Events/Exhibitions
Conferences
The 34th Annual International
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
16-18 October 2008
The theme for the 2008 colloquium is “Empire, Identity, Exoticism.” Contributions that explore the intersection of these themes from a broad range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary methodologies and approaches—from literary to social and political culture to visual aesthetics—in nineteenth-century France are especially welcome.
On-line Exhibitions
At the Forefront of Change: Paris, 1900-1970. Selections from the Pascal Pia Collection.
Past Seminars
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Edward Ahearn, University Professor of Comparative Literature and French Studies at Brown University. “Sex, Race and the City.” Co-sponsored by the 2007-2008 Fellows of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities and the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal. The lecture took place at the Bandy Center, with a post-reception at the Warren Center.
Poems for Seminar Discussion (in French with English translations)
