Cambridge Seminar Series in Nineteenth-Century French Studies: 2019-20
Cambridge Seminar Series in Nineteenth-Century French Studies: 2019-20
All are warmly invited to this platform for a range of researchers in the field, from Cambridge and elsewhere. Convenors: Rebecca Sugden (rs602@cam.ac.uk) and Nick White (njw16@cam.ac.uk). We meet from 5:15pm on Mondays, with papers starting at 5:30pm.
Michaelmas Term 2019 (Thomas Young Room, Emmanuel College)
14th Oct. James Morris (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) - France and Europe in 1848: The View from the Peripheries
11th Nov. Mary Hunter (McGill University) - Infectious Touch: Art, Medicine and Expertise in Berthe Morisot's Images of Pregnancy
Lent Term 2020 (Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College)
27th Jan. Judith Lyon-Caen (EHESS) - La littérature à la trace: propositions pour une herméneutique historienne du roman du XIXe siècle
10th Feb. Célia Dempommier-Cotton (Newnham College, Cambridge) - Stendhal and Europe, or the Character of Nations in the Nineteenth Century
24th Feb. Tim Farrant (Pembroke College, Oxford) - Balzac and Scott
2nd Mar. Peter Asimov (Clare College, Cambridge) - Indo-Europeanism and the Search for French Music (ca. 1869-1914)
Easter Term 2020 (Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College)
11th May Rachel Bowlby (University College London) - Not Just a Department Store: Zola's Shops
18th May Masha Belenky (George Washington University) - Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
8th June Kathryn Bryan (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge) - Abortion in Turn-of-the-Century French Fiction
Dr Rebecca Sugden
Research Fellow in French, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge