Modern France Workshop

Spring - 2008

Theme: "Looking and Listening"

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April 4

4:00 pm
Wieboldt #408

ELENA RUSSO
(Johns Hopkins University)

"The Sly and the Coy Mistress: Style and Manner from Fenelon to Diderot"

April 18

4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408

COLIN JONES
(Queen Mary University)

How Not To Laugh in the French Enlightenment: The Saint-Aubin Livre de Caricatures

May 9

4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408

DANIEL SHERMAN
(University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee)

"French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1975"

May 16

4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408

CAROLINE WEBER
(Bernard College)

What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

May 23

4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408

SARA HUME
(PhD Candidate, Department of History)

"Transnational Regionalism: The Politics and Practices of Alsatian Folk Costume, 1871-2007"

June 6

4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408

KENDRA DRISCHLER
(PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature)

"Sartre's Theory of Emotion as a Novelistic Approach."

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 Dana Currier at dcurrier@uchicago.edu

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