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January 17, 12:30pm Ryan Brown, UChicago RLL, Ph.D. candidate Title: “Remaking Voltaire: Forged Proofs and Self-Writing in the Commentaire historique” Location: Wieboldt #207 January 24, 12:45 pm  Nikhita Obeegadoo/ Uchicago RLL, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies … Continue reading →

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 25, 12:30pm Maëline Le Lay, CNRS researcher “De Henri Hiro à Jean-Marc Tera’ituatini … Continue reading →

April 4 Yuting Cai (UChicago, PhD Student in Romance Languages and Literatures) “Living Among Things: The Intersubjective Poetics of Francis Ponge in Le parti pris des choses” Tea Room, SSRB at 12:30 April 12 Michèle Lowrie (UChicago, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished … Continue reading →

January 26 Léon Pradeau, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Location: Cobb Hall 319 February 2 Leila K. Blackbird, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of History “Baptized Only With Fear and Trembling”: French Settler … Continue reading →

October 6 Robin Mitchell, University at Buffalo, Department of History and Africana and American Studies Suzanne Simon Baptiste Louverture, A Microbiography: The ‘Wife of’ and Other Such Nonsense* Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB October 13 Nicholas O’Neill, University of … Continue reading →

Oct 21 – Katie Jarvis (Associate Professor, Notre Dame, History): “The Frontage Road to Nineteenth-Century Capitalism: How Local Justice Transformed Credit Relationships in Revolutionary Paris” – with Colin Jones as respondent. Nov 4 – Arthur Clement (PhD Candidate, UofC, History) – “Reexamining sécularisation and laïcisation: The … Continue reading →

Friday, January 13th, 12.00pm CT – Zoom (in French) “Une généalogie de la facilité dans les théories et pratiques poétiques françaises”, par Léo Dekowski, doctorant à l’Université de Paris-Cergy (CY Héritages). Friday, January 27th, 12.00pm CT – In person/Hybrid (Room … Continue reading →

Friday, April 15, 3.30pm “The Archipelagos of Doubt: A Global History of French Skeptical Cultures (1620-1820)”, a talk by Stéphane Van Damme, Professor of History, École Normale Supérieure. Colin Jones, Professor of History at the Queen Mary University of London, … Continue reading →

Friday January 14, 12:00 pm « La poésie française de 1960 à aujourd’hui au prisme de la réception de Pierre Reverdy », by Julia Pont, PhD Candidate in French Literature at Paris-Nanterre Université, France. Friday January 21, 12:00 pm “Dissertation … Continue reading →

Friday October 22, 3:30 pm “Charron, Gassendi, and the Transmission of Montaigne’s Epistemology into 17th-Century French Thought”, by Benjamin Ransom, PhD Candidate in French and Francophone Literatures, The University of Chicago. Friday November 5, 3:30 pm “Contesting the Classroom: Reimagining … Continue reading →