Bringing great minds together
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 …
Sat 13th April – Visit to the Catacombs Trinity College Dublin Alumni in Paris has invited CamSoc to join them in a visit with a difference to the Catacombs. Audric de Campeau is a beekeeper with hives located on several rooftops in Paris. He makes mead in the Catacombs from his honey. The visit will include a …
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 …
Join the Dordogne Cambridge Group for their upcoming visit to the Cloisters of Cadouin. This is a break with tradition: dwhen our group began, most people lived in this part of the Dordogne and had already seen the main places of interest in the area, so those places were not usually chosen for group outings, …
Alumni and guests are invited to join Homerton College Choir for their concerts in France From Saturday 13th July - Monday 15th July. Saturday 13 July at 8pm - St-Genès des Carmes, Clermont-Ferrand - Free Sunday 14 July at 11am - Notre-Dame de Chamalières - Free Sunday 14 July at 7pm - le Chambon-sur-Lignon Protestant Church - Free Monday 15 July at 8pm - Notre-Dame Cathedral, Moulins - 15 euros, …