Current Schedule

All events are listed in Central Time. This quarter, they will all be in-person, but you can join us via Zoom as well. Please contact Etienne Grateau (egrateau@uchicago.edu) or Yuting Cai (yutcai@uchicago.edu) to join our mailing list & receive papers and Zoom links! 

October 4, 12:30pm

Léon Pradeau, UChicago RLL, Ph.D. Candidate

“Prosthetic Verse: Technology, Writing and Material Supplements (France and Québec, 1970-2020)”

Location: HMW (Harper Memorial West) #M311

October 10, 4:00-5:30 pm (special event co-sponsored with 3CT)

Patrick Weil, Yale/CNRS, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished Fellow at Yale Law School and a research professor at the National Center for Scientific Research in France.

The Madman in the White House: The Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson (Harvard Uni Press, 2023 / lecture format with respondent based on Professor Weil’s latest book)

Location: Foster 107

October 25, 12:30pm

Maëline Le Lay, CNRS researcher

“De Henri Hiro à Jean-Marc Tera’ituatini Pambrun, un sillon de résistance culturelle et de défense de ‘l’environnement’ au Fenua (Polynésie française)”

Location: Tea Room, SSRB

November 18, 4:30pm 

Dan Edelstein, Stanford University

“The Dual Power in the French Revolution”

Location: Tea Room, SSRB

December 6, 12:30pm

Ryan Brown, UChicago RLL, Ph.D. Candidate

“Proof in Madame d’Epinay’s Histoire de Madame de Montbrillant: a public and private necessity”

Location: Tea Room, SSRB