French Culture Workshop

The French Culture Workshop brings together participants from different disciplines, including French literature, History, Comparative Literature, and Art History, to examine questions relevant to French culture and society from the modern period (1650 to present). Topics of discussion include political and intellectual history, imperialism and colonialism, nationalism and national identity, immigration and minorities, gender, and francophonie.

The French Culture Workshop is co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center, the DLCL Research Unit, the France-Stanford Center, and the Europe Center at the Freeman Spogli Institute

sort icon
Antoine Lilti: The Writing of Paranoia: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Paradoxes of Celebrity 6 October 2011
Larry Norman: Roundtable discussion of "The Shock of the Ancients: Literature and History in Early Modern France" 20 October 2011
Benjamin Brower: Nomina Numina: Algerians in Others' Names 17 November 2011
Melanie Conroy: Grandes Dames and Bas-Bleus: Sophie Gay and Delphine de Girardin’s "empire des femmes" 1 December 2011
Denis Lacorne: Religion in America. A Transatlantic Perspective from Voltaire to Bernard Henri Lévy 12 January 2012
Hall Bjørnstad: 'By example and by counsel': The Royal Art of Interpretation According to Louis XIV 26 January 2012
Keith Baker: What Marat Learned in London 2 February 2012
Biliana Kassabova: The French Revolutionary Novel 16 February 2012
Gisèle Sapiro: Authorship and Responsibility: Literary Trials and the Ethics of Writing 22 February 2012
Owen White: The Bottle of Algiers: A Vineyard in French Algeria, 1869-1963 26 April 2012
Yann Robert: Acting Noble(s): Rétif, Mercier and the Dawn of a National Theater 3 May 2012
Roundtable discussion on the French Presidential Elections 4 May 2012
Maria Teodora Comsa: Society Theater: a Laboratory for Esthetic and Social Change (1750-1815) 24 May 2012
Nicholas Paige: Fiction (and Other Assorted Technologies of the Novel) 31 May 2012
Kelly Summers: Accidental Outlaws: Directorial Military Justice and the Émigré Shipwreck at Calais, 1795-6 11 October 2012
Göran Blix : "The Great Civic Banquet”: Animal Politics in Michelet’s Natural Histories 18 October 2012
Olivier Wieviorka: France: a self-liberated country? The role of the French resistance reassessed 25 October 2012
Mary Terrall: A Spectacle Pleasing to the Mind: Natural History on Display 31 January 2013
Katherine McDonough: Building with Authority: Real and Imagined Roads in Early Modern France 7 February 2013
Nicolas Rieucau: Comment dater un manuscript sans le dater? Le cas des Archives Condorcet. 21 February 2013
Graduate Coordinator(s): 
chairs: 
James P. Daughton (History)
Dan Edelstein (French and Italian)
Syndicate content