Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society
Co-chaired by Laura Frader, Stanley Hoffmann, & Judith Surkis

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Past Events
Friday, May 2, 2008
Photo of Jonathan Laurence
"Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France."
Jonathan Laurence, Department of Political Science, Boston College, JUSTN VAISSE, Center on the US and Europe, Brookings Institution, Washington and Institut des Sciences politiques, Paris

2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Guido Goldman Room
Seminar on French Politics, Culture and Society
Contact: Laura Frader, lfrader@neu.edu

May 2, 2008:
4:15pm - 6:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France"
Jonathan Laurence, Department of Political Science, Boston College, Justin Vaisse, Center on the US and Europe, Brookings Institution, Washington and Institut des Sciences politiques, Paris

Thursday, May 8, 2008
Photo of Lisa Moses Leff
"The French Republican Roots of International Jewish Solidarity"
Lisa Moses Leff, Associate Professor of History, Southwestern University

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Cabot Room
Jews in Modern Europe Study Group, co-sponsored by the French Study Group
Contact: Phyllis Albert, phyllisalbert@jewishstudygroup.net

April 16, 2008
Photo of Gary Wilder
"Federalism, Cosmopolitanism, Utopia: Revisiting Senghor's Untimely Vision"
Gary Wilder, Department of History, Pomona College

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Cabot Room
Seminar on French Politics and Society
Contact: Professor Judith Surkis, surkis@fas.harvard.edu

March 13, 2008:
5:30pm - 7:00pm, Lower Level Conference Room

"The Manly G.I. Photo: Gender and Photojournalism during the Second World War"
Mary Louise Roberts, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Co-sponsored by the Gender, Politics, and Society Study Group
February 7, 2008:
4:15pm - 6:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"Keeping With the 'Natural Order of Things': Social Work and Algerian Families in France During the Era of Decolonization"
Amelia Lyons, Department of History, University of Central Florida

Co-sponsored by the Gender, Politics, and Society Study Group
October 4, 2007:
4:15pm - 6:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"The Arab/Israeli Conflict in France: Muslims/Jews and the Origins of Ethnonationalism"
Maud Mandel, Associate Professor, History and Judaic Studies, Brown University

Co-sponsored by the Seminar on Islam in the West and Jews in Modern Europe
October 16, 2007:
4:15pm - 6:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"Style of Reform: Can Sarkozy Remake France?"
Rafael Hadas-Lebel, Conseil d'Etat and Sciences-Po

CES Special Event
October 17, 2007:
4:30pm - 6:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"Inequality in France"
Marco Oberti, Associate Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po

Co-sponsored by the Study Group on Exclusion and Inclusion in an Expanded Europe
November 28, 2007:
4:30pm - 6:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918-194"
Mary Lewis, Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University

A discussion of Mary Lewis's new book of the same name, with comments by Linda Bosniak, Professor of Law, Rutgers University, and Gregory Mann, Associate Professor of History, Columbia University, and a response by Mary Lewis, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Study Group on Exclusion and Inclusion in an Expanded Europe
December 14, 2006:
"Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920"
Judith Surkis, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University

Co-Sponsored by the Gender, Politics, and Society Study Group

5:30 - 7:00PM
Cabot Room, Busch Hall


November 9, 2006:
4:15 - 6:00PM

"Empire and Environment: New Work at the Crossroads of French Imperial and Environmental History"

Caroline Ford, Professor of History, UCLA
Eric Jennings, Professor of History, University of Toronto

Cabot Room, Busch Hall
October 16, 2006:
"Le poids du passé colonial dans la politique française de l'immigration"
(The legacy of the colonial past in French immigration policy)
Alexis Spire
Lecture in French
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

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