Interdisciplinary Approaches to France and the Francophone World

The Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France and the Francophone World Workshop is pleased to announce its fall quarter schedule. We meet on Fridays at 4:00 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:

– October 5, 4:00 pm Rosenwald 405 : Roundtable : Conflicts of Interpretation, with Françoise Lavocat, Sophie Rabau, Michael Murrin, Larry Norman, and Thomas Pavel

– October 19, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Clare Crowston, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Fast Fashion, Slow Credit: Temporalities of Power in Eighteenth-Century France”

– November 2, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Elie Haddad, CNRS (CRH-EHESS), “La construction sociale de la ‘noblesse d’épée’ (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)”

– November 9, 4:00 pm, Wieboldt 408: Tyson Leuchter, PhD candidate, History Department, University of Chicago, “The Illimitable Right: the Marché à Terme. Property, and Political Authority in Napoleonic France”

– November 30, 4:00 pm, SSRB 224 : Carolyn Purnell, PhD candidate, History Department, University of Chicago,“Charged with Feeling: Medical Electricity and the Social Incorporation of the Useful Citizen”

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.

– April 6, 4pm, SS#224
Adam Takacs (Assistant Professor, European Social Sciences and Historiography, University Eötvös Lorand Budapest)
“The Challenge of History. The Annales School and French Philosophy (1960-1980)”

– April 20, 4pm, SS#224
Mary Druyvesteyn (PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago)
“Crisis of the Authorial Self: Alphonse de Lamartine and “Histoire de la Révolution de 1848”

– May 4, 4pm, SS#224
Zakir Paul (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature, Princeton University)
“The Intelligence Analyst: Rivière at the NRF”

– May 18, 4pm, SS#224
Clovis Gladstone (PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago)
“Rousseau et le déterminisme autobiographique”

– June 1, 4pm, SS#224
Vincent Debaene (Assistant Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures, Columbia University)
“The Ethnographer’s Two Books: Writing Anthropology in 20th-century France”

– January 13rd, 4pm, SS#224
Nancy Green (Professor, History, EHESS)
“Doing Business in France: Americans in Paris when the Empire was Resistible (1900-1940)”

– January 27th, 4pm, SS#224
Eleanor Rivera (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago)
“Concrete Education: Classroom Pedagogy in Third Republic Seine-Inférieure”

– February 10th, Join Session with the Early Modern Workshop, 4pm, SS#224
Elisa Jones (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago)
“Exile and Belonging: The Boundaries of Being French, 1562-1629”

– February 24th , 4pm, SS#224
Anne C.Vila (Professor, Romance Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin)
“Lost in Thought: Absorption, Animality, and ‘Deep Thinking’ in the Works of Diderot”

– March 9th, 4pm, SS#224
Sylvie Goutas (PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literature, University of Chicago)
“Private and Collective Charity in the HUMAN COMEDY by Honoré de Balzac”

– October 7, 4:00 pm, SSRB #224
HOLLIS CLAYSON, Art History, Northwestern University
“Mary Cassatt’s Lamp”

– October 21, 4:00 pm, SSRB #224
DENISE DAVIDSON, History, Georgia State University
“A Fate Worse than Death? The Intense Chagrin of Bankruptcy (1817-1820s)”

– November 4, 4:00 pm, SSRB #224
MONICA OLARU, PhD Student, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
“Ambition and Weakness of Will in the Realist French Novel after 1848”

– November 18, 4:00 pm, SSRB #224
TRENT LEIPERT, PhD Candidate, Music, University of Chicago
“Phrasing Musical Affect: Jean-François Lyotard and Contemporary Composition”

– December 2, 4:00 pm, SSRB #224
AUDREY WASSER, Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago
“Hyperbole in Proust”

– April 15th, 4:00pm, Harper 145:

Elayne Oliphant, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago: “The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Europe”

– April 22nd, 4:00pm, Harper 145:

Julia Langbein, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago: “Comic Antagonism and Dueling Media in the 19th century Parisian Illustrated Press”

– May 6th, 4:00pm, Harper 145 :

Emily Fransee, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago: “Without Distinction: Voting Rights in France and the Empire, 1943-1962”

Emily Marker, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago: “Greater France, Europe, Eurafrique: The Cultural Politics of Late Colonialism and the Construction of Europe in Postwar France, 1943-1968

– May 20th, 4:00pm, Harper 145:

Steve Sawyer, Assistant Professor, Department of History, American University, Paris, and Terry Clark, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago: “Scenes and Ambiances in Paris and Elsewhere”

– June 3rd, 4:00pm, Harper 145:

Stella Ghervas, Visiting Associate Professor (Mellon Visiting Scholar), University of Chicago: “Empire or Alliance of Kings? A comparison between the European Visions of Napoleon and tsar Alexander 1st”

– January 14th, 4:30PM, Wieboldt #408:
Lauren Silvers, Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago: “La vie des mots: Language, Aesthetics, and the Reading Body at the French Fin-de-Siècle”

– January 24th, 4:30PM, Fulton Hall, 4th floor, Goodspeed Hall:
A joint session of the Modern France Workshop, the Workshop on Early Modern Europe, and the Department of Music.
Peter Spragins, Lecturer, Humanities Collegiate Division, University of Chicago: “Musical Analogies to Mid-18th-Century Literary Character-Types: ‘Writing the Moment’ in a Keyboard Sonata of the ‘London’ Bach”

– January 28th, 4:30PM, Wieboldt #408:
Sarah Maza, Professor of History, Northwestern University: “Beware of Domestic Objects:  Ordinary Crime and the Uncanny in 1930s France.”

– February 11th, 4:30PM, Wieboldt #408
Robin Bates, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago: “An Empire within an Empire: Madame Campan and the Cultural Logic of Napoleonic France, 1804-1815”

– February 25th, 4:30PM, Wieboldt #408:
Larry Norman, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Chicago: “Rationalism, Empiricism, and Historicism in French Classical Aesthetics”

– March 11th, 4:30PM, Wieboldt #408:
Alexandra Lukes, PhD Candidate, Department of French, New York University: “Artaud’s Asylum of Nonsense: Translating Plagiarism”

Greetings!

The Modern France Workshop is pleased to announce its Fall 2010 schedule. This year’s workshop will be taking place in Wieboldt 408 at 4:00 pm (unless otherwise noted).

* October 8, 4:00 pm, Wieboldt #408

JEREMY POPKIN, University of Kentucky

“You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery”

* October 22, 4:00 pm, Wieboldt, #408

STEPHANIE FRANK, PhD Candidate, History of Religions, University of Chicago

“The problem of the theological-political analogy: Malebranche, Sieyès, and ‘Representation’ in the Revolutionary National Assembly.”

* October 25, 12:00 pm, Pick Hall, #506

FRANCOISE MELONIO, Université paris Sorbonne, Institut d’Etudes Politique de Paris

“Interpreting a Correspondence: the Case of Tocqueville”

A joint session of the Worshops on Modern France and on Political Theory.

* November 5, 4:00 pm, Wieboldt, #408

EMILY OSBORN, History, University of Chicago

“Colonialism, Republicanism, and Gender in French West Africa”

* November 8, 5:00 pm, Social Science, #224 (John Hope Franklin Room)

LOIC CHARLES, Université de Paris Ouest, INED, EDIRC

“The Colonial Machine Dismantled: Science and Empire in the French Atlantic”

A joint session of the Modern France and the Early Modern Workshops.

* November 19, 4:00 pm, Wieboldt, #408

MARY ANGELO, PhD Candidate, RLL, University of Chicago

“Post-Revolutionary Women’s Fiction” Writing the Effacement of the Family”

* December 3, 4:00 pm, Wieboldt, #408

PAUL CHENEY, History, University of Chicago

“A Colonial Cul de Sac: Saint-Domingue during the American War of Independence”

We look forward to an exciting and enjoyable year!