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French Studies
August 8, 2022
Toxique
Enquête sur les essais nucléaires français en Polynésie
Sébastien Philippe and Tomas Statius
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Roxanne Panchasi
What happens when you bring together an important collection of previously secret archival documents dealing with France's nuclear detonations in the Pacific from 1966 to 1996, a nuclear scientist, and …
French Studies
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Interviews with scholars of France about their new books.
General History
August 5, 2022
The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France
The Sins of Silence
Itay Lotem
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Michael Vann
In The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France: The Sins of Silence (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), Itay Lotem explores the remembering of empire in Britain and France. By comparing these two former …
History of Science
August 4, 2022
Minerva's French Sisters
Women of Science in Enlightenment France
Nina Rattner Gelbart
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Victor Monnin
In Minerva’s French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France (Yale University Press, 2021), Nina Gelbart, Professor of History and Anita Johnson Wand Professor of Women’s Studies at Occidental College …
Literary Studies
August 3, 2022
Interwar Itineraries
Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel Writing
Emily O. Wittman
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Nathan Moore
How people traveled, and how people wrote about travel, changed in the interwar years. Novel technologies eased travel conditions, breeding new iterations of the colonizing gaze. The sense that another …
Writ Large
August 2, 2022
On Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days"
A Discussion with Joyce Chaplin
Joyce Chaplin
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Zachary Davis
When French author Jules Verne wrote Around the World in 80 Days in the late 1800s, scheduled global travel was practically science fiction, and 80 days seemed impossibly fast. But …
French Studies
July 29, 2022
The Military Enlightenment
War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon
Christy Pichichero
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Roxanne Panchasi
Covering the pivotal period from the mid-seventeenth century through the era of the French Revolution, Christy Pichichero's The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon (Cornell …
American Studies
July 27, 2022
Instruments of Empire
Colonial Elites and U.S. Governance in Early National Louisiana, 1803–1815
Michael K. Beauchamp
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Deidre Tyler
M. K. Beauchamp's Instruments of Empire: Colonial Elites and U.S. Governance in Early National Louisiana, 1803–1815 (LSU Press, 2021) examines the challenges that resulted from U.S. territorial expansion through the …
Gender Studies
July 27, 2022
How to Be Authentic
Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment
Skye Cleary
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Lilian Calles Barger
Skye C. Cleary is a philosopher, writer and university teacher. In her new book How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment (St. Martin’s Press, 2022) …
Early Modern History
July 18, 2022
Laughing Histories
From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit
Joy Wiltenburg
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Elspeth Currie
Joy Wiltenburg's book Laughing Histories: From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit (Routledge, 2022) breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was …
General History
July 15, 2022
The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850–1900
Christina B. Carroll
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Miranda Melcher
In The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850–1900 (Cornell University Press, 2022), Dr. Christina Carroll highlights the connections between domestic political struggles and overseas imperial structures. She explains how …
General History
July 14, 2022
Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920
Karen Offen
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Michael Vann
While it is an overused cliché, France is indeed a land of contrasts, famous for its paradoxes. In French political history, the most startling may be the progressive policies of …
Art
June 15, 2022
L' Origine
The Secret Life of the World's Most Erotic Masterpiece
Lilianne Milgrom
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Pallavi Joshi
Today I talked to Lilianne Milgrom about L' Origine: The Secret Life of the World's Most Erotic Masterpiece (Girl Friday Books, 2021). In 1866, maverick French artist Gustave Courbet painted one of the …
Early Modern History
June 10, 2022
Storied Places
Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France
Virginia Reinburg
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Elspeth Currie
Today I talked to Virginia Reinburg about her book Storied Places: Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France (Cambridge UP, 2019). Pilgrim shrines were places of healing, holiness, and truth …
Biography
June 10, 2022
Jean Jaurès
The Inner Life of Social Democracy
Geoffrey Kurtz
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Zalman Newfield
Jean Jaurès was a towering intellectual and political leader of the democratic Left at the turn of the twentieth century, but he is little remembered today outside of France, and …
Film
June 3, 2022
The Red Years of Cahiers Du Cinéma (1968-1973)
Daniel Fairfax
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Annie Berke
The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country's most prominent film journal. Under editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, Cahiers du cinéma …
Art
June 2, 2022
Courbet's Landscapes
The Origins of Modern Painting
Paul Galvez
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Allison Leigh
Between 1862 and 1866 Gustave Courbet embarked on a series of sensuous landscape paintings that would later inspire the likes of Monet, Pissarro, and Cézanne. This series has long been …
Caribbean Studies
May 30, 2022
Engendering Islands
Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean
Ashley M. Williard
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Grant Kleiser
In Engendering Islands: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), Dr. Ashley M. Williard demonstrates how problematics of gender played a central role in defining …
French Studies
May 26, 2022
The Anthropological Turn
French Political Thought After 1968
Jacob Collins
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Roxanne Panchasi
Jacob Collins's The Anthropological Turn: French Political Through After 1968 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) examines some of the most important currents in French intellectual life through the 1970s. In the …
French Studies
May 18, 2022
The Paris Commune
A Brief History
Carolyn J. Eichner
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Roxanne Panchasi
Carolyn Eichner's new book, The Paris Commune: A Brief History (Rutgers University Press, 2022) was published on March 18th, the anniversary of the eruption of Paris Commune of 1871. In this accessible …
Music
May 11, 2022
From Servant to Savant
Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution
Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden
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Kristen Turner
Today’s copyright laws are predicated on the idea that music is intellectual property; a commodity that has value to its creator and to its publisher. But, how did that concept …
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