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French Studies
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March 3, 2021
Islam, réforme et colonisation
une histoire de l'ibadisme en Algérie (1882-1962)
Hosted by Julian Weideman
Islam, réforme et colonisation: une histoire de l'ibadisme en Algérie (1882-1962) by Augustin Jomier is an important study of colonial North Africa, Islamic reform, and Ibadi Islam. Jomier, a professor …
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History
March 3, 2021
King of the World
The Life of Louis XIV
Philip Mansel
Hosted by Ian Drake
Philip Mansel, a trustee of the Society for Court Studies and President of the Research Center of the Chateau de Versailles, has written a one-volume biography of the life and …
Music
February 8, 2021
Resonant Recoveries
French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars
Jillian C. Rogers
Hosted by Kristen Turner
Understanding how people cope with large-scale traumatic events has become more urgent as we continue to cope with the effects of the pandemic. In Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma …
History
February 2, 2021
Rogue Empires
Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa
Steven Press
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Steven Press is an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. His marvelous first book, Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for Africa (Harvard University Press, 2017), is …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
February 1, 2021
The Idea of Freedom and Race
A Discussion with Tyler Stovall
Tyler Stovall
Hosted by Marshall Poe
The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on …
Celebration Studies
January 19, 2021
City of a Million Dreams
A History of New Orleans at Year 300
Jason Berry
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
In City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), Jason Berry delivers a history of New Orleans at its tricentennial. Beyond …
History
January 13, 2021
Albert Camus
A Very Short Introduction
Oliver Gloag
Hosted by Michael Vann
Albert Camus, one of the most famous French philosophers and novelists, has a diverse fan base. British alternative rockers The Cure sang about The Stranger in their first big hit …
French Studies
December 29, 2020
Vénus Noire
Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
Robin Mitchell
Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
The preface to Robin Mitchell's new book, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France (University of Georgia Press, 2020) moves me. In it, the author tells the story of her …
African American Studies
December 28, 2020
The Haitians
A Decolonial History
Jean Casimir
Hosted by Adam McNeil
In The Haitians: A Decolonial History (UNC Press, 2020), leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as …
French Studies
December 23, 2020
The Afterlives of the Terror
Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France
Ronen Steinberg
Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
How did the "Reign of Terror" end? In his new book, The Afterlives of Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France (Cornell University Press, 2019), Ronen Steinberg explores the end …
European Studies
December 15, 2020
Project Europe
A History
Kiran Klaus Patel
Hosted by Tim Jones
Project Europe made waves when it was published in German in 2018 (CH Beck) and was soon translated into English as Project Europe: A History (Cambridge UP, 2020). A clue to …
History
December 8, 2020
Reproductive Citizens
Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880–1945
Nimisha Barton
Hosted by Julia Gossard
On today’s New Books in History, we sit down with Dr. Nimisha Barton to discuss her new book, Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France (Cornell …
British Studies
November 9, 2020
The Bloody Flag
Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution
Niklas Frykman
Hosted by Mark Klobas
The 1790s were a decade of turmoil and strife across the West. With the French Revolution, a new era of wars began that invoked the language of equal rights. In …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
November 9, 2020
The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought
A Longing for the Abyss
Betty Rojtman
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought: A Longing for the Abyss (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the …
French Studies
October 27, 2020
Mobilizing Memory
The Great War and the Language of Politics in Colonial Algeria, 1918-1939
Dónal Hassett
Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
Dónal Hassett’s Mobilizing Memory: The Great War and the Language of Politics in Colonial Algeria, 1918-1939 (Oxford UP, 2019) is at once a history of colonialism and of the “Great …
Literary Studies
October 26, 2020
Sex, Love, and Letters
Writing Simone de Beauvoir
Judith G. Coffin
Hosted by Julia Gossard
When Judith G. Coffin discovered a virtually unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from Beauvoir's international readers, it inspired Coffin to explore the intimate bond between the …
European Studies
October 13, 2020
Sex in an Old Regime City
Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789
Julie Hardwick
Hosted by Jennifer J. Davis
Young women and men sought out each other’s company in the workshops, cabarets, and streets of Old Regime Lyon, and evidence of these relationships lingers in documents and material objects …
Film
September 16, 2020
Roland Barthes and Film
Myth, Eroticism and Poetics
Patrick Ffrench
Hosted by Bill Schaffer
Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics (Bloomsbury) is a book by Patrick Ffrench, Professor of French at Kings College. It is a comprehensively researched and finely argued book …
African Studies
September 11, 2020
Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire
France in the Americas and Africa c. 1750-1802
Pernille Røge
Hosted by Grant Kleiser
In her new book, Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire: France in the Americas and Africa, c. 1750-1802 (Cambridge UP, 2020), Dr. Pernille Røge charts the confluence and reciprocal impacts …
European Studies
September 4, 2020
Before Trans
Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France
Rachel Mesch
Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
In Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France (Stanford University Press), Rachel Mesch reads the biographies and work of three writers who did not conform to the gender norms …
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