Please join us Sunday, September 19 at 5:00pm on Zoom for a discussion with Charly Verstraet, Assistant Professor of French and African American Studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. We’ll be discussing Charly’s draft article, “En terrain miné: … Read more

Please join us Sunday, April 11 at 5:00pm on Zoom for a discussion with Steven Weber, PhD candidate in History at UNC-Chapel Hill. We’ll be discussing Steven’s draft article, “”A Spreading Fire? The French Press and Belgian Revolution, 1789-1791.” The … Read more

Please join us Sunday, March 7 at 5:00pm on Zoom for a discussion with Marylaura Papalas, Associate Professor of French & Francophone Studies at East Carolina University. We’ll be discussing “The Schiaparelli Woman in Film,” a draft chapter from Marylaura’s … Read more

Please join us Sunday, February 7 at 5:00pm on Zoom for a discussion with Jacqueline Allain, PhD candidate in History at Duke University. We’ll be discussing “Gender and Plantation Labor Militancy in Post-Emancipation Martinique,” an extract from Jacqueline’s dissertation in … Read more

Please join us on Sunday, November 22 at 5pm EST on Zoom for a discussion with Sarah Miles (History, UNC). We’ll be discussing Sarah’s draft article, “Selling Revolution: Advertisements, Marketing and Network-Building amongst the Radical Left Press in 1970s France,” … Read more

Please join us Sunday, November 1 at 5:00pm on Zoom for a discussion with Professor Anne O’Neil-Henry (French, Georgetown). We’ll be discussing a draft chapter from Anne’s book-in-progress, Energy and the Parisian Universal Expositions: 1855-1900. The chapter and a description … Read more

Please join us Sunday, October 11 at 5:00pm on Zoom for a discussion with Professor Patricia Tilburg (History, Davidson. We’ll be discussing Trish’s new book, Working Girls: Sex, Taste, and Reform in the Parisian Garment Trades, 1880-1919 (Oxford, 2019). Chapter … Read more

The first French History & Culture meeting of this academic year will take place on September 13 (the first Sunday after Labor Day) at 5-7pm, on Zoom (Meeting ID: 940 4693 4838 – please contact a co-convener for the passcode). … Read more

We will reschedule Anne O’Neill-Henry’s and Marylaura Papalas’s presentations for the 2020-2021 academic year. We wish our seminar community good health and look forward to seeing you in the fall!

Please join us Sunday, March 1, 5-7pm in the West Conference Room of the National Humanities Center for a discussion with Professor Alexia Yates (History, University of Manchester and NHC). We’ll be discussing Alexia’s article, “Investor Letters and the Everyday … Read more