Past Events

Calendar 2008-2009

September 2008

Clashes in European Memory: The Cases of Communist Repression and the Holocaust
Organized by Oliver Rathkolb, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and the Public Sphere and the University of Vienna; Muriel Blaive, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and the Public Sphere and the University of Vienna; Christian Gerbel, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and the Public Sphere and the University of Vienna.

9/22-9/24/08

The Rise of Imperial Liberalism
Lecture presented by Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, and the College. Moderated by Alain Gresh, Editor in Chief at Le Monde Diplomatique.

The lecture will include thoughts and comments of two world renowned scholars of colonialism and imperialism. Gilles Manceron, Historian, French colonialism specialist, author of Marianne et les colonies (La Découverte, 2003) and La colonisation, la loi et l'histoire (Syllepse, 2006); Philip S. Golub, Associate Professor, International Relations and International Political Economy at the Institut d'etudes europeennes, the Universite Paris 8, and the American University of Paris.

9/25/08

October 2008

Le Grand Paris, quel impact sur la mobilisation foncière?
Conference organisée par Rodrigo Acosta-Garcia, Revue Urbanissimo.

10/10/08

Machiavelisme et guerres de religion
Organized by Denis Crouzet, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne; Philippe Desan, University of Chicago, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Howard L. Willett Professor of French and History of Culture.

10/31/08

Panel Discussion of the American Presidential Election
Moderated by Terry Murphy, Professor of History at the American University of Paris and Director of the Fondation des Etats Unis. Panelists will include:

Mark Hansen, The University of Chicago, Dean of the Social Sciences Division and the Charles L. Hutchison Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science and the College; Desmond King, Oxford University, The Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government; Frédérick Douzet, Maître de conférence at Université Paris-VIII and researcher at the Institut Français de Géopolitique.

10/31/08

December 2008

La fin de la démocratie? Autour de Coriolan
Contrechamp conçu par Gerald Garutti

12/08/08 and 12/10/08

Le Durkeimisme et le Savoir / Durkheim and Knowledge
Organized by Romi Mukherjee, University of Chicago, Divinity School with the Société Française d'Etudes Durkheimiennes.

12/12/08

Politiques culturelles et l'espace urbain au XXI siècle
Organized by Terry Clark, University of Chicago and Stephen Sawyer, American University of Paris.

12/12/08

January 2009

La Pensée Coloniale 1900
Organized by Mil Neuf Cent, Revue d'histoire intellectuelle
The colloquium will include three panel discussions on various facets of colonialism in the 1900's. 

01/09/09

February 2009

Levinas Seminar with Jean-Claude Milner
Organized by the Société d'Etudes Levinasiennes (Paris / Jerusalem)

02/11/09

Le siècle d'or de la photographie albanaise
Organized by Christian Raby, University of Chicago, Center in Paris

02/12/09

March 2009

Emotions Conference poster

Colloque International: Emotions perspectives scientifiques et philosophiques /Emotion: Past and Future
Organized by Claudia Wassmann, Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IHPST). View Poster | View Program

03/09/09

Levinas Seminar with Jean-Claude Milner
Organized by the Société d'Etudes Levinasiennes (Paris / Jerusalem)

03/11/09 and 03/25/09

The French-American Atlantic in the Age of Revolutions, 1763-1815

French Americas image March 20 (University of Chicago, Center in Paris)
March 21 (EHESS)

Co-Sponsors:

  • Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Centre d'études nord-américaines (CENA)
  • European Early American Studies Association (Great Britain)

Organizers:

The March 20th session at the University of Chicago, Center in Paris will feature nine specialists in eighteenth-century French, American and Atlantic history. The March 21st session will include presentations by six graduate students working on subjects relating to Atlantic history, to be discussed by a panel of six historians. This session will be held at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Centre d'études nord-américaines (CENA),105 Boulevard Raspail, Paris 75006.


03/20/09

French Americas imageQuand Racine commente les Grecs: Séminaire sur les commentaires de Jean Racine à la littérature grecques ancienne

March 20 (Université Paris Diderot)
March 21 (University of Chicago Paris Center)

Organized by Glenn Most, University of Chicago, Department of Classics, and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; Larry Norman, University of Chicago, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Deputy Provost for the Arts and Sophie Rabau, Université de Paris III.

03/20/09 - 03/21/09

April 2009

Levinas Seminar with Jean-Claude Milner
Organized by the Société d'Etudes Levinasiennes (Paris / Jerusalem)

04/01/09

Des Essais aux Mémoires: Montaigne et Chateaubriand
Organized by Philippe Desan, University of Chicago, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Howard L. Willett Professor of French and History of Culture and Patrizio Tucci, Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Romanistica

04/03/09

Talk by Moon Duchin (University of Michigan)
Arguing from repugnance:  philosophy, mathematics, and the crisis of intuition"
Should we take shared intuition to be evidence?  In particular, should a strong and widely-held sense of revulsion militate against a principle, whether moral, metaphysical, or mathematical?  It is easy to locate arguments from repugnance across many areas of study, from non-Euclidean geometry to the ethics of human cloning. From a starting point of simple mathematical examples, we can track problems with shared intuition through a range of fields and concerns.  No mathematical background is assumed.

04/6/09

France Now and Then: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Sponsored by the French Embassy through the Chateaubriand Fellowship Program, University of Chicago Center in Paris, and Center for European Studies at Harvard University

Keynote will be given by Dominique Kalifa, Professor of Contemporary History, Université de Paris I

04/16/09 - 04/17/09

Welfare State Transformation Since 1970: Comparative International Perspectives
Organized by Robert Fairbanks (University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration) and Fabian Kessl (University Duisburg-Essen)

04/24/09 - 04/25/09

May 2009

Book Signing: Carol Saller, author of The Subversive Copy Editor
Carol Saller, both a Press author and University Press employee (Senior Manuscript Editor), will be visiting Paris on Saturday, May 16th for an appearance at the Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore (22 rue St. Paul, 75004) in support of her new book The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself). The reading and reception will take place at 3 PM: http://rwbooks.blogspot.com/2009/05/events-of-month.html

Saller also answers the “Chicago Style Q&A” for The Chicago Manual of Style Online (www.chicagomanualofstyle.org).

05/16/09

June 2009

Conference in honor of Linguist G.N. (Nick) Clements
Organized by John Goldsmith, University of Chicago, Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics

06/18/09 - 06/19/09

Calendar 2007-2008

September 2007

Chicago-Paris Working Group on Ancient Religions
Organized by Claude Calame, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Chris Faraone, University of Chicago, Department of Classics

09/14/07

October 2007

Les Linguistes et leurs Graphiques
Organized by Monique Sassier, Université de Versailles/Saint Quentin en Yvelines; Sémir Badir, l'Université de Liège, Département de Langues et littératures romanes

10/12/07

Conférence: Enjeux fonciers et leurs perspectives: méthodes d'observation et outils de portage
Organized by Rodrigo Acosta-Garcia, Revue Urbanissimo

10/19/07

The Pont-Neuf at 400: Renovations and Histories
Organized by Jan Goldstein, University of Chicago, Department of History

10/26/07

December 2007

Journée d'étude: La vue aérienne: savoirs et pratiques de l'espace
Programme de recherche CNRS/British Academy 2006-2008

12/08/07

February 2008

Emigration,  Influence, Exile: Models of Cultural Interaction between Russia and FranceEmigration, Influence, Exile: Models of Cultural Interaction between Russia and France
Organized by Robert Bird, University of Chicago, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

02/01/08

Paris/Chicago: Urban  Cultures in Comparative Historical PerspectiveParis/Chicago: Urban Cultures in Comparative Historical Perspective
Organized by Jan Goldstein, University of Chicago, Department of History; Stephen Sawyer, University of Chicago, Department of History

2/8-2/9

Presentation by Chicago-area graduate students in art history currently working in Paris
Organized by David Van Zanten, Northwestern University, Art History; Georges Didi-Huberman, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage; Christian Topalov, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Presenters:

  • Julia Ng, Northwestern University: Des cartes écartées
  • Min Lee, Northwestern University / Ecole des Hautes
    Etudes en Sciences Sociales: Can Maps Tell Time? L'atlas des travaux de Paris, 1789-1889
  • Alison Fisher, Northwestern University, Department of Art History: Model Machine – Housing and industrial typologies in the proto-digital era.

Closing presentation by:

  • Professor David Van Zanten: More on Beaux-Arts Architectural Composition and its Transformations.

02/12/08

April 2008

Les abus "sécuritaires" sous surveillance
Organized by Bernard Harcourt, University of Chicago Law School

04/08/08

Colloque: Pierre  Charron (1541-1603), théologien et philosopheColloque: Pierre Charron (1541-1603), théologien et philosophe
Organized by Philippe Desan, University of Chicago, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

04/18/08

Conference: Jazz Encounters: Musical Spaces In-between the Visual and the Aural
Organized by Donald James, University of Chicago, Department of Music

04/25/08

Medieval Music to Contemporary Parks: 2007-2008 Chateaubriand Workshop
Doctorate student recipients of the Chateaubriand fellowships for 2007-08 met at the University of Chicago Center in Paris to present their papers

04/28/08

May 2008

Freud in the Twenty-First CenturyFreud in the Twenty-First Century
Organized by Jan Goldstein, University of Chicago, Department of History

5/23-5/24

June 2008

Le Carcéral, Sécurité, and Beyond: Rethinking Michel Foucault’s 1978-1979 Collège de France Lectures
Organized by Bernard E. Harcourt, University of Chicago Law School; Andrew Dilts, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science

06/06/08

Colloque international: Les constructions elliptiques
Organisé par Anne Abeillé, Gabriela Bilbiie, et François Mouret, Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle

06/20/08

Colloque “La Lettre à d’Alembert sur les spectacles de Rousseau à l’occasion des 250 ans de sa publication”
Organized by Blaise Bachofen, Université de Cergy-Pontoise; Bruno Bernardi, Collège International de Philosophie; Max Blechman, University of Chicago, Department of Philosophy

6/27-6/28

July 2008

La Société Française d’Etudes Durkheimiennes, Journée d’études: Durkheim et Le Durkheimisme Perspectives Interdisciplinaires
Organized by Romi Mukherjee, University of Chicago, Divinity School; Le Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Comparative en Sciences Sociales (CIR-Paris); Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris

07/04/08