Spring 2025
Tuesday, March 25, 12:30pm
Katherine Ibbett, University of Oxford
Jacques Cartier: Empire, Emotion, Translation
Location: on Zoom, link will be sent separately
Friday, April 18, 12:30pm
Rachel Tils, University of Chicago, Department of History
“When this conduct is wise and regulated:” Policing Enslaved Marketers in the Franco-British Caribbean, 1755-1775
Location: Harper Memorial West Tower, #M311
Monday, April 21, 12:00pm
Co-sponsored with the Philosophy of Religions Workshop
Elad Lapidot, University of Lille
Levinas and Decolonial Israel
Location: Swift 208
Thursday, April 24, 12:30pm
Esther Kim, University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Literature & Romance Languages and Literatures
Echoes of Exile: A Transnational Dialogue of Francophone Korean and Maghrebi Diasporic Literatures
Location: Harper Memorial West Tower, #M311
Friday, May 2, 12:30pm
Kelsey Rooney, University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology
Tying Off, Tying In: Weaving together data from maritime archaeology, historical archaeology, and archival research
Location: Harper Memorial West Tower, #M311
Friday, May 9, 12:30pm
Stephen Sawyer, American University of Paris
Demos Rising: Democracy and the Popular Construction of Public Power in France, 1800–1850
Location: SSRB Tea Room
Friday, May 30, 12:30pm
Céline Spector, Sorbonne University
Servitude et Empire : Montesquieu. Des Lettres persanes à L’Esprit des lois
Location: SSRB Tea Room