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! 

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

Title: “There is nothing for people like us here”:
Global Labor Mobilities and Constructed Identities in Simin Zetwal (2022)

Location: Wieboldt #207

February 7, 12:30pm

Thomas Dodman, Columbia University, Associate Professor of French; Director, History & Literature Program (HiLi)

Title: Les Volontaires: a microhistory and social biography of a family in Lorraine from the French Revolution through the early 19th century (book chapter in progress)

Location: Tea Room, SSRB

February 14, 12:30pm

Etienne Grateau, Uchicago RLL, Ph.D student

Title: “Reframing photography in Ernaux’s A Man’s Place and A Woman

Location: Wieboldt #207

February 25, 5:00 pm

Special session co-sponsored with the Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop, the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion and the Department of Anthropology 

Camille Robcis, Columbia University, Professor of History and French

Title: “The Beijing Women’s Conference and the United Nations Gender Wars”

Location: Community Room, CSGS, 5733 S. University Ave.

March 7, 12:30 pm

Agneska Bloch, Uchicago Political Science, Ph.D student

Title: “French Amnesia and ‘la Guerre d’Algérie’: Silence, Willful Ignorance, and Denial of Responsibility”

Location: SSRB Tea Room