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Program 2012-2013

2012-2013

September 16: Jay Smith (History, UNC-Chapel Hill) — “A Beckoning Darkness: The Beast, The Hyena, and the Enlightenment.”

October 28: Sarah Peterson (Romance Languages, UNC-Chapel Hill) — “Georges Perec’s Introductory City.”

November 11: Robert Blackman (History, Hampden-Sydney College)

January 27:  Darrin McMahon (Florida State University) 7:00-9:00 P.M. – “Genius and Enlightenment.” (Joint meeting with the Triangle Intellectual History Seminar)

February 24:  Jeremy Popkin (University of Kentucky) – “A New Look at the Declaration of the Rights of Man” and “Thermidor, Slavery, and the ‘Affaire des colonies’.”

March 17: Christina Carroll (UNC-Chapel Hill)– “Imperial Ideologies in the Second Empire: the ‘Royaume Arabe’.”

April 28: Don Reid (UNC-Chapel Hill) – “The Factory is Where the Workers Are.”