Sunday, April 26 at 5pm – Don Reid on Insubordination in the French Army during the Long 1968
Please join us on Sunday, April 26 at 5pm at the National Humanities Center for our final seminar meeting of the 2025-2026 academic year. Don Reid, J. Wesley & A. Hodgin Hanes Distinguished Professor of History at UNC-Chapel Hill and … Read more
Sunday, March 29 at 5pm – Jennifer Boittin on “Transience: Twentieth-Century Politics of Precarity in French and Francophone Ports and Waterways”
Please join us Sunday, March 29 at 5pm at the National Humanities Center for our next seminar meeting. Jennifer Boittin, Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global History at UNC Chapel Hill, will be discussing her new book project, Transience: … Read more
Sun., February 22 at 5 pm – Eric Disbro on Queer and Trans Crosscurrents in Francophone Archipelagic Literatures
Please join us Sunday, February 22 at 5pm at the National Humanities Center for our next seminar meeting. Eric Disbro, Assistant Professor in French and Francophone Studies at Duke, will be discussing a draft chapter from his book-in-progress, Terraqueous Intimacies: … Read more
Sun., Jan. 25 at 5pm – Renee Altergott on Sound and Listening in the French Colonial Empire – on Zoom
Please join us Sunday, January 25 at 5pm on Zoom for our next seminar meeting. Renée Altergott, Assistant Professor in French and Francophone Studies at ECU, will be discussing a draft chapter from her book project, Acousmatic Subversions: Representing Power … Read more
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