Program 2025-2026
All seminar meetings take place on Sundays, 5:00-7:00pm, in the John Hope Franklin Conference Room at the National Humanities Center, unless otherwise noted.
- September 14: Erika Serrato (UNC-Chapel Hill) discussing a chapter on Amerindian characters and tales in Caribbean bandes dessinées from her book project, Native Blueprint: Reading the Landscape and the Making of an Indigenous Caribbean
- October 19: Meghan O’Donoghue (NC State) discussing her article “‘African brother, what will you tell your comrades?’: Independence Through the Lens of Self in Togoun Servais Acogny’s 1959 Autobiographical Thesis“
- November 16: David Gill (UNC-Chapel Hill) discussing a chapter entitled “Habile Habillement: Vesting in Le Sage’s Gil Blas de Santillane” from his dissertation project, Novel Things: Material Narratives of Early Modern France
- January 25: Renee Altergott (ECU) discussing “Sounding the Black Atlantic: Acousmatic Listening and the French Colonial Empire”
- Thursday, February 5: Special Event – Public Lecture by Joshua Cole (University of Michigan) on the UNC campus
- February 22: Eric Disbro (Duke) discussing a chapter from his book project, Terraqueous Intimacies: Queer and Trans Crosscurrents in Francophone Archipelagic Literatures
- March 29: Jennifer Boittin (UNC-Chapel Hill) – topic TBD
- April 26: Don Reid (UNC-Chapel Hill) discussing a project on “Organizing Conscripts in Fifth Republic France”