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French Studies
Interviews with scholars of France about their new books.
November 14, 2024
The Ethnographic Optic
The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema (Indiana UP, 2024) traces the surprising r…
November 9, 2024
Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire
How did the Algerian war of independence shape contemporary sociology? In Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggl…
November 8, 2024
Islamophobia, France and Muslim Political Subjectivity
In this interview, recorded for Islamophobia Awareness Month, Hizer Mir and Chella Ward talk to Kawtar Najib and Rayan Freschi about Islamophobia in F…
November 6, 2024
The Suicide Archive
A note about content: This episode involves discussion of suicide, specifically in the contexts of slavery, colonization and empire. Please use your…
October 31, 2024
Fictions of Pleasure
Alistaire Tallent joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France (University of Dela…
October 29, 2024
The Neomercantilists
At a time when critiques of free trade policies are gaining currency, The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History (Cornell UP, 2021) helps mak…
October 23, 2024
The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt
A funny thing happened to historian Michael Vann* on the way to his PhD thesis. While he was doing his research on French colonialism and the urbanist…
October 20, 2024
Mind the Ghost
Spectrality disrupts and fissures our conceptions of time, unmaking and complicating binaries such as life and death, presence and absence, the visibl…
October 18, 2024
Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City
In the space of about two decades, five major parks were proposed, designed, and created in Paris. Some emerged from competitions between professional…
October 18, 2024
Liberty Equality Fashion
Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had …
October 13, 2024
In Conversation: CCIF, France and Islamophobia
In this episode, Amina Easat-Daas is in conversation with Marwan Muhammad on CCIF and Islamophobia in France. This episode was originally published o…
October 13, 2024
Women Writing Antiquity
Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (Oxford UP, 2024) recounts women authors' struggle to define the female intellectu…
October 4, 2024
Sufism in Europe
Francesco Piraino’s Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age (University of Edinburgh Press, 2024) is a vital contribution to the growing …
October 2, 2024
The Liberation Line
They certainly were not soldiers, yet they suddenly found themselves in uniform, in a foreign land. But, as locomotive drivers, track-workers, conduct…
October 2, 2024
Iran and French Orientalism
Today I talked to Julia Caterina Hartley about Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France (Bloomsbury. 2…
October 1, 2024
Subjects and Sojourners
When we think of the history of French colonialism in Indochina, we tend to think of the French in Indochina. Yet during the colonial period about 200…
October 1, 2024
In the Land of Marvels
How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science. In 1749, the cele…
September 28, 2024
The Enlightenment
Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherents about its dates, its locations, and the contents…
September 20, 2024
Agincourt
Agincourt is one of the most famous battles in English history, a defining part of the national myth. This groundbreaking study by Michael Livingston …
September 12, 2024
The Holy Alliance
The Holy Alliance is now most familiar as a label for conspiratorial reaction. In The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation (Prince…