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Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders
26 March 2025, 5:00 pm–7:00 pm
The Centre for French and Francophone Research is pleased to present this conversation with Frances Clemente (Oxford), Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford) and Christina Parte (UCL).
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Institute of Advanced Studies
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Room G07North-West Wing (to the left as you enter UCL from Gower St)UCL, Gower St, LondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
'Lady Oscar' or 'La Rose de Versailles', is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Riyoko Ikeda. It was originally serialized in the manga magazine Margaret from 1972 to 1973, while a revival of the series was published in the magazine from 2013 to 2018. The series is a historical drama set in the years preceding and during the French Revolution. Using a combination of historical personages and original characters, The Rose of Versailles focuses primarily on the lives of two women: the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, and Oscar François de Jarjayes, who serves as commander of the Royal Guard.
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Everyone is welcome. Registration is not required.
The Centre for French and Francophone Research provides a showcase for the diversity of French and Francophone studies in a global context across several disciplines at UCL, including literary studies, history, philosophy, art history, anthropology, global health, and the physical sciences. The goal is to create a space for researchers and students from across the university broadly interested in the French-speaking world to share their work and to promote interdisciplinary collaboration.
Image credit: Cosplayers of Oscar François de Jarjayes at Romics 2014 Spring. Photo by Claudio Marinangeli, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
About the Speakers
Frances Clemente
MHRA Honorary Faculty Research Fellow at Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages University of Oxford
Her research on Italian cultural and literary production (c. 1850-c. 1930) focuses upon the notions of alterity and otherness, and how they relate to normative patterns of thinking and behaving. She draws on methodologies taken from cultural studies, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, Foucauldian, feminist and queer criticism.
Her research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century Italian culture and literature, comparative literature, gender and queer studies, literature and science, Leopardi studies, Neapolitan culture.
More about Frances ClementeAlessandra Aloisi
Lecturer in French at Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages University of Oxford
Alessandra’s research interests broadly concern modern and early-modern French literature and philosophy, as well as cultural exchanges in modern Europe, namely between France and Italy. She specialises in the 18th and 19th centuries (in particular the pre-Freudian theorisations of the unconscious, the intersections between literature and the prehistory of cinema, and the cross-fertilisation of medicine, literature, and philosophy). Her research interests also extend to 20th-century theory and aesthetics.
More about Alessandra AloisiChristina Parte
Lecturer (Teaching) at SELCS-CMII, UCL
I am currently doing my PhD on the political aesthetics of the Berlin Wall. My research interests are in popular culture, gender studies, cultural studies and critical theory.
More about Christina Parte