Wednesday, January 3, 5pm: A joint workshop with Transnational Modern Europe: Suzanne Kaufman, Associate Professor of History at Loyola, “Incident at Sousse: African Soldiers, Foreign Legionnaires, and the Paradox of Colonial Policing in 1930s Tunisia”
Friday, January 19, 4pm: Ellen McClure, Associate Professor of History and French and Francophone Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago, “The Logic of Idolatry in Seventeenth-Century Theater: Molière and Racine”
Friday, February 2, 4pm: Ji Gao, PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, “Publier la littérature vernaculaire dans la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle – Guillaume Roville, Benoît Rigaud et les libraires lyonnais”
Friday, February 16, 4pm: Arthur Clement, PhD student in History at the University of Chicago, “Secularism and Studying Religion Scientifically in the University during the Third Republic”
Friday, March 2, 4pm: Julien Perrier-Chartrand, Postdoctoral Scholar in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, “De la couardise à la folie: représentations du duelliste dans le théâtre français des XVIe et XVIIe siècles”