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 Leon Pradeau (lpradeau@uchicago.edu) or Kyra Schulman (kschulman1@uchicago.edu) to join our mailing list & receive papers and Zoom links!

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 TBD)
“A Gendered Frontier: Métissage and Indigenous Enslavement in Eighteenth-Century Basse-Louisiane”, by Leila Blackbird, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago.
 
Friday, February 17th, 12.00pm CT – In person/Hybrid (Room TBD)
“Enslaved Marketers, Policing, and Commercial Connections in the Eighteenth-Century French Atlantic”, by Rachel Tils, PhD Student in History, The University of Chicago.
 
Friday, March 10th, 12.00pm CT – In person/Hybrid (Tea Room) 
“From Flâneuses to the Frontlines: Jewish Women’s Everyday Lives from the Vichy-Era to the Decolonial Age”, by Kyra Schulman, PhD Student in History, The University of Chicago.