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2021 Apr 08

Sofiane Hadjadj, Maison Barzakh, Alger and Walid Bouchakour, Yale University “Millenials: New voices in Algerian Literature"

3:00pm

Location: 

Zoom

Thursday, April 8, 2021, 3:00pm

Sofiane Hadjadj, Maison Barzakh, Alger and Walid Bouchakour, Yale University

“Millenials: New voices in Algerian Literature “

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2021 Mar 24

Emilia Borowska (Royal Holloway, University of London), “Radical Otherness, Immanent Creation, Nontrivial Novelty: the Utopian Possibilities of Kathy Acker’s Work Examined”

5:00pm

Emilia Borowska (Royal Holloway, University of London),

“Radical Otherness, Immanent Creation, Nontrivial Novelty: the Utopian Possibilities of Kathy Acker’s Work Examined”

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2019 Apr 29

France in the World: “A Medievalist Reflects on the ‘Master Narrative”

5:30pm

Location: 

Barker Center, Room 133

Patrick Boucheron, Collège de France

France in the World: “A Medievalist Reflects on the ‘Master Narrative”

Patrick Boucheron is the author of many books, such as, most recently,  Ce que peut l’histoire (2016),  Comment se révolter (2016) and the editor of the bestselling Histoire mondiale de France (2017)

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2018 Apr 16

Vincent Message,Paris VIII - Nous avons été traîte e s comme des bêtes: usages de l'analogie hommes-animaux dans la critique de la violence

5:00pm

Location: 

Room 335, Boylston Hall

 

France and the World

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2017 Nov 28

Sharon Marcus, Columbia University, Radcliffe Institute - "Sarah Bernhardt's Friend"

5:00pm

Location: 

Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street
Friendship is a notoriously slippery category. The word is easy to use, hard to define; indeed, it may be so easy to use because it is so hard to define. Especially vexed is the relationship of friendship to the social bonds formed by sex, marriage, and kinship. “Sarah Bernhardt’s Friend” analyzes how late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century journalists represented the relationship between actor Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) and painter Louise Abbéma (1853-1927), arguing that they used the the words “amie” and “friend” to simultaneously communicate... Read more about Sharon Marcus, Columbia University, Radcliffe Institute - "Sarah Bernhardt's Friend"

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