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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 →

Spring Quarter 2020 May 1: Fanny Malègue, PhD Candidate in History at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, “Imposer la souveraineté par le chiffre ? Les recensements corses et l’État d’Ancien Régime” (12 noon CST, Zoom meeting) May 15: Esther Van … Continue reading →

January 10: David Ansari, Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, “The Politics of Diversity in Psychotherapy in France” (4pm, John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB 224)   January 24: Bastien Craipain, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, “There Is No … Continue reading →

Autumn Quarter 2019 October 4: Classical Antiquity and Modern Institutions in France Conference (10am – 5pm, Logan Center for the Arts 801) See program here. October 18: Hollis Clayson, Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University (Art History), … Continue reading →