Early Modern France
The Seminar on Early Modern France, established in September 2005, is the continuation of an earlier group, the "Early Modern Salon", which started informally in 1992 and met regularly at the Maison Française. The Salon was originally a reading group comprised of junior faculty and graduate students from French, with additional members from History and English. The membership has expanded and the sessions are now usually organized around an invited speaker.
The focus of the seminar is the cultural and intellectual history of early modern France (from 1500 to 1800) and the approach is interdisciplinary. The seminar includes literature scholars, historians and philosophers. It meets at least once a month. The current format, which has proven very successful, consists in circulating a relatively short piece written by the invited speaker among the group members and to discuss it at the meeting. Thus, instead of a formal talk followed by a few questions, there is an in-depth, 90-minute conversation.
Seminar: #707
Founded: 2005
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Early Modern France
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Seminar Administration
Chair:
Pierre Force
Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization and Professor of French
Columbia University
pf3@columbia.edu
Rapporteur:
Benjamin Young
Doctoral Candidate
Columbia University, French & Romance Philology
bcy2101@columbia.edu
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