Sun., Nov. 16 at 5pm – David Gill on “Novel Things: Material Narratives of Early Modern France”
Please join us Sunday, November 16 at 5pm at the National Humanities Center for our next seminar meeting. David Gill, PhD candidate in French and Francophone Studies at UNC, will be discussing a draft chapter from his dissertation, Novel Things: … Read more
Sun., Oct. 19 at 5pm – Meghan O’Donoghue on “Independence Through the Lens of Self in Togoun Servais Acogny’s 1959 Autobiographical Thesis”
Please join us Sunday, October 19 at 5pm at the National Humanities Center for our next seminar meeting. Meghan O’Donoghue, Assistant Professor of French at NCSU and a new arrival in the Triangle area, will be discussing her article, “ … Read more
Sun., Sept. 14 at 5pm – Erika Serrato on “Roucou: Sketches of History”
Please join us Sunday, September 14 at 5pm at the National Humanities Center for our first seminar of the academic year. Erika Serrato, Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, will be discussing a chapter from her … Read more
Sun., April 27 at 5pm EDT on Zoom – Sara Phenix on the corset, the Eiffel Tower, and anemia in the fertility politics of Third Republic France
Please join us Sunday, April 27 at 5pm on Zoom for our last seminar of the academic year. Sara Phenix, Associate Professor of French at Brigham Young University, will be discussing a chapter from her current book project, Bodice Politic: … Read more
Sun., March 23 at 5pm — Dore Bowen on “Picturing Animals and Others at the Musée du duc d’Orléans (1928–1959)”
Please join us Sunday, March 23 at 5pm at the National Humanities Center (1st-floor seminar room). Dore Bowen, Research Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke, will be discussing a chapter from her current book project, The … Read more
Sun., Feb. 23 at 5pm – Weixin Zhou on Architecture, French Society and the Working Class, 1945-1967
Please join us Sunday, February 23 at 5pm at the National Humanities Center (1st-floor seminar room). Weixin Zhou, a PhD candidate in Art History at UNC, Chapel Hill, will be discussing a chapter of her dissertation, Designing Reconstruction: Architecture, French … Read more
Sunday, Jan. 26 at 5pm on Zoom – Matthew Gin on Making Ephemeral Festival Architecture in Enlightenment France
Please join us on Sunday, January 26 at 5pm on Zoom for a discussion with Dr. Matthew Gin, historian of architecture at UNC-Charlotte. We’ll be discussing a draft chapter from Matthew’s book-in-progress, Paper Monuments: Making Ephemeral Festival Architecture in Enlightenment … Read more
Sunday, Nov. 17 at 4pm on Zoom – Susanna Caviglia on Art, Mobility and Ecology in French Representations of Early Modern Rome
Please join us Sunday, November 17 at 4:00pm on Zoom for a discussion with Susanna Caviglia (Duke) about a chapter her book-in-progress, The Foreigner’s Wandering Eye: Art, Mobility and Ecology in French Representations of Early Modern Rome (1580s-1780s). We will … Read more
Sunday, October 6 at 5pm — Ellen Welch on “Noise in the Enlightenment”
Please join us Sunday, October 6 at 5:00pm at the National Humanities Center for a discussion with Ellen Welch (UNC-Chapel Hill) about an excerpt from her book-in-progress, Common Noise: Listening Beyond the Public Sphere in Ancien Régime Literature. We will … Read more
Sunday, Sept. 8 at 5pm – Denis Provencher, Siham Bouamer, and Ryan Schroth on “Queer Realms of Memory: Archiving LGBTQ Sites and Symbols in the French National Narrative”
Please join us Sunday, September 8 at 5:00pm at the National Humanities Center for a discussion with Denis Provencher (NC State), Siham Bouamer (U Cincinnati), and Ryan Schroth (Wake Forest U). We will be talking about the introduction and conclusion … Read more