RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

Invited PAPers

25 February 2022
‘The Querelle des collèges and the Emergence of Literature in France, 1762 – 1789’ Cambridge Early Modern French Seminar (Convenors: Emma Claussen, Michael Moriarty) (University of Cambridge)

18-19 November 2021
‘Cache-cache: ce que laissent entendre les règles de quelques jeux de l’oie du 18e siècle’ Les Règles du jeu à l’époque moderne (Convenors: Line Cottegnies, Clara Manco, Alexis Tadié) (Sorbonne Université & Institut d’études avancées)

11 Mar, 2017                 
Les Mots sont des pistolets chargés: Literary Education at the École royale militaire’ Education in the Long 18th Century Seminar (Convenors: Michèle Cohen, Mary Clare Martin) (Institute of Historical Research, London)

25 Oct, 2016                  
‘The Literary Art of the Legislator. Rousseau, Julie, and the Political Power of the Novel’ Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Postgraduate Seminar (Convenor: Alex Hardie-Forsyth)(University of York)

11 Nov, 2015                 
Reciprocity, reputation & the pupil-school relationship in letters from the École militaire’ Enlightenment Correspondences Network Seminar (Convenors: Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, Andrew Kahn) (University of Oxford)

Invited Conference & Seminar Participation

6-9 June, 2019                 
Panel Respondent: ‘Rousseau & Aesthetic Experience: Art, Nature, Politics’ 21st Biennial meeting of the Rousseau Association (Stockholm, Sweden)

25 Jan, 2019                 
Panel Respondent: ‘Life and Literature / La Vie en lettres’ 5th Fribourg-Oxford Colloquium (Convenors: Emma Claussen, Simon Park) (Maison française, Oxford)

4-6 Jan, 2019                 
Panel Chair: ‘Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Isolation’ BSECS 48th Annual Conference: ‘Islands and Isolation’ (St Hugh’s College, Oxford)

Conference & Seminar Papers

13-15 October, 2022
‘Playing under the sun. Indigenous peoples in seventeenth-century French games’, Panel: ‘Representations of “indigenous peoples” in seventeenth-century French literature’, Society of Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies, SE17 (Reykjavík, Iceland)

22-23 September, 2022
‘Follow the reader’, Conference (co-convened): ‘What does literature do? Rencontres autour de Alain Viala’, Maison française d’Oxford (University of Oxford)

27-29 June, 2022
Life rules and literary rules in early modern French board games’, Panel: ‘Pleasure, Play and the Good Life in Early Modern France’, Society for French Studies Annual Conference (Queen’s University, Belfast)

8 Jan, 2020
‘Whose life is it anyway? The game of life in 18th-century France’, Panel: ‘Gaming and the 18th Century’ BSECS 49th Annual Conference (St Hugh’s College, Oxford)

14-19 Jul, 2019                 
‘The Identity of an Enlightenment Quarrel, or, was there a Querelle des collèges?’ ISECS International Congress: ‘Enlightenment Identities’ (University of Edinburgh)

18 Mar, 2019                 
‘This Quarrel which is not one. Women’s participation in an 18th-century querelle about boys’ education’ Women & Quarrels in Early Modern France (Convenor: Helena Taylor) (Exeter University)

3-4 Sep, 2018  
Ceci n’est pas une éducation barbare. What was a Barbaric Education in 18th-century France?’ BSECS Postgraduate & ECR Conference (Aix-Marseille Université, France)

27-29 Jun, 2016                 
Poster & Presentation: ‘Qu’est-ce que la littérature? Creating Literature to Teach the Nation’ Society for French Studies (SFS) Annual Conference (University of Glasgow)

6-8 Jan, 2016                 
‘The Rise of émulation in eighteenth-century France’ BSECS Annual Conference (St Hugh’s College, Oxford)

15 Jan, 2015                 
Exercices in the collèges of late Ancien-Régime France’ 2nd Fribourg-Oxford Colloquium: ‘Matérialités du texte’ (Convenors: Sophie Jaussi, Nina Mueggler, Christophe Schuwey) (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland)

1 May, 2014                 
‘‘On n’a cessé d’écrire sur l’éducation’: Literary education after the expulsion of the Jesuits’ Oxford Early Modern French Seminar (Maison française, Oxford)

28 Feb, 2014                 
‘Debating education after the Jesuits: Responses to La Chalotais’s Essai d’éducation nationale 1st Fribourg-Oxford Colloquium: ‘Formes et pratiques des querelles’ (Maison française, Oxford)