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French Politics Culture and Society Study Group

Chairs

Arthur Goldhammer
Arthur Goldhammer
Writer & Translator; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Mary D. Lewis
Mary D. Lewis
Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Laura Levine Frader
Laura Levine Frader
Professor Emeritus, Northeastern University; Seminar Co-chair & Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
 
Antonin Baudry presents his novel "Weapons of Mass Diplomacy" and the film The French Minister based on it
April 29, 2014
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Antonin Baudry – Cultural Counselor for France, United States
Citizens of a Fictional Nation: Ottoman-born Jews in France during the First World War
April 9, 2014
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Sarah Abrevaya Stein – Professor, Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Colonial Violence in the French Revolution
April 4, 2014
2:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Jeremy Popkin – T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. Professor of History, University of Kentucky
On the Origins of Bubble Economics: The Company of the Indies and Eighteenth-Century France
March 11, 2014
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Malick Ghachem – Associate Professor of History, History Department, MIT
Into Accounts: Enlightenment Commerce Revisited Into Accounts: Enlightenment Commerce Revisited
February 7, 2014
3:15pm - 5:00pm
Writing the History of the Underworld in France and Beyond
November 22, 2013
3:15pm - 5:00pm
  • Dominique Kalifa – Centre d'Histoire du XIXe siècle, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne:
Navigating Islamic Law and French Imperialism: Jews in the Moroccan Legal System, 1830-1956 Navigating Islamic Law and French Imperialism: Jews in the Moroccan Legal System, 1830-1956
November 12, 2013
5:15pm - 7:00pm
  • Jessica Marglin – Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Respondent Jocelyne Cesari – Professor of Religion and Politics, University of Birmingham; T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Distrustful, Miserable and Fearful: Meet the French
November 4, 2013
5:15pm - 7:00pm
  • Éloi Laurent – Visiting Scholar 2013-2014, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Archives, Families, and Judaism from the Perspective of a French Historian
October 18, 2013
2:15pm - 4:00pm
  • Ivan Jablonka – Associate Professor in Contemporary History, Université du Maine, Le Mans
New Challenges for Europe - An Economic And Political Outlook of its Future CES Director's Seminar — New Challenges for Europe - An Economic And Political Outlook of its Future
October 10, 2013
9:15am - 10:45am
  • Pierre Moscovici – European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs
  • Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
From Historiography to TV, the Representation of Resistance and Jewish Resistance in Contemporary France
April 25, 2013
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Renee Poznanski – Professor of Holocaust Studies, Department of Politics & Government, Ben Gurion University, Israel; Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
The Impossible Dictator: Robespierre and the Problem of Charismatic Authority
April 3, 2013
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • David Bell – History Department, Princeton University
The Ordinary and the Exception. An Ethnography of Urban Policing in France
March 13, 2013
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Didier Fassin – James D. Wolfensohn Professor, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study
The Last Catastrophe. On the Writing of Contemporary History
December 7, 2012
3:15pm - 5:00pm
  • Henry Rousso – French Historian, Author
EVENT CANCELLED - The Foreign Policy of François Hollande
November 9, 2012
3:15pm - 5:00pm
  • Zaki Laïdi – Founder, Telos thinktank; Professor, Sciences-Po
Whose Europe? Gender and Minorities in European Culture
October 26, 2012
2:15pm - 6:00pm
Discrimination, Identities, and Racial Boundaries in France
October 22, 2012
4:15pm - 6:00pm
French Philosemitism From the Revolution to the Present
September 10, 2012
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Maurice Samuels – Professor of French, Department of French, Yale University
Memory and the Second World War in France
April 2, 2012
4:15pm - 6:00pm
French Presidential Election Panel
March 20, 2012
4:15pm - 6:00pm
France in the World: Contemporary Foreign Policy Challenges
March 8, 2012
5:15pm - 7:00pm
From Left to Right: The Uses of Anti-Americanism on the Streets of Interwar Paris
February 15, 2012
5:15pm - 7:00pm
  • Brooke Blower – Assistant Professor of History, Boston University
Prophets or Mavericks? Tax Resisters, Social Protest, and Political Failure in France and the United States, 1940s-1970s
November 16, 2011
5:15pm - 7:00pm
  • Romain Huret – Historian of the Contemporary United States, University of Lyon II; Associate Professor, Institut universitaire de France; Junior Member
Inequality and Capitalism in the Long Run Inequality and Capitalism in the Long Run
November 3, 2011
5:00pm - 6:30pm
  • Thomas Piketty – Professor, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and the Paris School of Economics.
The Separation of Church and State: A New Transatlantic Perspective
October 12, 2011
4:15pm - 6:00pm
The Three Waves of Political Messianism: From Colonialism to Communism to Humanitarianism
October 3, 2011
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Tzvetan Todorov – Directeur de recherche honoraire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Democracy Embattled in the Age of Expertise: The Long French Reconstruction, 1944-1962 Democracy Embattled in the Age of Expertise: The Long French Reconstruction, 1944-1962
April 28, 2011
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Herrick Chapman – Professor Emeritus of History, New York University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
France’s New Deal
April 14, 2011
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Philip Nord – Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Princeton University
Irène Némirovsky and the 'Jewish Question' in Interwar France Irène Némirovsky and the 'Jewish Question' in Interwar France
April 6, 2011
5:15pm - 7:00pm
  • Susan Rubin Suleiman – C. Douglas Dillon Research Professor of the Civilization of France and Research Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
The Good Buyer: Gender, Citizenship, and Consumption in the Making of Postwar France The Good Buyer: Gender, Citizenship, and Consumption in the Making of Postwar France
March 10, 2011
5:15pm - 7:00pm
  • Rebecca Woods – PhD Student in History, Anthropology, Science, Technology & Society (HASTS), MIT; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University
The French Hygiene Offensive of the 1950s: A Critical Moment in the History of Manners
February 17, 2011
5:15pm - 7:00pm
  • Steven Zdatny – Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Vermont
Wind from the East. French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s
December 9, 2010
5:15pm - 7:00pm
  • Richard Wolin
Jewish and Muslim Identity Politics in France Since 1967: The Impact of Israel/Palestine, Multiculturalism, and Public Religion
November 9, 2010
5:15pm - 7:00pm
The Contemporary Political Situation in Three European Countries The Contemporary Political Situation in Three European Countries
November 4, 2010
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Laura Levine Frader – Professor Emeritus, Northeastern University; Seminar Co-chair & Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • James Cronin – Professor of History, Boston College; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Arthur Goldhammer – Writer & Translator; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Charles Maier – Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Director (1994-2001), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Symposium on the Work of Tony Judt
October 28, 2010
4:15pm - 6:00pm
French Nationalism and Jewish Identity in the Early Twentieth Century
May 6, 2010
4:15pm - 6:00pm
A Drama of Faith and Family: Custody Disputes, Familialism and Ethnicity in Postwar France
April 20, 2010
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Daniella Doron
Male Homosexuals, Arab Men, and French Politics, 1954-1974
April 8, 2010
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Todd Shepard – Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
  • Chris Waters – Hans W. Gatzke '38 Professor of Modern European History, Williams College
Capital Punishment in France and the United States Capital Punishment in France and the United States
February 26, 2010
3:15pm - 5:00pm
  • Moshik Temkin – Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Paul Friedland – Visiting Scholar 2009-2010, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • James Q. Whitman – Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, Yale Law School
  • Carol Steiker – Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
The Future of French Youth
October 29, 2009
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Colonial Continuities in the French Caribbean: an Economic Perspective on the 2009 Social Movement
October 22, 2009
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Guy Numa – Assistant Professor, Université Paris Dauphine
Jews, Catholics, and the Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism in the Age of the French Kulturkampf, 1870-1886
April 29, 2009
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Vicki Caron – Cornell University and currently fellow of Radcliffe Institute
Paradoxical Lives: Nostalgia, Modernity and Race in European Women’s Writing in Colonial Algeria
April 16, 2009
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Sex, Love, and Letters: Reading Simone de Beauvoir 1949-1963
April 1, 2009
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Europe and the Global Economic Crisis Europe and the Global Economic Crisis
March 9, 2009
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Philippe Aghion – Faculty Associate, CES
  • George Ross – Professor Emeritus of Labor and Social Thought, Brandeis University; Ad personam Chaire Jean Monnet, University of Montreal-McGill Center for Excellence on the European Union; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Arthur Goldhammer – Writer & Translator; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Cathie Jo Martin – Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
The Black Condition in France
February 10, 2009
1:15pm - 3:00pm
Values, Equality, and Differences in Liberal Democracies: Muslim Headscarves in Europe Values, Equality, and Differences in Liberal Democracies: Muslim Headscarves in Europe
December 11, 2008
5:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Eleni Varikas
  • Birte Siim – Professor, Institute for History, International and Social Studies, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Religion and Rivalry: Catholicism, Islam, and French Rule in Senegal, 1890-1900 Religion and Rivalry: Catholicism, Islam, and French Rule in Senegal, 1890-1900
November 3, 2008
9:00pm - 11:00pm
  • Elizabeth A. Foster – Assistant Professor of History, Tufts University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

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