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Winter 2018
Wednesday, January 3, 5pm: A joint workshop with Transnational Modern Europe: Suzanne Kaufman, Associate Professor of History at Loyola, “Incident at Sousse: African Soldiers, Foreign Legionnaires, and the Paradox of Colonial Policing in 1930s Tunisia”
Friday, January 19, 4pm: Ellen McClure, Associate Professor of History and French and Francophone Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago, “The Logic of Idolatry in Seventeenth-Century Theater: Molière and Racine”
Friday, February 2, 4pm: Ji Gao, PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, “Publier la littérature vernaculaire dans la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle – Guillaume Roville, Benoît Rigaud et les libraires lyonnais”
Friday, February 16, 4pm: Arthur Clement, PhD student in History at the University of Chicago, “Secularism and Studying Religion Scientifically in the University during the Third Republic”
Friday, March 2, 4pm: Julien Perrier-Chartrand, Postdoctoral Scholar in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, “De la couardise à la folie: représentations du duelliste dans le théâtre français des XVIe et XVIIe siècles”
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Fall Quarter 2017 Schedule
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).
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Spring Quarter 2017 Schedule
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).
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Winter Quarter 2017 Schedule
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.
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Fall Quarter 2016 Schedule
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).
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Spring Quarter 2016 Schedule
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, April 4 (4pm): Tyson Leuchter, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Chicago. “Settling Accounts: The Émigré Indemnity and Financializing Citizenship in Restoration France.”
Friday, April 15 (4pm): Elisa Jones, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Chicago. “A Freedom in Chains: Protestant Negotiation and the Fight over Liberté de Conscience in Sixteenth-Century France.”
Friday, April 29 (4pm): Antoine Compagnon, Professor of French Literature, Collège de France. “Les chiffonniers littéraires : Baudelaire et les autres.”
Friday, May 13 (4pm): Rafe Blaufarb, Professor of History, Florida State University. “Talking Property Before 1789.”
Wednesday, May 18 at Noon: Special lunchtime session with Elwin Hofman, Ph.D. Student in History, University of Leuven (Belgium). “Confessions, emotions and self in Belgium, 1750-1850.”
Friday, May 27 (4pm): Cate Talley, Loyola University at Chicago. “Modern Poetics and the Folk Imagination.”
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Winter Quarter 2016 Schedule
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.”
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Fall Quarter 2015 Schedule
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.”
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Spring Quarter 2015 Schedule
The Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France and the Francophone World is pleased to announce its Winter 2015 schedule. We meet alternate Fridays at 4.00pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences 224), unless otherwise noted.
Friday, April 3 (4pm): Emily Fransee, PhD Candidate in History. “”Known and Unknown Worlds’: Science Fiction and French Empire from the 17th to the 20th Century”.
Friday, April 17: In lieu of our afternoon meeting, we invite you to participate in “Theatrophobia: Theorizing Theater Antitheatrically”, a day-long workshop exploring key strains of antitheatrical discourse in Europe, and especially in France, from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries. The workshop will be held on Friday, April 17, from 9:30am to 5:30pm in the Terrace Seminar Room, Reva & David Logan Center for the Arts.
Friday, May 1 (4pm): Anny Dominique Curtius, Associate Professor of Francophone Studies, University of Iowa: “From the Blue Guide to the Morne: Suzanne Césaire’s Caribbean Ecopoetics.”
Wednesday, May 13 (5pm): Judith Surkis, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University: “Colonial Literature, Kabyle Customary Law Reform, and the Crisis of Representation in French Algeria, c. 1920.” Co-sponsored with the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop. PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF DAY AND TIME.
Friday, May 29 (4pm): Elisa Jones, PhD Candidate in History. “Pacification and the Politicization of Liberté de Conscience in the French Wars of Religion”. Co-sponsored with the Early Modern Workshop.
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Winter Quarter 2015 Schedule
The Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France and the Francophone World is pleased to announce its Winter 2015 schedule. We meet alternate Fridays at 4.00pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences 224), unless otherwise noted.
Friday, January 9 : Monica Olaru, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, “Becoming Mediocre: the Plot of Failure in Balzac and Dickens.”
Friday, January 23 : Kelly Summers, PhD Candidate in History, Stanford University, “The Problem of Return: Emigration and the Limits of the Thermidorian Thaw, 1794-95.”
Friday, February 6 : Colin Jones, Professor of History, Queen Mary University of London, “9 Thermidor: Cinderella of French Revolutionary journees.”
Friday, February 20 : Patrice Gueniffey, Director of Studies EHESS, History, “Biography and the renewal of political history.”
Friday, March 6 : Susanna Caviglia-Brunel, Maître de conférences, Université de Limoges (France) and Visiting Lecturer in Art History at the University of Chicago, “Historia in Crisis.”
Workshops will be followed by wine & cheese receptions, and we hope to see many of you this quarter. If you require assistance to fully participate in these workshops, please contact Emily Rap (ejrap@uchicago.edu) or Linsey Sainte-Claire (lsainte@uchicago.edu).
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