Interdisciplinary Approaches to France and the Francophone World

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.

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).

The Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France and the Francophone World is pleased to announce its Fall 2014 schedule.  We meet alternate Fridays at 4.00pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences 224), unless otherwise noted.

This Friday, October 3, Geneviève Rousselière, Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Social Sciences Division, will be presenting a book chapter entitled “Constant’s Challenge: Imagining a Republic for the Moderns.”

 Future Workshops

Friday, October 17:  Hall Bjornstad, Associate Professor of French, IU-Bloomington, “After the Sun: Royal Succession and Unruly Exemplarity in the Memoirs of Louis XIV”.

Friday, October 31:  Emily Marker, PhD Candidate in History, “The Multiple Logics of Postwar Laïcité: Negotiating French Secularism Across Metropolitan, Europeanist and Franco-African Youth & Education Policy, 1944-1950”.

Friday, November 14:  Liam Mannix, PhD Candidate in History, “Patriotism, Productivity, and Rural Investment: the Political Economy of the Landowning Clergy in Enlightenment France, 1750-1788”.  PLEASE NOTE THAT THE WORKSHOP WILL EXCEPTIONALLY BEGIN AT 3:30pm on this date. The location remains the same.

Friday, December 5 :  Mollie McFee, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, “Beyond Translation: La matrice féconde of Frankétienne’s roman (en) créole.” PLEASE NOTE THAT THE WORKSHOP WILL EXCEPTIONALLY MEET IN WIEDBOLT 207.

A wine and cheese reception will follow each Workshop session.  We hope you will mark your calendars and join us this quarter!

Dear all,

The Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France and the Francophone World Workshop is pleased to announce its 2013 fall quarter schedule. We meet on Fridays at 4:00 pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224), unless otherwise noted, with a wine and cheese reception following the workshop. We hope you’ll join us for the following workshops:

– Friday, October 4, 4:00 pm SSRB 224 : Carolyn Sargent, Washington University in St. Louis, “The Transnational co-production of meanings and strategies about breast cancer among Senegal River Valley immigrants in France”
*Co-sponsored with the Self and Subjectivity Workshop
*There is no pre-circulated paper for this session

– Friday, November 1, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Nicolas Valazza, Indiana University Bloomington, “Le livre en question, du Parnasse au symbolisme”

– Friday, November 15, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Liam Mannix, PhD candidate, History Department, University of Chicago, “Following the Money in a Traditional Economy: Interpreting the Cash-flow of the Chapter of Notre Dame de Paris, 1759-1785”

– Monday, November 25, 5:00 pm, Pick 319 : Laurie Wood, University of Wisconsin, Madison Law School, “Spaces of Exile in France’s Early Modern Empire”
*Co-sponsored with the Early Modern Workshop

– Tuesday, November 26, 4:30 pm, (Room TBA) : Marin Sarvé-Tarr, PhD candidate, History Department, University of Chicago, “The War of Self and Cinema in Yves Klein’s La Guerre (1954)”
*Respondent:  Dan Wang, PhD candidate, Department of Music, University of Chicago
*Co-sponsored with the Art History Working Group

– Friday, December 13, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Julie Hardwick, University of Texas at Austin, “Accounting for commerce, culture, and capitalism in early modern France”

Papers will be pre-circulated via the workshop list-serv. If you have any questions, please contact one of the coordinators: Rebecca Crisafulli (crisafulli@uchicago.edu) and Agatha Kim (agatha@uchicago.edu). We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.

– April 5, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Julia Chamard-Bergeron, PhD candidate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, “Psychologie morale du roman classique: l’amour, ou vivre en l’autre”

– April 12, 2:00 pm – 7:30 pm & April 13, 9:30 am – 5:30 pm, Logan Center for the Arts, Room 801 : Conference : Molière 1663, Comedy in Question, with Claire Carlin, Patrick Dandrey, Boris Donné, Gerald Garutti, Joseph Harris, Françoise Lavocat, Charles Newell, Larry Norman, and Ellen McClure

– April 19 & April 20 : Conference : Archaeologies of “Frenchness”, details to be announced

– April 26, 12 pm, Wieboldt 207 : Delphine Denis, Université Paris-Sorbonne, “Civilités pastorales: L’Astrée d’Honoré d’Urfé (1607-1628), un « bréviaire des courtisans »”

– May 3, 4:00 pm, Rosenwald 405 : Joanna Stalnaker, University of Columbia, “Rousseau’s Endings”

– May 7, 5:00 pm, Wilder House, 5811 South Kenwood Avenue : Benaouda Lebdai, University of Maine at Farmington, USA and University of Maine, Le Mans, France, “The Trauma of Negation in ‘Post-Fatwa’ texts”

– May 17, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Claudie Bernard, New York University, “Justice, vengeance, pénalité ; l’exemple du « Mouchoir rouge » d’Arthur Gobineau”

– May 31, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Linsey Sainte Claire, PhD candidate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, “La folie dans la littérature Caraïbo-Guyanaise”

Papers will be pre-circulated via the workshop list-serv. If you have any questions, please contact one of the coordinators: Veerle Dierickx (vdierickx@uchicago.edu) and Eleanor Rivera (elrivera@uchicago.edu). We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.

– January 11, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Julia Langbein, PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago, “Daumier and Cham: Two Graphic Critics at the Second Empire Salon”

– January 25, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Liam Mannix, PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago, “Profit, Growth, and Investment: Agrarian Capitalism and the Religious Orders in Ancien Régime France”

– February 8, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Eli Thorkelson, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, “Je n’en peux plus: Everyday life in a post-68 philosophy department in Saint-Denis”

– February 22, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Monica Olaru, PhD candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, “The Two Destinies of the ‘Promising Young Man’ in Balzac and Dickens”

– March 8, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Eleanor Rivera, PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago,“Bon chrétien et bon français: Catholic Primary Education, 1880-1914”

A wine and cheese reception will follow each discussion. To obtain electronic copies of the papers being discussed, or to get on the Workshop list-serve, please contact Eleanor Rivera or Veerle Dierickx.