Sean M. Quinlan, historian (University of Idaho); author of The Great Nation in Decline: Sex, Modernity, and Health Crises in Revolutionary France (2007). Presented in English.
Speakers: Sean M. Quinlan
Location: IFS (15 Washington Mews)

Olivier GODECHOT, sociologist (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Maurice Halbwachs, Paris); author of Working rich. Salaires, bonus et appropriation du profit dans l'industrie financière (2007), Les traders. Essai de sociologie des marchés financiers (2001); co-author of Travailler pour être heureux ? Le bonheur et le travail en France (2003). Presented in French.
Speakers: Olivier GODECHOT
Location: IFS (15 Washington Mews)

This discussion seeks to explore the experience of undocumented migrants in Europe, and the reasons for the invisibility of their condition in European public spheres. Panelists will discuss attempts at and obstacles in increasing their visibility and making their voices heard and will comment on the current exhibit at MoCADA They Won’t Budge. Africans in Europe (MoCADA, 10/01/2009 - 01/19/2010).
Speakers: Awam AMKPA, Annalisa BUTTICI, Madala HILAIRE, Smaïn LAACHER, Miriam TICKTIN
Moderator: Laure BERENI
Location: La Maison Francaise (16 Washington Mews)

As the French increasingly looked to the origin of their nation for the foundation of what they shared as a people—racial and cultural origins that long predated the eighteenth century--music helped them come to grips with a history characterized not by homogeneous coherence, but by invasions, conflict, and accommodation.
Speakers: Jann C. PASLER
Location: IFS (15 Washington Mews)

Ever since the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi conceived it in the 1860s, the statue has come to stand for so many different things that its meaning is anything but fixed. This talk focuses on the Statue’s shifting meanings in the relationship between France and the United States.
Speakers: Edward BERENSON
Location: La Maison Francaise (16 Washington Mews)