, 75006, France
Dear Friends,
We are delighted to confirm our dinner-debate with:
Professor Vernon Bogdanor
It is a great privilege to welcome the outstanding Professor of Government at King’s College London, formerly Professor of Government at Oxford University. After publishing books which include Beyond Brexit: Towards a British Constitution, in 2019, and Britain and Europe in a Troubled World, in 2020, Vernon has written Politics and Power before the First World War: The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain(2022). He will talk about:

How to choose a political Leader in the United Kingdom
A timely subject after the election of the Leader of the Conservative party following the resignation of Boris Johnson. Liz Truss was elected by a short majority of members against her opponent Rishi Sunak who was the favorite candidate of the Conservative Members of Parliament in the Commons.
Once again Senator Joëlle GARRIAUD-MAYLAM has kindly accepted to host the ESU dinner at the Restaurant du Sénat:
Palais du Luxembourg
15 ter rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris
Monday 14 November 2022 at 7 pm
We will meet at 6.30 pm, with our ID papers.
We are looking forward to meeting you again and hope you will come with friends. Answers requested before 7 November 2022, as we are required to send the list of participants to the Sénat.
Luce Loussouarn President of the ESU Paris branch
Participation 60 € per person
Send the tag with your cheque payable to ESU Paris before November 7 to:
Luce LOUSSOUARN 8 Villa de Ségur 75007 Paris

Freshers' Welcome drinks
2022-09-24 14:00 - 17:00 | Fondation Goodplanet, 1, Carrefour de Longchamp, Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 75116
The Cambridge Society of Paris is again taking part in the University’s world-wide program of events for those students who have recently been successful in gaining a place at Cambridge, whether as an Undergraduate or a Graduate.
The aim is to give them an opportunity to meet other new students coming from France and to chat to Society members about their experience in Cambridge so that the Freshers are better prepared on arrival in their College at the start of their first term.
We will be returning to the Fondation Goodplanet, which is an outdoor venue and so we hope will suitable and safe even if the level of Covid infections creeps up again. The venue is in the Bois de Boulogne and for those without a car, there are three buses running about every 10-15 minutes:

line 43, which has a stop at Pont de Neuilly (metro line 1) and goes to Longchamp-Goodplanet
line 241, which leaves from Porte d’Auteuil (metro line 10) and goes to Les Moulins-Camping
line 244, which stops at Porte Maillot (metro line 1 or RER line C) and goes to Longchamp-Goodplanet

Entry is free and attendees are welcome to wander around the Fondation before or after the event.
There is no charge for the event. Freshers will be offered two complementary drinks, while Society members can purchase their refreshments at the Clairière’s bar.

Commemoration and Thanksgiving For Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
2022-09-17 16:00 - 17:30 | St George’s Anglican Church, 7 rue Auguste Vacquerie, Paris, 75116, France
The Rev’d Mark Osborne, Rector of St George’s, Paris

Has the pleasure of inviting the members of the Cambridge Society of Paris to a service of Choral Evensong
of Commemoration and Thanksgiving For Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

In the presence of
the Ambassador of the United Kingdom
Her Excellency Dame Menna Rawlings

Saturday 17th September 2022
16h00
St George’s Anglican Church,
7 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75116 Paris

Followed by a reception

RSVP: office@stgeorgesparis.org

Presentation by Solange Manche and Annual General Meeting
2022-05-25 19:00 - 21:30 | Maison de la Vie Associative et Citoyenne du VIIe, 4 rue Amélie, Paris, 75007, France
Solange Manche, a beneficiary of the Trevor Brown Bursary in 2020 to support her change year at the Ecole Normale Supérieur, will give a presentation on “Finance’s Phineas Gage: Thinking Financialization and Subject Formation with Contemporary French Thought”.
In this talk, Solange will present how the thought of Stiegler, Malabou, and Lordon can shed a new light upon the way we think about the relation between individuation and financialization.
After the 2007-2008 financial crash, it became clear that finance is not limited to the screens of the stock exchange. Finance has now become so entangled with our daily existence that theoretical and philosophical considerations of financialization have declared the emergence of a new subject, starting with Michel Foucault’s entrepreneur of the self.
Since then, a number of subjects have been added to the list: Randy Martin’s financialized self, Paul Langley’s Foucauldian uncertain subject, Maurizio Lazzarato’s indebted man, Rob Aitken’s bodies that are turned into objects for financial income, Michel Feher’s rated agents, and most recently Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou’s homo speculans.
Whereas these accounts remain primarily Foucauldian and Deleuzian, Solange will argue that the new milieu that finance gives rise to is also the background from which Stiegler’s, Malabou’s, and Lordon’s ontologies have developed, thereby offering theoretical tools that are more appropriate to our times.

Solange Manche is a PhD candidate in French, working on the thought of Bernard Stiegler, Catherine Malabou, and Frédéric Lordon. She in particular explores how their ontologies inform their critique of contemporary capitalism and brings their perspective to financialization studies.
The talk will be preceded at 7pm by the Society’s Annual General Meeting. The “formal” notice of meeting and other papers relating to the AGM will be sent to members in early May.
Please register your attendance at the talk and the AGM using the booking section below – just click on the “+” button to the right of the quantity field in the tickets box and then click on “get tickets” and proceed to checkout.
Guests are welcome, although of course they will not be able to vote at the AGM so they may prefer to arrive at 8pm just for the talk.
Tickets are free and light refreshments will be served.

The invisible world of life - a talk by Pascale Cossart
2022-05-09 18:00 - 20:30 | Amphitheatre Marie Curie, 1 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 75005, France
EVENT CANCELLED
with apologies from the Cambridge Society of Paris
PROFESSOR PASCALE COSSART
The invisible world of life (bacteria, fungi, archaea…and viruses)
Or
A trip in the country of microbes: a lot of friends, few enemies!
Monday 9th May 2022
Amphithéâtre Marie Curie
11/13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie
75005 Paris

Hot Topics for Top Minds
2022-04-28 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The Society’s quarterly virtual meeting to debate topics considered to be of interest by the participants, proposed in advance, will be held on Thursday 28th April 2022 from 8pm to 9pm. Places will be limited to a maximum of 20 so everyone is able to have their say on each topic.
The critical thing is to have a range of interesting topics, which is down to you please. The topics can be on almost any subject – topical, scientific, philosophical, serious or amusing, it is up to you to suggest what you would like to discuss. Having thought of ideas, please include them in your booking form, or if you come up with an idea later, you can send your contributions directly to the Society’s President, Terry Quinn, on president@camsocparis.org. Terry will then compere the event.
This event will be hosted on Zoom. A meeting link will be sent to all registered attendees two or three days in advance of the event.

Cambridge Society of Paris Annual Dinner
2022-04-13 19:30 - 23:30 | Maison de Polytechniciens, 12 rue de Poitiers, Paris, 75007, France
Bookings for this event have now closed – sorry if you have missed out

The President and Committee of the Cambridge Society of Paris are delighted to invite the Society’s members and their guests to the Annual Dinner on Wednesday 13th April 2022 at the Maison des Polytechniciens, 12 rue de Poitiers, 75007 Paris
Our Guest Speaker will be Sir Mark Walport (Clare College), FRS FRCP FRCPath FMedSci FRSE.

Sir Mark chairs the Kennedy Memorial Trust and the Imperial College Academic Health Sciences Centre. He is a Trustee of the British Museum.
For members, the price for aperitif, dinner and drinks is €70 per person. One guest can be invited at this price. For members under 30, the price is €50 with again one guest at the same price. Additional guests and non-member Alumni are also welcome, although their ticket price is €80 each.
Members will have received an invitation by email which indicates whether or not their subscription needs renewing so that they can take advantage of the Members’ ticket rates.
For any questions about this event, or your membership status, please contact Tony Banton, Hon. Secretary, on admin@camsocparis.org.
Please note that cancellations could only be refunded if they had been communicated to the Society’s Hon. Secretary by 11am on Friday 1st April 2022.

The Gemini Boat Races
2022-04-03 15:00 - 17:00 | The Bowler, 13 rue d'Artois, Paris, 75008, France
The Gemini Boat Race
will return to the Thames this year.

Come along to cheer on the Light Blues at The Bowler, 13 rue d’Artois, 75008 Paris.
We have arranged for both the Ladies’ and the Men’s races to be shown on the Bowler’s big screen so that we can meet up with our friends from the Other Place. The stakes are, of course, getting higher for Cambridge as we are on an impressive run of victories in both races.
The Ladies’ race starts at 15:23 French time, with the Men’s race one hour later, so reserve your afternoon to come along and show your support. The Bowler serves reasonably priced pub meals, so why not make a full afternoon of it and have lunch before the rowing starts.
Although there is no need to book, we will appreciate it if you let us know by email that you intend to come along so we can confirm approximate numbers to The Bowler.

Dinner-Talk at the Sénat
2022-03-15 19:00 - 22:30 | Senat, 15ter rue de Vaugirard, Paris, 75006, France
TICKET SALES FOR THIS EVENT HAVE NOW CLOSED
We have an excellent opportunity to find out about the challenges relating to political opinion polls from Mr Henri Wallard, CEO France and Group Deputy CEO of Ipsos. More information about the topic of the talk will be provided shortly.
We have also been fortunate to be able to secure an appropriate venue for such a topic, the Sénat. 15ter rue de Vaugirard, Paris 6eme.

There will be a welcome aperitif from 7pm, followed by a three-course dinner starting at 7:30pm. We have selected a fish menu, but do request that you indicate any dietary requirements you have in your booking form as the Sénat’s restaurant can provide a vegetarian or vegan option as long as we inform them in advance.
Due to the security conditions at the Sénat, it is essential that you arrive between 7pm and 7:45pm – the doors will be closed at 7:45pm sharp so any late arrivals will, unfortunately not be able to join the dinner.
Tickets are €55 per person, with a discounted ticket available at €40 for those of you under 30 years of age. To book, please use the booking section below, and click on the “+” sign to the right of the appropriate ticket category
We are required to provide a nominative list of participants, including date of birth, four days before the event and no changes to that list can be made. This means that you must book your places no later than 8th March, and no refunds for cancellations will be given after that date. You will need to show a photo-ID document to be allowed into the Sénat, together with a valid pass vaccinal.

CamSoc Paris - Jean Khalfa talk 11 March 2022
2022-03-11 18:00 - 20:30 | Amphitheatre Marie Curie, 1 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 75005, France
Jean Khalfa is a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge who specialises in the history of philosophy, modern literature (in particular contemporary poetry and writing in French from North Africa and the Caribbean), aesthetics and anthropology. He is also a member of the Council of the Ecole Normale Supérieure.

Jean will give us a talk on Wifredo Lam and XXth century livres d’artiste at the Amphithéâtre Marie Curie, 1 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris (RER B Luxembourg, Metro line 7 Place Monge, Metro line 10 Cardinal Lemoine). This is the lecture hall where Marie Curie gave her lectures in the first decade of the 20th Century and it retains much of the format and atmosphere from that time. Jean’s topic would follow well the current Picasso exhibition (https://www.palais-portedoree.fr/fr/node/109187) for those who have been or are planning to go to that – it runs until 13th February at the Palais de la Porte Dorée.
The Wren library at Trinity College has one of the greatest collections of XXth century artists’ books. A set of books by the Cuban/French painter Wifredo Lam has recently been added to the collection. Lam was a protégé of Picasso before WWII and became one of the greatest painters of the second half of the century.

His painting La Jungle is usually displayed in New York’s MoMA next to Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. His work as a painter was considerable and is on display in countless museums, but what is less well known is that Lam produced some of the greatest books of the period, in dialogue with the most significant poets.
This talk will be an opportunity to discover this artist, to better understand the genre of the “livre d’artiste”, and to learn how I managed to get these extraordinary books to Cambridge.
To find out more about the collection:
Wilfredo Lam: Livres d’Artiste – part one of article published on 29th May 2018
Wilfredo Lam: Livres d’Artiste – part two of article published on 4th June 2018
Participants will be welcomed with a coffee, available from 6pm, and the lecture will begin at 7pm. Tickets are €25 per person and can be booked using the link below (click on the “+” button to select the number of tickets required).

Oxford & Cambridge Poetry and Prose Reading
2022-03-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
We are pleased to announce the next Oxford and Cambridge virtual prose and poetry reading on Tuesday 1st March at 7pm. It will take place on Zoom. This event is open to members of both Societies.
The topic chosen is “Rich and Poor” which we hope gives you plenty of scope to select readings that are pertinent. Each reader should plan to come with two readings, which can be either poetry or prose, each of 3 to 5 minutes (maximum) long.
Thus, in the 90 minutes available, you can expect to read both pieces. Paul Tracy (Oxford) will again act as moderator for the evening.
There is no charge for this event. To book, click on the “+” sign in the booking section below and enter the information requested on the way to checkout.
Registered participants will receive the Zoom link by email two or three days before the event.

PADFAS - Zoom Lecture on Paul Strand
2022-02-17 14:00 - 15:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
PADFAS (The Arts Society Paris) invites members of the Cambridge Society of Paris to join their Live online Zoom lecture on Thursday 17th February, 2022 at 14.00.
Deborah Jenner will present Paul Strand’s “Straight Photography”.

Paul Strand’s sharply focused Straight Photography elevated this Machine Age tool – a camera – to a medium of Fine Art through exquisitely composed images in highly contrasted tones of black and white. His 1915 shot of “Wall Street” extracted the ready-made (yet hidden) symbols of J P Morgan’s bank façade to reveal parallels with Di Vinci’s Last Supper mural. It suggests the misplaced sanctity of modern financial institutions. Strand’s 1922 article on The New Trilogy (making “God, Christ, and the Holy Ghost” into “the machine, materialism and science”) clearly criticises the Industrial Age’s worshipping of false gods. His and Charles Sheeler’s chillingly still and vacated views of Henry Ford’s River Rouge automobile plant portray it as a soulless cathedral.
Strand was always there at the cutting edge from Gallery 291 and NYC Dada to documentary filmmaking in LA & Mexico. Banished from the USA during the McCarthy Era, he travelled the world’s political hotspots to finally settle in France compiling photo-book portraits of place. Ever shooting iconic views, his objective, mechanical recording of reality ironically reveals the subjectivity of all human vision.
Deborah Jenner is an American-born art historian; member of College Arts Association. Residing in Paris since 1990, she has worked at the Ecole du Louvre, the Sorbonne, the Catholic Institute and the British Council. Her Doctorate thesis proved non-western influences in Georgia O’Keeffe’s art. Her publications include catalogue essays for Musée d’Orsay (New York City et l’Art modern) and Centre Pompidou (Les Traces du Sacré), scholarly papers with the research laboratory S.A.R.I. and Gallery critiques in ArtAsiaPacific, and PerformArts: Artvisuel-Artvivant. She gives public talks, guided walks and museum tours for ex-pat organisations and study-abroad programs and volunteers as an Al Gore Climate leader and JCF Round Table coordinator. She is a member of The Arts Society Paris.
Please book your free place directly with PADFAS by using this link.

Discovering the Peculiarity of the English - a talk by Alan Macfarlane and Fabienne Bonnet
2022-02-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The watercolour of the White Cliffs of Dover is by Richard Andrewes (Trinity)
This event is on Zoom
Alan Macfarlane (Worcester Oxford (MA & PhD), King’s Cambridge (Fellow), London School of Economics (MPhil), SOAS (PhD).) was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Alan is an anthropologist and historian, and a Professor Emeritus of King’s College, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of 20 books and numerous articles on the anthropology and history of England, Nepal, Japan and China. He has focused on comparative study of the origins and nature of the modern world. In recent years he has become increasingly interested in the use of visual material in teaching and research. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society.

How did I become interested in the English? My colonial background and birth in India; my schooling in English boarding schools and training in history at Oxford; my anthropological investigations in Nepal, Japan and China; my interest in grand social theory and particularly in French commentators â€“ Montaigne, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Tocqueville, Taine and Marc Bloch among others. And what are the peculiarities? Some outlined in”Understanding the English A-Z”, and others, which I will briefly sketch in, in a sequel “The Peculiarity of the English” – Games, Humour, Class, Education, Empire and more.
Society Member Fabienne Bonnet, the translator of “Understanding the English” will also talk about the process of translation of the book into French.

Fabienne’s background is St Thecle, Chamalières (73), American Field Service scholar, Waukesha WI. (74) MPhil Montpellier (79), Lectrice King’s Cambridge (90-94), Bye-Fellow, Homerton (2011-2016), Faculty of English, affiliated supervisor literary translation (1994-2014) (Franciscan. Life vows. 2001)

Hot Topics for Top Minds
2022-01-20 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The Society’s quarterly virtual meeting to debate topics considered to be of interest by the participants, proposed in advance, will be held on Thursday 20th January 2022 from 8pm to 9pm. Places will be limited to a maximum of 20 so everyone is able to have their say on each topic.
The critical thing is to have a range of interesting topics, which is down to you please. The topics can be on almost any subject â€“ topical, scientific, philosophical, serious or amusing, it is up to you to suggest what you would like to discuss. Having thought of ideas, please include them in your booking form, or if you come up with an idea later, you can send your contributions directly to the Society’s President, Terry Quinn, on president@camsocparis.org. Terry will then compÃ¨re the event.
This event will be hosted on Zoom. A meeting link will be sent to all registered attendees two or three days in advance of the event.

Concert given by the Wells Consort "Motets and Christmas Carols"
2021-12-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Eglise St-Denys-du-St-Sacrement, 68bis rue de Turenne, Paris, 75003, France
Directed by Christopher Wells (Magdalene), the Wells Consort presents carols, motets and other festive music for the Christmas Season.
Entry free, with a voluntary contribution towards costs

Carols at the Travellers
2021-12-07 18:30 - 20:00 | The Travellers Club, 25 avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 75008, France
All tickets for this event have now been sold
However, it is possible to register on the waiting list and if there are cancellations the tickets that become available will be allocated in the order of receipt of waiting list applications.
After a one year enforced Covid gap, the Oxford Society in Paris and the Cambridge Society in Paris are please to invite their members and guests, together with the members of PADFAS and the English Speaking Union and their guests, back to our:Â
Annual Carol Singing at
â€œThe Travellersâ€
25, avenue des Champs-ElysÃ©es, Paris 8’eme
From 6:30 PM on Tuesday, 7th December, 2021
Vin chaud and mince pies will be served prior to the singing
Numbers are limited to 100 in total. Places will be allocated on a â€œfirst come, first servedâ€ basis.
You will be required to present your “pass sanitaire” at the reception desk upon entry.
Please apply by booking through the “Tickets” section below. Cost per person is â‚¬20.
NB: Please note that the Travellers Club
requires gentlemen to wear jackets and ties

Hot Topics for Top Minds
2021-10-20 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The Society’s fifth quarterly virtual meeting to debate topics considered to be of interest by the participants, proposed in advance, will be held on Wednesday 2Oth October 2021 from 8pm to 9pm. Places will be limited to a maximum of 20 so everyone is able to have their say on each topic.
The critical thing is to have a range of interesting topics, which is down to you please. The topics can be on almost any subject â€“ topical, scientific, philosophical, serious or amusing, it is up to you to suggest what you would like to discuss. Having thought of ideas, please include them in your booking form, or if you come up with an idea later, you can send your contributions directly to Terry Quinn on president@camsocparis.org. Terry will then compÃ¨re the event.
This event will be hosted on Zoom. A meeting link will be sent to all registered attendees two or three days in advance of the event. Since numbers will be limited to 20, you are encouraged to register early

Entrepreneurship and Building a Better World : Carbon13 - The Venture Builder for the Climate Emergency
2021-10-07 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
Tackling climate change with entrepreneurship
The story of the venture builder Carbon 13
Carbon 13 is a new accelerator based in Cambridge which focuses on delivering new ventures capable of reducing CO2(e) by > 10 million tonnes each (Carbon13 – The Venture Builder for the Climate Emergency).

Chris Coleridge, CEO and founder of C13, will join us to present his vision for this unique accelerator program and the progress to date. You will also have a unique opportunity to hear about some of the exciting ventures already formed as part of cohort 1 which started in MarchÂ 2021.

ReedÂ Walker, is co-founder of Agreed Earth, helping farmers profit, naturally, by building the data hub of regenerative agriculture. Backed by Carbon13.

Nicolas Nouvel is a member of the Committee of the Cambridge Society. “I am about toÂ embarkÂ on a fantastic adventure to co-create a business with significant impact on GHG emissions. Joining the second cohort of the phenomenal Cambridge-based acceleratorÂ Carbon13Â is an honour and a privilege. Together we will form teams to tackle climate change in our respective areas of expertise. It is going to be spectacular… so watch this space!”

Paris Freshers Welcome Drinks
2021-09-19 14:00 - 17:00 | Fondation Goodplanet, 1, Carrefour de Longchamp, Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 75116
The Cambridge Society of Paris is again taking part in the Universityâ€™s world-wide program of events for those students who have recently been successful in gaining a place at Cambridge, whether as an Undergraduate or a Graduate.
The aim is to give them an opportunity to meet other new students coming from France and to chat to members about their experience in Cambridge so they are better prepared on arrival in their College at the start of their first term.
This year we have found an outdoor venue, at the Fondation Goodplanet, which we hope will be conducive to the current rules relating to social distancing. The venue is in the Bois de Boulogne and for those without a car, there are three buses running about every 10-15 minutes:

line 43, which has a stop at Pont de Neuilly (metro line 1) and goes to Longchamp-Goodplanet
line 241, which leaves from Porte d’Auteuil (metro line 10) and goes to Les Moulins-Camping
line 244, which stops at Porte Maillot (metro line 1 or RER line C) and goes to Longchamp-Goodplanet

Entry is free and attendees are welcome to wander around the Fondation before or after the event.
There is no charge for the event. Freshers will be offered two complementary drinks, while Society members can purchase their refreshments at the ClairiÃ¨re’s bar.

A walk along the Aqueduc MÃ©dicis to the Observatoire
2021-09-12 10:00 - 13:00 | Parc Montsouris, 2 rue Gazan, Paris, 75014, France
George Young has developed a new walk which willÂ follow the trace in Paris of the Aqueduc MÃ©dicis, constructed in the early 17th century to supply water to among other things Queen Marie de MÃ©dicisâ€™ new palace of Luxembourg.
It generally follows the line of the Roman aqueduct of which some remains may be seen. The route also passes by the Observatoire, and the Paris meridian used by the French until they finally accepted the Greenwich meridian in 1911!

The walk will start at the Parc Montsouris, first laid out under Napoleon III in imitation of London parks, and finish at the Jardin du Luxembourg. It will take approximately two and a half hours. Afterwards, for those wishing it, a lunch reservation can be made in a brasserie near to the Jardin du Luxembourg.
This event is a walk and so aimed at those with reasonable mobility. It is recommended that you wear comfortable shoes, suitable for walking. You should also consider bringing a raincoat or umbrella if the weather on the day is not fair.
We will meet at 10am sharp at RER B Station CitÃ© Universitaire. The end point will be the Fontaine MÃ©dicis, close to RER B Luxembourg, but MÃ©tro OdÃ©on (lines 4 and 10) is also not far.
There is no charge for this event. There may be an opportunity to take refreshments during the walk, so please bring enough money to buy your own drinks and your lunch if you decide to stay on.
Guests are welcome, but numbers are strictly limited to 20, and places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. When you book, please indicate if you intend to stay on for lunch so that places can be reserved in the restaurant.

Peter Elliott - The â€˜artâ€™ of self-publishing: a view by a Trinity lawyer, an escapist into history
2021-09-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
Peter will tell a story of a Cambridge Law tripos student, who should have read history, but devoted a career to law, and then in retirement switched back to his first love, history.
From his rustic base in the Languedoc, far from sophisticated libraries, Peter carries out most of his research remotely. He will cover:

use of archives, libraries, databases;
building a network relating to the subject and topic; –
combining text and image to tell a story;
he art of self -publishing, and in particular use of the KDP Amazon self-platform.

Peter Elliott:

After leaving Â school in South Africa, and gaining a first degree at Cape Town University, Peter Elliott won a national scholarship to Cambridge in 1971, where he read law at Trinity (1971-1974). After graduating he qualified as a solicitor and pursued a legal career in England, in private practice and in industry. After retiring at the end 2011, he and his wife Maddy moved to the Languedoc, France, where they live surrounded by vines, in a landscape not unlike parts of the Western Cape.
Peterâ€™s lifelong interest in history Â drew him to biography. He has researched and published five titles, Â all with some focus on his country of origin, South Africa. Two are distinctly art biographies, but also tell a social and political history.

Dr Peter Hicks - Napoleon and the British, before and during St Helena
2021-06-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The first ever biographies of Napoleon were written not in French but in English, the only serious biographies of the Consul and later Emperor were written in the same language and during his lifetime. During both of his abdications and exiles, â€˜Boneyâ€™ was frequently the subject of book, newspaper articles, etc. The exile on St Helena was to provide for the springboard for an obsession in the English-language world that lasts to this day. My talk will discuss this little-known, British part in the telling of the Napoleon story.

Peter Hicks is an historian of the Napoleonic period and International Affairs manager at the Fondation NapolÃ©on, Paris. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Bath (UK) (2008-2018) and is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution, Florida State University, USA. He also is ChargÃ© de cours at the Institut Catholic des Etudes SupÃ©rieures (ICES) La Roche sur Yon. His recent books include â€“Â (ed.), Emmanuel de Las Cases, Le MÃ©morial de Sainte HÃ©lÃ¨ne: Le manuscript retrouvÃ©, critical edition, with presentation and commentary with Thierry Lentz, FranÃ§ois Houdecek and Chantal Prevot, Perrin 2017, (ed.) La bataille de Waterloo : symbole de victoire, de dÃ©faite et lieu de mÃ©moire/Battle of Waterloo : Introductions to the Lectures and After-Thoughts â€“ in English, (Les Ã©ditions de la Belle alliance, 2015) and The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture, with Michael Broers and Agustin Guimera, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). His current publication projects include: joint-editor of volume 3 of Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars, (CUP 2020), a selection of British witnesses to Napoleon on St Helena (Perrin 2021). He also a musician. Recent Napoleonic projects include the creation, organization and performance of a week-long Festival of Napoleonic and Georgian music on the island of St Helena (May 2019) (concerts, recital, singing day) and a concert of Napoleonic music, HÃ´tel des Invalides, Paris, 24 May 2018 (choir, soloists and orchestra). His upcoming Napoleonic musical projects include: a Napoleonic recital (piano and voice), Lucca, Italy, August 2021 (covid permitting, but it is open airâ€¦), and the creation, organization and Â conducting of two concerts of famous and rare Napoleonic music, HÃ´tel des Invalides, October 2021 (choir, soloists and orchestra).

Martin Rees - The World in 2050 - and Beyond
2021-06-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow,Â OM, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FRASÂ is aÂ BritishÂ cosmologistÂ andÂ astrophysicist. He has beenÂ Astronomer RoyalÂ since 1995Â and wasÂ MasterÂ ofÂ Trinity College, CambridgeÂ from 2004 to 2012 andÂ President of the Royal SocietyÂ between 2005 and 2010.
Martinâ€™s field is astronomy where he has achieved many important results, and recently Martin has founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at Cambridge University, where he studies the fundamental threats and risks to humanity.
In his book, “On the Future: Prospects for Humanity” published in 2018, he demonstrates that humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomesâ€”good and badâ€”are possible. Yet our approach to the future is characterized by short-term thinking, polarizing debates, alarmist rhetoric, and pessimism. In this short, exhilarating book, Martin argues that humanityâ€™s prospects depend on our taking a very different approach to planning for tomorrow.

Oxford and Cambridge Poetry and Prose Reading
2021-05-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
We are pleased to announce the third Oxford and Cambridge virtual prose and poetry reading on Tuesday 25th May at 7pm. It will take place on Zoom.
This event is open & without charge to all members of both Societies. Please register on the Cambridge website to participate.
This month, we have decided that we need to anticipate the end of the restrictions on our movements we have endured on and off for over a year now, but in particular in April when we were pretty much limited to a circle of 10 kms around our homes. This means that the theme of the readings is â€œTravellingâ€. Each reader should plan to come with two readings, each of 3 to 5 minutes (maximum) long.
Thus, in the 90 minutes available, you can expect to read both pieces. Paul Tracy (Oxford) will again act as moderator for the evening.

The ups and downs in the life of a top civil servant close to the heart of Government
2021-05-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
We invite you to join us in a presentation by Jonathan Slater, former Permanent Secretary of the Department for Education in London until summer 2020, when Boris decided to make a change. He is now now visiting Professor at Kingâ€™s College and at Queen Mary University, London

Katie Derham - The Great Silence... the power of music during the pandemic
2021-04-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The face of theÂ BBC Proms, Katie has been presenting the BBCâ€™s coverage of the yearly musical extravaganza for the past eleven years. With a career in broadcasting spanning over two decades, Katie has collected an impressive number of credits, working as an award winning journalist and presenter in both radio and television. She regularly presents the drive time show, In Tune, on BBC Radio 3, interviewing the biggest names in music and the arts, and in 2019 joined forces with Radio France Musique for a unique broadcasting exchange.
Katie joined ITV News as Media and Arts Correspondent in 1998 and, as a 27-year-old, became the youngest newscaster on British national television and the youngest in ITN history. Always up for a challenge, Katie learned how to conduct on the BBC reality series Maestro, dusted off her violin for the Sky Arts series First Love, and danced her way to the final of Strictly Come Dancing in 2015. She runs her own production company, Peanut and Crumb.Â

Hot Topics for Top Minds
2021-04-21 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The Society’s fourth quarterly virtual meeting to debate topics considered to be of interest by the participants, proposed in advance, will be held on Wednesday 21st April 2021 from 8pm to 9pm. Places will be limited to a maximum of 20 so everyone is able to have their say on each topic.
The critical thing is to have a range of interesting topics, which is down to you please. The topics can be on almost any subject â€“ topical, scientific, philosophical, serious or amusing, it is up to you to suggest what you would like to discuss. Having thought of ideas, please send your contributions directly to Terry Quinn on president@camsocparis.org. Terry will then compÃ¨re the event.
This event will be hosted on Zoom. A meeting link will be sent to all registered attendees two or three days in advance of the event. Since numbers will be limited to 20, you are encouraged to register early

Robert W Hanning - Stories for an Uncertain World
2021-04-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The social fabric of human communities is woven primarily from the creation, transmission, and reception of stories.Â Is it merely an accident that Western Europeâ€™s two greatest tale collections originated within a long generation of each other, or is there something important we can learn about the culture of late medieval European civilization from a comparison of Giovanni Boccaccioâ€™s Decameron (1350s) and Geoffrey Chaucerâ€™s Canterbury Tales (1380s-early 1390s)?Â In fact, for all their differences, the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales frequently align in telling â€œstories for an uncertain worldâ€â€”a world shown to be challenged by radical uncertainties of knowledge, perception, and strategy, and lacking the serene comfort of faith in Divine Providence so often thought to characterize the medieval centuries. Â A comparison of passages, and stories, from both collections suggests instead that the necessary and proper response to their world is to deploy skills of calculation and deliberation that generate deeds, and supporting words, designed to control, as much as is possible, lifeâ€™s ever changing circumstances.Â Seen from this perspective, the frequent goal in these wonderfully told tales is not salvation but agency, Â and the appropriate virtue, rather than holiness, is a modified version of what Aristotle called â€œpractical wisdomâ€ (phrÃ³nesis) and we, following Cicero, call prudence (prudentia). Â
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Robert W. Hanning, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, holds degrees from Columbia and Oxford.Â Recipient of Guggenheim, ACLS, NEH, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, he gave the New Chaucer Societyâ€™s Biennial Chaucer Lecture in 1998 at the Sorbonne.Â He has published three books on classical, medieval, and Renaissance subjects and has co-translated two major medieval French texts.Â His monograph, â€œStories for an Uncertain World: Agency in Boccaccioâ€™s Decameron and Chaucerâ€™s Canterbury Tales,â€ is to be published by Oxford University Press.
