Faculty Exchange
Financial and Logistic Terms
As part of a broader exchange agreement between the University of Chicago and the Collège de France, the France Chicago Center collaborates with UChicago Departments/Schools and the Collège de France to facilitate weeklong visits of Collège de France faculty members to the University of Chicago campus, with each partner assuming the following roles and responsibilities.
The France Chicago Center:
- Provides up to $5,000 in support of the visit. Typical costs include: accommodations for 5-8 nights ($1,300-$2,000), travel meals and cabfare ($400-$600), honorarium ($1,500), the cost of a dinner and/or post-lecture reception ($800-$1,400)
- Offers limited logistic and administrative support, such as arranging accommodations, making honorarium payments, and processing travel reimbursements
- Collaborates with CDF administration to ensure that the visit qualifies for Enseignement à l’étranger, which allows lectures given in Chicago to count toward the visitor’s teaching load at the Collège de France
- Plays a secondary role in publicizing all events
The Collège de France:
- Covers the cost of the visiting scholar’s roundtrip airfare to Chicago
- Ensures that lectures delivered in Chicago count as Enseignement à létranger
The Faculty Host/Hosting Department:
- Secures the formal (intellectual) support/endorsement of a department, school, or committee
- Extends the letter of invitation to the visiting scholar
- Collaborates with the scholar and departmental staff to organize 1 or 2 public events
- Takes the lead in publicizing these lectures to ensure a good turnout
- Organizes a faculty dinner and/or post-lecture reception (covered in part or in full by the France Chicago Center)
- Arranges other opportunities for the visiting scholar to interact with students (workshop attendance, seminar, office hours)
- Integrates the visitor into the intellectual life of the department and the university
- Secures additional funding if the total cost of the visit exceeds $5,000.
Faculty members who are interested in partnering with the France Chicago Center to host a scholar from the Collège de France in Chicago are invited to contact Dan Bertsche for more information and/or to complete the online nomination form. The deadline for nominations is January 15 for weeklong visits during the autumn, winter, or spring quarter of the following academic year.