Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society

Events are open to the public. Please sign up if you wish to receive advance information concerning speakers, dates, and topics. We also welcome suggestions for future events.

Upcoming Events
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
From Left to Right: The Uses of Anti-Americanism on the Streets of Interwar Paris
Brooke Blower - Assistant Professor of History, Boston University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Tuesday, March 20, 2012
French Elections Panel
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Past Events
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Prophets or Mavericks? Tax Resisters, Social Protest, and Political Failure in France and the United States, 1940s-1970s
Romain Huret - junior member of the Institut universitaire de France
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, November 3, 2011
Inequality and Capitalism in the Long Run
Thomas Piketty - Professor of Economics, EHESS and at the Paris School of Economics
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Wednesday, October 12, 2011
The Separation of Church and State: A New Transatlantic Perspective
Denis Lacorne - Directeur de recherche, Sciences-Po, Paris
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Goldman Room, Busch Hall

 

Monday, October 3, 2011
The Three Waves of Political Messianism: From Colonialism to Communism to Humanitarianism
Tzvetan Todorov - Directeur de recherche honoraire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, April 28, 2011
Democracy Embattled in the Age of Expertise: The Long French Reconstruction, 1944-1962
Herrick Chapman - Associate Professor of History, New York University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, April 14, 2011
France’s New Deal
Philip Nord - Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Princeton University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Irène Némirovsky and the 'Jewish Question' in Interwar France
Susan Suleiman - C.Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Time: 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, March 10, 2011
The Good Buyer: Gender, Citizenship, and Consumption in the Making of Postwar France
Rebecca Pulju - Assistant Professor of History, Kent State University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, February 17, 2011
The French Hygiene Offensive of the 1950s: A Critical Moment in the History of Manners
Steven Zdatny - Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Vermont
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, December 9, 2010
Wind from the East. French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s
Richard Wolin - CUNY Graduate School
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Jewish and Muslim Identity Politics in France Since 1967: The Impact of Israel/Palestine, Multiculturalism, and Public Religion
Ethan Katz - History Department, University of Cincinnati
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, November 4, 2010
The Contemporary Political Situation in Three European Countries
Arthur Goldhammer - Affiliate, CES
James Cronin - History Department, Boston College
Charles Maier - Professor of History, Harvard
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, October 28, 2010
Symposium on the Work of Tony Judt
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, May 6, 2010
French Nationalism and Jewish Identity in the Early Twentieth Century
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Tuesday, April 20, 2010
A Drama of Faith and Family: Custody Disputes, Familialism and Ethnicity in Postwar France
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, April 8, 2010
Male Homosexuals, Arab Men, and French Politics, 1954-1974
Todd Shepard - Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
Chris Waters - Hans W. Gatzke \'38 Professor of Modern European History, Williams College
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Friday, February 26, 2010
Capital Punishment in France and the United States
Paul Friedland - Associate Professor of History, Bowdoin College, Visiting Scholar at CES
James Whitman - Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, Yale Law School
Moshik Temkin - Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Carol Steiker - Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, October 29, 2009
The Future of French Youth
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, October 22, 2009
Colonial Continuities in the French Caribbean: an Economic Perspective on the 2009 Social Movement
Guy Numa - Assistant Professor, Université Paris Dauphine
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Jews, Catholics, and the Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism in the Age of the French Kulturkampf, 1870-1886
Vicki Caron - Cornell University and currently fellow of Radcliffe Institute,
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, April 16, 2009
Paradoxical Lives: Nostalgia, Modernity and Race in European Women’s Writing in Colonial Algeria
Patricia Lorcin - Professor of History, University of Minnesota
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Sex, Love, and Letters: Reading Simone de Beauvoir 1949-1963
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Monday, March 9, 2009
Europe and the Global Economic Crisis
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The Black Condition in France
Pap Ndiaye - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Time: 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, December 11, 2008
Values, Equality, and Differences in Liberal Democracies: Muslim Headscarves in Europe
Eleni Varikas - Université de Paris VIII and Birte Siim, Aalborg University, Denmark
Birte Siim - Professor, Institute for History, International and Social Studies, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Michele Lamont - Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African American Stud, Harvard
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Monday, November 3, 2008
Religion and Rivalry: Catholicism, Islam, and French Rule in Senegal, 1890-1900
Elizabeth Foster - Professor of History, Bates College
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall