Graduate Student Workshops

Le Monde

Graduate Student Workshops at the Center in Paris are a convivial and lively forum that meets bi-monthly.  They provide advanced graduate students, faculty and outside scholars from various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences with the opportunity to share and discuss their current research.

Faculty Sponsors, 2008-09

  • Prof. Françoise Meltzer (Comparative Literature, Romance Languages)
  • Prof. Philippe Desan (Romance Languages)

Student Coordinator

  • Theresa Semler (Comparative Literature)

For further information, or if you wish to be included on the mailing list for the pre-circulated papers, please contact Theresa Semler (tsemler@uchicago.edu)

2008-2009 Workshops

Workshops are held on Thursday at 3:00 PM unless otherwise noted.

Elayne Oliphant (University of Chicago, Anthropology)
Signs of Belief in an Unmarked Faith: The Art and Aesthetics of France’s Contemporary Republican Catholicism
10/22/08 
John Hight (University of Chicago, History)
The Blind Men and the Elephant: An Immanent Critique of Identity Theory
10/30/08 
Erika Vause (University of Chicago, History)
Disciplining the Market: The Search for Commercial Order, 1797-1807
11/13/08 
Nancy Knezevic (University of Chicago, Romance Languages)
This Woman I play: Theatricality, Authenticity and Gender in Les Liaisons Dangereuses
11/20/08 
Luis-Manuel Garcia (University of Chicago, Music)
12/04/08 
Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud (University of Chicago, Comparative Literature)
01/08/09 
Jonathan Ullyot (University of Chicago, Comparative Literature)
01/22/09 
Theresa Semler (University of Chicago, Comparative Literature)
02/05/09