Current Schedule

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