Modern France Workshop

Fall - 2009

View Spring 2009 Workshop Schedule

October 9

3:30 pm
Wieboldt #408

PATRICK WEIL

Directeur de Recherche, CNRS
Visiting Professor, Yale Law School

"Jus Soli vs Jus Sanguinis:
The False Opposition between French and German Law"

October 23

3:30 pm
Wieboldt, #408

DOMINIQUE KALIFA

Professor of Contemporary History at University of Paris I — Panthéon-Sorbonne and codirector of the Centre de Recherches en Histoire du XIXe Siècle (Paris I/Paris IV)

"Corps spéciaux": Body, Emotion and Gender 
in the Colonial Prisons of the French Army"

October 26

5:00 pm
Pick Hall, #319

PAUL CHENEY

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Chicago

"Bordeaux / Glasgow: the Port City as Intellectual Milieu"

November 6

3:30 pm
Wieboldt, #408

ETIENNE OLLION

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology

"What do Cults do? Changing Oppositions to Cults in Contemporary France"

November 20

3:30 pm
Wieboldt, #408

ERIKA VAUSE

PhD Candidate, Department. of History, University of Chicago

"'A Discount on the Future': The Revolution of 1848 and the Remaking of Financial Responsibility in France"

December 4

3:30 pm
Wieboldt, #408

DANIEL DESORMEAUX

Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Chicago

"Alexandre Dumas: mémoires, histoire et autobiographie en France sous le second Empire"

A wine and cheese reception follow each discussion. To obtain electronic copies of the papers being discussed, or to get on the Modern France Workshop list-serve, contact Mary Druyvesteyn at mjd1@uchicago.edu or Emily Marker at emarker@uchicago.edu.

A limited number of hard copies are available outside of Wb 205, SS 225,
CWAC 166, & HMW 504.