France and the World

FRANCE AND THE WORLD SPEAKER: Lucas Hollister, Dartmouth University This paper discusses the oft-overlooked history of French crime fiction engaging with ecological thematics and set in and around extractive industries. In dialogue with emergent...

FRANCE AND THE WORLD SPEAKER: Sara Kippur, Wellesley College This talk explores the surprising ways in which American institutions and cultural figures shaped 20th-century French literature. Drawing on literary archives and other sources from her recent...

FRANCE AND THE WORLD SPEAKER: Joanna Stalnaker, Columbia University In this talk, Joanna Stalnaker will draw on her recent book, The Rest Is Silence, along with new archival research into one of the Enlightenment’s most famous salonnières, Marie de Vichy...

FRANCE AND THE WORLD SPEAKER: Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University This talk will examine the dialectic of universal emancipation and the radical enlightenment, to argue that while these processes were arguably initiated in the Malian Mande Charter of 1222...

FRANCE AND THE WORLD SPEAKER: Madeleine Dobie, Columbia University What is at stake in writing about wartime experiences many decades after they occurred? Why and how are such events remembered in a very different social and political context and from a...

FRANCE AND THE WORLD SPEAKER: Laure Astourian, Bentley University In the 1950s, strikingly similar images of children playing in the Niger River appeared in three groundbreaking films: René Vautier’s banned Afrique 50 (1950), Paulin Soumanou Vieyra and...

FRANCE AND THE WORLD SPEAKER: Kaiama L. Glover, Yale University Professor Kaiama L. Glover will discuss René Depestre’s late novel Popa Singer (2016), a daring work that revisits Haiti’s Duvalier dictatorship, Caribbean revolutionary dreams, and the...

FRANCE AND THE WORLD SPEAKER: Danielle Beaujon, University of Illinois Chicago Criminalizing the Casbahs explores how French police officers in Marseille and Algiers associated the spaces they saw as North African—the "Casbahs"—with a particular form of...

FRANCE AND THE WORLD SPEAKER: Peter Behrman de Sinéty, École normale supérieure To mark the U.S. release of Pierre Guyotat’s Idiocy , forthcoming from the New York Review Books and newly translated by Peter Behrman de Sinéty, join us for an evening of...