Program 2014-2015

2014-2025

Sept. 14  Jessica Tanner (UNC)

Oct. 26  Colin Jones (U. of London) “The Overthrow of Maximilien Robespierre and the ‘Indifference’ of the People”

*Nov. 7 Talk by the Recipient of the Wylie Prize in French & Francophone Cultural Studies (details to be announced later)

Nov. 23 Anndal  Narayanan (UNC) “Elite spokesmen and mass action: political strategies of Algerian War veterans’ associations in France, 1957-1974.”

Jan. 18 William Reddy (Duke) “The Paradox of Modernity: Current Debates and Their Implications for the Seventeenth Century.”

*Feb. 8 Camille Robcis (Cornell) 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the NHC [held in conjuction with the Carolina Seminar in Intellectual History] “Catholics, ‘The Theory of Gender’, and the the Turn to the Human in France: A New Dreyfus Affair?”

March 1 Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State) – “Painting and Persuasion in Sixteenth-Century French Legal Cartography.”

March 29 Danna Agmon (Virginia Tech) – The Nayiniyappa Affair: Commerce, Conversion and a Colonial Scandal in French India

April 26 Alice Kaplan (Yale) – “Looking for ‘The Stranger’: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic.”