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France in the World: A Medievalist Reflects on the 'Master Narrative'

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Speaker: Patrick Boucheron (College de France) Title: France in the World: A Medievalist Reflects on the 'Master Narrative' Reception to follow in the Seminar Room, Dana Palmer House Sponsored by the France and the World Seminar and the Medieval Studies...

Frances Hisgen ’21 Elected Phi Beta Kappa

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Warm congratulations to Frances Hisgen ’21! For more information on the Senior 48, please see https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/11/30/pbk-fall-2020-senior-48/.

Eighteenth Century Studies: "The Choirbook Tradition in France from the Early 17th Century to the Eve of the Revolution (ca. 1780)"

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Jean-Paul Montagnier, Université de Lorraine, France, and McGill University The Choirbook Tradition in France from the Early 17th Century to the Eve of the Revolution (ca. 1780) This seminar will focus on a precirculated paper. For details about the paper...

"Vernacular Law and the Making of Custom in Medieval France"

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The Harvard Law School Annual Lecture on Latin American and European Legal History Talk Title: Vernacular Law and the Making of Custom in Medieval France Speaker: Ada Kuskowski Assistant Professor of History University of Pennsylvania School of Arts &...

Center for European Studies History Seminar: The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community

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Mary D. Lewis will interview historian Megan Brown about her recent book, The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community (Harvard University Press, 2022). The discussion will explore how Algeria was integral to the formation of post...

The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940-1944

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Speaker: Jacques Sémelin Professor in Modern History and Political Science, Science Po; Senior Researcher Emeritus, Center for International Studies (CERI-CNRS) Chair: Derek Penslar William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History, Harvard University...

A World of Public Debts. A Political History and France in the World. A New Global History

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Professor Nicolas Delalande from Sciences Po will be talking about his new work on the state, citizenship, and political economy. He is the editor, most recently, of A World of Public Debts. A Political History and France in the World. A New Global...

Harvard Bookstore: The Nemirovsky Question: The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in 20th-Century France

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Reading from Susan Suleiman's book Susan Rubin Suleiman C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, Harvard University; Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, CES, Harvard University

CES: The Politics of Sociocultural Leveraging: Why Gender Became Central to Immigrant Integration Policy in France

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Speaker(s): Kimberly Morgan, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs , Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University Sponsor(s): Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion Debates over immigrant...

The Stanley Hoffmann Annual Lecture on France and the World: "The Shape of Water: An Environmental History of the City of Light"

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Speaker: Caroline Ford , Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles Chair: Mary D. Lewis , Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard History Department, Harvard University; Resident...

CES: Of Time and the River: France and the Marne

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Speaker(s): Michael Miller , Professor of History, University of Miami Sponsor(s): New Directions in European History How does one write the history of a river? In recent decades the prevailing tone to river history has been one of engineering, power, and...

Warren Center/The Sudy of Capitalism: "Fiscal Struggles and the Rise of Civic Equality in Old Regime France" - William Sewell

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William Sewell (History and Political Science, University of Chicago) "Fiscal Struggles and the Rise of Civic Equality in Old Regime France" Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism, with support from the Warren Center. More...