France and the World

In the 1950s, strikingly similar images of children playing in the Niger River appeared in three groundbreaking films: René Vautier’s banned Afrique 50 (1950), Paulin Soumanou Vieyra and the Groupe Africain du Cinéma’s Afrique sur Seine (1955), and Jean...

This talk will examine the dialectic of universal emancipation and the radical enlightenment, to argue that while these processes were arguably initiated in the Malian Mande Charter of 1222, demonstrated more geometrico in Spinoza’s Ethics of 1677, and...

SPEAKER: Danielle Beaujon, University of Illinois Chicago Criminalizing the Casbahs explores how French police officers in Marseille and Algiers associated the spaces they saw as North African—the "Casbahs"—with a particular form of criminality, one they...

SPEAKER: Kaiama L. Glover, Yale University Professor Kaiama L. Glover will discuss René Depestre’s late novel Popa Singer (2016), a daring work that revisits Haiti’s Duvalier dictatorship, Caribbean revolutionary dreams, and the afterlives of political...

RLL invites you to join the France and the World Seminar (MHC) on November 12 at 5pm in Barker 114 for a talk by Peter Szendy (Brown) on "The Readee, or: Reading in the Subjunctive Mood." The lecture will introduce the notion of the readee, the addressee...