The College de France in Oxford: Patrick Boucheron

P. Imbert/Collège de France

We are delighted to welcome Professor Patrick Boucheron for the 2025 Collège de France - Maison Française d'Oxford - Pembroke College lecture.
The title of Professor Boucheron's presentation will be confirmed shortly.

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Patrick Boucheron has been a Professor at the Collège de France since 2015, holding the chair of History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th–16th centuries.

His early research focused on urban history in medieval Italy (The Power of Images: Siena, 1338, Polity, 2018), before expanding to broader explorations of fiction, experience, and political identity (Trace & Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan, Other Press, 2022). His 2025 lecture, The Sex of Power, builds upon and refines the themes of the previous year’s Politics of Love, continuing his examination of political subjectivity through the lenses of gender, emotion, and sexuality—this time engaging more directly with the concepts of violence, domination, and pleasure.

Beyond academia, Boucheron is actively engaged in editorial, artistic, and audiovisual projects that advocate for a scholarship both deeply engaged and accessible to the public. He oversees Entre-Temps, a digital journal linked to his chair, and has been a key figure in the acclaimed television series Dates That Made History (Arte, 2017–). His recent book, Le Temps qui reste (Seuil, 2023), further reflects his commitment to the public use of history. Since September 2024, he has hosted Allons y voir, a radio program on France Culture. He also serves as President of the Théâtre de la Concorde, a Parisian institution dedicated to the intersection of art and democracy.