The Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France and the Francophone World Workshop is pleased to announce its fall quarter schedule. We meet on Fridays at 4:00 in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224), unless otherwise noted, with a wine and cheese reception following the workshop. We hope you’ll join us for the following workshops:
– October 5, 4:00 pm Rosenwald 405 : Roundtable : Conflicts of Interpretation, with Françoise Lavocat, Sophie Rabau, Michael Murrin, Larry Norman, and Thomas Pavel
– October 19, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Clare Crowston, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Fast Fashion, Slow Credit: Temporalities of Power in Eighteenth-Century France”
– November 2, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Elie Haddad, CNRS (CRH-EHESS), “La construction sociale de la ‘noblesse d’épée’ (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)”
– November 9, 4:00 pm, Wieboldt 408: Tyson Leuchter, PhD candidate, History Department, University of Chicago, “The Illimitable Right: the Marché à Terme. Property, and Political Authority in Napoleonic France”
– November 30, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Carolyn Purnell, PhD candidate, History Department, University of Chicago,“Charged with Feeling: Medical Electricity and the Social Incorporation of the Useful Citizen”
Papers will be pre-circulated via the workshop list-serv. If you have any questions, please contact one of the coordinators: Veerle Dierickx (vdierickx@uchicago.edu) and Eleanor Rivera (elrivera@uchicago.edu). We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.