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

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Antoine Lilti: The Writing of Paranoia: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Paradoxes of Celebrity 6 October 2011
Benjamin Brower: Nomina Numina: Algerians in Others' Names 17 November 2011
Bernard Franco: Laocoon: Expression, or Time in Space 9 April 2013
Biliana Kassabova: The French Revolutionary Novel 16 February 2012
Denis Lacorne: Religion in America. A Transatlantic Perspective from Voltaire to Bernard Henri Lévy 12 January 2012
Derek Vanderpool (Ph.D. Candidate, History) 30 May 2013
Gisèle Sapiro: Authorship and Responsibility: Literary Trials and the Ethics of Writing 22 February 2012
Göran Blix : "The Great Civic Banquet”: Animal Politics in Michelet’s Natural Histories 18 October 2012
Hall Bjørnstad: 'By example and by counsel': The Royal Art of Interpretation According to Louis XIV 26 January 2012
History of Human Rights Workshop 9 May 2013
Jared Holley: Eighteenth Century Epicureanism and the Reception of Rousseau's Second Discourse 16 May 2013
Katherine McDonough: Building with Authority: Real and Imagined Roads in Early Modern France 7 February 2013
Keith Baker: What Marat Learned in London 2 February 2012
Kelly Summers: Accidental Outlaws: Directorial Military Justice and the Émigré Shipwreck at Calais, 1795-6 11 October 2012
Larry Norman: Roundtable discussion of "The Shock of the Ancients: Literature and History in Early Modern France" 20 October 2011
Laura Monkman (Ph.D. Candidate, History) 6 June 2013
Maria Teodora Comsa: Society Theater: a Laboratory for Esthetic and Social Change (1750-1815) 24 May 2012
Mark Greengrass: Painting Power: Antoine Caron's "Massacres of the Triumvirate" 25 April 2013
Mary Terrall: A Spectacle Pleasing to the Mind: Natural History on Display 31 January 2013
Melanie Conroy: Grandes Dames and Bas-Bleus: Sophie Gay and Delphine de Girardin’s "empire des femmes" 1 December 2011
Graduate Coordinator(s): 
chairs: 
James P. Daughton (History)
Dan Edelstein (French and Italian)
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