Interdisciplinary Approaches to France and the Francophone World

Friday October 6, 4pm: Larry Norman, Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, “Déclassiser le classicisme français: La contestation transnationale du ‘Grand Siècle.” In the Tea Room (SS 201).

Friday October 20, 4pm: Chiara Nifosi, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, “Dire le temps par l’espace: Construction et fonctionnement d’une métaphore Proustienne.” In the Tea Room (SS 201).

Friday November 10, 4pm: Pierre-Michel Menger, Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France, “What’s Work Worth in France?” In the Tea Room (SS201).

Friday November 17, 4pm: Esther Van Dyke, PhD Student in Romance Languages and Literatures, “Sublime Racine: Theatrical Practices of the Ineffable.” In the Tea Room (SS201).

Friday December 1, 4pm: Oliver Cussen, PhD Candidate in History at the University of Chicago, “The Financier and the Philosophe: French Commercial Imperialism after the John Law System.” In the Tea Room (SS201).

Wednesday, 29 March, 12:00 PM: Aliénor Cadot, Ph.D. Student in History at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, “Between Colonial Situation and Fascism: Categorization and Migration of Algerian Civilians (1939-1943).” 12:00 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224).

Friday, 14 April: Emily Fransee, Ph.D. Student in History, University of Chicago, “From the Black Invasion to The Conquerors of Mars: Speculative Fiction and Empire in Late Nineteenth Century France.” 4:00 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224).

Wednesday, 26 April, Special Lunch Session: Carolyn Eichner, Associate Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Translating Culture and Time: Legends, Politics, and the French-Kanak Colonial Encounter,” 12:00 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224).

Friday, 12 May: Nicholas O’Neill, Ph.D. Student in History, University of Chicago, “The Politics of Taste and Trade: The State and the Porcelain Industry in France, 1720-1830.” 4:00 PM in Harper Memorial 148.

Friday, 26 May: Alison James, Associate Professor of French Literature, University of Chicago, “Paper Witnesses: Documentary Writing and Postwar Memory.” 4:00 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224).

Friday, 6 January: Leora Auslander, Professor of History, University of Chicago, “Civic Materialism: Everyday Nation-Making in Paris and Berlin.” 4:00 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224).

Friday, 20 January: Elisa Jones, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Chicago, “Democratizing a Noble Privilege: The French Monarchy’s Response to the Crisis of Religious Pluralism.” 4:00 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224).

Friday, 3 February: Sara Hume, Associate Professor of History, Kent University, “Alsatian Traditional Dress and Religious Performance.” 4:00 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224).

Friday, 17 February: Mollie McFee, Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, “The Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen: A Language Academy for the Global Age.” 4:00 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224).

Friday, 3 March: David Ansari, Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, “Don’t be too psychological’: How Student Therapists learn to Think, Act, Speak in Mental Health Services for Immigrant Patients in Ile-de-France.” 4:00 PM Location TBA.

The Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France and the Francophone World meets every other Friday at 4.00pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences 224), unless otherwise noted.

Friday, 30 September:  Oana Panaïté, Associate Professor of French, Indiana University Bloomington, “The Colonial Fortune: Primal Scenes in Contemporary Fiction.” 4:00 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224).

Friday, 14 October:  Rebecca Crisafulli, Ph.D. Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, “Reading Louise d’Épinay’s L’Histoire de Madame Montbrillant as Educational treatise.” 4:00 PM in Classics 111.

Wednesday, 19 October at Noon:  Special lunchtime session with Alice Kaplan, Professor of French, Yale University, “Literary Publishing in a Dictatorship: Notes for an essay on the Editions Barzakh, Algiers.” 12:00 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224).

Friday, 28 October:  Jennifer Wild, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago, “The Chaplin Files.” 4:00 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224).

Friday, 11 November: Gregory Valdespino, Ph.D. Student in History, University of Chicago, “’Against the Dead Past, the Future is Broken’: Mourning and Imperial Community after the Mount Pelée Eruption.” 4:00 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224).

The Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France and the Francophone World meets every other Friday at 4.00pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences 224), unless otherwise noted.

Friday, Jan. 8 (4pm): Mari Jo Velasco, PhD Candidate in Music, University of Chicago. “Songs of Social Unrest, Revolutionary Spirit, and Religious Dissidence, 1789-1799.”

Friday, Jan. 22 (4pm): Madeleine Elfenbein, PhD Candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. “Alexandre Dumas, Teodor Kasap, and the Limits of Pan-Mediterranean Liberalism.”

Friday, Apr. 5 (4pm): Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Associate Professor of History, Texas A&M University. “Facilitating Freedom: Women, Family, and Migration in the Early Nineteenth Century French Atlantic.”

Friday, Mar. 4 (4pm): Chiara Nifosi, PhD Student in French, University of Chicago. “La rhétorique de l’espace dans À la recherche du temps perdu.”

The Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France and the Francophone World meets every other Friday at 4.00pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences 224), unless otherwise noted.

Friday, Oct. 2 (4pm): Yann Robert, Assistant Professor of French Literature, University of Illinois at Chicago. “Out of (the) Order: The Eighteenth Century’s Invention of the Modern Lawyer-Actor.”

Friday, Oct. 16 (4pm): Liam Mannix, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago. “Beyond the Counter-Enlightenment: Reinventing Church Landownership for a Regenerated France.” (WB 207)

Friday, Oct. 30 (4pm): Xavier Wrona, Professor at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Saint-Étienne (France). “The Case for a New Disciplinary Field in the Social Sciences: Architecture and the Thinking of Totality.”

Friday, Nov. 13: In lieu of our afternoon meeting, we invite you to participate in the conference “Fiction/Non-Fiction: The Uses and Truths of Literature,” organized by Alison James, Associate Professor of French Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.

Friday, Dec. 4 (4pm): Linsey Sainte-Claire, PhD Candidate in French, University of Chicago. “La folie du pouvoir.”