We are pleased to announce the following spring quarter workshops (unless noted, we have the usual time and location – 4pm on Fridays, SS #224 John Hope Franklin Room):
4/4, Emily Fransee (UChicago graduate student, the Department of History):
“‘Daughters of this Great French Community’: Women’s Suffrage in Colonial Senegal, 1943-1945”
*Please note that we have an unusual location: Haskell Hall, Mezzanine 102
* Co-sponsored by the African Studies Workshop.
4/18, Professor Catherine Clark (MIT, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, French Studies):
“Paris Imagined, Paris Documented: Visual History at the Musée Carnavalet and the Bibliothèque historique”
5/2, Professor Daniel Desormeaux (UChicago, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures):
“La guerre des cartes: Toussaint et Leclerc à Saint-Domingue en 1802”
5/9, Tyson Leuchter (UChicago graduate student, the Department of History):
“Privilege, in Its Evil Sense: Law, Economic Liberalism, and the Company of Parisian Brokers, 1801-1841”
5/16, Professor Thomas Christensen (UChicago, the Department of Music):
“François-Joseph Fétis and the Metaphysics of Tonality”
5/30, Rebecca Crisafulli (UChicago, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures):
“Sincerity in Mme de Sévigné’s Lettres and Mme d’Épinay’s L’Histoire de Madame de Montbrillant”
Workshops will be followed by wine & cheese receptions, and we hope to see many of you this quarter. If you require assistance to fully participate in these workshops, please contact Rebecca Crisafulli (crisafulli@uchicago.edu) or Agatha Kim (agatha@uchicago.edu).
In addition, we would like to invite you all to join us for our annual spring planning meeting on Friday, April 4 from 12-1:15 p.m. in Harper Memorial West, #284. Lunch from Snail Thai Cuisine will be provided. At this meeting, we will discuss the running of the workshop next year, and we would greatly appreciate your comments and advice. Specifically, we invite you to come with the names of outside scholars and UChicago graduate students and faculty we should consider inviting to present at the workshop. (Graduate students, you are welcome to volunteer yourselves if you are interested in presenting.) We will also discuss the basic logistical details of the workshop (start time, location, student coordinators, etc.).
If you will not be able to attend the meeting, please feel free to share your thoughts with us via e-mail: Rebecca Crisafulli (crisafulli@uchicago.edu) and Agatha Kim (agatha@uchicago.edu)